Our travels with our children to India

ISBN-13: 9783754364451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 92 str.

Abdul Khaliq Kaifi

O autorze

Dr. Abdul Khaliq was born in 1933 in the state of Bihar (India). He did his Middle and Matriculation in the British schools of his village in Shakrafaridpur, which was opened by a British farmer there. In Mumbai, he studied in a missionary college of Wilson, and after completing his Bachelor of Arts in Economy 1956, he went on a contract service for three years as a bookkeeper in the Britsh Petroleum of Qatar. From Qatar, he took a ship for Basra and then traveled further on the legendary train of Orient Express to Köln, where he made his Diplom- Kaufmann and underwent a librarian training for higher services in Universities libraries of Germany, did as well his Doctorate at the University of Oldenburg. Since 1971 he worked as a civil servant (Referent) and departmental chief (Oberbibliotheksrat) in the University Library of Bremen, till his retirement in 1998. He is married since 1968 to a German and possess the German citizenship since 1972. He worked too as a lecturer and is an author of several publications on India and on the migrants in Germany.