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Mohammad Habib

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Mohammad Habib

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Indian historian (1895–1971)

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  • The Delhi Sultanat [sic]
  • Savāniḥ ḥayāt Amīr Ḵẖusrau
  • Savāniḥ-i ḥayāt-i amīr K̲h̲usrau
  • Political Theory of the Delhi Sultanate (including a Translation of Ziauddin Barani's Fatawa-I Jahandari, Circa, 1358-9 A. D. )
  • Re-imagining Bengal

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  • The peaceful Indian Mussalman, descended beyond doubt from Hindu ancestors, was dressed up in the garb of a foreign barbarian, as a breaker of temples, and an eater of beef, and declared to be a military colonist in the land where he had lived for about thirty or forty centuries…. The result of it is seen in the communalistic atmosphere of India today.
  • In 1330 the country was invaded by the Mongols who indulged in arson, rape and murder throughout the Valley (of Kashmir). The king and the Brahmans fled away but among the inhabitants who remained… Muslim ways of life were gradually adopted by the people as the only alternative…
  • I was told by [Mohammed Habib] with considerable pride that Nehru had learnt the history of medieval India “at his feet.” I have yet to meet a more arrogant man whose manners were uglier than his syphilitic face. He was an ardent admirer of Stalin’s Russia and Mao’s China. He lost his temper and asked me to “go away” when I told him that I did not accept Lenin’s theory of the state.

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