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{{Short description|Indian academician and historian}}
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{{Infobox academic
| name = Rattan Lal Hangloo
| occupation = Professor
| alma_mater = University of Kashmir,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
| discipline = History
| honorific_prefix = Professor
| birth_date = January 2, 1954
| website = https://rattanlalhangloo.wordpress.com/
| birth_place = Hangalgund, Anantnag District, Jammu and Kashmir, India
| period = Vice Chancellor, University of Kalyani (2013 - 2015),
Vice Chancellor, University of Allahabad (2015 - 2020)
Honorary Vice Chancellor, Noble International University (2020 - till date)
| spouse = Smt. Sharika Kaul Hangloo
| children = Arkapratim (son) and Arkaprava (daughter)
| doctoral_advisor = Harbans Mukhia
| workplaces = University of Hyderabad
| citizenship = Indian
| image = Rattan Lal Hangloo pic with suit.jpg
}}

'''Rattan Lal Hangloo''' (born January 2, 1954) is an [[India]]n historian and academic. He is formerly a professor and the head of the history department at the [[University of Hyderabad]]. He served as vice-chancellor of the [[University of Allahabad]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Short CV of Professor Rattan Lal Hangloo |url=https://allduniv.ac.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/Bio-Data.pdf |access-date=27 July 2024 |website=rlhangloo}}</ref> and [[University of Kalyani]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Former Vice Chancellors |url=https://klyuniv.ac.in/vice-chancellors/# |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=[[University of Kalyani]]}}</ref> Born to a [[Kashmiri Pandit]] family in [[Kashmir]], Hangloo completed his postgraduate studies at the [[University of Kashmir]] in Srinagar and the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] in New Delhi. After completing his post-doctoral studies, he worked at the University of Kashmir, the [[North-Eastern Hill University|North Eastern Hill University]], the [[University of Hyderabad]], and the [[Central University of Punjab]]. He also served as a teaching faculty in several other universities outside India. Presently, he is an Honorary Vice Chancellor at Noble International University.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |date=2015-02-02 |title=Contact Us |url=https://niuniversity.org/?page_id=456 |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=Noble International University |language=en-US}}</ref> He has written a number of books on history and provided his expertise on topics such as the nature of the [[State (polity)|state]], agrarian economy, society and technology, political conflict, and the [[material culture]] of Kashmir and other [[Himalayas|Himalayan]] communities.

Hangloo is also an [[Urdu language]] poet<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 29, 2017 |title=Poetry Reading by Eminent Urdu Poet, Rattan Lal Hangloo at Sahitya Akademi Conference Hall |url=https://www.delhievents.com/2017/09/poetry-reading-by-eminent-urdu-poet.html |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=}}</ref> who is additionally fluent in Persian, Sanskrit,<ref>{{YouTube|id=AQV8j2pW8_A|title=Khaas Mulaqat - Prof. Rattan Lal Hangloo - Vice Chancellor - The University of Allahabad On 10th Sep}}, Retrieved July 27, 2024</ref> Hindi, English, and Kashmiri. The Government of India has bestowed upon him the honorary rank of Colonel in recognition of his outstanding contributions as an academic and administrator.<ref>{{Cite web |last1= Excelsior|first1= Daily|date=2020-08-09 |title=Dr Hangloo awarded honorary rank of Colonel |url=https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/dr-hangloo-awarded-honorary-rank-of-colonel/ |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=Daily Excelsior |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
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Rattan Lal Hangloo was born on January 2, 1954, to a [[Kashmiri Pandits|Pandit family]] at Hangalgund village, [[Anantnag district|Anantnag]] district in [[Kashmir Valley]], India. His mother was Rupa Pandita Hangloo, and his father was Radha Krishna Hangloo. Both of his parents were farmers. He finished his early studies in the Kashmir Valley. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts from the Government Degree College, Anantnag <ref>{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=April 1, 2022 |title=Historian Hangloo |url=https://kashmirlife.net/historian-hangloo-vol-14-issue-1-289600/ |access-date=July 27, 2024 |work=[[Kashmir Life]]}}</ref> and Master of Arts from the University of Kashmir. In 1978 he then joined the [[Master of Philosophy]] course at the Centre for Historical Studies, [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]], New Delhi and completed it in 1979, the title of his thesis was 'History of Agrarian System of Kashmir -1846-1900.' In 1980 he was registered for the [[Doctor of Philosophy]] course at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, [[New Delhi]] and completed it in 1982. His Doctor of Philosophy thesis title was ' History of Rural Economy of Kashmir - 1846-1900.' Following his doctorate in philosophy, he was awarded a Jawaharlal Nehru University post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Historical Studies. He finished the post-doctoral course in 1982–1983 with a thesis titled 'Indo-Central Asians Relations 1800-1900.

