This paper takes the discussion further after circa 750 AD. Here the focus is on the changes that took place in the wake of the growth of Samanta System, an Indian variant of Feudal Mode of Production and Landlordism at various regions in India. With Feudalism there were certain changes that were noticed in the social formation of society, namely the proliferation of Jati system, that we study here the growth of one such class i.e. Rajputs and the process through which they found their way in the Varna System. The other significant social change is seen at the religious level where various cults takes shape in the wake of Bhakti movement, and certain regional counter-movement of Puranic traditions like the Tantricism, Shakti cult et al. The second section of the long periodic segment deals with the advent of Turks in India and the establishment and consolidation of first Muslim rule in the Indian sub-continent. How various scholars have seen the coming of the Muslims in India, their interaction with the Hindu communities, effects on the linguistic culture in India form important part of the paper. Issues like Iconoclasm, Hindu-Muslim interaction, Sufi-Bhakti interaction, interaction among the Muslim Sultan and Hindu subjects, and a centralised Muslim state with regional Hindu kingdoms like Vijayanagar, Rajputs, Gujarat, Bengal, Odisha are also part of the paper. An attempt is made here that the students shall get most of the readings at one place. However, it is important to highlight here that even though an attempt has been made to provide topic specific articles but there are articles that are relevant for more than one topic. It is advisable therefore to go through as many readings as possible; rest is reader’s discretion. 

Part-I: History of India- III (c. 750 -1200) 

I. Studying early medieval India

[a] Dynamic and divergent topographies 

REFERENCES:

1. Irfan Habib_ The Geographical Background_Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib_ The Cambridge Economic History of India 

2. Burton Stein_ South India: Some general considerations of the region and its Early History_ The Cambridge Economic History of India

[b] Sources: texts; inscriptions; coins 

REFERENCES:

1. Romila Thapar_ Constructing Memory, Writing Histories_ Somnath

2. R.S. Sharma_ Transition from Ancient to Medieval_ Rethinking India’s Past

3. Romila Thapar_ Kalhana_ Peter Hardy_ Historians of Medieval India

4. P. Sharan_ Writings in Rajasthan and Gujarat_ Peter Hardy_ Historians of Medieval India

5. Muzaffar Alam_ Opposition and Reaffirmation_ The Languages of Political Islam in India

6. Muzaffar Alam_ Language and Power_ The Languages of Political Islam in India

7. Jason D. Hawkes_  Finding the Early Medieval in South Asian Archaeology_ Asian Perspectives 

[c] Debates on the early medieval

REFERENCES:

1. Ranbir Chakrabarti_ Realms and Regions: Profiles of Economy, Society and Culture (c. A.D. 600-1300)_ Exploring Early India 

2. Burton Stein_ The Segmentary State_ Rethinking Early India

3. R. S. Sharma_ The Kali Age: A period of Social Crisis_ 

4. R. S. Sharma_ The Segmentary State and the Indian Expirience_*

5. R. S. Sharma_ How Feudal was Indian Feudalism?_ Social Scientist

6. B.N.S. Yadava_ The Accounts of Kali Age and the Social Transition From Antiquity to the Middle Ages_*

7.   Hermann Kulke_ The Early and the Imperial Kingdom: A Processural Model of Integrative State Formation in Early Medieval India_ The State in India 1000-1700

8. D.N. Jha_ Early Medieval Perspectives: An Introduction_*

9. Kesavan Veluthat_ Into the Medieval and out of it_ The Early Medieval in South India

10. B.N.S Yadava_ The Problem of the Emergence of Feudal Relations in Early India_* 

11. B.D. Chattopadhyaya_ Introduction:The Making of Early Medieval India_ The Making of Early Medieval India

12. रामशरण शर्मा_ भारतीय सामन्तवाद कितना सामंती था? _  भारतीय इतिहास: एक पुनर्विचार 

13. हरबंस मुखिया_ क्या भारतीय इतिहास में फ़्यूडलिज़म रहा है?_ मध्यकालीन भारत: नए आयाम

14. रामशरण शर्मा_ सामंती व्यवस्था सम्बन्धी इतिहास लेखन_ भारतीय इतिहास: एक पुनर्विचार 

15. रामशरण शर्मा_ भारतीय सामन्तवाद कितना सामंती?_ पूर्व मध्यकालीन भारत का सामंती समाज और संस्कृति 

II. Political structures and processes

[a] Evolution of political structures: Rajput polities; Chola state; Odisha 

REFERENCES:

1. Upinder Singh_Emerging Regional Configuration, c. 600-1200 CE_A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century

2. Satish Chandra_South India:The Chola Empire (900-1200)_History of Medieval India

3. (800-1700)

4. Romila Thapar: The Peninsula_ Establishing Authorities and Structures C. AD 900-1300_The Penguin History of Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300

