CONTENTS:-
Vol.1: History and Historiography:
I. Meaning and purpose of history:
1. Meaning of history.
2. Garden of humanity.
3. Past-present-future.
4. Personalities-events-ideas.
5. The historian's task.
6. Bias in history.
7. Differences in interpretation.
8. Historical style.
9. Use and abuse of history.
10. Purpose of history.
II. Modern Indian historians of medieval India:
1. Introduction .
2. Historiography on the Turkish period.
3. Works on the Mughal times.
4. Historiography on medieval Government and society.
5. Modern historiography on medieval India.
III. Historiography of medieval India:
1. Contribution of western scholars.
2. Paucity of Hindu source-materials.
3. Modern Indian historiography.
4. Marxist history.
5. Manipulated history.
6. Islamic scriptures as source-materials.
IV. Future of historical research in India:
1. The role of national bodies.
2. Observations on the guidance of research.
V. Survey of research work done on administration under the Delhi Sultanate:
1. Nature of the state.
2. Nature of Kingship.
3. Procedure of succession.
4. Central structure of the Government.
5. Provincial administration.
6. Nobility.
7. Agrarian and revenue system.
8. Army organisation.
9. Market regulations of Ala-ud-din-Khalji.
10. Judicial administration.
11. Public works and education.
Vol.2: Politics and Society:
1. The Ghaznavids in India.
2. Factors underlying the loss of Indian Independence in the twelfth-thirteenth centuries.
3. Hindu responses to Islam and the justification of violence.
4. Nature of the state in medieval India.
5. Corruption in the middle ages.
6. Ideas leading to the impoverishment of the Indian peasantry in medieval times.
7. Influence of rainfall on the course of medieval Indian history (13-15 centuries).
8. Changing pattern of society in early medieval India.
9. Hindu-Muslim rapprochement in early medieval India.
10. The middle class in medieval India.
11. Transport and communication in early modern India.
12. Presidential address history of Rajasthan, history of Indian Chivalry.
13. The Mughal Harem.
14. Haldighati and after.
15. Akbar's din-I-Ilahi.
16. Seculatism and national integration: lessons from history.
