Bahria University

DR GHULAM HUSSAIN

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Email	ghulam.hussain@bahria.edu.pk
Phone Ext.	+92-3363589481
Research Areas / Expertise	Caste and Dalit Studies, Political Anthropology, Environmental Justice, Development Studies, Gender and Social Exclusion, Public Policy

Publications

Journals

• Understanding Hegemony of Caste in Political Islam and Sufism in Sindh, Pakistan | Journal of Asian and African Studies
• ‘Dalits are in India, not in Pakistan’: Exploring the Discursive Bases of the Denial of Dalitness under the Ashrafia Hegemony | Journal of Asian and African Studies
• Ethno-Nationality of Caste in Pakistan: Privileged Caste Morality in Sindhi Progressive Literature and Politics | Critical Sociology
• Appropriation of Caste Spaces in Pakistan: The Theo-Politics of Short Stories in Sindhi Progressive Literature | Religions
• The politics of metaphor: traces of casteism and patriarchy in the work of Shah Abdul Latif | Postcolonial Studies
• Politics of Sufism in Pakistan: Contemporary Relevance of Shah Abdul Latif as an Icon of Sufi Sindh | Religions of South Asia
• Historiography of Caste: The Notion of the ‘Declassed’ Castes in Michel Boivin’s ‘Sufi Paradigm’ | Contemporary Voice of Dalit
• The Practice Of Unpaid Labour (Begar) In Sindh Rice Belt: Looking For The Evidence Of Exploitation In Sharecropping Arrangements | Grassroots
• The Myth of Sufi Sindh: Reflections on the Orientalist and Nationalist Historiography | Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies

Conferences

• Anthropology of Activism: Engaging with the Narrative of Forced Conversion in Pakistan | Anthropology of Activism, Brown University, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
• Hindutva: Views of a Dalit Activist | International Conference Hindutva Policies and the State of Minorities in India, Marriot Hotel, Islamabad
• Biopolitics of the frontiers: Investigating identity shift among Parkari Communities during and after 1971 Indo-Pak War | The Familiar Stranger: Exploring Sindh- Gujarat (Dis) connections SOAS South Asia Institute, SOAS University of London
• Caste Politics and anti-caste Dalit assertions in Sindh | n RINDAS International Conference, Kyoto, Japan
• Caste Politics and anti-caste Dalit assertions in Sindh | e 5th International Conference in Jyvaskyla, Finland
• ‘Sayedism and casteism in Sindh: Possibilities of Dalit emancipation | 25th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS2018) held in Paris
• Environmental Justice and Community Empowerment: Case-study of Kolhi-peasant community of Sindh | International Conference on Environmental Issues of Sindh and Remedies (ICEISR), Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan
• ‘Parkari and Katchchi Kolhi Migration: An assessment of Socio-political Impact of migration on Kolhi community of Barrage-irrigated area of lower Sindh | International Conference on ‘Migration, Education and Development in South Asia’. Islamabad: Department of Anthropology, Quaid-i-Azam University