Ansari
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 46253 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ansari |
| APELLIDO | Ansari |
| FIRMA | ANSARI |
| AFILIACIONES | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6138-1554 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1967 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Feeling at Home? Love, Loss and Longing in Post-Partition Pakistan
This article takes the notion of the ‘emotional arena’ as its prompt for exploring ways in which expressions of ‘love’, ‘loss’ and ‘longing’ connected with place-making during Pakistan’s first decade (1947–58). It focuses on the new country’s then capital city of Karachi, arguably the emotional epicentre of early attempts at nation-building in the years immediately after Independence, and somewhere to which substantial numbers of migrants from di…
Sindh under the Mughals
Nico Slate. The Art of Freedom
Zeb-un-Nissa's ‘Between ourselves
Pioneering Pakistani female journalist Zeb-un-Nissa Hamidullah in her ‘Between ourselves: a weekly feature for women’ columns, which appeared in Karachi's English-language daily newspaper Dawn during the late 1940s and early 1950s, encouraged her readers to stretch rather than breach the boundaries in how (educated) Pakistani women—as ‘good wives and wise mothers’—should fulfil their familial (and wider social) responsibilities. Her advice—which …
Honorary Editor's
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Preface to Historicising Sayyid-ness
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Pippa Virdee. From the Ashes of 1947
From the Ashes of 1947: Reimagining Punjab in many ways represents a personal historical journey. In it, Pippa Virdee weaves her own encounters with a past that is closely linked to her own family’s background into a broader attempt to reconnect today’s two Punjabs, exploring the short and longer-term consequences of the 1947 Partition for people living there. In a nutshell, it locates the impact of the Partition—or division—of (British) India on…
Citizens and the City
Focussing in particular on urban centres in present-day Sindh and UP, Chapter 3 explores key dynamics involved in the development of citizenship that connected with this control of 'public goods', including food and civil supply, in relation to both the politics of prices and price controls and debates about food and civil supply administration. It highlights the extent to which supply and control of goods became an important means through which …
Boundaries of Belonging
The 1947 Partition had a major impact on issues of citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan in the decades that followed. Boundaries of Belonging shows how citizenship evolves at a time of political transition and what this meant for ordinary people, by directing attention away from South Asia's Partition 'hotspots' - Bengal and Punjab - to Partition's 'hinterlands' of Uttar Pradesh and Sindh. The analysis, based on rich archival research and…
Antoinette Burton, Africa in the Indian Imagination
Matthew A. Cook, Annexation and the Unhappy Valley
To a great extent, Annexation and the Unhappy Valley is a product of its time, in that it takes up the challenge represented by the wider drive since the 1990s to seek to transcend metropole-colony divides and produce greater interconnectedness—“connected histories”—something that we see taking place both in relation to South Asia and empire more widely, and transcending disciplinary boundaries. By encouraging “Empire historians” and “historians …
Pakistan's 1951 Census
This article explores the carrying out of Pakistan's first census in 1951 from the perspective of contemporary developments in the southern province of Sindh. Conducted against the backdrop of Partition-related migration to and from the province, this attempt at population enumeration proved to be a mammoth bureaucratic undertaking on the part of the recently-created Pakistani state. The challenges that this exercise posed at the provincial level…
At the crossroads? Exploring Sindh's recent past from a spatial perspective
This article explores Sindh, today a province in Pakistan, in terms of its spatial relationship with the various overlapping 'worlds' to which it has belonged in the recent past. Sindh's reputation under the British was as a sleepy backwater, located at a distance from centres of colonial power. But this simplistically static picture belies its relationship, for instance, with new communication and transportation links that connected it in differ…
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet. Conceiving Citizens
Motherhood, like the proverbial “apple pie” with which it is often paired, evokes nostalgic images, with women and their children occupying a setting “far removed from the welter of politics and social struggle” (Alexis Jetter, Annelise Orleck, and Diana Taylor, eds., The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right [1997], p. 3). But in reality motherhood cannot be easily detached from the wider realm of politics, however defined. …
Women, Religion and Culture in Iran
Investigates how women, religion and culture have interacted in the context of 19th and 20th century Iran, covering topics as seemingly diverse as the social and cultural history of Persian cuisine, the work and attitudes of 19th century Christian missionaries, the impact of growing female literacy, and the consequences of developments since 1979.
