Mushirul Hasan (15 August 1949 – 10 December 2018)[1] was a historian of modern India. He wrote on thepartition of India,communalism, and on the history of Islam in South Asia.[2][3][4]
He was a professor in the Department of History and Culture,Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He also served as the Director of Academy of Third World Studies in Jamia Millia Islamia from July 2000 to January 2010. He was the Pro-Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia from 1992 to 1996. Later, he served as the Vice-Chancellor ofJamia Millia Islamia (2004-2009) for which he has been described as an "institution builder".[6][7] In May 2010, he was appointed the Director-General of theNational Archives of India.[8] He was elected as the President of theIndian History Congress in 2002.
Conferred theJawaharlal Nehru Fellowship by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund on the occasion of the 124th birth anniversary of the former Prime Minister on 14 November 2014.[11]
Hasan died on 10 December 2018 and was buried at Jamia Millia Islamia graveyard.[14]
An endowment named after him was established by Jamia Millia Islamia with the donation from his wifeZoya Hasan. The endowment was slated to offer a post-doctoral fellowship and two post-graduate merit-cum-means scholarships annually. An annualMushirul Hasan Memorial Seminar on contemporary history, society and politics in India is also organized at the university.[15]
^Kumar, Girja (1997). "Mushirul Hasan: victim of academic politics".The book on trial: fundamentalism and censorship in India. Har-Anand Publications. pp. 253–272.ISBN978-81-241-0525-2.
