Mushirul Hasan
| Mushirul Hasan | |
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| Born | 15 August 1949 |
| Fields | History |
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Mushirul Hasan (born 15 August 1949) is a historian of modern India. He has written extensively on the Partition of India, on communalism, and on the histories of Islam in South-Asia.
Hasan is the second son of the noted historian Mohibbul Hasan.Mushirul Hasan did his M. A. from the Aligarh Muslim University in 1969. He earned a Doctorate (PhD) from the University of Cambridge, 1977.
He served as the Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia (2004-2009). In May 2010, he was appointed as the Director-General of the National Archives of India. He was the elected as the President of the Indian History Congress in 2002.
He has also held in the past academic positions at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), Berlin, Centre D'Etudes De L'Inde ET de L' Asie Du Sud (The Center for Studies in India and South Asia), Paris, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK, St Antony's College, Oxford and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.
Some of his well-known works are:
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