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Name: Ayesha Jalal
Title: Professor of History
Departmental Affiliation: History Department
Degrees: Ph.D., Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 1983.; B.A., Wellesley College, 1978.
Expertise: Modern South Asia and Islam
E-mail: ayesha.jalal@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: PUBLISHED BOOKS:
Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850s, (New York/London: Routledge, 2001)

Modern South Asian History, Culture, Political Economy, joint author with Sugata Bose (London: Routledge, 1998).

Nationalism, Democracy and Development: State and Politics in India, joint editor with Sugata Bose (Delhi: Oxford U Press, 1997).

Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: a Comparative and Historical Perspective, (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1995).

State of Martial Rule; the Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence, (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1990).

The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan, (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1985).

BOOKS IN PREPARATION:
Partisans of Allah: Meanings of Jihad in South Asia (forthcoming)

Oxford Companion of Pakistan History – general editor

Reader for Modern South Asia – companion volume to Modern South Asia with Sugata Bose, (Routledge)

A Short History of Pakistan, (Cambridge University Press)

Jinnah, (OneWorld Press)

Saadat Hasan Manto, (Routledge’s Masters’Series)

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT:
Religion and Misplaced Secularity: Law and the Arts during a South Asian Millennium, 1000-2000

COURSES:
South Asia, 1000-2000
Islam and the West
Religion and Secularity in South Asia
Decolonization in Asia
Contemporary South Asia

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