Police, corruption and provincial loyalties in 1950s Karachi, and the case of Sir Gilbert Grace
So-called ‘ethnic’ – or provincial – rivalries have been an endemic feature of Pakistani life since its earliest post-independence days. Muslims from different parts of British India might have been brought together by their support for the League’s Pakistan demand in the months leading up to independence, but it took very little time once Pakistan had been created for pre-existing distinctions to re-emerge. For all the rhetoric about becoming ‘P…
Subjects or Citizens? India, Pakistan and the 1948 British Nationality Act
Independence in the case of British India occurred at relatively short notice in August 1947, but tying up the loose ends of empire stretched over years. Under these circumstances, the realignment of subjecthood and citizenship necessitated by decolonisation was protracted, and raised complex questions about identity in both the new states of India and Pakistan and the former imperial power itself. This article thus takes as its focus the drawn-o…
Ali Usman Qasmi. Questioning the Authority of the Past
Like other forms of knowledge, religious knowledge is a function of who produces it, how, and in what political, social, cultural, and—importantly—historical contexts. As knowledge (presumed or otherwise) underpins authority, how to define religious authority, what it takes to be acknowledged as a religious authority, and what interpretive powers accrue to religious authorities are also questions that confront Muslims—just as they challenge adher…
Special Issue
As readers of this Journal will appreciate, our remit is broad; both in regard to time (from before the Common Era to the closing decades of the twentieth century) and as far as place (from Baghdad to Beijing and beyond) is concerned. This gives us the opportunity to publish research on those elements of human activity that bind or separate cultures on the macro level both historically and geographically. Languages, for example, gather or divide …
Special Issue
In January 2013 we published our third special issue ‘Perfumery and Ritual in Asia’. As I wrote in the Introduction to that group of articles, the Journal's broad remit, both in terms of historical period and geographical boundaries, affords us the privilege of exploring those elements of human activity that historically ‘bind’ or ‘separate’ different Asian cultures. By the beginning of 2013 we had already published two other special issues, one …
The Flux of the Matter
This article explores the new levels of uncertainty and fluidity produced by independence, partition and the integration of the princely states in India and Pakistan, and it investigates the impact of these events on the ‘everyday state’ in the years immediately following 1947. The flux witnessed in this period brought forth new questions about how to define loyalty in government service, and stirred new suspicions about the presence of minoritie…
Cornelia Sorabji
Cornelia Sorabji, a Parsee Christian convert, was ‘a pioneer in more ways than one’ (p. 1). She achieved many firsts, or near firsts (she was not actually, as is commonly believed, the first Indian woman to be called to the bar, but the second), and so can be rightly regarded as a path-finder at a time when strong racial and gender biases shaped the colonial professional world. Her senior bureaucratic role, as a lawyer with responsibility for pro…
Everyday expectations of the state during Pakistan's early years
Accessing the day-to-day, albeit pressing, concerns of Pakistanis in the early 1950s can be difficult as a result of the relative paucity of relevant primary material. One set of sources, however, are the letters written to the editors of contemporary newspapers during this period, in which correspondents outlined their expectations of, made demands on, and aired their frustrations with, the everyday state in the years following independence and …
From Subjects to Citizens
This special issue ofModern Asian Studiesexplores the shift from colonial rule to independence in India and Pakistan, with the aim of unravelling the explicit meanings and relevance of 'independence' for the new citizens of India and Pakistan during the two decades after 1947. While the study of postcolonial South Asia has blossomed in recent years, this volume addresses a number of imbalances in this dynamic and highly popular field. Firstly, th…
Postscript from the JRAS Editor
This special issue of the Journal has been given over to papers presented in September 2007 at Bilkent University, Ankara, during a workshop entitled ‘Romanisation in Comparative Perspective: explaining success and failure’. These contributions explore in a number of different historical and geographical contexts – Turkey, the ex-Soviet Central Asian states, South Asia and Japan – the factors that have influenced attempts at implementing script c…
Subjects or Citizens? India, Pakistan and the 1948 British Nationality Act
