Browse Resources

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host Madhuri Karak talks with Mubbashir Rizvi to discuss his book, "The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan" (Stanford University Press, 2019) Rizvi's book explores new land and agricultural policies...

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host SherAli Tareen speaks with Ammara Maqsood to discuss her book "The New Pakistani Middle Class" (Harvard University, 2017). Maqsood's book navigates the relationship between class and religious piety among the urban Pakistani middle...

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.

Rehan Jamil (Brown University) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted 3 months of research in Karachi, Pakistan. Jamil sought to "identify the causal factors that explain why certain settlements [in Karachi] have much higher public goods provision, while others have little...

Joshua Gill (Michigan University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted agricultural research in Pakistan to better understand food productivity and growth.

Ahsan Kamal was a 2018 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who performed research in Pakistan to study the resettlement programs as a result of dam constructions.

Zoya Sameen (University of Chicago) was a 2017 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted 3 months of research fieldwork in Lahore, Karachi, and Quetta. Sameen sought to explore the "engagement between sex buyers and sex markets, and to understand the role of buying clienteles in effecting...

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...

Maira Hayat offers this critical analysis of the tensions relating to water use and local politics from an anthropological standpoint. Water use in Pakistan has become increasingly politicized as local governments attempt to navigate the needs of local cultivators and farmers while reconciling with...

Suneel Kumar was s 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee. Kumar "travelled to Pakistan during summer 2019 to conduct preliminary research for an upcoming ethnographic work and collect ecological data on Indus river and delta."