== Career ==

=== Historian ===
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After receiving his doctorate in history, Rattan Lal Hangloo worked as an assistant professor in the history department at the University of Kashmir from April 1980 until September 1982. After that, from September 1982 to August 1984, he worked as a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He relocated to the Northeastern region of India in September 1984, where he served as an assistant professor in the history department at [[North-Eastern Hill University|North Eastern Hill University]] in [[Shillong]], Meghalaya, until December 1988.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 1, 2022 |title=Historian Hangloo |url=https://kashmirlife.net/historian-hangloo-vol-14-issue-1-289600/ |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=[[Kashmir Life]]}}</ref> From January 1989 to July 1998, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of History, [[University of Hyderabad]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hussain |first=Masood |date=April 1, 2022 |title=Historian Hangloo |url=https://kashmirlife.net/historian-hangloo-vol-14-issue-1-289600/ |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=[[Kashmir Life]]}}</ref> He was appointed Professor in the Department of History at the University of Hyderabad in August 1998, and he retired in January 2019 upon reaching superannuation.

=== Administrative experience ===
Hangloo served as the University of Hyderabad's Dean of Students' Welfare from 2002 to 2005. From 2004 to 2006 and from 2010 to 2012, he was the head of the history department. From 2005 to 2007 he worked for the University of Hyderabad as the Chief Coordinator of the "UGC with Potential for Excellence Program." He then left India to serve in [[Trinidad and Tobago]] from 2007 to 2009 as the [[University of the West Indies|University of West Indies]]'s Chair of Indian Studies. Following that, he returned to India, he served as Chief Proctor at the University of Hyderabad from 2009 to 2011. From January to June 2010, he was offered the chance to serve as Dean of [[Central University of Punjab|the Central University of Punjab]]'s School of Social Sciences and Languages while he was still Chief Proctor. He left India once more to work as the ICCR Chair of Contemporary Indian Studies at the [[Tbilisi State University]] in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] from 2011 to 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 1, 2023 |title=India-Georgia Bilateral Relations |url=https://eoiyerevan.gov.in/pdf/India-Georgia%20Bilateral%20Relations.pdf |access-date=July 24, 2024 |website=[[Embassy of India]]}}</ref> He returned to India and resumed his work as a professor at the Department of History, University of Hyderabad. From 2013 to 2015, he served as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-11-06 |title=Prof Hangloo appointed Kalyani University VC |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/prof-hangloo-appointed-kalyani-university-vc/article23154338.ece |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=BusinessLine |language=en}}</ref> The [[President of India]] appointed Hangloo as Vice Chancellor of the [[University of Allahabad]], Uttar Pradesh, India from 2015 to 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-12-19 |title=Rattan Lal Hangloo appointed Vice-Chancellor of Allahabad University |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/education/rattan-lal-hangloo-appointed-vicechancellor-of-allahabad-university/article8007985.ece |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=BusinessLine |language=en}}</ref> From 2022 to the present, he has served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor (Social Sciences) at SRM University in Andhra Pradesh, India.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-10-10 |title=Prof Rattan Lal Hangloo |url=https://srmap.edu.in/faculty/prof-rattan-lal-hangloo/ |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=SRM University AP, Andhra Pradesh |language=en-US}}</ref> Currently, he is working in the Noble International University as an Honorary Vice Chancellor.

