Abstract

Najaf Haider is a professor of Medieval and early Modern History of India at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Haider graduated from Aligarh Muslim University and obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Oxford in Mughal History. He was Samir Shamma Fellow at St. Cross College and visiting professor at the University of Vienna and University of Bonn. Haider is on the editorial board of International Journal of Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press. He has published on monetary economy, communication and conflict, secretarial classes, history of Delhi, and intellectual history of Islam. He is currently working on ‘The Legal Framework of Commercial Transactions in Medieval India’ for the Cambridge History of International Law.