BOOK REVIEW

This is the 14th in a 36-volume project on the history of medieval India planned by the scholar Irfan Habib under the aegis of the Aligarh Historians Society. Its objective is to provide an “authentic” and “evidence-based narrative of the social and economic conditions of human beings in medieval times”. The author has adopted the political economy approach and, on the basis of method of the materialistic interpretation of history, has presented his story in three wellresearched chapters.

The author has also devoted attention to important issues like Indian feudalism,