Avinash Koul
Biographic Data
| ID | 798449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avinash Koul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avinash |
| FAMILY NAME | Koul |
| SIGNATURE | KOUL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1960-4707 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Living amid conflict: Lived experiences of non-displaced Kashmiri Pandit women in Kashmir, India
Survival in conflict zones is often marked by constant exposure to violence and profound isolation.When individuals are stripped of the safety and support typically provided by their communities, feelings of solitariness and vulnerability intensify significantly, weakening resilience and the will to endure.While most people relocated to safer areas, others remain either by choice or due to constraints such as poverty, lack of resources, or a relu…
Caste and Islam for Citizenship
This article argues that caste consciousness underlay Muslim identity and politics in early independent Pakistan despite official portrayal of caste as a phenomenon peculiar to non-Muslims. It unravels the component threads of such caste consciousness among Pakistani Muslims by focusing on Arain elites who produced a caste history tailored to fit within Pakistan's newly emerging nationalist self-imagination. Through a published Urdu-language narr…
An Exploratory Study on Bonding and Bridging Social Capital Among the Non-Displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir, India
In this exploratory study, we investigate two forms of social capital, bonding and bridging social capital among the non-displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir, India. In addition, we attempt to understand how displacement impinged the bonding and bridging social capital of non-displaced Kashmiri Pandits. The study uses a qualitative and ethnographic research design to elicit information from the participants. Semi-structured interviews were condu…
Whom can a Muslim Woman Represent? Begum Jahanara Shah Nawaz and the politics of party building in late colonial India
This article argues that gendered ideas about political representation were pivotal to the All-India Muslim League's new self-imagination as the exclusive representative of Indian Muslims after the Pakistan Resolution of March 1940. I offer a gendered reading of League politics during the crucial decade of the 1940s by examining the historical implications of Begum Jahanara Shah Nawaz's expulsion from the party in 1941 for accepting a post on the…
Making new Muslim Arains: Reform and social mobility in colonial Punjab, 1890s-1910s
This paper contends that Salim al-tavarikh, a didactic genealogical history of the Arains published in 1919, was a sophisticated discursive means of claiming high social status for the community in the historical context of colonial Punjab. The interpretive techniques adopted in this text for making these claims go against the grain of existing scholarly literature on social mobility and reformist Islamic thought in modern South Asia. First, it c…
Making new Muslim Arains: Reform and social mobility in colonial Punjab, 1890s-1910s
This paper contends that Salim al-tavarikh, a didactic genealogical history of the Arains published in 1919, was a sophisticated discursive means of claiming high social status for the community in the historical context of colonial Punjab. The interpretive techniques adopted in this text for making these claims go against the grain of existing scholarly literature on social mobility and reformist Islamic thought in modern South Asia. First, it c…
Living amid conflict: Lived experiences of non-displaced Kashmiri Pandit women in Kashmir, India
Survival in conflict zones is often marked by constant exposure to violence and profound isolation.When individuals are stripped of the safety and support typically provided by their communities, feelings of solitariness and vulnerability intensify significantly, weakening resilience and the will to endure.While most people relocated to safer areas, others remain either by choice or due to constraints such as poverty, lack of resources, or a relu…
An Exploratory Study on Bonding and Bridging Social Capital Among the Non-Displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir, India
In this exploratory study, we investigate two forms of social capital, bonding and bridging social capital among the non-displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir, India. In addition, we attempt to understand how displacement impinged the bonding and bridging social capital of non-displaced Kashmiri Pandits. The study uses a qualitative and ethnographic research design to elicit information from the participants. Semi-structured interviews were condu…
Making new Muslim Arains: Reform and social mobility in colonial Punjab, 1890s-1910s
This paper contends that Salim al-tavarikh, a didactic genealogical history of the Arains published in 1919, was a sophisticated discursive means of claiming high social status for the community in the historical context of colonial Punjab. The interpretive techniques adopted in this text for making these claims go against the grain of existing scholarly literature on social mobility and reformist Islamic thought in modern South Asia. First, it c…
Whom can a Muslim Woman Represent? Begum Jahanara Shah Nawaz and the politics of party building in late colonial India
This article argues that gendered ideas about political representation were pivotal to the All-India Muslim League's new self-imagination as the exclusive representative of Indian Muslims after the Pakistan Resolution of March 1940. I offer a gendered reading of League politics during the crucial decade of the 1940s by examining the historical implications of Begum Jahanara Shah Nawaz's expulsion from the party in 1941 for accepting a post on the…
An Exploratory Study on Bonding and Bridging Social Capital Among the Non-Displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir, India
In this exploratory study, we investigate two forms of social capital, bonding and bridging social capital among the non-displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir, India. In addition, we attempt to understand how displacement impinged the bonding and bridging social capital of non-displaced Kashmiri Pandits. The study uses a qualitative and ethnographic research design to elicit information from the participants. Semi-structured interviews were condu…
Caste and Islam for Citizenship
This article argues that caste consciousness underlay Muslim identity and politics in early independent Pakistan despite official portrayal of caste as a phenomenon peculiar to non-Muslims. It unravels the component threads of such caste consciousness among Pakistani Muslims by focusing on Arain elites who produced a caste history tailored to fit within Pakistan's newly emerging nationalist self-imagination. Through a published Urdu-language narr…
Living amid conflict: Lived experiences of non-displaced Kashmiri Pandit women in Kashmir, India
Survival in conflict zones is often marked by constant exposure to violence and profound isolation.When individuals are stripped of the safety and support typically provided by their communities, feelings of solitariness and vulnerability intensify significantly, weakening resilience and the will to endure.While most people relocated to safer areas, others remain either by choice or due to constraints such as poverty, lack of resources, or a relu…
Political science (4 works) · Islam (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)