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Ali Ashraf
File:Professor Ali Ashraf.jpg
Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia
In office
1983–1989
Preceded byAnwar Jamal Kidwai
Succeeded bySyed Zahoor Qasim
Personal details
Born1930 (1930)
Died1996 (aged 65–66)

Ali Ashraf (1930–1996) was an Indian academician who served as the vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia from 1983 to 1989.[1][2]

Life and career[edit | edit source]

Ali Ashraf was born in 1930.[3] He taught at the IIT Kanpur. He was seen as a political scientist.[4] He was also a director of Gandhian Institute of Studies, in Varanasi.[5]

Ashraf died in 1996.[6]

Publications[edit | edit source]

Ashraf's works include:[3]

  • Ethnic identify and national integration
  • The Muslim elite
  • Political sociology: a new grammar of politics

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "Past Vcs Profile". jmi.ac.in.
  2. Gabriel, Marie Cruz (1996). A Silence in the City and Other Stories. Orient Blackswan. p. 3.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Ashraf, Ali, 1930-". viaf.org.
  4. Saberwal, Satish (2012). Spirals of Contention: Why India was Partitioned in 1947. Routledge. p. xiv. ISBN 9781136517440.
  5. Chitkara, M. G. (1997). Corruption "n" Cure. APH Publishing. p. 124.
  6. Al-Hafiz, Badruddin (2002). یادوں کی نگری [Reminiscences] (in اردو). Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy. p. 226.