== Invited lecture ==
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* In September 1997, the President of the [[Turkmenistan]] invited Professor Rattan Lal Hangloo to give the First Bairam Khan Memorial Lecture at Maktum Quli University in Ashkabad, Turkmenistan.
* In August 1998, he accepted an invitation from the Gadhar Heritage Foundation of California, USA, to give the First Budh Singh Dillon (Founder of the Gadhar Party in the USA) Memorial Lecture at the famed Gadhar Memorial Hall in San Francisco, California.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://rattanlalhangloo.wordpress.com/ |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=Rattan Lal Hangloo}}</ref>
* In 1998, he received an invitation to give a lecture on Kashmir in Pre-Modern and Modern Times from the Kashmiri Overseas Association in Washington, D.C.
* In July 1998, he received an invitation from Michigan University's Asian Studies Center to provide a talk on Kashmir and South Asia.
* He delivered a speech on Human Rights, Islam, and Kashmir at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1998 under invitation from the 14th International Congress of Ethnology and Anthropological Sciences.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://rattanlalhangloo.wordpress.com/ |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=Rattan Lal Hangloo}}</ref>
* He was invited to give a speech on the study of the urbanization of the Ladakh region in July 2002 at the XIII International Congress of the Economic History Association in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
* He was invited to an international conference in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, in October 2000 by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Turkmen Foreign Ministry.
* He was invited to deliver K.P. Jayaswal memorial lecture on 'Periodizing Medieval India' at K.P.Jayaswal Research Institute Patna on 5 December 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jha |first=Sachchidanad |date=December 5, 2010 |title=Prof. R L Hangloo of Hyderabad University delivering K P Jaiswal Memorial Lecture |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/prof-r-l-hangloo-of-hyderabad-university-while-delivering-k-p-jaiswal-memorial-lecture-on-periodising-medieval-india-here-on-sunday-said-in-india-society-and-state-were-deliberately-perceived-by-britishers-to-be-islamic-a-label-that-satisfied-their-innate-craving-to-get-rid-of-the-islamic-spectre-that-had-haunted-them-in-europe-this-vision-helped-justify-english-standpoint-justified-later-in-history-writings-that-mughal-rule-in-india-was-authoritarian-hence-needed-to-be-followed-by-european-rule-said-hangloo-/articleshow/7049282.cms |access-date=July 29, 2024 |website=[[Times of India]]}}</ref>
* He delivered a lecture on 'Reflections on Kashmir,' a lecture Series: Challenges before Indian Society organized by G.B Pant Social Science Institute, Jhunsi, Prayagraj on July 8, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 8, 2019 |title=Lecture Series: Challenges before Indian Society |url=https://www.gbpssi.in/admin/documents/L08.pdf |access-date=July 29, 2024 |website=[[Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute]]}}</ref>
* He delivered the first Zind Lal Jalla Memorial Lecture at Ibn-e-Khaldoon Auditorium of the University of Kashmir which was organized by the Department of History, University of Kashmir, in association with the Office Dean, Social Sciences of the varsity on March 30, 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 30, 2022 |title=Zind Lal Jalla Memorial Lecture delivered by Prof Hangloo |url=https://www.knskashmir.com/zind-lal-jalla-memorial-lecture-delivered-by-prof-hangloo-at-kashmir-university-126832 |access-date=July 29, 2024 |website=[[Kashmir News Service|KNS]]}}</ref>