5. R.Champakalakshmi_ Ideology and the State in South India_Religion, Tradition and Ideology 

6. Satish Chandra_Northern India: Age of the Three Empires (800-1000)_History of Medieval India (800-1700)

7. Kesavan Veluthat_The Role Of Nadu in the Socio-Political Structure of South India (c. A.D. 600-1200)_in_H. V. Sreenivasa Murthy(ed.)_Essays on Indian History and Culture: Felicitation Volume in Honour of Professor B. Sheik Ali 

8. Noboru Karashima_The Tenth to Twelfth Centuries- The Emergence of a Centralized State_A Concise History of South India: Issues and Interpretations

9. Kesavan Veluthat_The Ūr and the Nādu_The Political Structure of Early Medieval South India 

10. A.C Banerjee _Origin of the Rajputs_Aspects of Rajput State and Society 

11. John S. Deyell_The Gurjara-Pratihara_in_Ranabir Chakravarti_Trade in Early India

12. Kesavan Veluthat_Nadu in the Socio-political Structure_The Early Medieval in South India 

13. James Heitzman_State Formation in South India, 850-1280_in_Hermann Kulke_The State in India 1000-1700

14. Bhairabi Prasad Sahu_Some Aspects of Early Orissan Economy and Society_in_Proceedings of the Indian History Congress Vol. 41 (1980)

15. B.D. Chattopadhayaya_Origin of Rajputs: The Political , Economic and Social Processes in Early Medieval Rajasthan_The Making of Early Medieval India 

16. B.D. Chattopadhyaya_Political Processes and Structure of Polity in Early Medieval India_The Making of Early Medieval India 

17. A.C.Banerjee_Assimilation of the Rajputs_Aspects of Rajput State and Society

18. Bhairabi Prasad Sahu_Community, Caste and Region in Odisha: The Formative Period_in_Kesavan Veluthat and Donald R. Davies ( eds)_Irreverent History: Essays for M. G. S. Narayanan

19. रोमिला थापर_ उत्तरी भारत वितरणातमक राजनीतिक बयबसथा और छेतरिय संस्कृतियॉ (लगभग 800-1300 ई. पू.)_पूर्वकालीन भारत

20. रामशरण शर्मा_तीन राज्यों में सामंती राज्य-व्यवस्था_भारतीय सामंतवाद

21. रामशरण शर्मा_राजनीतिक सामंतवाद का उत्कर्ष काल_भारतीय सामंतवाद

22. रोमिला थापर _ परायदळीप परधीकरणौ और संरचनाौ की स्थापना (लगभग 900 -1300ई)_पूर्वकालीन भारत

[b] Symbols of political power: Brahmanas and temples; sacred spaces and conflicts; courtly cultures 

REFERENCES:

1. Satish Chandra_Economic and Social Life,Education and Religious Beliefs_A History of Medieval India (800-1700)

2. D.N.Jha_Temples as Landed Magnates in Early South India (c. A.D. 700-1300)_in_R. S. Sharma_Indian Society: Historical Probings 

3. Kesavan Veluthat_The Temple in Medieval South India_The Early Medieval in South India 

4. हरबंस मुखिया_ सांप्रदायिकता और मध्यकालीन भारत का इतिहास- लेखन: एक पुनर्मूल्यांकन_मध्यकालीन भारत: नए आयाम

[c] Issue of ‘Foreign and Indian’: Arabs and Ghazanavids in the north-west, Cholas in Southeast Asia

REFERENCES:

1. Satish chandra_India and the World_A History of Medieval India (800-1700)

2. Satish Chandra_The Age of Conflict (1000-1200)_A History of Medieval India

3. (800-1700)

4. Romila Thapar_The Turko Persian Narratives_Somanatha 

5. Romila Thapar_The Perceptions of yet Others_Somanatha

6. A.C. Banerjee_Rajput Resistance to Muslim Invasions_Aspects of Rajput State and Society

7. Romila Thapar_The Context_Somanatha

8. Geoff Wade_An Early Age of Commerce in Southeast Asia., 900-1300 CE_in_Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , 40(2), June 2009

9. Romila Thapar_Constructing Memory Writing Histories_Somanatha

10. B.D. Chattopadhyaya_Images of Raiders and Rulers_Rethinking Early Medieval India

III. Social and economic processes

[a] Agricultural expansion; forest-dwellers, peasants and landlords 

REFERENCES:

1. Kesavan Veluthat_ The Kings as Lords and Overlord_ The Early Medieval in South India

2. Kesavan Veluthat_Labour Rent and Produce Rent_ The Early Medieval in South India

3. Kesavan Veluthat_Labour Rent and Produce Rent- Revenue system Under the Cholas_ Proceedings of the Indian History Congress Vol. 49

4. रामशरण शर्मा_पूर्व मध्यकाल में भूमि विषयक अधिकार_ भारतीय सामंतवाद

5. हरबंस मुखिया_ कृषक उत्पादन और मध्यकालीन भारतीय समाज_ मध्यकालीन भारत

6. रामशरण शर्मा_सामंतवादी अर्थव्यवस्था_ भारतीय सामंतवाद

7. रामशरण शर्मा_तीन राज्यों में समंताव्दी अर्थव्यवस्था_ भारतीय सामंतवाद

[b] Expansion of varna-jati order and brahmanization 

REFERENCES:

1. Kesavan Veluthat_ The Brahmadēyam and the Nagaram_ The Political Structure of Early Medieval South India

2. L. Gopal_Socio-Economic Implications Of Feudalism in Northern India (700-1200 A.D)_*

[c] Forms of exchange; inter-regional and maritime trade 

REFERENCES:

Tapan Raychaudhuri_Inland Trade_ The Cambridge Economic History of India

Pradyuman Kumar_Cambay Trade and Commerce_ Proceedings of the Indian History Congress Vol. 48 

[d] Processes of urbanization

REFERENCES:

1. B.D. Chattopadhyaya_Trade and Urban Centres in Early Medieval North India_ The Making of Early Medieval India

2. Noboru Karashima, Y. Subbarayalu, and P. Shanmugam_Nagaram: Commerce and Towns AD 850-1350_ ed. Upinder Singh_ Rethinking Early Medieval India

3. B.D. Chattopadhyaya_Urban Centres in Early Medieval India: An Overview_ The Making of Early Medieval India

4. R.Champakalakshmi_Urbanization in South India The Role of Ideology and Polity_ Social Scientist Vol. 15

IV. Religious, literary and visual cultures

[a] Bhakti: Alvars and Nayanars 

REFERENCES:

1. Yoshitsugu Sawai_Reflections on Bhakti as a Type of Indian Mysticism_in_ eds. Iwao Shima, Teiji Sakata, Katsuyuki Ida_ The Historical Development of the Bhakti Movement in India: Theory & Practice

2. R.Champakalakshmi_ Bhāgavata Scenes in Pallava and Cōla Sculptures_ Religion, Tradition, and Ideology: Pre-colonial South India

3. R. N. Nandi_Origin and Nature of Saivite Monasticism_ in_ eds. R. S. Sharma and Vivekanand Jha_ Indian Society ; Historical Probings : In Memory of D.D. Kosambi

4. R.Champakalakshmi_ From Devotion and Dissent to Dominance: The Bhakti of the Tamil Alvars and Nayanars_ Religion, Tradition, and Ideology: Pre-colonial South India

5. M.G.S Narayanan and Kesavan Veluthat_Bhakti Movement in South India_in_ Kesavan Veluthat_ Notes of Dissent: Essays on Indian History 

6. Noboru Karashima_ Sixth Century to Ninth Century- The New-Type States and the Bhakti Movement_ A Concise History of South India

7. R.Champalakshmi_ Vaisnava Concepts in Early Tamil Nadu_Religion, Tradition, and Ideology: Pre-colonial South India

8. Friedhelm Hardy_The Tamil Veda of a Sudra Saints_in_ ed. Gopal Krishna_ Contributions to South Asian Studies 1

9. R.Champakalakshmi_ The Sovereignty of the Divine- The Vaisnava Pantheon and atemporal Power in South India_ Religion, Tradition, and Ideology: Pre-colonial South India

10. Hermann Kulke_King Anangabhima III, the veritable founder of the Gajapati Kingship and of the Jagannatha Trinity at Puri_ Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 113(1)

11. R.Champakalakshmi_ The Bhakti Movement and Religious Conflict in Early Medieval Tamilakam_ Religion, Tradition, and Ideology: Pre-colonial South India 

[b] Puranic Hinduism; Tantra; Buddhism and Jainism 

REFERENCES:

1. R. S. Sharma_Material Milieu of Tantricism_in_eds. R. S. Sharma and Vivekanand Jha_ Indian Society ; Historical Probings : In Memory of D.D. Kosambi 

2. A.L. Basham_Medieval Hindu India_in_ ed. Raj Kumar_ Essays on Medieval India 

3. R.Champakalakshmi_ The Matha- Monachism as the Base of a Parallel Authority Structure_Religion, Tradition, and Ideology: Pre-colonial South India

4. R.Champakalakshmi_ Sankara and Purānic Religion_ Religion, Tradition, and Ideology: Pre-colonial South India 

5. Katsuyuki Ida_The Concept of Bhakti In the Tantric Tradition_ in_ eds. Iwao Shima, Teiji Sakata, Katsuyuki Ida_ The Historical Development of the Bhakti Movement in India: Theory & Practice

6. Paul Dundas_Jainism Attitude Towards Buddhism and Hinduism_ The Jains

7. R.Champakalakshmi_ Buddhism in south India- Patterns of Patronage_ Religion, Tradition, and Ideology: Pre-colonial South India 

8. R.Champakalakshmi_ Jainism in Tamil Nadu- A Historical Overview_ Religion, Tradition, and Ideology: Pre-colonial South India 

