He also joined the Government of Pakistan as Minister of Refugee Rehabilitation, and later as Minister of Education. In 1949, he was appointed Professor of History at the University of the Punjab, Lahore. There, he continued his academic and political career, and served as a member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. Career in Pakistan Īfter seeing suffering from riots, he migrated to Pakistan in 1948. In 1947, during the Partition riots, when the Muslim students of the St Stephen's College had to be evacuated to the Purana Qila, Dr Qureshi's library was completely burnt down by the mobs. He also served as Acting Vice Chancellor of the Delhi University. Īfter returning from England, he joined Delhi University where he was appointed Professor of History, and subsequently, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts. During this period, he also briefly joined the Pakistan Movement founded by Choudhary Rahmat Ali. The topic of his thesis was Administration of Sultanate of Delhi. Between 1937–40, he studied at Cambridge University for a PhD degree. Stephen's College, Delhi with distinction. At this time, he took active part in Khilafat movement. Qureshi was born on 20 November 1903 in a noble family of Patiyali, District Kasganj, a town in Uttar Pradesh, British India.
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Qureshi is also credited for editing a four-volume series on history of Pakistan.
Later, Qureshi joined the faculty of history at the University of Karachi where he remained there the remainder of his life. But soon, he returned to Pakistan and founded the National Language Authority (NLA) in the 1970s and helped set up the History Department at the University of the Punjab. But, due to his association with academia, he resigned from his government appointments and joined the academic faculty at the Columbia University as a professor of South Asian history. Īn early activist of the historic Pakistan Movement, Qureshi served in the ministries of education and frontier regions as the secretary in addition, he was elected a member of the parliament of Pakistan. Apart from his work as an academic historian he was also a well-known playwright. Qureshi), SP, HI, was a Pakistani historian, scholar, writer, and a professor of political history, first at the University of the Punjab and then at the Karachi University. Patyali, near Allahabad, United Provinces, British IndiaĪdministration of Sultanate of Delhi (1939)