Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition
UC Irvine 2008
Participant
Sarah
Waheed is a candidate in History at Tufts University. Her doctoral work
focuses on the development of modern Muslim intellectual identity in
twentieth-century colonial and post-colonial South Asia. She examines how
debates of the Urdu intelligentsia about ethical conduct, moral self-hood,
and civil society were shaped both by older cosmopolitan social and
political networks in colonial North India, as well as anti-colonial
internationalist forces, such as communism. In effect, her work examines
issues of morality as intrinsically related to conceptions of Muslim
identity, and how this intersected with nationalist public and political
cultures in India and Pakistan.
contact: Sarah.Waheed@tufts.edu