Preface; Irfan Habib; The Rgveda: Encapsulating Social Change; Aryanization of the Indus Civilization; Feudal Social Formation in Indian History; Muskets in the Mawas: Instruments of Peasant Resistance; Witnessing Transition: Views on the End of the Akbari Dispensation; Levelling or Differentiation? Production and Appropriation Relations in Mughal India; Rural and Urban Caste Structure in Eighteenth-Nineteenth Century India: The Deccan and Gujarat; Palashi: The Inside Story of a Betrayal; Pre-capitalist Economic Formations and Differential Agricultural Productivity: A Tentative Hypothesis; Workers and the Historians' Burden; The Indian Economic Experience 1600-1900: A Quantitative Study; New Estimates of Eighteenth-Century British Trade and Their Relation to Transfers from Tropical Colonies; Modernity and Its Philosophic Visions; Postmodernism in History; Realism and the Syntax of Difference: Narratives of the Bengal Famine; Archaeology and Nationalism: The Case of Medieval Gaur; The Rural Artist and Secular Culture in the Era of Globalization; Culture, Nationalism and Communal Politics; India's Partition Revisited; Class, Clientelism and Communal Politics in Contemporary Bangladesh; Ayodhya: A Review of the Archaeological Evidence; State Enterprise Reform and the Political Economy of 'Transition'; A Simple Model of an Imaginary Socialist Economy; Contributors; Irfan Habib: A List of Publications; Index