Born on December 31, 1955 at Indore, he passed his M.A. from the Department of History, University of Allahabad in 1978, after graduating from the same in 1976. Presently a Professor in the same Department of his alma-mater, he started teaching here in January, 1980. He has taught here for more than 35 years now. He has authored more than 10 books, two of which fetched for him the ‘Acharya Narendra Dev Award… for the years 2003 and 2005 respectively.
His book, ‘Daastaan, Mughal Mahilaon ki… was included by the BBC, London in its list of outstanding Hindi books of 2013. Other publications include more than 40 research papers and about 50 articles in journals, magazines etc.
