Shayan Rajani
Biographic Data
| ID | 5442147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shayan Rajani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shayan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajani |
| SIGNATURE | RAJANI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2739-1200 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The many tellings of Sassi and Punnun
This article follows the story of two ill-fated lovers, Sassi and Punnun. Today, this tale is seen foremost as a Sindhi romance. However, since the sixteenth century, the tragedy has been recounted many a times in Persian, Sindhi and Punjabi, both as written text and oral performance. By following different tellings of the story, this article charts a history of language shift, multilingualism and connected literary cultures across Sindh and Punj…
The Four Nationality Thesis
This article historicizes the ethnicity idea, which has anachronistically come to shape academic understanding of Sindh and Pakistan across a broad period of history. Instead, the Four-Nationality Thesis, and other ideas, animated politics in Pakistan’s earlier decades. The Four Nationality Thesis, which drew on global leftist thought, conceived Pakistan as a set of nationalities, corresponding to its provinces, which were conceived to be distinc…
Competing for Distinction
There is a long tradition of describing Sindh as peculiarly prone to Sayyid veneration. On the face of it, the biographical section of Tuhfat al-Kiram or Gift for the Noble, an eighteenth-century history and geography written in Persian in Sindh, appears to confirm this idea. In listing the notables of Thatta, Sindh's premier city, the author, Mir ʻAli Shir Qaniʻ, orders them by groups, giving priority in his hierarchical arrangement to Sayyids. …
Regionalization without Vernacularization
This article examines a turn towards the region in two genres related to Persian poetry in eighteenth-century Sindh, the bayāẓ or poetic anthology and taẕkira or biographical dictionary. I argue that poets in Sindh’s premier city, Thatta, established Sindh as an organizing principle for poetry and the poetic community, initiating a process of regionalization in Persian after the end of Mughal rule. Notably, this was done without the patronage or …
Regionalization without Vernacularization
This article examines a turn towards the region in two genres related to Persian poetry in eighteenth-century Sindh, the bayāẓ or poetic anthology and taẕkira or biographical dictionary. I argue that poets in Sindh’s premier city, Thatta, established Sindh as an organizing principle for poetry and the poetic community, initiating a process of regionalization in Persian after the end of Mughal rule. Notably, this was done without the patronage or …
Competing for Distinction
There is a long tradition of describing Sindh as peculiarly prone to Sayyid veneration. On the face of it, the biographical section of Tuhfat al-Kiram or Gift for the Noble, an eighteenth-century history and geography written in Persian in Sindh, appears to confirm this idea. In listing the notables of Thatta, Sindh's premier city, the author, Mir ʻAli Shir Qaniʻ, orders them by groups, giving priority in his hierarchical arrangement to Sayyids. …
Regionalization without Vernacularization
This article examines a turn towards the region in two genres related to Persian poetry in eighteenth-century Sindh, the bayāẓ or poetic anthology and taẕkira or biographical dictionary. I argue that poets in Sindh’s premier city, Thatta, established Sindh as an organizing principle for poetry and the poetic community, initiating a process of regionalization in Persian after the end of Mughal rule. Notably, this was done without the patronage or …
The Four Nationality Thesis
This article historicizes the ethnicity idea, which has anachronistically come to shape academic understanding of Sindh and Pakistan across a broad period of history. Instead, the Four-Nationality Thesis, and other ideas, animated politics in Pakistan’s earlier decades. The Four Nationality Thesis, which drew on global leftist thought, conceived Pakistan as a set of nationalities, corresponding to its provinces, which were conceived to be distinc…
The many tellings of Sassi and Punnun
This article follows the story of two ill-fated lovers, Sassi and Punnun. Today, this tale is seen foremost as a Sindhi romance. However, since the sixteenth century, the tragedy has been recounted many a times in Persian, Sindhi and Punjabi, both as written text and oral performance. By following different tellings of the story, this article charts a history of language shift, multilingualism and connected literary cultures across Sindh and Punj…
Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (4 works) · Islamic Studies and History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Order (exchange (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works)