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Bilgrami, Saiyid Ashghar Husain Rizvi

Bilgrami, Saiyid Asghar Husain Rizvi (1928 - 1998) was a political scientist and an International Relations expert. He was born in Bilgram, Hardoi to Saiyid Sarwar Husain and Begum Mehboob Fatima Bilgrami. He received his initial education at Christian College Lucknow and his MA in Political Science from Lucknow University in 1950. He completed his Doctoral work in 1955 at the Aligarh Muslim University under his mentor Chowdhary Mohammed Sultan, the pioneer of Political Science at AMU.

He married Niaz Fatima Farooqi (1950 - ) in 1975 and has a daughter and son.

S.A.H Bilgrami was selected for the World Pestalozzi Foundation Scholarship to pursue his Post Doctoral work at the Graduate Institute in Geneva in the year 1956 and proceeded to work at the Institute for the next 6 years. His teaching and Research Career spanned five decades, which included work with IDSA, ICSSR and as visiting Professor School of International Studies (1971- 1977).

He has also was interested in geopolitics of Islamic states and was associated with International Progress Organisation, Germany; the International Labour Organisation and was a strategic expert on International Relations specially European Union and Indo Afghan Relations. He was also the founding member of Aligarh Lekhak Sangh.

Two of his works are catalogued at the Library of Congress.

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