On the occasion of the 124th birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund has awarded Fellowship to Professor Mushirul Hasan for his project 'Roads to Freedom — Prison, Prisoners and the Raj'.
Prof Hasan (64) is an internationally known historian author and former Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Milia Islamia. He has written extensively on the Partition of India, on communalism and on the history of Islam in South-Asia.
Hasan did his MA from Aligarh Muslim University in 1969 and PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1977. In 2008, the Calcutta University conferred upon him an honorary Dlitt. He was the Director-General of the National Archives of India from May 2010 to May 2013.