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| name = Abdul Ghafoor Majeed Noorani<br />
| profession = lawyer, political commentator<ref name="OUP, India"/><br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1930|09|16|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Bombay]] (now Mumbai), [[British India]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Government Law College, Mumbai]]<br />
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'''Abdul Ghafoor Majeed Noorani''', known popularly as '''A. G. Noorani''' (born 16 September 1930), is a lawyer in India and political commentator. He has practised as an advocate in the [[Supreme Court of India]] and in the [[Bombay High Court]].<ref name="OUP, India">{{Cite book |title=Author Profile |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-kashmir-dispute-1947-2012-9780199400188?lang=en&cc=nz# |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=10 June 2017|isbn=9780199400188 |date=2014-04-03 }}</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Noorani was born in [[Bombay]] (now [[Mumbai]]) in 1930. He attended a Jesuit school, St. Mary's, and got his law degree from [[Government Law College, Mumbai]].<ref name="Retro Cities">{{cite web|title=Interview|url=http://www.reocities.com/Paris/tower/7443/author.html|publisher=Retro Cities|access-date=15 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191847/http://www.reocities.com/Paris/tower/7443/author.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
His columns have appeared in various publications, including ''[[Hindustan Times]], [[The Hindu]], [[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]], [[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]], [[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]], [[Economic and Political Weekly]]''<ref name="EPW">{{cite news|last=Noorani|first=A. G.|title=Author Profile|url=http://www.epw.in/authors/g-noorani|access-date=15 January 2013|newspaper=Economic and Political Weekly}}</ref> and [[Dainik Bhaskar]]. <br />
He is the author of a number of books including: ''The Kashmir Question'', ''Badruddin Tyabji Ministers' Misconduct'', ''Brezhnev's Plan for Asian Security'', ''The Presidential System'', ''The Trial of [[Bhagat Singh]]'', ''Constitutional Questions in India'' and ''The [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh|RSS]] and the [[BJP]]: A Division of Labour'' ([[LeftWord Books]], 2000). He has also authored the biographies of [[Badruddin Tyabji]] and [[Zakir Hussain (politician)|Dr Zakir Hussain]].<br />
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He has defended [[Sheikh Abdullah]] of Kashmir during his long period of detention. He appeared in the [[Bombay High Court]] for former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister [[Karunanidhi]] against the latter's main political rival [[J. Jayalalitha]].<ref name="Retro Cities" /><br />
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== Publications ==<br />
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* ''The Destruction of Hyderabad'' (2014),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://leftword.com/product/the-destruction-of-hyderabad |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140917141020/http://leftword.com/product/the-destruction-of-hyderabad |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-09-17 |title=The Destruction of Hyderabad |access-date=2014-09-17 }}</ref> {{ISBN|9781849044394}}<br />
* ''The Kashmir Dispute 1947–2012'', 2 Volume set (editor, 2013),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://leftword.com/product/the-kashmir-dispute-vol-1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140917141022/http://leftword.com/product/the-kashmir-dispute-vol-1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-09-17 |title=The Kashmir Dispute 1947–2012, Vol. 1 |access-date=2014-09-17 }}</ref> {{ISBN|9789382381198}}, {{ISBN|9789382381204}}<br />
* ''Islam, South Asia and the Cold War'' (2012)<br />
* ''Article 370: A Constitutional History of Jammu and Kashmir'' (2011)<br />
* ''Jinnah and Tilak: Comrades in the Freedom Struggle'' (2010)<br />
* ''India–China Boundary Problem 1846–1947: History and Diplomacy'' (2010), {{ISBN|9780198070689}}<br />
*''The RSS and the BJP:A Division of Labour''(2008), {{ISBN|9788187496137}}<br />
* ''Indian Political Trials 1775–1947'' (2006), {{ISBN|9780195687767}}<br />
* ''Constitutional Questions and Citizens' Rights'' (2006)<br />
* ''The Trial of Bhagat Singh: Politics of Justice'' (2005), {{ISBN|9780195678178}}<br />
* ''The Muslims of India: A Documentary Record'' (editor, 2003)<br />
* ''Islam and Jihad: Prejudice versus Reality'' (2002)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://leftword.com/product/islam-and-jihad |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140917141032/http://leftword.com/product/islam-and-jihad |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-09-17 |title=Islam and Jihad |access-date=2014-09-17 }}</ref> {{ISBN|9781842772713}}<br />
* ''The Babri Masjid Question 1528–2003: 'A Matter of National Honour''', in two volumes (2003).<br />
* ''Constitutional Questions in India: The President, Parliament and the States'' (2002), {{ISBN|9780195658774}}<br />
* ''Savarkar and Hindutva'' (2002),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://leftword.com/product/savarkar-and-hindutva |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140917141019/http://leftword.com/product/savarkar-and-hindutva |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-09-17 |title=Savarkar and Hindutva |access-date=2014-09-17 }}</ref> {{ISBN|9788187496830}}<br />
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==Reception==<br />
===''The Kashmir Dispute 1947–2012''===<br />
In a scholarly review of ''The Kashmir Dispute 1947–2012'', Tooba Khurshid from the [[Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad]]<ref>[http://www.issi.org.pk/author/tooba-khurshid/ Tooba Khurshid], Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad, retrieved 20 April 2018.</ref> it was noted that Khurshid points out that the book is a collection of documents, both archival and contemporary, as well as speeches and interviews and notes that Noorani has supported his arguments with reference to a large array of documents to provide the historical context of the political dispute. Khurshid highly recommends the book for researchers and also praises it for its reference to a large number of archived documents. Khurshid classifies the book as "solid, scholarly research" and recommends it also to policy makers because of its considerable use of classified documents.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Tooba|last=Khurshid|title=The Kashmir Dispute: 1947–2012 – Book Review |journal=Strategic Studies |volume=34 |number=1|year=2014|pages=121–124}}</ref><br />
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