Independence in the case of British India occurred at relatively short notice in August 1947, but tying up the loose ends of empire stretched over years. Under these circumstances, the realignment of subjecthood and citizenship necessitated by decolonisation was protracted, and raised complex questions about identity in both the new states of India and Pakistan and the former imperial power itself. This article thus takes as its focus the drawn-o…
From Subjects to Citizens
This special issue ofModern Asian Studiesexplores the shift from colonial rule to independence in India and Pakistan, with the aim of unravelling the explicit meanings and relevance of 'independence' for the new citizens of India and Pakistan during the two decades after 1947. While the study of postcolonial South Asia has blossomed in recent years, this volume addresses a number of imbalances in this dynamic and highly popular field. Firstly, th…
Boundaries of Belonging
The 1947 Partition had a major impact on issues of citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan in the decades that followed. Boundaries of Belonging shows how citizenship evolves at a time of political transition and what this meant for ordinary people, by directing attention away from South Asia's Partition 'hotspots' - Bengal and Punjab - to Partition's 'hinterlands' of Uttar Pradesh and Sindh. The analysis, based on rich archival research and…
Everyday expectations of the state during Pakistan's early years
Accessing the day-to-day, albeit pressing, concerns of Pakistanis in the early 1950s can be difficult as a result of the relative paucity of relevant primary material. One set of sources, however, are the letters written to the editors of contemporary newspapers during this period, in which correspondents outlined their expectations of, made demands on, and aired their frustrations with, the everyday state in the years following independence and …
The Flux of the Matter
This article explores the new levels of uncertainty and fluidity produced by independence, partition and the integration of the princely states in India and Pakistan, and it investigates the impact of these events on the ‘everyday state’ in the years immediately following 1947. The flux witnessed in this period brought forth new questions about how to define loyalty in government service, and stirred new suspicions about the presence of minoritie…
Partition, migration and refugees
(1995). Partition, migration and refugees: Responses to the arrival of Muhajirs in Sind during 1947–48. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 18, North India: Partition and Independence, pp. 95-108
Pakistan's 1951 Census
This article explores the carrying out of Pakistan's first census in 1951 from the perspective of contemporary developments in the southern province of Sindh. Conducted against the backdrop of Partition-related migration to and from the province, this attempt at population enumeration proved to be a mammoth bureaucratic undertaking on the part of the recently-created Pakistani state. The challenges that this exercise posed at the provincial level…
Police, corruption and provincial loyalties in 1950s Karachi, and the case of Sir Gilbert Grace
So-called ‘ethnic’ – or provincial – rivalries have been an endemic feature of Pakistani life since its earliest post-independence days. Muslims from different parts of British India might have been brought together by their support for the League’s Pakistan demand in the months leading up to independence, but it took very little time once Pakistan had been created for pre-existing distinctions to re-emerge. For all the rhetoric about becoming ‘P…
The Sind Blue Books of 1843 and 1844
1Royal Holloway, University of London
Commonwealth Africa, From Colonial Status To Independence
The following bibliography is a section of a more comprehensive survey of Commonwealth literature in the field of social science intended to meet the specific needs of the library of the Indian School of International Studies
A Clash of Cultures
Sufi Saints and State Power
In this book, Dr Sarah Ansari examines the system of political control constructed by the British in Sind between 1843 and 1947. In particular, she explores the part of the local Muslim elite, the pirs or hereditary sufi saints. Using a wealth of historical material and in depth interviews, the author looks at the development of the institution of the pir, its power base and the mechanics of the system of control into which the pirs were drawn. T…
Partition, migration and refugees
(1995). Partition, migration and refugees: Responses to the arrival of Muhajirs in Sind during 1947–48. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 18, North India: Partition and Independence, pp. 95-108
Shorter notice. Myths of the Nation. National Identity and Literary Representation. R Sethi
Journal Article Shorter notice. Myths of the Nation. National Identity and Literary Representation. R Sethi Get access S Ansari S Ansari Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 462, June 2000, Pages 772–773, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.462.772 Published: 01 June 2000
The Sind Blue Books of 1843 and 1844
1Royal Holloway, University of London
Polygamy, Purdah and Political Representation
