By TCN News,
Aligarh: Dr. M Waseem Raja, Senior Assistant Professor of History at the Aligarh Muslim University has been awarded the prestigious Major Research Project by University Grant Commission to trace the early trends of Afghan migration.
Dr Raja will be working on migration of Afghans in India, Afghan settlements Tradition Culture and contribution in Indian Society. This Project is titled, “Tracing Afghan Ethnicity in India: The Early Trends of Afghan Transmigration and Settlement pockets in Northern India.”
He has been awarded the project under the category of UGC support for the Major Research Project in Humanities and Social Sciences to University Teachers.
Dr. M Waseem Raja, Senior Assistant Professor of History at AMU
The grant would be utilized in his work on the “Afghans of India and their History”. This Major Research Project is meant for the period of 2 Years and will commence from the Month of April, 2013.
Dr Raja told TCN, “The idea of this project emanates from the longstanding problems of mapping the transmigration of Muslims from Central Asia or Middle East” after emergence of Islam in Arabian Peninsula.”
The project will focus more on the study of Afghan migrations in India from the time of Mahmud of Ghazni to Muhhamad Ghori or Bahlol Lodi.
During Bahlol Lodi's reign the entire Lodi tribe was invited to India. Then we find Sur tribe of Afghans having Sur dynasty in India. During 18 th Century we find emergence of Rohailkhund as new Afghan Kingdom of Rohillas.
“The study will entail the details of all such developments related to Afghans in India in historical perspectives and would try to understand the present population setting of Afghans in India with their present localities,” Dr Raja further told TCN.