Faiz Habib(b. 1962), Cartographer at the Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University, has specialized in the preparation of historical maps, since 1982. These have appeared in Cambridge Economic History of

India, Vol. II, UNESCO's History of Humanity, Vol. V, the People's History of India series of Aligarh Historians

Society/Tulika, and numerous other publications, including those of the Oxford University Press, National Book

Trust and Indian Council of Historical Research. He has co-authored with Irfan Habib papers (with maps) on

medieval Indian geography as also those on ancient India that have formed the basis of this atlas.