Prof. M J Warsi

Dean-Academic Affairs, BGSB University
Tel./Fax: 01962-241003
Email: daa at bgsbu dot ac dot in

Prof M J Warsi , a widely acclaimed linguist, is currently serving as the Dean, Academic Affairs at Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University (J&K). Prior to BGSB University Prof. Warsi served as the Chairperson, Department of Linguistics at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. Prof. Warsi is most admired for his decency, his resilience, his exceptional teaching and his unshakable belief in academic excellence. Through his inventive teaching and research, Prof. Warsi has always made a lasting impact on the thought-process of his students. His distinguished career includes significant services rendered at the prestigious U S Universities such as University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of California at Berkeley, and Washington University in St. Louis, USA . Prof Warsi is the recipient of several national and international awards, prominent among these awards are James McLeod Faculty Award (2012), Colin P. Masica Award (2024), and M B Emeneau Scholar of Excellence Award (2024). He remains a paragon of academic excellence, continually inspiring and elevating those around him and plays an instrumental role in promoting academic debate and advancing linguistic research throughout the country.

Prof. Warsi served as the Editor-in-Chief of Aligarh Journal of Linguistics, a UGC Care listed journal. Professor Warsi authored and edited more than a dozen of prominent books in the area of applied linguistics. He has published numerous widely cited research papers on various topics in linguistics in national and international journals. Some of his publications have become part of the course curriculum at many universities. Professor Warsi is better known for his recent work on a new dialect (boli) spoken by the minority Muslim community in some districts of northern Bihar that has no written record or name. He wrote a grammar on this dialect Mithilanchal Urdu: A newly discovered dialect of Bihar, which was published in 2014 by LINCOM GmbH, Germany. He feels that the convergence of a dialect into a language is a symbol and pride of the people who speak it.

Professor Warsi was awarded a $25000 grant by South Asia Language Resource Centre, University of Chicago, USA (2009). Freeman Foundation Grant by University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (2002), and Mini Professional Development grant by University of California at Berkeley, USA (2004).

Besides holding several prominent academic positions, Prof Warsi is currently serving as the President, Linguistic Society of India.