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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...

Fatima Quraishi (New York University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who visited "funerary monuments and museum collections in Lahore as part of her dissertation research on the vast Makli necropolis, located in the Indus river delta region in Sindh."

Andrew Amstutz was a 2019-2020 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Italy for two and a half months. Amstutz's research focused on the history of the exhibition and global circulation of ancient Buddhist art and artifacts from Pakistan in the 1950s and 1960s