9. Paul Dundas_Jainism (From earliest Time to Early Medieval)_ The Jains 

10. R.Champakalakshmi_ Purānic Religion and the Evolution of the Tamil Śaiva Tradition_ Religion, Tradition, and Ideology: Pre-colonial South India

11. रामशरण शर्मा_ तंत्र सम्प्रदाय की सामाजार्थिक पृष्ठभूमि_ पूर्व-मध्यकालीन भारत का सामंती समाज और संस्कृति

[c] Sanskrit and regional languages: interactions 

REFERENCES:

1. S Pollock_Introduction_ The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India

2. Sheldon Pollock_India in the Vernacular Millennium:Literary Culture and Polity, 1000-1500_  Daedalus, Vol. 127, No. 3, Early Modernities

3. R. Mahalakshmi_Women And Home in the Tirukkural_*

[d] Art and architecture: temples – regional styles

REFERENCES:

1. Susan Huntington_ Orissa and Related Regions_ The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain

2. Susan L. Huntington_Kashmir and Related Schools_ The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain

3. Susan Huntington_The Kerala Region_ The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain

4. Susan L. Huntington_The Chola and Related schools of the Tamil South (Mid-Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries)_ The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain

5. Susan L. Huntington_North-Central and Northwestern India: The art of the Rajput Clans_ The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain

6. Susan Huntington_ Later Deccan Schools_ The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain

7. Susan Huntington_ The Vijayanagar Period (ca. 1336 to 1565)_ The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain

8. R.Champakalakshmi_ Symbol and Metaphor-Temple Architecture and iconography in South India_ Religion, Tradition, and Ideology: Pre-colonial South India

9. Klaus Fischer_Ancient Asia Building Techniques in Hindu and Muslim Structures of the Vijayanagara Empire ans in Subsequent Indo-Islamic Monuments_in_ ed. Monica Juneja_ Architecture in Medieval India: Forms, Contexts, Histories

10. R.Champakalakshmi_ The Drāvida Style of Architecture- A Historical Perspective_ Religion, Tradition, and Ideology: Pre-colonial South India

11. James Fergusson_Indian Saracenic Architecture_in_ ed. Monica Juneja_ Architecture in Medieval India: Forms, Contexts, Histories 

Part-II: History of India- IV (c. 1200 – 1500)

REFERENCES:

1. K A Nilakantha Shastri_Conflict of Three Empires_A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar

2. K.A Nilkantha Shastri_The Earliest People and Cultures_A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar

I. Survey of sources

[a] Persian tarikh traditions: Barani and Mushtaqi 

REFERENCES:

1. Sunil Kumar_Persian Literary Traditions and Narrativizing the Delhi Sultanate_The Emergence of Delhi Sultanate

2. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui_Ziauddin Barani: A Thinker Historian_Indo-Persian Historiography Up to the Fourteenth Century

3. Irfan Habib_Ziya Barani's Vision of the State_in_Te Medieval History Journal, Vol.2

4. K.A. Nizami_Ziya-ud-Din Barani_in_Mohibbul Hasan_Historians of Medieval India 

5. Peter Hardy_The Treatment of History by Ziya Al-Din Barani in the Ta'rikh-I-Firoz Shahi_Historians of Medieval India: Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writing

6. Peter Hardy_The Treatment of History by Yahya Ibn Ahmad Sihrindi in the Ta’rikh-I-Mubarak Shahi_Historians of Medieval India: Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writing

7. Peter Hardy_The Treatment of History by Isami in the Futuh Al-Salatin_Historians of Medieval India: Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writing

8. Raziuddin Aquil_The Political and the Sufi Wilayat_Sufism, Culture, and Politics: Afghans and Islam in Medieval North India

9. Peter Hardy_The Historians and the History of Medieval India_Historians of Medieval India: Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writing

10. R.C.Jauhri_ The Writing of Medieval Indian History Shifting Perspective_in_Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol.49

11. Peter Hardy_The Treatment of History by Shams Al-din Siraj ‘Afif in the ‘Ta’rikh-I-Firuz Shahi’_Historians of Medieval India: Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writing

12. U.N.Day_Some Chronicles and Chroniclers of Medieval India_Some Aspects of Medieval Indian History

13. Sunil Kumar_Writing a History of the Delhi Sultanate_The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate, 1192-1286

14. Peter Hardy_Some General Characteristics Analysed_Historians of Medieval India: Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writing

15. Muzaffar Alam_Language and Power_The Languages of Political Islam: India, 1200-1800

16. Muzaffar Alam_ Shari'a, Akhlaq and Governance_The Languages of Political Islam: India, 1200-1800

17. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui_Treatment by 'Isami of the History of Muslim Rule in his Futuh-us-Salatin_Indo-Persian Historiography Up to the Fourteenth Century

18. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui_Historians in the Post- Ziauddin Barani Period_Indo-Persian Historiography Up to the Fourteenth Century

19. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui_History Writing in Tabaqat Form_Indo-Persian Historiography Up to the Thirteenth Century

20. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui_Chachnama and its Significance_Indo-Persian Historiography Up to the Thirteenth Century

21. Nilanjan Sarkar_The Voice of Mahmud: The Hero in Ziya Barani's Fatawa- i Jahandari_in_The Medieval History Journal,  Vol.9

22. Muzaffar Alam_ Introduction_The Languages of Political Islam: India, 1200-1800

23. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui_Historical Writings of Amir Khusrau_Indo-Persian Historiography Up to the Thirteenth Century

24. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui_Hasan Nizami's Approach to the Writing of History_Indo-Persian Historiography Up to the Thirteenth Century

25. Blain H. Auer_Muhammad's Example as the Perfect Ruler_Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam: History, Religion and Muslim Legitimacy in the Delhi Sultanate

26. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui_Fakhr-i-Mudabbir:The Trendsetter in India_Indo-Persian Historiography Up to the Thirteenth Century

27. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui_'Awfi's Jawami'ul Hikayat wa-Lavami'ul-Rivaayat, its Importance_Indo-Persian Historiography Up to the Thirteenth Century

28. A.K Narain_On the Proto History Of Delhi and its Environs_in_R.E. Frykenberg_Delhi Through the Ages : Essays in Urban History,  Culture and Society 

29. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui_Arabic Historiography and its Impact on Persian Writers_Indo-Persian Historiography Up to the Thirteenth Century

[b] Malfuzat and premakhyans; Persian, Sanskrit and Vernacular interactions 

REFERENCES:

1. Peter Jackson_Sultans and Sources_

2. The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History

3. Peter Hardy_The Treatment of History by Amir Khusrau Dihlawi_Historians of Medieval India: Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writing

4. Amina Steinfels_His Master's Voices: The Genre of Malfuzat in South Asian Sufism_in_History of Religions, Vol.44

5. Syed Hasan Askari_Amir Khusrau_in_Mohibbul Hasan_Historians of Medieval India 

6. Blain H.Auer_ Images of the Friends of Gods in the Lives of Sultans_Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam: History, Religion and Muslim Legitimacy in the Delhi Sultanate

[c] Inscriptions and regional identity: Kakatiyas 

REFERENCES:

1. Daud Ali_The Image of the Scribe in Early Medieval Sources_in_Kesavan Veluthat and Donald R. Davis Jr._Irreverent History: Essays for M.G.S. Narayanan

2. K A Nilakantha Shastri_Literature_A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar

3. Anthony Welch, Hussein Keshani and Alexandra Bain_Epigraphs, Scripture and Architecture in the Early Delhi Sultanate_in_Finbarr Barry Flood_Piety and politics in the Early Indian Mosque

[d] Architecture: the study of Hampi

REFERENCES:

1. George Michell_Royal Architecture and Imperial Style at Vijayanagara_in_Barbara Stoler Miller_The Powers of Art: Patronage in Indian Culture 

II. Political structures

[a] Sultanates of Delhi: transitions in ruling elites, service cultures, iqtas 

REFERENCES:

1. Satish Chandra_Struggle for Empire in North India - I (Circa 1400-1525)_ A History of Medieval India

2. Sunil Kumar_The Sultanates of North India: The Mu'izzi Maliks in Hindustan_ The Emergence of Delhi Sultanate 1192-1286

3. Archana Ojha_Impact of Mongol Invasions on the Delhi Sultanate_ IHC Proceedings, 52nd session, 1991-92

4. Gavin R. G. Hambly_The Twilight of Tughluqid Delhi: Conflicting Strategies in a Disintegrating Imperium_ Delhi Through The Ages

5. Sunil Kumar_The End of the Seventh/Thirteenth Century: Balban and the (Re-) Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate_ The Emergence of Delhi Sultanate 1192-1286

6. Sunil Kumar_Bandagi and Naukari: Studying Transitions in Political Culture and Service Under the North Indian Sultanates, Thirteenth - Sixteenth Centuries_ The Emergence of Delhi Sultanate 1192-1286

7. Simon Digby and Irfan Habib_Northern India under the Sultanate_ in_ Economic Conditions Before 1200

8. Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund_ Religious Communities and Military Feudalism in the Late Middle Ages_ in_  A History of India

9. Satish Chandra_The Delhi Sultanate - I (Circa 1200 - 1400)_ A History of Medieval India

10. Sunil Kumar_The ‘Ulama’ and the Emergence of Delhi as the Sanctuary and Axis of Islam in North India_ The Emergence of Delhi Sultanate 1192-1286

11. Peter Jackson_Turks,Tajiks and Khalaj_ The Thirteenth Century

12. Satish Chandra_Government and Economic and Social Life under the Delhi Sultanate_ A History of Medieval India

13. Fatima Ahmad Imam_The Administration of the City of Delhi During the Sultanate_*

14. M. Athar Ali_Capital of Sultans: Delhi During Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries_ Delhi Through the Ages

