The Fletcher School

A Graduate School of International Affairs

Ayesha Jalal

Ayesha Jalal

Ayesha Jalal

ayesha.jalal@tufts.edu

Phone: 617-627-4237

Fax: 617-627-3479

Office: Cabot 601
/009 East Hall

Office Hours:
Tuesday
1:30-3pm - 610 Cabot
Monday
3:00-4:30pm – 009 East Hall

Address:
160 Packard Ave
The Fletcher School
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155

Mary Richardson Professor of History Department of History, Tufts University and Director Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies

Education

BA, Wellesley College
PhD, Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Professional Activities

Professor of History, Tufts University (1999-present); Associate Professor, Columbia University (1991-1999); Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard University (1998-1999). Fellow, Macarthur Foundation (1998-2003); Member Editorial Board, Third World Quarterly; Member International Advisory Committee, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore School of Management Sciences (LUMS)

Programs & Centers

Courses

Fall 2009

Research Interests

Modern South Asia: History, Culture and Politics; Decolonization in Asia, Islam

Selected Publications

Books

  • Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia (2008)
  • Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since c. 1850s (2000)
  • Modern South Asia: History, Culture, and Political Economy (co-author) (1998)
  • Nationalism, Democracy and Development: State and Politics in India (co-editor) (1997)
  • Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical Perspective
  • The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan’s Political Economy of Defence (1990)
  • The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan (1985)

Work in Progress

  • Battle for Pakistan (in preparation)
  • Oxford Companion of Pakistan History (editor)(in preperation)
  • Reader for Modern South Asia - companion volume to Modern South Asia (co-author)in preperation)
  • Modern South Asia: History, Culture and Political Economy (third edition, co-author) (in preperation)
  • Jinnah (in preparation)

Articles

  • ‘Masters of Mutilation’, India Today, August 22, 2009
  • ‘An Uncertain Trajectory: Islam's Contemporary Globalization, 1971-1979’ in The Shock of the Global: The International History of the 1970s, edited by Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel Sargent (forthcoming)
  • “Striking a Just Balance: Maulana Azad as a Theorist of Trans-national Jihad”, Modern Intellectual History – April 2007
  • "India, Pakistan and the New Order," National Review (August 2004)
  • "Methodologies and Sources for Studying Pakistani Women," Encyclopedia for Women and Islamic Cultures (forthcoming)
  • "Pakistan," The World Book Encyclopedia (2003)
  • "South Asian Nationalism," The Encyclopedia of Nationalism (2000)
  • "Kashmir: The Deepening Scars," The News(2000)
  • "On the Wrong Side of History? U.S.-Pakistan Relations in the 21st Century," Dawn (2000)