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Indian history', to be published shortly in Studies in History) also speaks of integration-at the regional level but generally avoids discussing the political mechanism of integration.
117 I. Habib, The Agrarian System of Mughal India, Asia Publishing House, 1963, ch. 5; idem, *The Peasant in Indian History', General President's Address, Indian History Congress, 43 session, Kurukshetra, 1982, S. Nural Hasan, *Zamindars under the Mughals* in R.E. Prykenberg, ed., op, ci7., 17-32; also A.R. Khan, Chieftains in the Mughal Empire during the reign of Akbar, Simla, 1977, Introduction.
This paper constituties the text of the Presidential Address delivered by the author to the Ancient Indian Section of the forty-fourth session of the Indian History Congress, held at Burdwan in December, 1983.