THE SPIRIT OF AN AGE
Harbans Mukhia
Politics and Society during the Early Medie¬val period: Collected Works of Professor Mohammad Habib Vol. II. by K.N. Nizami People's Publishing House, Delhi, 1981, 447 pp., 150
Nov-Dec 1981, volume 6, No 3

The late Professor Moham¬mad Habib’s writings com¬prise all that was best in the work of a whole brilliant generation of Indian his-torians. The thinking of this generation had been moulded by the concluding phase of India’s struggle for indepen¬dence—a phase that inspired a great deal of idealism, raised the moral stature of men and created fellow-feeling even in the midst of tensions and con¬flicts of truly continental dimensions. It is this essential humanism that makes many of the historical works of the late 1920’s down to the first decade of India’s independence valuable.

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