Rattan Lal Hangloo, senior faculty in Department of History at the University of Hyderabad (UoH), has been appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of Kalyani University in West Bengal for a term of four years.

Rattan Lal Hangloo, who obtained his doctoral degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, is an eminent historian & specialist on Indian and Central Asia History, Politics and Culture, and Kashmir Affairs. He hails from Hanglalgund village in Anantnag district of Southern Kashmir Province of India.

He has been serving the University of Hyderabad for 25 years in different capacities. He was Professor and Head, Department of History at UoH. He was also the Chief Proctor of the University.

He has already served as the Chair of Indian Studies at the University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, and has been awarded several prestigious fellowships. He has published over 100 papers in national and international journals and more than half-a-dozen books.

The University of Kalyani was established in 1960 and is offering 23 post-graduate programmes under various faculties.

naga.gunturi@thehindu.co.in