People's
Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) No. 09
March 02, 2003
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) |
Vol.
XXVII No. 09 March 02, 2003 |
ALIGARH
Protest
Over
I
G
Khan’s
Murder
THERE
has
been
a
massive
display
of
indignation
at
the
brutal
murder
of
Dr
I
G
Khan,
reader
in
History,
Aligarh
Muslim
University,
and
a
member
of
the
CPI(M)
of
many
years’
standing.
The
rickshaw
pullers,
whom
he
had
organised
in
a
strong
union,
organised
a
massive
strike
in
the
city
on
February
17
and
marched
in
a
large
procession
to
the
District
Magistrate,
protesting
against
the
delay
in
tracing
the
murderers.
On
February
18,
there
was
a
total
strike
in
the
AMU.
Over
500
teachers
of
the
university
marched
to
the
District
Magistrate,
and
when
they
failed
to
find
him
there,
they
marched
over
a
mile
to
block
traffic
on
the
Grand
Trunk
Road
in
the
middle
of
the
city.
This
at
last
brought
the
D.M.
to
the
spot;
and
ultimately
after
walking
with
the
processionists,
the
DM,
along
with
the
SSP,
met
the
teachers’
representatives,
and
assured
them
that
there
would
be
some
results
within
the
next
36
hours.
The
teachers
decided
to
go
on
an
indefinite
strike
from
February
24
if
the
criminals
were
not
traced
and
apprehended
by
that
time.
Dr Iqbal Ghani Khan, a historian of much attainment and great promise, trade union activist, a partisan of the oppressed, was brutally killed on February 14. I G Khan (as most of his friends knew him) was born in 1953. He obtained his doctorate from the London School of Oriental and African Studies. His teaching stint at the Aligarh University began in 1980. I G Khan had chosen the history of medieval Indian science and technology as his special field.