15. Raj Kumar_The Deccan Policy Of Alauddin Khalji_ Essays on Medieval India

16. Peter Jackson _The Mongol Threat_ The Thirteenth Century

17. Peter Jakson_Delhi: The Problem of a Vast Military Encampment_ Delhi Through the Ages

18. Mohammad Habib_The Turkish Governing Class_ Studies in Medieval Indian Polity and Culture

19. Blain H. Auer_Pre-Islamic Prophetic Paradigms in Delhi Sultanate Historiography_ Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam

20. I. H. Qureshi_ Muslim India Before the Mughals_ The Indian Sub- Continent

21. W.H Moreland_The 13th and 14th Centuries_ The Agrarian System of Moslem Imdia

22. U.N.Day_The Deccan Policy of Alauddin Khalji_*

23. U.N.Day_Significance of the Accession of Firuz Shah Tughlaq_*

24. U.N.Day_The Sultanate and the Caliphate_*

25. W.H Moreland_The Sayyid and Afghan Dynasties_ The Agrarian System of Moslem Imdia

26. Syed Jabir Raza_Ghaznavid Origins of the Administrative Institutions of the Delhi Sultanate_ IHC Proceedings, 52nd session, 1991-92

27. मोहम्मद हबीब_ मुहम्मद बिन तुगलक_ भारत के आरंभिक मध्यकाल में राजनीति 

28. मोहम्मद हबीब_ अलाउदीन खिलजी के अभियान (अमीर खुसरो कृत्रिम इनुल का अनुवाद)_ भारत के आरंभिक मध्यकाल में राजनीति 

29. मोहम्मद हबीब_ गूर का शिहाबुद्दीन_ भारत के आरंभिक मध्यकाल में राजनीति 

30. मोहम्मद हबीब_ अरबों की सिंध विजय_ भारत के आरंभिक मध्यकाल में राजनीति

31. मोहम्मद हबीब_ सुलतान महमूद गजनवी_ भारत के आरंभिक मध्यकाल में राजनीति

32. मोहम्मद हबीब_ आदि मध्यकालीन दिल्ली सलतनत_ भारत के आरंभिक मध्यकाल में राजनीति

33. मोहम्मद हबीब_गुलाम सुलतानों की विरासत_ भारत के आरंभिक मध्यकाल में राजनीति

[b] Articulating political authority: monuments and rituals 

REFERENCES:

1. K.A.Nizami_Impact of Iranian Traditions on the Administrative Institutions, Concepts and Practices of the Early Delhi Sultanate_ State and Culture in Medieval India

2. J.A. Page_An Historical Memoir on the Qutb: Delhi_ Architecture in Medieval India

3. Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi_Iranian Influence on Medieval Indian Architecture_ A Shared Heritage

4. Blain H.Auer_Caliphal Authority and Representation in the Delhi Sultanate_ Symbols of Authority in Medieval India

5. Muhammad Mujeeb_The Qutub Complex as a Social Document_ Architecture in Medieval India

6. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui_The Thirteen and Fourteen Century Farmans Concerning the Conduct of the Governors in the Sultanate of Delhi_*

7. Pius Malekandathil_Spatial Articulations of a Power: A Study on the Medieval City of Delhi_*

8. K.A.Nizami_Perspectives for the Study of Medieval India_ State and Culture in Medieval India

9. Anthony Welch_Architectural Patronage and the Past: The Tughluq Sultans of India_*

10. K.A.Nizami_Aspects of Muslim Political Thought in India during Fourteenth Century_ State and Cultural in Medieval India

11. Blain H.Auer_Sharīah and Justice_ Symbols of Authority in Medieval India

12. Blain H. Auer_Delhi at the Center of Islamic Authority_ Symbols of Authority in Medieval India

13. Muhammad Mujeeb_The Qutub Complex as a Social Document_ Architecture in Medieval India

[c] Consolidation of identities: Rajputs and other warrior lineages 

REFERENCES:

1. U.N.Day_The State of Medieval Malwa and the Fifteenth Century India_*

2. A.C.Banerjee_Medieval Rajput Society_ Aspects of Rajput State and Society

3. K.A.Nizami_Trends in Indian Historiography_ State and Culture in Medieval India

4. A.C.Banerjee_Medieval Rajput Polity_ Aspects of Rajput State and Society

5. मों.हबीब_तुर्कों के आक्रमण के समय की भारतीय संस्कृति और समाज_ भारत के आरंभिक मध्यकाल में राजनीति

6. मों.हबीब_मध्यकालीन भारतीय इतिहास के अध्ययन की प्रस्तावना (1000-1400 ई.)_ भारत के आरंभिक मध्यकाल में राजनीति

7. मों.हबीब_इलियट और डाउसन की पुस्तक ‘हिस्ट्री आफ इंडिया’_ भारत के आरंभिक मध्यकाल में राजनीति

[d] Political cultures: Vijayanagara and Gujarat

REFERENCES:

1. Burton Stein_Vijayanagara c. 1350—1564_*

2. Noboru Karashima_ Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Period of Social Change and Transition_ A Concise History of South India

