Kashmir under the Sultans (By Mohibbul Hassan)

Mohibbul Hasan (1908-1999) completed his education at Oxford and returned to India to start a glorious teaching career at Khalsa College Amritsar. After serving in several educational institutions he joined Aligarh Muslim University as Reader.

He was instrumental in organizing a National seminar on medieval Indian historiography and later edition the proceedings of the seminar in the form of a book titled Historians of Medieval India. After his retirement from Jamia Milia Islamia in July 1970, the then Prime Minister of j&K state Ghulam Mohammad Sadiq offered him the opportunity to head the Department of History of the University 8f Kashmir, Srinagar. He was also deputed for six months to England and France to collect materials on Kashmir history. He worked for the completion of his book on Dogra rule in Kashmir for several years. He gained international fame for his major work 'History of Tipu Sultan'. He also edited 'The Diary of an Indian Envoy to Constantinople' and authored an excellent monograph on the Mughal Emperor, Babar.

Author: Mohibbul Hassan