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Dr. Muhammad Ilyas Quddusi belonging to Kamptee near Nagpur, is presently Director (Epigraphy) for Arabic & Persian Inscriptions, Archaeological Survey of India, Nagpur. He had his graduation in 1971, post-graduation both in History (1973) and Persian Literature (1976), and doctorate degree in Medieval Indian History (1992), from Nagpur University. Dr. Quddusi has authored the commendable book Khandesh under the Mughals: 1601-1724 (N. Delhi, 2002) and contributed about fifty research papers on medieval India which cover diverse fields as Persian epigraphy, Persian language & literature, numismatics, archaeology, onomastics, art and architecture; political, social, economic and cultural history. He has participated in various epigraphical, numismatic, place-name, history and Persian seminars and international conferences. He has edited Puraprakasa – Dr. Z.A. Desai Commemoration Volume (Delhi 2003). Two issues of the research journal Epigraphia Indica Arabic and Persian Supplement for the years 1976 and 1977 have been brought out under his supervision and the next issue for the year 1978, edited by him, is press-ready. He presided over one of the sessions in XXII All India Persian Teachers’ Conference, International Session, held at Punjabi University, Patiala (2000) and delivered Prof. D. Javare Gowda Endowment Lecture in the XXIII Annual Conference of Place Names Society of India, held at Mumbai (2003). In 2002, he visited Jordan under Indo-Jordanian cultural exchange programme; he studied important historical monuments and sites and delivered lectures on Persian epigraphy, Muslim coins and monuments both in the Jordanian Department of Antiquities and through the Indian Embassy at Regency Place Hotel, Amman.