Public life in Muslim India 1850-1947

Professor Khursheed Kamal Aziz was born in December 1927, in village Ballamabad near Faisalabad. He was educated at the M. B. High School, Batala, Forman Christian College and the Government College, Lahore, and Victoria University, Manchester. He has been on the academic staff of Government College, Lahore, and of the Universities of the Punjab, London, Cambridge, Khartoum and Heidelberg, and has delivered occasional lectures at the Universities of Karachi, Peshawar, Dacca, Islamabad, Hull, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Geneva, Oxford and Bergen. During intervals snatched from teaching abroad he has served at home as Deputy Official Historian to the Government of Pakistan, Chairman of the National Commission on Historical and Cultural Research, and Special Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister (Z. A. Bhutto). Author of over a dozen books, he is a historian of rank with an international reputation.