3. Satish Chandra_The Age of Vijayanagara and the Bahmanids, and the Coming of Portuguese (Circa 1350-1565)_ A History of Medieval India

4. Pushpa Prasad_The Economy of Gujarat in the Thirteenth Century_ Economic History of Medieval India, 1200- 1500

5. K.S.Mathew_ Nobility in the Gujarat Sultanate and the Portuguese during the Sixteenth Century_*

6. K.A.N.Sastri_The Bahamanis and the Rise of Vijayanagar_ A History of South India

7. Gavin R. G. Hambly, Burton Stein_Towns and Cities_ in_ Mughal India

8. Noboru Karashima_ Fifteenth Century to Seventeenth Century: Vijaynagar State and the Wider World_ A Concise History of South India

9. K A Nilakantha Shastri_The Empire of Vijayanagara_ A History of South India

10. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui_The Interstate Relationship: The Sultanates of Delhi and Gujarat_ Composite Culture under the Sultanate of Delhi

11. K.A.N Sastri_The Empire of Vijayanagara_ A History of South India

III. Society and economy

REFERENCES:

1. K A Nilakantha Shastri_Social and Economic Conditions_A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall Of Vijayanagar

[a] Ecological context; agricultural production 

REFERENCES:

1. W H Moreland_The Last Phase in Northern India_The Agrarian System of Moslem India: A Historical Essay with Appendices

2. Shireen Moosvi_ The State and Economy_in_Irfan Habib_The Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c

3. Irfan Habib_The Pastoral Sector_The Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c

4. Irfan Habib_The Agrarian Classes_The Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c

5. Irfan Habib_Crops_The Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c

6. Irfan Habib _The Empire_The Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c

7. Irfan Habib_The Economy of the Ghaznavid Empire, Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries_Economic History of Medieval india, 1200-1500 c.

8. Irfan Habib_ Land Tax and other Rural Taxes_The Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c

9. Irfan habib_Agricultural Manufacturers_The Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c

10. Irfan Habib_ Forest, Deserts and Untilled Lands_The Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c

11. Irfan Habib_Structure of the Agrarian Economy_The Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c

12. हरबंस मुखिया_मध्यकालीन उत्तर भारत की खेतिहर तकऩीक_मध्यकालीन भारत

[b] Technology and changes in society 

REFERENCES:

1. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui_Water Works and Irrigation System in India During Pre-Mughal Times_Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient_Vol. 29, No. 1 

2. Chetan Singh(critique Irfan Habib)_ Well Irrigation Methods in Medieval Panjab: The Persian Wheel Reconsidered_The Indian Economic & Social History Review_ Vol. 22(1)

3. Irfan Habib_Means of Cultivation and Irrigation_Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c.

4. John Burton Page_ Sultanate Architecture_Indian Islamic Architecture : Forms and Typologies, Sites and Monuments

5. Siddiqui_Social Mobility and Emergence of New Social Groups_Delhi Sultanate: Urbanization and Social Change

6. Athar Ali_Military Technology of the Delhi Sultanate (13-14th C.)_Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol 50

7. Irfan Habib_ Forms of Labour_Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c.

8. Irfan Habib_Agriculture and Irrigation_Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c.

[c] Monetization; market regulations; urban centers; trade and craft

REFERENCES:

1. Irfan Habib_The Price Regulations of Alauddin Khalji - A Defence of Zia' Barani_The Indian Economic and Social History Review_Vol 21(4)

2. Mohammad Habib _The Urban Revolution in Northern India_Studies in Medieval Indian Polity and Culture

3. U.N.Day_Revenue Reforms of Alauddin Khalji_Some Aspects of Medieval Indian History 

4. U.N.Day_Market Regulation of Alauddin Khilji_Some Aspects of Medieval Indian History 

5. Najaf Haider_Foreign Trade of India_in_Irfan Habib_Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c.

6. Irfan Habib_Towns and Trade_Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c.

7. Najaf Haider_Coinage and the Silver Crisis_in_Irfan Habib_Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c.

8. Irfan Habib_The Financial Structure of the Empire_The Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c.

9. Siddiqui_The Process of Urbanization_Delhi Sultanate: Urbanization and Social Change

10. Shireen Mossvi_Numismatic Evidence and Economic History of the Delhi Sultanate_Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol 50

11. Simon Digby_The Maritime Trade of India_in_ed. Irfan Habib, Tapan Raychaudhuri_The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. 1: 1200-1500 c.

12. Irfan Habib_Transport, Communications and Navigation_The Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c.

13. Irfan Habib_Towns, Mines, Manufactures and Trade_Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c.

14. K. N. Chaudhuri and A. Das Gupta _Foreign Trade_in_ed. Irfan Habib, Tapan Raychaudhuri_The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. 1: 1200-1500 c.