Debates on Islam, citizenship and women's rights have been closely interconnected in Pakistan, from the time of the state's creation in 1947 through to the present day. This article explores the extent to which during the 1950s campaigns to reform Muslim personal law (which received a boost thanks to the outcry against 1955 polygamous marriage of the then Prime Minister, Muhammad Ali Bogra) were linked with wider lobbying by female activists to s…
Postscript from the JRAS Editor
This special issue of the Journal has been given over to papers presented in September 2007 at Bilkent University, Ankara, during a workshop entitled ‘Romanisation in Comparative Perspective: explaining success and failure’. These contributions explore in a number of different historical and geographical contexts – Turkey, the ex-Soviet Central Asian states, South Asia and Japan – the factors that have influenced attempts at implementing script c…
Everyday expectations of the state during Pakistan's early years
Accessing the day-to-day, albeit pressing, concerns of Pakistanis in the early 1950s can be difficult as a result of the relative paucity of relevant primary material. One set of sources, however, are the letters written to the editors of contemporary newspapers during this period, in which correspondents outlined their expectations of, made demands on, and aired their frustrations with, the everyday state in the years following independence and …
From Subjects to Citizens
This special issue ofModern Asian Studiesexplores the shift from colonial rule to independence in India and Pakistan, with the aim of unravelling the explicit meanings and relevance of 'independence' for the new citizens of India and Pakistan during the two decades after 1947. While the study of postcolonial South Asia has blossomed in recent years, this volume addresses a number of imbalances in this dynamic and highly popular field. Firstly, th…
Cornelia Sorabji
Cornelia Sorabji, a Parsee Christian convert, was ‘a pioneer in more ways than one’ (p. 1). She achieved many firsts, or near firsts (she was not actually, as is commonly believed, the first Indian woman to be called to the bar, but the second), and so can be rightly regarded as a path-finder at a time when strong racial and gender biases shaped the colonial professional world. Her senior bureaucratic role, as a lawyer with responsibility for pro…
Subjects or Citizens? India, Pakistan and the 1948 British Nationality Act
Independence in the case of British India occurred at relatively short notice in August 1947, but tying up the loose ends of empire stretched over years. Under these circumstances, the realignment of subjecthood and citizenship necessitated by decolonisation was protracted, and raised complex questions about identity in both the new states of India and Pakistan and the former imperial power itself. This article thus takes as its focus the drawn-o…
Ali Usman Qasmi. Questioning the Authority of the Past
Like other forms of knowledge, religious knowledge is a function of who produces it, how, and in what political, social, cultural, and—importantly—historical contexts. As knowledge (presumed or otherwise) underpins authority, how to define religious authority, what it takes to be acknowledged as a religious authority, and what interpretive powers accrue to religious authorities are also questions that confront Muslims—just as they challenge adher…
Special Issue
As readers of this Journal will appreciate, our remit is broad; both in regard to time (from before the Common Era to the closing decades of the twentieth century) and as far as place (from Baghdad to Beijing and beyond) is concerned. This gives us the opportunity to publish research on those elements of human activity that bind or separate cultures on the macro level both historically and geographically. Languages, for example, gather or divide …
Special Issue
In January 2013 we published our third special issue ‘Perfumery and Ritual in Asia’. As I wrote in the Introduction to that group of articles, the Journal's broad remit, both in terms of historical period and geographical boundaries, affords us the privilege of exploring those elements of human activity that historically ‘bind’ or ‘separate’ different Asian cultures. By the beginning of 2013 we had already published two other special issues, one …
The Flux of the Matter
This article explores the new levels of uncertainty and fluidity produced by independence, partition and the integration of the princely states in India and Pakistan, and it investigates the impact of these events on the ‘everyday state’ in the years immediately following 1947. The flux witnessed in this period brought forth new questions about how to define loyalty in government service, and stirred new suspicions about the presence of minoritie…
Women, Religion and Culture in Iran
Investigates how women, religion and culture have interacted in the context of 19th and 20th century Iran, covering topics as seemingly diverse as the social and cultural history of Persian cuisine, the work and attitudes of 19th century Christian missionaries, the impact of growing female literacy, and the consequences of developments since 1979.
