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Annemarie Schimmel v: Bibliography (2018)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. Annemarie Schimmel v: Bibliography. In E. Yarshater (Ed.), Encyclopædia Iranica. Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation

Borderland Historiography in Pakistan (2016)
Journal Article
Caron, J. (2016). Borderland Historiography in Pakistan. South Asian History and Culture, 7(4), 327-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2016.1223716

In this article I survey historical writing related to the twentieth-century Afghan-Pakistan frontier, particularly Pashtun-majority locations in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: the former Northwest Frontier Province. I focus on works that help conceptualize his... Read More about Borderland Historiography in Pakistan.

An Annotated Micro-history and Bibliography of the Houghton Shahnama. (2016)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2016). An Annotated Micro-history and Bibliography of the Houghton Shahnama. In S. Sharma, & B. Waghmar (Eds.), Firdawsii Millennium Indicum: Proceedings of the Shahnama Millenary Seminar, K R Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 8-9 January, 2011 (144-180). K. R. Cama Oriental Institute

Firdawsi: a Scholium (2016)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B., & Sharma, S. (2016). Firdawsi: a Scholium. In S. Sharma, & B. Waghmar (Eds.), Firdawsii Millennium Indicum: Proceedings of the Shahnama Millenary Seminar, K R Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 8-9 January, 2011 (7-18). K. R. Cama Oriental Institute

Sufism and Liberation across the Indo-Afghan Border: 1880-1928 (2016)
Journal Article
Caron, J. Sufism and Liberation across the Indo-Afghan Border: 1880-1928. South Asian History and Culture, 7(2), 135-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2016.1143667

How do we understand links between sufism and pro-egalitarian revolutionary activism in the early twentieth century; and how did upland compositions of self and community help constitute revolutionary activism in South Asia more broadly? Using Pashto... Read More about Sufism and Liberation across the Indo-Afghan Border: 1880-1928.

Popular Culture, Radical Egalitarianism, and Formations of Muslim Selfhood in South Asia (2016)
Journal Article
Caron, J., & Dasgupta, A. Popular Culture, Radical Egalitarianism, and Formations of Muslim Selfhood in South Asia. South Asian History and Culture, 7(2), 107-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2016.1143666

In early twentieth century leftist politics on the geographical fringes of South Asia, Islam played a major role. Were activists in these movements leftist despite their understandings of Islam, or because of them? This essay introduces the project r... Read More about Popular Culture, Radical Egalitarianism, and Formations of Muslim Selfhood in South Asia.

Activism, knowledge and publishing: some views from Pakistan and Afghanistan (2015)
Journal Article
Caron, J., & Ahmad, M. (2015). Activism, knowledge and publishing: some views from Pakistan and Afghanistan. South Asian History and Culture, 7(1), 30-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2015.1109305

How can academic publishers support the study of regions and fields that receive comparatively little attention within South Asia-related humanities and social scuiiences? Approaching this question with regard to Pakistan and Afghanistan opens a seri... Read More about Activism, knowledge and publishing: some views from Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Burning Balochistan: Bombay Blowback and Pakistani Perfidy (2015)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2015). Burning Balochistan: Bombay Blowback and Pakistani Perfidy. In I. Petkovic (Ed.), Buried Human Rights, Global Geopolitics and Regional Repercussions; Balochistan in the Shadows (28-44). Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)

The Dera Paradigm: Homecoming of the Gendered Other (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2015, July). The Dera Paradigm: Homecoming of the Gendered Other. Paper presented at Re-imagining Anthropological and Sociological Boundaries, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Inter-Congress, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

This paper engages with discursive and material spaces of dwelling of the South Asian gender-variant subjectivity, known as khwajasara, in the inner city slums of Lahore, Pakistan’s ancient cultural and urban centre. It examines a number of social pr... Read More about The Dera Paradigm: Homecoming of the Gendered Other.

Refugee status as a productive tension (2015)
Journal Article
Novak, P. (2015). Refugee status as a productive tension. Transnational Legal Theory, 6(2), 287-311. https://doi.org/10.1080/20414005.2015.1086198

Who is an Afghan refugee in Pakistan? The paper delves into this question through a detailed discussion of the concrete mechanisms that contextually define who an Afghan refugee in Pakistan is. Drawing on an understanding of law as generatively irres... Read More about Refugee status as a productive tension.

Beleaguered Balochs: Muslim Republics Murdering Muslim Minorities (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waghmar, B. (2014, March). Beleaguered Balochs: Muslim Republics Murdering Muslim Minorities. Presented at 110th Session of the Human Rights Committee, 25th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council, Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva,

Tracing connections and its politics (2014)
Book Chapter
Novak, P. (2014). Tracing connections and its politics. In H. Alff, & A. Benz (Eds.), Tracing Connections: Explorations of Spaces and Places in Asian Contexts. VWB

The chapter argues that studying places and identities as a tension yields useful research insights, because it forces us to do three things. First, it forces us to think about places and identities as processes – as continuously configured and re-co... Read More about Tracing connections and its politics.