The Consumption of Prostitution: A History of Buying Sex in the Northwestern Indian Subcontinent, 1858 - 1918

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 the wider transformations in the sale of sex during the colonial encounter."