Lives of Passion and Paradox: Josh and His Peers

Syed Akbar Hyder was a 2013-2014 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore for 2 months. Hyder used this fellowship to "to complete an annotated English translation and critical commentary of Shabbir Hasan Khan Josh Malihabadi’s autobiography, Yadon ki barat (Procession of Memories). For the past forty years, this 800-page tome has featured prominently in debates concerning gender, religion, sexuality, class, nationalism, and language in South Asia."