The photograph shows Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar (left) engaged in an animated discussion about her book while Ameena Saiyid, Managing Director, Oxford University Press Pakistan (right) looks on.
The photograph shows Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar (left) engaged in an animated discussion about her book while Ameena Saiyid, Managing Director, Oxford University Press Pakistan (right) looks on.
Karachi, 1 Jan.: Oxford University Press (OUP) hosted an evening with Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, author of The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories published by OUP Pakistan. Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar is Assistant Professor of History at Brown University, USA, and teaches courses on the history of colonialism and nationalism in South Asia, including the Partition of 1947 and Gandhi. Vazira Fazila gave a talk centered around The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia which is an original and significant study based on more than two years of ethnographic and archival research conducted by her. The book examines how in the years following the partition of 1947, India and Pakistan actually came to separate their territories, properties, and peoples into two sovereign states. The author argues that the combined interventions of the two postcolonial states were greatly important in shaping these massive displacements.
While introducing the author, Ameena Saiyid, Managing Director, OUP Pakistan, said that Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World in Leiden, the Netherlands. She further added that Zamindar is presently working on an edited collection based on her postdoctoral research on the colonial history of archaeology entitled Heritage in Other Histories: The Politics of Placing the Past in the Muslim World.
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