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Khadiza Naufa Fatin

Khadiza Naufa Fatin is a History graduate from Jamia Millia Islamia and is currently pursuing her Master's from University of Delhi. She is also part of The Madrasa Discourses project, developed at Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs USA, under its Contending Modernities Program.
Book Reviews

Book Review: A History of Assam by Edward A. Gait

  • Post Author By Khadiza Naufa Fatin
  • Post Date August 4, 2023
This book is a good start for those who wish to venture into the history of Assam and North- east …Read more  »
A History of Assam by Edward A. Gait
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The Past as Present: Forging Contemporary Identities through History by Romila Thapar

  • Post Author By Khadiza Naufa Fatin
  • Post Date July 21, 2023
Prof Romila Thapar provides the reader with glimpses into her own experiences as she narrates anecdotes behind her work. The …Read more  »
The Past as Present: Forging Contemporary Identities through History by Romila Thapar
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Book Review: Historians of Medieval India: Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writings by Peter Hardy

  • Post Author By Khadiza Naufa Fatin
  • Post Date July 7, 2023
Peter Hardy was a historian of Medieval India and an important scholar of Indo-Persian Historiography. He wrote extensively on the …Read more  »
Historians of Medieval India: Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writings by Peter Hardy
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Book Review: Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals (1526-1748) by Satish Chandra (Part Two)

  • Post Author By Khadiza Naufa Fatin
  • Post Date June 23, 2023
This book written over two decades ago is one of the pioneer works on history of the medieval and early …Read more  »
Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals (1526-1748) by Satish Chandra
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Book Review: Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals (1206-1526) by Satish Chandra

  • Post Author By Khadiza Naufa Fatin
  • Post Date June 9, 2023
Book Review: Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals (1206-1526) by Satish Chandra
Book Review: Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals (1206-1526) by Satish Chandra
Book Reviews

Book Review: India Since Independence

  • Post Author By Khadiza Naufa Fatin
  • Post Date May 26, 2023
This book was first published with a well-defined theme, as a continuation of India’s Struggle For Freedom in beginning of …Read more  »
Book Review: India Since Independence
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Book Review: India’s Struggle for Independence

  • Post Author By Khadiza Naufa Fatin
  • Post Date May 12, 2023
This book is the first of a two-part book series, which was partly a result of a research project on …Read more  »
Women

The Five Muslim Women Achievers You Need to Know About

  • Post Author By Khadiza Naufa Fatin
  • Post Date March 8, 2023
Begum Qudsia Aijaz Rasul (1909 – 2001) was the only Muslim woman in the Constituent Assembly of India that drafted …Read more  »
The Five Muslim Women Achievers You Need to Know About - Saliha Abid Hussain, Mofida Ahmed, Mumtaz Jahan Haider, Begum Qudsia Aizaz Rasul, and Salma Begum
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Queen Elizabeth, A Colonial Demise in the Decolonial Era

  • Post Author By Khadiza Naufa Fatin
  • Post Date September 9, 2022
Queen Elizabeth II, the monarch of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth realm, passed away yesterday on the 8th of …Read more  »
Photograph by: Cecil Beaton; 1953. Official portrait of the royal coronation
Historical Archive

The Blitzkrieg in World War II

  • Post Author By Khadiza Naufa Fatin
  • Post Date February 13, 2022
The situation at Dunkirk in 1940 was extremely out of bounds for the British Army. Hundreds of thousands of men …Read more  »
The Blitzkrieg in World War II
Historical Archive

Pleasant Jaunts and Arduous Journeys: Tales of Travel from Amir Hasan Sijzi’s Fawā’id Al-Fu’ād

  • Post Author By Khadiza Naufa Fatin
  • Post Date December 20, 2020
Amir Hasan Sijzi (d.1337) recorded the conversations of his master, Shaykh Nizam ad-Din Awilya (d.1325), in the form the Fawā'id …Read more  »
Pleasant Jaunts and Arduous Journeys: Tales of Travel from Amir Hasan Sijzi's Fawā'id Al-Fu'ād

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