"Professor Saiyid Nurul Hasan (1921-93), played an important, even a leading role in giving a new direction to history writing in India, immediately before, and after Independence. His vision of history was shaped by the 'nationalist... Allahabad school of history writing...." (S. Nurul Hasan, Religion, State and Society in Medieval India, edited and introduced by Satish Chandra, OUP, p. 1) t t t Prominent western scholar, Richard B. Barnett refers to the 'Allahabad School of History... while discussing the theories of decline of the Mughal rule in India. (Richrad B. Barnett, North India between Empires, Awadh, the Mughals and the British, 1720-1801, University of Virginia, 1980; Delhi, 1897, 1st Indian edition). t t t Allahabad School of History was, in fact, the nucleus of the Indian Liberal School of history-writing - Professor Ravinder Kumar, former Professor of History, Allahabad University and former Director Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.

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Contents

Foreword —Pgs. 5

Preface —Pgs. 9

Introduction —Pgs. 13

Prologue —Pgs. 17

1. The Allahabad School of History —Pgs. 23

2. L.F. Rushbrook Williams —Pgs. 67

3. Sir Shafat Ahmad Khan —Pgs. 99

4. Dr. R.P. Tripathi —Pgs. 122

5. Professor Beni Prasad —Pgs. 146

6. Professor Tara Chand —Pgs. 175

7. Professor Ishwari Prasad —Pgs. 202

Epilogue —Pgs. 237

Select Bibliography —Pgs. 242

Born on December 31, 1955 at Indore, he passed his M.A. from the Department of History, University of Allahabad in 1978, after graduating from the same in 1976. Presently a Professor in the same Department of his alma-mater, he started teaching here in January, 1980. He has taught here for more than 35 years now. He has authored more than 10 books, two of which fetched for him the ‘Acharya Narendra Dev Award… for the years 2003 and 2005 respectively.
His book, ‘Daastaan, Mughal Mahilaon ki… was included by the BBC, London in its list of outstanding Hindi books of 2013. Other publications include more than 40 research papers and about 50 articles in journals, magazines etc.