Harbans Mukhia
Harbans Mukhia is an Indian historian whose principal area of study is medieval India.Biography
He received his Bachelors in Arts in history in 1958 from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University and then earned his doctorate from Department of History, Delhi University in 1969. Mukhia worked at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi as Professor of Medieval History at the Centre for Historical Studies. He was rector of JNU from 1999 to 2002 and retired in February 2004.Honors and awards
- Fellowship of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla
- Homi Bhabha Fellowship
- Directeur d’Étude Associé, EHESS, Paris, 1980-2003 1980-2003.
- UGC National Lecturer
- UGC National Fellow
- Visiting Professor, The British Academy, London, February–March, 1993.
- Senior Visiting Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden
- Fellow, IDPAD, University of Amsterdam, October 2004.
- National Fellow, Indian Council of Historical Research, 2014-16.
Books
;As author
;As editor
- Feudalism and Non-European Socieites T. J. Byres, Harbans Mukhia ASIN B0017DM8SQ
- Religion, Religiosity, and Communalism; Praful Bidwai, Harbans Mukhia, and Achin Vanaik Bidwai ASIN B001NJD892
- French Studies in History: The Inheritance Harbans Mukhia, Maurice Aymard
- The Feudalism Debate
- French Studies in History: The Departures
- Understanding India: Indology and Beyond, Harbans Mukhia, Jaroslav Vacek, Prague, 2012.
- The History of Technology in India, vol II, Medieval India, New Delhi, 2012.
;Festschriften
- Rethinking a Millennium: Essays for Harbans Mukhia: perspectives on Indian history from the 8th to the 18th century ; editor Rajat Dutta
