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"Can you 'see' slavery?" by Mishal Khan explores the role race has played in colonial India with respects to slavery. By looking at how racial groups were affected in different ways with respects to slavery in India and what consequences did that have on identity and social status, Khan is able to...

Matt Cook (NCCU) and Maya Khemlani David (University of Malaya) discuss the Diaspora of Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia and how language and identity have shifted as a result. They argue that "language shift facilitates the reproduction of core cultural modalities among diaspora Sindhis."

Aabiya Noman Baqai was a 2022 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Baqai's research focuses on "how Christian women from informal settlements re-orient Islamabad’s claim to a single imagined national identity through the buil...

Manamee Guha was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in London and India for seven months. Guha examines "the shared colonial past of the three countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India during colonial rule through a close study of the British gentlemanly club and its impact on South...

Zehra Husain was a 2019 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Karachi, Pakistan for nine months. Husain "conducted participant observations at boxing clubs, accompanied reporting assignments of journalists who were covering sports events and also interviewed journalists who have been writing news...

Sameer Lalwani was a 2013-2014 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in London for 2 months. Lalwani "seeks to explain how the social terrain of ethno-nationalist and civil conflicts— specifically the geography and identity of the insurgent group—shapes state strategies to manage, combat, and defe...