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Katherine Blank was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in London for three months. Blank "considers women’s involvement in the discourse surrounding women’s health in colonial India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by looking at women’s magazines from that same period....

Shahnaz Rouse was a 2011-2012 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for two months. Rouse "examines the physical, social, and ideational landscape of Lahore from 1849-1947." The project explicates how space and sociability relate to each other.

Dr. Iqbal Akhtar moderated the 2022 FIU Mahavir Jayanti Lecture & Award Ceremony. The Mahavir Jayanti lecture "highlighted contemporary research being done in Pakistan to explore the country's Jain heritage leading scholars." The lecture and subsequent awards ceremony were recorded and are available...

Christopher Finnigan offers a summary on the research project of Andrew Amstutz relating to Buddhism and Pakistan's engagement with its Buddhist history. Amstutz's ongoing research examines how museums in particular have played a crucial role in the development of Buddhist historical narratives in...

This article from Andrew Amstutz explores the role of the Buddhist past in Pakistan following the 1947 Partition of Ancient India. The article examines shifts in museum exhibits and archaeological guides from 1950 to 1969 and highlights the struggle of Pakistani historians to create a unified...

Muntazir Ali was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Peshawar and Chitral in the summer and fall of 2021. Ali's work created "a crucial initial glimpse into the rich and complex meanings of place, the various modes of place-making, and how place has been invested...

"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...

Muntazir Ali was a 2023 Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad, Peshawar, and Chitral for one month. Ali's research focuses on Chitral's accession to Pakistan, telling the story from a much broader and more complex perspective than previously understood.

Osama Ahmad was a 2023 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Lahore for one month. Ahmad's research focuses on Urdu print culture in mid-nineteenth century colonial Lahore and how it led to the formation of the Urdu Bazaar, which endures today.

SherAli Tareen delivers a lecture for the Hast o Neest Institute for Traditional Studies and Arts. The lecture, "Colonialism & Disagreements of Fiqh in Sunni Ulema" is part of the Peoples, Cultures, and Languages lecture series.