Shafaat Ahmad Khan

Sir Shafaat Ahmad Khan, an eminent historian of pre-independence India, became the Chairman of the Modern Indian History Department, at the University of Allahabad, in 1921. He began the Journal of Indian History under the aegis of the department in 1924. He also taught at the University of Madras and the Aligarh Muslim University and presided over the first All India Modern History Congress, which was to become the Indian History Congress, in 1935. Sir Shafaat had also been a member of the UP Legislative Council, part of the Muslim delegation to the Round Table Conference and India’s high commissioner to South Africa from 1941 to 1944. He was also a member of the 14 member interim cabinet, formed in 1946, to facilitate the transfer of power from the British to the Indians. He is the author of various significant historical works, including John Marshall In India – Notes and Observations in Bengal (1668-1672), Anglo Portuguese negotiations relating to Bombay (1660-1677), Sources for the History of British India in the Seventeenth Century and The East India Trade: In the Seventeenth Century. You can read some of these works here.

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