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Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi

Prof. Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi is an acclaimed AMU historian, archaeologist, and IHC General Secretary, specializing in Mughal architecture and urban medieval history.

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Akbar in Twenty-First-Century India: The Continuing Relevance of an Imperial Experiment

Akbar was born on 15 October 1542, and the question of what a sixteenth-century emperor can offer the India of today has acquired fresh urgency now that new NCERT textbooks recast his reign through the framework of “Resistance and Resilience”. Chittor and sulh-i kul, like Haldighati and Man Singh, must be read together, and a historian who keeps only half of that record will have swapped one simplification for another.

Reading Atif Syed’s Aligarh: The City That Outlasted Empires

Some cities are overshadowed by the institutions they contain. Aligarh is a striking example. To most people outside the region, the name immediately evokes Aligarh Muslim University, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and the movement for Muslim educational regeneration that grew around the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College. So powerful has this association become that the considerably older…