Survivors include his wife, Nigar Khalidi, and 25-year-old daughter, Aliya. Hundreds of thousands of admirers at home and abroad also mourn his passing
Speaking to Arab News from Boston on Tuesday morning, Nigar Khalidi said he was hit by a train. He drove in his car to MIT campus and was probably trying to catch a train to buy medicine at the next station. He was a diabetic, and it seems his sugar level had reached abnormal levels. Nigar Khalidi did not know about the good doctor's death until after 7 p.m. "When he did not reach home, I called up police, and that is when I heard the bad news," she said.
As an historian from Hyderabad, he was deeply aware of the Subcontinent's glorious past. Through his meticulously researched books he exposed the devious designs of the Hindu fundamentalists. His book in English on what actually happened in Hyderabad in 1948 (Hyderabad: After the Fall) remains the most exhaustive work on the subject to this day.
