Hassan Imam
Associate Professor
History
Aligarh Muslim University
India
Biography
Dr. Hassan Imam specialized in Modern Indian History, has done a pioneer work on Mazharul Haque, for his M. Phil dissertation and Ph. D on National Movement in Bihar in which National Movement has been analyzed from regional perspectives. The revised Ph. D thesis has been published by Anmol Publication, New Delhi in 1999. Afterwards, Dr. Imam has diversified his area of his research and study and has explored proscribed literature as new sources for writing history of the national movement. He has been utilizing these as alternative source for writing history of the British India and has published a number of research papers, from subaltern perspectives. His articles on women published in the ART AND CULTURE is based on Urdu sources.. Recently Dr. Imam has been working on a Major Research Project awarded by the UGC on the theme: Posters, Pamphlets, Leaflets and Popular Consciousness: A Study of Proscribed Literature in Northern India,1885-1947.Dr. Imam has also been working on a ICHR Project on Vernacular Newspapers Reports on Bengal and Bihar, 1905-1920. Dr. Hassan Imam specialized in Modern Indian History, has done a pioneer work on Mazharul Haque, for his M. Phil dissertation and Ph. D on National Movement in Bihar in which National Movement has been analyzed from regional perspectives. The revised Ph. D thesis has been published by Anmol Publication, New Delhi in 1999. Afterwards, Dr. Imam has diversified his area of his research and study and has explored proscribed literature as new sources for writing history of the national movement. He has been utilizing these as alternative source for writing history of the British India and has published a number of research papers, from subaltern perspectives. His articles on women published in the ART AND CULTURE is based on Urdu sources.. Recently Dr. Imam has been working on a Major Research Project awarded by the UGC on the theme: Posters, Pamphlets, Leaflets and Popular Consciousness: A Study of Proscribed Literature in Northern India,1885-1947.Dr. Imam has also been working on a ICHR Project on Vernacular Newspapers Reports on Bengal and Bihar, 1905-1920.
Research Interest
Indian History: Modern Indian History, Women Studies, Subaltern History
Publications
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2013 ‘Chauri Chaura(Eastern U.P) incidents of 1922: A Critical evaluation of the British System of Justice by the Press in Bihar’, Paripex-Indian journal of Research,Vol:2 Issue:11, November 2013,pp.36-38, ISSN:2250-1991, IMPACT FACTOR:0.3208 (A joint paper with Dr. Syed Bashir Hasan)U. P. History Congress, Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi, November 9-10,2013.
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)2013 British Education Policy in South Asia: A Critical Appraisal†in the International Proceedings of Economic Development and Research (IPEDR) Vol.64, 2013, Hong Kong, pp.28-31.(ISBN:978-981-07-5749-6). This paper was presented in the 2nd International Conference on Humanity, History and Society (ICHHS 2013) Bangkok, Thailand, April 8-9, 2013.( Awarded Best paper)
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2013 From Mahatma to God: Understanding Gandhi in Cultural Perspectives of the Indian National Movement, in the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Cultural Studies 2013(CCS 2013), Singapore, December 9-10, 2013
