“mushirul hasan”

Hasan has collected essays, extracts, memoirs, and a short story to create an evocative outline of the events preceding and surrounding India's partition.... More

When Lutfullah, member of a distinguished Sufi family of Malwa, and a master of languages, visited England in 1844 in the company of Mir Jarar Ali Khan, son-in-law of the Nawab of Surat, he recorded his observations on various matters connected with the British government, culture, and society in wh... More

This volume discusses the lives of five significant and influential figures of nineteenth-century Delhi -- Mohammad Zakaullah, Nazir Ahmad, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Mizra Asadullah Khan Ghalib, and Khwaja Altaf Husain Hali. It studies their attitudes and behavior towards one another, their responses to th... More

Few biographical narratives in India use the hitory of families to map the social and historical context of their times. In this important work, Mushirul Hasan draws on the family history of the Kidwais of Bara Banki district of the United Provinces to provide an engaging and colourful account of A... More

Mushirul Hasan makes a valuable contribution to debates about the society, polity, and history of Indian Muslims in this book. Rejecting generalizations like Good Muslim, Bad Muslim and the clash of civilizations, this book presents Indian Islam as one that is rooted in its environment and that exis... More

The partition of India has cast its lengthy shadow over two generations of Indians The partition of India has cast its lengthy shadow over two generations of Indians. Drawing on short stories, poems, and satirical writings and eye-witness accounts, these two volumes document the anguish and ... More

The Nehru are the first family of Indian politics. From Motilal to Jawaharlal, Indira Gandhi to her sons Rajiv and Sanjay and more recently Sonia Gandhi-no other family has wielded such power over or captured the imagination of the Indian people. For the first time the family's history has been chro... More