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Saleem Kidwai was born on 7 August, 1951 in Lucknow, India, is an Indian historian and gay rights activist (1951–2021). Discover Saleem Kidwai's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 7 August, 1951
Birthday 7 August
Birthplace Lucknow, India
Date of death 30 August, 2021
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Nationality India

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1951

Saleem Kidwai (7 August 1951 – 30 August 2021) was a medieval historian, gay rights activist, and translator.

Saleem Kidwai was born 7 August 1951, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

His family and relatives owned extensive amounts of land in the area.

He knew he was gay when he was in his late teens.

When he was 17 years old, he moved to the city of Delhi, in part because he knew that living in a small town would significantly constrain his ability to live openly as a gay man.

1970

They arrested 146 men in what was the largest mass arrest since the domestic terrorist kidnappings of the October Crisis in 1970.

Kidwai was among those arrested, forced to submit to venereal disease tests, and charged with criminal activity.

Deeply traumatized by the incident, he quit his doctoral program and returned to teaching at Delhi University.

1973

He enrolled in and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Delhi University, and he began teaching there in 1973.

1976

In 1976, he enrolled in a doctoral program at McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

1977

In October 1977, Montréal police raided two gay bars, Truxx and Le Mystique, in a military-style raid.

1982

(Although the province of Quebec amended its Human Rights Charter to include homosexuality as a protected class, the criminal charges against Kidwai were not dropped until 1982.)

He was one of the first academics to speak publicly as a member of the LGBT community and published with Ruth Vanita as co-editor of Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History, a pioneering work documenting and exploring the indigenous roots of same-sex desire in South Asia.

His other academic areas of interest included cultural history, the history of sexuality and the history of the courtesan singers (tawaifs).

Kidwai translated singer Malika Pukhraj's autobiography, "Song Sung True."

His other translations include The Mirror of Wonders, a collection of short stories of Syed Rafiq Hussain, the first Urdu writer to write in the ‘animal stories’ genre.

He was the only translator to have translated the novels of the well-known Urdu writer Quratulain Hyder who transcreated her own novels.

Kidwai has translated two remaining novels of hers – 'Chandni Begum' and 'Safina-e-Gham-e-Dil' as "Ship of Sorrows".

He was working on her last remaining untranslated novel 'Gardish-e-Rang-e-Chaman' as well as a well-known Urdu history of Lucknow by Mirza Jafar Hussain before his death.

Saleem Kidwai suffered cardiac arrest on 30 August 2021, and died in a hospital in Lucknow.

1993

Kidwai was a professor of history at Ramjas College, University of Delhi until 1993 and thereafter an independent scholar.