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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.