Notes Professor Syed Razi Wasti (1929-1999): A Memoir

Authors

  • Sharif al Mujahid

Abstract

In the death of Prof. Syed Razi Wasti, Pakistan had lost a most productive historian of the modern period. Dr Wasti died in Lahore on 22 November 1999, after a brief illness. Wasti has had an excellent academic, teaching and publication record. He studied at the Punjab and London universities, specializing in mediaeval and modern history, and earning B. A. (Honours) and a doctorate from London. His teaching career, spanning some thirty-eight years, chiefly encompassed Government College, Lahore, and Columbia University, New York. He was the second Quaid-i-Azam Distinguished Professor at the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, for five years (1983-88), and Visiting Professor at its Summer School during 1991-99. As Visiting Asian Professor, he also lectured in several colleges and universities in the U. S. during 1969-70. After retirement in 1989 he became Visiting/Adjutant Professor at Government College, and was elevated as Professor Emeritus in 1999, shortly before his death.

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Published

2020-02-18