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Daniel Majchrowicz was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in London for 2 months. Majchrowicz's research interrogates "the place of travel and travel writing in the negotiation of socio-political debate and subjectivity in colonial South Asia and contemporary Pakistan."
Andrew Amstutz was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad and Lahore for 3 months. Amstutz project makes an "important contribution to the study of Pakistan by examining the promotion of Urdu as a language of trans-regional connection and popular science in Pakistan within a...
CultureTalk features video clips of interviews and discussions with people from many different countries and of many different ages and walks of life. Some interviews and discussions are in English; more are in languages other than English. Translations and/or transcripts are given for all...
Andrew Amstutz was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Dhaka, New Delhi, Mumbai, Aligarh, and Patna for 8 months. Amstutz's "examines the changing geography of Urdu politics by following one of the oldest Urdu publishing houses, the Anjuman-i Taraqqi-yi Urdu (Association for the...
William Sherman was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow who conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for four weeks. "Focusing primarily on the religious imaginations Bayazid Ansari and the Rawshaniyya, this project draws upon manuscript sources in order to trace the development and transformation of...
In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host Kristian Peterson sits with Walter N. Hakala about his book "Negotiating Language: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia" (Columbia University Press, 2016). Hakala "traces the long history of the construction of Urdu as...
Sundas Amer was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Amer's research focuses on " the historical relationship between Iran and the Indian subcontinent and the close ties between Persian and Urdu language and...
Gwendolyn Kirk was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for 5 months. Kirk's "ethnographic study of the Punjabi-language cinema industry in Lahore, Pakistan--known colloquially as 'Lollywood'--seeks to use the cinema industry as a lens through which to investigate the...
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