Peter Hardy (historian)

Peter Hardy (1922-2013) was a Lecturer, and later Reader, at the School of Oriental and African Studies from 1947 to 1983. A specialist in the history of Islam, the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal India, he had particular expertise in Indo-Persian historiography. Among his many publications, Historians of Medieval India is highly regarded.[1] His book Muslims of British India is a key work on the colonial period, often re-printed.[2] Hardy's essay "Abul Fazl's Portrait of the Perfect Padshah" was the first attempt to critically reappraise Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak and his political philosophy.[3] His career has drawn the attention of Ian Brown in his history of SOAS.[4]

Key Works

Historians of medieval India; studies in Indo-Muslim historical writing (London: Luzac, 1960)

Partners in freedom and true Muslims. The political thought of some Muslim scholars in British India 1912-1947 (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 1971) Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies monograph series, no. 5 [Reprinted Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980]

The Muslims of British India (London: Cambridge University Press, 1972) Cambridge South Asian studies, 13

"Approaches to pre-modern Indo-Muslim historical writing: some reconsiderations in 1990-1991", pp. 49-71 in Peter Robb, K. N. Chaudhuri, and Avril Powell,eds. Society and ideology: essays in South Asian history presented to professor K.A. Ballhatchet, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993.

"Didactic Historical Writing in Indian Islam: Ziya al-Din Barani's Treatment of the Reign of Sultan Muhammad Tughluq (1324-1351"), pp. 38-60 in Yohanan Friedmann, ed., Islam in Asia (Boulder: Westview Press, 1984)

"Islam and Muslims in South Asia" pp. 36-61 in Raphael Israeli, ed., The Crescent in the East: Islam in Asia Major (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1982) Republished (London: Curzon, Riverdale, Md.: Riverdale Company, 1989)

"Islam in South Asia", pp. 143-164 in Joseph M. Kitagawa, ed., The Religious Traditions of Asia (New York: Macmillan, 1989)

"Some general characteristics analysed", pp. 169-179 in Richard M. Eaton, ed. India's Islamic Traditions, 711-1750 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003)

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References
  1. Hardy, Peter. 1982. Historians of medieval India: studies in Indo-Muslim historical writing. London: Luzac.
  2. Hardy, Peter. 1972. The Muslims of British India. London: Cambridge University Press.
  3. Hardy, Peter. 1985. Abul Fazl's Portrait of the Perfect Padshah: A Political Philosophy for Mughal India – or a Personal Puff for a Pal?. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1010211
  4. Brown, Ian. 2016. School of Oriental and African Studies - Imperial Training and the Expansion of Learning. Cambridge: University Press.
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