== Awards, Fellowships and honours ==
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* Bioved Honorary Fellowship Award 2017 by Bioved Research Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences, Allahabad on 18 February 2017.
* Mother Teresa International Award for Eminent Academician, presented by the Archbishop of Kolkata in 2016.
* Dewang Mehta National Foundation Award for outstanding contribution to Education as the best Vice-Chancellor of the Country, 28 November 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shridar |first=G Naga |date=January 22, 2018 |title=Hangloo bags Dewang Mehta award |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/education/hangloo-bags-dewang-mehta-award/article7944438.ece |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=[[Businessline]]}}</ref>
* Chair of Contemporary Indian Studies at Tbilisi State University at Georgia by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India (Through Indian Council of Cultural Relations, New Delhi), 2011-2012.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 1, 2023 |title=India-Georgia Bilateral Relations |url=https://eoiyerevan.gov.in/pdf/India-Georgia%20Bilateral%20Relations.pdf |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=[[Embassy of India]]}}</ref>
* Visiting Fellowship by Foundation Maison de Sciences Del homme of Paris France, 2010.
* Visiting Chair of Indian Studies, at the University of West Indies, St Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago by Indian Council of Cultural Relations, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, 2007-2009.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 20, 2009 |title=Education Through Community |url=https://sta.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=214 |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=[[University of the West Indies]]}}[https://sta.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=214 =214]</ref>
* Fulbright Fellowship by the Fulbright American Studies Institute to participate in the Institute’s Modern South Asia program at the University of Delaware, USA, 2003.
* Visiting Fellowship by Maison de Sciences del Homme of Paris France in 1997.
* DAAD Fellowship by the Federal Republic of Germany to pursue research on the Economic History of India (With special reference to silk route trade) at the South Asian Institute of the Heidelberg University, Germany. in 1997.
* Research Scientist ship by University Grants Commission of India with affiliation to History Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1984.
* Senior Post-Doctoral Fellowship by the University Grants Commission of India to pursue Post-Doctoral Research on Indo-Central Asian History, 1982 at Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
* Research Fellowship by Indian Council of Historical Research in 1980 to pursue Ph.D. at Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
* Merit Scholarship by Kashmir University, Srinagar, India to pursue Post-Graduate Studies from 1975-1977.

== Personal life ==
Rattan Lal Hangloo is married to Smt. Sharika Kaul Hangloo and they have two children Arkapratim (son) and Arkaprava (daughter).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Prof. Rattan Lal Hangloo |url=https://rattanlalhangloo.wordpress.com/ |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=Prof. Rattan Lal Hangloo |language=en}}</ref>

== Books ==
* [https://primusbooks.com/enquiries-in-medieval-india-religion-society-culture-and-polity-by-rattan-lal-hangloo/#:~:text=About%20this%20book&text=It%20examines%20the%20role%20of,state%20in%20a%20pluralistic%20society. Enquires in Medieval India: Religion, Society, Culture and Polity], Primus publishers, New Delhi, 2022 {{ISBN|978-93-5572-183-9}}
* [https://www.routledge.com/The-State-in-Medieval-Kashmir/Hangloo/p/book/9781032292144 The State in Medieval Kashmir (Second Edition)], Routledge Publishers, London, 2021 {{ISBN|9781032292144}}
* [https://primusbooks.com/kashmir-before-the-accession-and-after-by-rattan-lal-hangloo/ Kashmir: Before the Accession and After], Primus publishers, New Delhi, 2021 {{ISBN|978-93-91144-70-8}}
* [https://primusbooks.com/indian-diaspora-caribbean/#:~:text=About%20this%20book,half%20of%20the%20nineteenth%20century. Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean: History, Culture and Identity], Primus publishers, New Delhi, 2012 {{ISBN|978-93-80607-38-2}}
* [https://www.rawatbooks.com/development/history-of-science-and-technology-exploring-new-themes History of Science and Technology in India: Exploring new themes], Rawat Publishers, 2011 {{ISBN|9788131604267}}
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=nwVuAAAAMAAJ New Themes in Indian History, Politics, Gender Environment and Culture], Black & White publishers, New Delhi, 2007 {{ISBN|8189320157}}
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=jCXYAAAAMAAJ Approaching Islam], Black & White publishers, New Delhi, 2005 {{Isbn|8189320092|9788189320096}}
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=BybtAAAAMAAJ Agrarian System of Kashmir], Commonwealth Publishers, New Delhi, 1995 {{ISBN|8171693512|9788171693511}}
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=FYRHAAAAMAAJ Situating Medieval Indian State], Commonwealth Publishers, New Delhi, 1995 {{ISBN|8171693229}}

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