15. I.H.Qureshi_Firuz Shah*

16. Ali Athar_Siege Craft Techniques of the Delhi Sultans During 13th & 14th Century_Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. 51

17. Irfan Habib_ Non-agricultural production_ Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500 c.

18. Humera Naz_Price Control Policy of Alauddin Khalji: Achievement or Failure_Journal of History and Social Sciences, 1(2) 

IV. Religion, society and cultures

REFERENCES:

1. K A Nilakantha Shastri_Religion and Philosophy_A History of South India

[a] Sufi silsilas: Chishtis and Suhrawardis; doctrines and practices; social roles 

REFERENCES:

1. Satish Chandra_Cultural Development in India (1300-1500)_A History of Medieval India 

2. Simon Digby_Tabarrukat and Succession among Great Chishti Shaykhs of the Delhi Sultanate_in_Robert Eric Frykenberg_Delhi Through the Ages: Essays in Urban History, Culture, and Society

3. Bruce B.Lawrence_The Earliest Chishtiya and Shaikh Nizam-ud-din Awliya_in_Robert Eric Frykenberg_Delhi Through the Ages: Essays in Urban History, Culture, and Society

4. Muhammad Habib_Chishti Mystic Records of the Sultanate Period_Studies in Medieval Indian Polity and Culture 

5. Raziuddin Aquil_Music and Related Practices in Chisti Sufism: Celebrations and Contestations_in_Social Scientist,Vol. 40,Nos.03-04, March-April 2012

6. K.A.Nizami_Muslim Influence on the Bhakti Movement_State and Culture in Medieval India 

7. K.A.Nizami_Mystic Ideas of Iran and their Impact on Sufi Thoughts and Traditions in India_State and Culture in Medieval India 

8. Satish Chandra_Interaction of Bhakti and Sufi Movements_Historiography, Religion, and State in Medieval India

9. Raziuddin Aquil_Sufi Traditions and Hindu-Muslim Interactions_Sufism, Culture and Politics

[b] Bhakti; Sant tradition: Kabir and Nanak; cults: Jagannath and Warkari 

REFERENCES:

1. Rekha Pande_The Bhakti Movement - An Interpretation_in_Proceedings of Indian History Congress, Goa, 1987 

2. Chihiro Koiso_The Bhakti In Tukārām's Abhangas_in_Iwao Shima_Historical Development of the Bhakti Movement in India: Theory & Practice

3. J.T.F Jordens_Medieval Hindu Devotionalism_in_A.L. Basham(ed.)_A Cultural History of India 

4. Umesh Ashok Kadam_'The WHole Universe is my Home': Bhakti in Medieval Maharashtra_in_Kumkum Roy(ed.)_Looking Within, Looking Without: Exploring Households in the Subcontinent Through Time : Essays in Memory of Nandita Prasad Sahai

5. Satish Chandra_Cultural Development in India (1300-1500)_A History of Medieval India 

6. K.A.Nizami_Some Social and Religious Ideals of Guru Nanak_State and Culture in Medieval India 

7. Kazuyo Sakaki_Realization of Inner Divinity: Nātha Yogins in the Medieval Bhakti Movement_in_Iwao Shima_Historical Development of the Bhakti Movement in India: Theory & Practice

8. Taigen Hashimoto_A Study of an Aspect of Kabir's Bhakti with the Text and Translation of the Gyana Caumtisa in the Bijak_in_Iwao Shima_Historical Development of the Bhakti Movement in India: Theory & Practice

9. R.N Nandi_Origin of the Virasaiva Movement_in_Indian Historical Review 2:1

10. भक्ति आंदोलन की विचारधारा - दादूदयाल का दृष्टअंत_मध्यकालीन भारत: नए आयाम

[c] Gender roles: women bhaktas and rulers 

REFERENCES:

1. S.M.Pandey_Mirabai and Her Contributions to the Bhakti Movement_in_History of Religions, Vol.5, no.1 (Summer 1965)

2. Vijaya Ramaswamy_Households Profane and Divine: Perceptions Of Saintly 'Wives'_in_Kumkum Roy(ed.)_Looking Within, Looking Without: Exploring Households in the Subcontinent Through Time : Essays in Memory of Nandita Prasad Sahai

[d] ‘Hindu-Muslim’ relations reconsidered

REFERENCES:

1. K.A.Nizami_Attitude of Early Muslim Mystics Towards Society and State During the Sultanate_State and Culture in Medieval India 

2. J.J.Roy Burman_Hindu-Muslim Syncretism in India_in_Economic and Political Weekly; May 18,1996

3. Cynthia Talbot_Inscribing the Other,Inscribing the Self: Hindu-Muslim Identities in Pre-Colonial India_in_Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 37 No.4 , (Oct.,1995)

4. Susan Bayly_South Indian Religion and Society_Saints, Goddesses and Kings

5. Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal_PreModern Accommodations of Difference The Making of Indo Islamic Cultures_Modern South Asia

6. मों.हबीब_पूर्व मध्यकालीन भारतीय हिंदू समाज_भारतीय इतिहास का आरंभिक मध्यकाल