Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 55th Session, Aligarh, 1994

Editorial BoardExecutive Committee - 1995PrefaceSelect AbbreviationsGeneral President's Address : The Whirligig of Time/Amales TripathiSection I : ANCIENT INDIA :Presidential Address :1. Construction and History : Problems of Regional Identity and Historiography of Early Bihar/C.P.N. Sinha2. Aspects of Caste Organization in Northern India (C. 600 to 323 B.C.) : A Reappraisal/D.N. Roy and Shweta Sinha3. Myths and Legends of Kasi/Samarendra Narayan Arya4. Elective Affinities : The Influence of Ramayana on Mizo Religion and Culture/Sujit K. Ghosh5. Trade in Coastal Gujarat from 4th to 6th Century/ Sanjukta Datta6. From the Oxus to Yamuna (c. 600-c. 750)/Irfan Habib and Faiz Habib7. Land System in Early Kashmir/Suman Jamwal8. The State in Early India : An Overview/Bhairabi Prasad Sahu9. Bhakti as an Ideology : Perspectives in Deconstructing the Early Medieval Indian Tradition/Vijay Kumar Thakur10. Some Aspects of the Village in Ancient.Bengal : Size and Periphery/Annapurna Chattopadhyay11. Measurement of Land by Nala in Early Bengal/Rita Ghosh Ray12. Rural Society and State Formation in Early Medieval South-Western Rajasthan/ Nandini Sinha13. Maritime Trade Between Malabar and Aden : Gleanings from a Jewish Business Letter - 1139/Ranabir ChakravartiSummaries : 14. Comparative Study of Some of the Vedic and Avestan Gods/Vishnu Kant Verma15. The Role of the Brahmanas in Anti-Alexander Movement in North-West India (c.326-325 B.C.)/G.P. Singh16. Was the Conquest of Kalinga a Fact or a Hoax?/Sita Ram Roy17. Hierarchy of Dependents in Early India/A.P. Ojha18. Fresh Light on Sarthavaha in Ancient India/Yugal Kishore Mishra19. Manusmriti and Kutaramanava/Parnasbari Bhattacharyya20. Banking in Ancient India as Depicted in Jain Canonical Literature/Raj Kumar Pathak21. Socio-Political Roots of Ramkatha in Ancient and Early Medieval India/Anil Kumar Tyagi22. The Chandella Capital/S.K. Sullerey23. Varuna Cult in Early Medieval Chamba Valley/Seema Bawa24. Problems of Mapping Rashtrakuta Territory/Shyam Narayan LalSection II : MEDIEVAL INDIA :Address of the Sectional President :25. Reconstructing the Political and Economic Profile of Rajasthan/Satya Prakash Gupta26. The Turuska or Turks in Late Ancient Indian Documents/Pushpa Prasad27. The Turks and their Migration to Central Asia and India : Analysis of the Historical Information on the Turks and Turkestan in Early Medieval Indo-Persian Sources/Iotidar Husain Siddiqui28. The State Formation in Sultanate of Bengal/Anirudha Ray29. The Role of the Mongols in the Introduction of Gun Powder and Firearms in India/Iqtidar Alam Khan30. Nayindas (Barbers) of Medieval Karnataka/D.A. Grijamma31. A Critical Assessment of Tuhfatu'l Ahbab : A Source for the Socio-Economic History of Kashmir during Sultanate Period/A.Q. Rafiqi32. A Rare Farmanof Ulugah Beg-New Light on Timurid Relations with the Delhi Sultanate/Ishtiyaq Ahmad Zilli33. A Unique Farman of Mirza Kamran and its Historical Significance/Zakir Husain34. Contribution of the Qadiris to the Folk Poetry of Punjab/Fatima Z. Bilgrami35. Afghan Immigration into India : A Case Study of Some Afghan Families, 16th-19th Centuries/Iobal Husain36. The Non-Revenue Dues under the Adil Shahis & Shivaji During the 17th Century : A Study of an Unpublished Farman of Adil Shah/G.T. Kulkarni37. Local Administration in Agra : Archival Evidence from Muhammad Shah's Reign/Mohammad Afzal Khan38. The Migration of the Oswals in Pre-British India : A Case Study of the Kharataragachha Sect/B.L Bhadani39. The Issue of Centralized Versus Regional Bureaucracy in the Mughal Empire The : Evidence from the suba of Malwa/Syed Bashir Hasan40. The Lahore Family of Astrolabists and their Ouvrage/Sreeramula Rejeswara Sarma41. Chronicling the Miraculous Hageology in the Mirat-i Madari/Maksud Ahmad Khan42. Akbar's Gujarat Campaigns : A Military Analysis/M.K. Zaman43. Trade and Society in Gujarat - A Dutch Account, c. 1617/Jawaid Akhtar44. Trade at Surat - 1648 : Dutch Memoir/Ishrat Alam45. …