Mushirul Hasan: An Intellectual and Institutional Journey
EDITOR: Hari S. Vasudevan and Suranjan Das
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- EDITOR: Hari S. Vasudevan and Suranjan Das
- PB ISBN: 978-81-944287-7-0
- Year: 2020
- Extent: 208
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The volume is a tribute to the memory of Mushirul Hasan, one of the most eminent academics and institution-builders of modern India. It begins with Mushir’s own recollections of his Aligarh years, his Presidential Address to the Modern India Section of the Indian History Congress on `Partition Narratives’ and his unpublished 2014 lecture on Jawaharlal Nehru. The collection then brings together essays by Francis Robinson, Farzana Sheikh, Mujibur Rehman, Ranjit Nair, Lakshmi Subramanian, Arif Ali, Martha C. Nussbaum and Manisha Sethi, on how Mushir shaped himself both as a leading historian and an ardent institution-builder of his time, as well as personal recollections of Mushir by Prabhat Patnaik, S. Irfan Habib, Suparna Gooptu and Jawid Laiq. The next part of the volume reprints the published tributes by Majid Siddiqi, Shahid Amin, Narayani Gupta, Ramachandra Guha, Amir Ali, Hasan Suroor, Seema Mustafa, Seema Chishti and Ziya us Salam. They aptly place Mushir in the wider context of the intellectual community of India over time. The collection has traced aspects of Mushir’s personality, writing and achievement, adding nuance and depth to a public record.
The Editors
Sanjukta Das Gupta is the ICCR India Chair Professor of Modern Indian History at Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy. She has earlier served as Associate Professor at the University of Calcutta and is an Associate Editor of The Calcutta Historical Journal. Her research interests include agrarian history and rural societies of India. She has co-edited Narratives of the Excluded: Caste Issues in Colonial India (2008) and has published extensively in academic journals and edited volumes. She is the author of Adivasis and the Raj: Socio-economic Transition of the Hos, 1820-1932 (2011).
Raj Sekhar Basu is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, University of Calcutta. He has specialized in the history of marginal groups in south India. He has received several international fellowships and has contributed extensively to national and international journals and edited volumes. He has co-edited Narratives of the Excluded: Caste Issues in Colonial India (2008). His monographs include Many Varieties of Dalit Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial India (2010) and Nandanar’s Children: Paraiyar’s Tryst with Destiny, Tamilnadu 1850-1956 (2011).
Contributors
Raj Sekhar Basu l B.B. Chaudhuri l Tripti Chaudhuri l Sanjukta Das Gupta l Marco Fattori l Giorgio Milanetti l Daniel J. Rycroft l Samita Sen l Shashank Sekhar Sinha l Nandini Sundar