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Masud Husain Khan
Masud Husain Khan (28 January 1919 – 16 October 2010) was a linguist, the first Professor Emeritus in Social Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University and the fifth Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, a Central University in New Delhi.
On 16 October 2010 Masud Husain Khan died in Aligarh from Parkinson's disease.
Family.
Masud Husain Khan was born in Qaimganj, district Farrukhabad, into a Afridi Pashtun family of Uttar Pradesh. His family is sometimes referred to as the Family of Vice
-Chancellors, having provided Vice-Chancellors to four different universities across the Indian subcontinent.
Masud Husain's father Muzaffar Husain Khan (1893–1921) completed his education from Islamia High School Etawah and Mohammadan Anglo Oriental (M.A.O.) College, Aligarh. He started his judicial career in Hyderabad but died of tuberculosis at the early age of twenty-eight. Masud Husain was just two years old when he lost his father. Muzaffar Husain Khan was eldest brother of-
- Zakir Husain, the third President of India. He was