Dr. Ghulam Hussain
Category: Faculty
Published on: July 11, 2024

Dr. Ghulam Hussain
Designation Assistant Professor
Email sufi.hussain2020@gmail.com ghussain.buic@bahria.edu.pk
Phone Phone : +92-51-
Cell phone: +92-
Education • PhD Thesis (Anthropology) – Quaid-i-Azam University Pakistan
• M.Phil. (Anthropology) Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan
• M.A. (Sociology) CGPA 3.96/4.00 (University of Sindh, Jamshoro)
Area of Interests ▪ Ethnographic Research
▪ Transferring knowledge through teaching
▪ Consultancy

Dr. Ghulam Hussain is an applied anthropologist and policy analyst dealing with socioeconomic issues, interfaith harmony, and human rights. Currently, he is serving as an Assistant Professor of Applied Anthropology at Bahria University, Islamabad, teaching both undergraduate and graduate level courses, and supervising 4 MS, and 4 Students. Apart from that he also provides consultancy services to governmental and non-governmental organizations, including the Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, and the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony. He received PhD in June-July2022 from the Department of Anthropology, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, and Bielefeld University, Germany, under the DAAD Bi-nationally supervised program. He holds membership in the European Association of South Asian Studies(EASAS), and the American Psychological Association. Before joining Bahria University last year, he was affiliated with the Institute of Policy Studies, an Islamabad-based think-tank, where he did policy research on faith and society, and organized several seminars and workshops on caste, decolonization, and issues pertaining to religious minorities. Broadly, the areas of research that interest him cut across multiple disciplines and themes including political anthropology, participatory action research, SDGs, critical caste studies, historiography, postcolonial studies, peasant studies, and critical Muslim studies. He has also served as a reviewer for several impact factor journals. His papers have been discussed by students and professors as course readings at Ashoka University by Prof. Rita Kothari, at UCSan Diego, USA by Prof Shaista Patel, at the University of Heidelberg, and atthe National Institute of Pakistan Studies, QAU, Islamabad by Prof. ManzoorVeesrio. He has presented papers on Dalit assertions and activism, Hindutva imperialism, environmental justice, Sufism, caste politics, pastoral migration, and bonded labor in international and national conferences held during the last eight years.

Bahria University, Islamabad Assistant Professor 10-01-2022 Till today
Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad  Research Fellow  01-11-2019  10-01-2022
Quaid-i-Azam University  Visiting  Faculty 20-09-2019  23-09-2022
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics  Visiting  Faculty  05-6-2019  10-01-2019
University of Sindh  Visiting Faculty  02-02-2012  01-02-2013
  1. Ethnographic Research
  2. Transferring knowledge through teaching
  3. Consultancy
  • PhD Thesis (Anthropology) – Quaid-i-Azam University Pakistan
  • M.Phil. (Anthropology) Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan
  • M.A. (Sociology) CGPA 3.96/4.00 (University of Sindh, Jamshoro)
PUBLICATION

Books

Caste Structure in Pakistan: Anti-Caste Assertions Amid the Violence of Religious Binaries, Routledge (Forthcoming in 2025, Book contract enclosed)

Book Chapters

Dalits of Sindh, Sindhi Studies Handbook, Routledge (Edited by Michel Boivin & Mathew Cook. Routledge (Forthcoming 2024, Precontract email correspondence enclosed)

Journals

  1. Ethno-nationality of Caste in Pakistan: Privileged Caste Morality in Sindhi Progressive Literature and Politics. Critical Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920520964541. (Impact Factor 1.9)
  2. Understanding Hegemony of Caste in Political Sufism and Islam in Sindh, Pakistan. Journal of Asian and African Studies. 2019 (54)4. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909619839430. (Impact Factor 1.0).
  3. ’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. 2019. (Impact Factor 1.0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909619863455.
  4. The Myth of Sufi Sindh: Reflections on the Orientalist and Nationalist Historiography. Interventions, 1-21. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2157310. (Impact Factor 0.6).
  5. ‘Politics of Metaphors: Traces of Casteism, Fatalism and Patriarchy in Shah Abdul Latif’. Postcolonial Studies. 2021 https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2021.1923154.   (Impact Factor 0.92).
  6. Appropriation of Caste Spaces in Pakistan: The Theo-Politics of Short Stories in Sindhi Progressive Literature. Religions 2019, 10, 627. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10110627.
  7. Politics of Sufism in Pakistan Contemporary Relevance of Shah Abdul Latif as an Icon of Sufi Sindh. Religions of South Asia. https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.21249.
  8. Historiography of Caste: The Notion of the ‘Declassed’Castes in Michel Boivin’s ‘Sufi Paradigm’.

Contemporary Voice of Dalit, https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X211063069.    

  1. Legitimacies of caste positions in Pakistan: Resolving ‘upper caste’ dilemma in shared space of knowledge production and emancipation. Panjab University Research Journal, 2018. Volume XLV, No.1.

Essay in Encyclopedia

  1. Bhil (of Pakistan). Published in Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Religions of the Indigenous People of South Asia Online. https://doi.org/10.1163/2665-9093_BERO_COM_033485.

Ethnographic translations/ essays (selected)

  1. ‘The Man Smriti Mafia Still Haunts Us’: A Speech by a Pakistani Dalit Rights Leader’, (Translation) Roundtable India, 2017. https://roundtableindia.co.in.
  2. ‘Dr Khatumal Jeewan on the Rise of Meghwars in local politics of lower Sindh’, (Translation) Roundtable India, 2017. https://roundtableindia.co.in.
  3. ‘Journey of a Dalit Corpse’ by Ganpat Rai (Translation)  Roundtable India, November, 29, 2017. https://roundtableindia.co.in.

Political document

  1. Hussain, Ghulam. Bheel, Ganpat Rai, Soomro, Ahmed (2019), “Manifesto and Constitution of Dalit Sujaag Threek, Sindh, Pakistan”, Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/sr3789fw86.1.

Conference Presentations/Proceedings (selected)

  1. ‘Caste Politics and anti-caste Dalit assertions in Sindh’ in RINDAS International Conference on 3rd of Feb. 2017, held in Kyoto, Japan.
  2. ‘Anti-caste Dalit assertions in Sindh’ in the 5th International Conference in Jyvaskyla, Finland, on 20–22 June 2017.
  3. ‘Sayedism and casteism in Sindh: Possibilities of Dalit emancipation’ presented at the 25th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS2018) held in Paris from July 24 to July 27, 2018.
  4. Hindutva: Views of a Dalit Activist, at the International Conference Hindutva Policies and the State of Minorities in India’. The seminar was organized by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Islamabad, on February 19, 2019.
  5. Biopolitics of the frontiers: Investigating the identity shift among Parkari Communities during and after 1971 Indo-Pak War’ at The Familiar Stranger: Exploring Sindh- Gujarat (Dis) connections SOAS South Asia Institute, SOAS University of London held on Friday 18th of January and Saturday 19th 2019.