Historians and historiography during the reign of Akbar / Harbans Mukhia

Bibliogr. p. 177-188

This book, written as doctoral dissertation in the 1960s, was somewhat of a departure from the then prevalent research themes of Mughal history: its revenue system, composition of the nobility, level of peasant's exploitation and so forth. In examining the primary sources of Mughal history, the court chronicles, it sought to go beyong the sterile positivist true vs false dichotomy; instead it sought to unearth and evaluate the unstated assumptions underlying the works of history of the period first labeled "Muslim" by James Mill in 1817-18 and later on "Medieval" in the twentieth century.