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| Feature | V.D. Mahajan | Satish Chandra | Irfan Habib | |---------|--------------|----------------|--------------| | Primary focus | Political-dynastic | Political + cultural | Economic + class | | Source base | Secondary texts | Primary Persian sources | Numismatics, agrarian records | | Readability | High (bullet points, tables) | Moderate | Dense (theoretical) | | Target audience | Exam candidates | Undergraduates | Researchers | | Ideological tilt | Liberal-nationalist | Secular-nationalist | Marxist |

Unlike some strictly political texts, it dedicates significant space to the Bhakti Movement