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Soft cover. Zustand: New. This is an important little book based on lectures delivered at a celebration in honour of Professor KN Panikkar's 85th birthday. Popularly known as KN, he is perhaps the most well known figure in Kerala, with a huge reputation as public intellectual throughout the country. It is fitting that the scholars invited to celebrate his life and work should themselves be significant scholars who have made communication with a wider readership and audience a part of their academic endeavour, and like KN, stand for for the causes of secularism and democracy in this country. The presentations in this slim volume include weighty, but lucidly expressed thoughts on issues of contemporary concern and their historical and social and economic background. The history of dissent in ancient Indian history and its relevance today for democratic alternatives to the current regimes, the significance of the legacies of the national movement that are abiding, the modern weight of neoliberal policies of the last few decades and the necessity for fighting them in order to make a breakthrough in the current political and social impasse, and the experience with secularism and democracy in the post independence era are brought into focus to understand the crisis of Indian democracy, the prevalence of fascistic tendencies under the Modi regime, and the directions needed for a more humane society and polity.

The volumes under the series ?Modern Indian Thinkers will discuss the ideas of one specific author through a series of articles by different scholars These articles will necessarily be a mix whose exact nature cannot and should not be rigidly fixed beforehand; but the mix will be partly survey partly criticism partly located within a deeper problematic and the unveiling of such a problematic and partly a carrying forward of the thought The nature of the contents will itself evolve as we bring out more and more volumes This series is not about eminent Indians or about makers of modern India It is not even about Indians who have made outstanding contributions in different fields of thought per se It is about thinkers belonging to different spheres of activity whose ideas bear upon the issue of India?s social revolution This does not mean that they should all belong to the social sciences whether professionally or otherwise The series will include scientists artists from different disciplines political activists academicians from varied fields and intellectuals outside of the academia; but the choice of thinkers from this large field will be influenced by the degree to which their work provides a perspective on the carrying forward of India?s social revolutionThe Modern Indian Thinkers this series seeks to celebrate are those who have blazed new trails and produced new ideas outside the beaten track which serve to carry forward India?s social revolution It is only appropriate that Professor Irfan Habib should be among the first to be celebrated as such a thinkerExcursus in History is an examination of Professor Irfan Habib?s work in different areas and an attempt to capture the totality of his thought The essays in this volume are quite heterogeneous some are in the nature of surveys of particular areas of Professor Habib?s work some critically examine his positions some elaborate upon his ideas and some carry his ideas forward To familiarize the reader with Professor Habib?s overall intellectual project there is an exhaustive interview with him in which he dwells upon a whole range of themes from Mughal India to the freedom struggle to the problems of the Communist movement And to give brief introductions to his seminal works some book reviews that were published at the time his books came out are also includedIrfan Habib Professor Emeritus of History at the Aligarh Muslim University is the author of The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1963; revised edition 1999 An Atlas of the Mughal Empire 1982 Essays in Indian History Towards a Marxist Perception 1995 and Medieval India The Study of a Civilization 2007 He has co-edited The Cambridge Economic History of India Volume I 1982 and UNESCO?s History of Humanity Volumes IV and V and History of Central Asia Volume V He is General Editor of the ?People?s History of India series and is the author of five of its volumes Prehistory The Indus Civilization Technology in Medieval India Indian Economy 1858?1914Man and Environment and co-author of two The Vedic Age Mauryan IndiaPrabhat Patnaik the editor of this volume was Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi He is currently Vice-Chairman of the State Planning Board Government of Kerala He is the author of Time Inflation and Growth 1988 Economics and Egalitarianism 1991 Whatever Happened to Imperialism and other essays 1995 Accumulation and Stability under Capitalism 1997 The Retreat to Unfreedom 2003 The Value of Money 2008 and Re-Envisioning Socialism 2011 He is the Editor of the journal Social Scientist 396 pp.