Faculty  
Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History
Director of Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies
Email: ayesha.jalal@tufts.edu
Tel: (617) 627-2133/627-4237


Education

  • Ph.D., Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 1983.
  • B.A., Wellesley College, 1978.

Major Publications

  • Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia (Harvard University Press, 2008)
  • Self and Sovereignty: the Muslim Individual and the Community of Islam in South Asia, (London: Routledge, 2000).
  • 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 Defense, (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1990).
  • The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan,
    (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1985).
Current Projects
  • A Short History of Pakistan (Cambridge University Press)
  • Jinnah (Permanent Black - India and Indiana University Press)
  • General Editor, Oxford Companion of Pakistani History
  • Companion to Modern South Asia (Routledge) with Sugata Bose