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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.

Neelum Sohail was a 2017-18 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the United Kingdom and Pakistan for two months. Sohail "aims to provide a new perspective on histories of, and debates around, citizenship, race, gender, and labor in Pakistan Studies through a multidisciplinary and multi-locational...

Safoora Arbab was a 2015-16 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the United Kingdom for four months. Arbab's research "is centered on the Khudai Khidmatgar movement begun by Abdul Ghaffar Khan in the late 1920’s. As one of the largest nonviolent organizations they were also thus allied with the All...

Ghazal Asif was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Sindh, Pakistan in the summer of 2019. Asif "was interested in examining the record of the Sindh Scheduled Caste Federation and understanding the role it played during the 1940s when Sindhi leaders joined the...

Yasmin Saikia was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for 14 weeks. Saikia was able to "examine and document the historical and processual development of azadi (freedom) ideas of Illahi, Sindhi, and Shedai that are of particular relevance in understanding the...

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...

Mishal Khan was a 2018 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Karachi Pakistan. Khan conducted research "related to the legal landscape that emerged in Sindh after 1843 – the year when slavery was officially abolished in East Indian Company territories, and also the year...

Waleed Ziad was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UK and Uzbekistan for four months. Ziad "examines the development of trans- regional Islamic revivalist networks from the mid-18th to mid-19th centuries, centered around Sindh, Peshawar, and the Kabul Valley, and extending across...

Waqas H. Butt was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore for 5 months. Butt's research "will contribute to the field of Pakistani studies by demonstrating the intricate relationship between the colonial and post-colonial periods as well as the historical significance that subaltern...

Abdul Aijaz (Indiana Universty) was a 2017 Short-Term Research Grant awardee who sought to explore the hydro-social relationships in colonial and post-colonial India.