Police, corruption and provincial loyalties in 1950s Karachi, and the case of Sir Gilbert Grace
So-called ‘ethnic’ – or provincial – rivalries have been an endemic feature of Pakistani life since its earliest post-independence days. Muslims from different parts of British India might have been brought together by their support for the League’s Pakistan demand in the months leading up to independence, but it took very little time once Pakistan had been created for pre-existing distinctions to re-emerge. For all the rhetoric about becoming ‘P…
At the crossroads? Exploring Sindh's recent past from a spatial perspective
This article explores Sindh, today a province in Pakistan, in terms of its spatial relationship with the various overlapping 'worlds' to which it has belonged in the recent past. Sindh's reputation under the British was as a sleepy backwater, located at a distance from centres of colonial power. But this simplistically static picture belies its relationship, for instance, with new communication and transportation links that connected it in differ…
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet. Conceiving Citizens
Motherhood, like the proverbial “apple pie” with which it is often paired, evokes nostalgic images, with women and their children occupying a setting “far removed from the welter of politics and social struggle” (Alexis Jetter, Annelise Orleck, and Diana Taylor, eds., The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right [1997], p. 3). But in reality motherhood cannot be easily detached from the wider realm of politics, however defined. …
Pakistan's 1951 Census
This article explores the carrying out of Pakistan's first census in 1951 from the perspective of contemporary developments in the southern province of Sindh. Conducted against the backdrop of Partition-related migration to and from the province, this attempt at population enumeration proved to be a mammoth bureaucratic undertaking on the part of the recently-created Pakistani state. The challenges that this exercise posed at the provincial level…
Matthew A. Cook, Annexation and the Unhappy Valley
To a great extent, Annexation and the Unhappy Valley is a product of its time, in that it takes up the challenge represented by the wider drive since the 1990s to seek to transcend metropole-colony divides and produce greater interconnectedness—“connected histories”—something that we see taking place both in relation to South Asia and empire more widely, and transcending disciplinary boundaries. By encouraging “Empire historians” and “historians …
Antoinette Burton, Africa in the Indian Imagination
Citizens and the City
Focussing in particular on urban centres in present-day Sindh and UP, Chapter 3 explores key dynamics involved in the development of citizenship that connected with this control of 'public goods', including food and civil supply, in relation to both the politics of prices and price controls and debates about food and civil supply administration. It highlights the extent to which supply and control of goods became an important means through which …
Boundaries of Belonging
The 1947 Partition had a major impact on issues of citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan in the decades that followed. Boundaries of Belonging shows how citizenship evolves at a time of political transition and what this meant for ordinary people, by directing attention away from South Asia's Partition 'hotspots' - Bengal and Punjab - to Partition's 'hinterlands' of Uttar Pradesh and Sindh. The analysis, based on rich archival research and…
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