Mushirul Hasan

Who is Mushirul Hasan?

Professor Mushirul Hasan second son for noted historian and professor at his time Muhibbul Hasan he originally belongs to village Muhammadpur, Tehsil Fatehpur, District Barabanki, is an internationally known historian, author and ex-Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University at Delhi. He has written extensively on the Partition of India, on communalism, and on the histories of Islam in South-Asia.

Mushirul Hasan was the elected President of the Indian History Congress in 2002. In 2007, He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India and the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Government in 2010. In May 2010, he was appointed the director-general of the National Archives of India.