Awards and Recognition
Mushirul Hasan was awarded with numerous honours both nationally and internationally. Some of his major awards are :
- 'Officer dans I'Ordre des Palmes Academiques' (Officer of the Order of Academic Palms) by the Prime Minister of the France.
- Padma Shri by the President of India, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, 2007.
- D.Lit (Honoris Causa) by Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University (UPRTOU), Allahabad, 2006.
- D.Lit (Honoris Causa) by Calcutta University, Kolkatta, 2008.
- Professor Sukumar Sen Memorial Gold Medal by The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, 2006.
- The Ford Foundation (SARC) Fellowship by the Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Oxford, 2002-3.
- The D.P. Singhal Scholarship, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2003.
Hasan was also awarded the Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship by the Indian Council of Social Science Research for the term 2009-2011. He has also held in the past, academic positions at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study), Berlin, Centre D’Etudes De L’Inde ET de L’ Asie Du Sud(The Center for Studies in India and South Asia ), Paris, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK and the St Antony's College, Oxford and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.
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