Mushirul Hasan
Professor
Department of History and Culture
Foreign Service Institute
India
Biography
Academic Degrees: M. A. (Aligarh Muslim University, 1969) Ph.D. (University of Cambridge, 1977). Positions: Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia, since 2004-2009. Director, Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, July 2000 - January 2010. Pro-Vice-Chancellor 1992 – 1996 Membership of Professional Bodies: Co-editor of Third Frame: Literature, Culture and Society, a quarterly journal (Foundation Books, Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd., Delhi). Awards received: Received the highest French Civilian Award - 'Officer dans I'Ordre des Palmes Academiques' (Officer of the Order of Academic Palms) by the Prime Minister of the France. Awarded Padma Shri by the Hon’ble President of India, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, 2007. Awarded D.Lit (Honoris Causa) by Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University (UPRTOU), Allahabad, 2006. Awarded Professor Sukumar Sen Memorial Gold Medal by The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 2006.
Research Interest
Indian history Economics
Publications
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"Negotiating its past and present: The Aligarh Muslim University", in Mushirul Hasan (ed.), Knowledge, Power and Politics: Educational Institutions in India (Delhi, 1998).
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"Aligarh’s ‘Notre eminent contemporain’: Assessing Syed Ahmad Khan’s Reformist Agenda" (Lecture delivered at the Royal Asiatic Society, London, on 2 April 1998), Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay), 9-15 May 1998.
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"Memories of a Fragmented Nation: Rewriting the Histories of Partition", Economic and Political Weekly, 10-16 October 1998. Also published in Amrik Singh (ed.), The Partition in Retrospect (Delhi, 1990); in Wissenschaftskolleg: Jahrbuch 1997-98; and The Annual of Urdu Studies, Number 15, part 1, 2000.
