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Pei-Ling Huang (Harvard University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Sindh and South Punjab, Pakistan. Pei-Ling Huang is "interested in the Sh?h Jo R?g, the oral musical tradition performed by the faq?rs of Sh?h Lat?f."

SherAli Tareen (Franklin and Marshall College) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who conducted research in Islamabad, Lahore, and Gujrat, Pakistan. Tareen's research focuses on the discourses of an important but rather understudied Indian Muslim scholar, 'Ubaydullah Sindhi (d. 1944)...

This study by Waheed Alam, Abdul Hameed, Shakir Ullah, and Muhammad Wali Ullah examines the pictograms (rock paintings) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. By studying the type and prevalence of different designs (including human, zoomorphic, and artificial structures), the researchers are able to make cultural...

The Sajjad Zaheer Digital Archive, organized by the University of Texas at Austin South Asia Institute, seeks to consolidate writings and collections of Syed Sajjad Zaheer (1905-1973), renown Urdu litterateur and political activist.

Farhat Haq sits down for a discussion with SherAli Tareen on a podcast about her recent book publication, "Shari?a and the State in Pakistan." Farhat talks about the history of blasphemy politics in Pakistan and how discourse has shifted over the recent decades. Blasphemy politics in Pakistan...

Ameem Lutfi was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Manama, Zanzibar, and Mumbai for six months. Lutfi "investigates discourses and practices around recruitment of military-laborers from the Pakistani province of Balochistan, for deployment in the Bahraini National Guards."

Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy was a 2017-18 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UK, France, Turkey, India, and Pakistan for two months. Ramamurthy "examines the nature and structure of Islamicate sovereignty in the seventeenth century Mughal Empire in South Asia."

SherAli Tareen delivers this virtual talk as part of a course on People, Cultures, and Languages in Pakistan for the Hast O Neest Institute in Lahore. The talk follows the themes of "Religion and Colonial Modernity in South Asia" and is delivered primarily in Urdu.

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...

Faris Khan explores the recent activism of the 'Khwaja Sira,' a group of gender nonconforming people with cultural significance. Khan explores the recent gains made in the legal rights of the Kwaja Sira and how activism has shaped the movement into society.