Prof. Tanweer Fazal

Professor, Department of Sociology

University of Hyderabad

Bio-note:

TanweerFazal specializes in sociology of nationalism(s), community formation and identifications with specific focus on their implications on discourse of rights and entitlements. Additionally, his research has a strong element of public policy orientation that involves rigorous analysis of existing policy instruments while suggesting new modes of interventions. Prior to joining this Department, Fazal taught at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2014-2020), Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, JamiaMilliaIslamia (2006-2014), Department of Sociology, JamiaMilliaIslamia (2004-2005) and at the Government Degree College, Baghpat (2001-2003). He has been a Research Consultant with Prime Minister’s High Level Committee (Sachar Committee, 2006) wherein he worked specifically on status stratification with particular reference to the OBCs among the Muslims of India.

Fazal has been Associate Fellow (Hony.) at the Delhi Policy Group; Member, International Editorial Advisory Board of the journal, South Asian History and Culture (Routledge, UK); and an Ex-officio Member of the Planning Commission’s Working Group on Empowerment of Minorities for the 11th Five Year Plan. His publications include The ‘Nation-state’ and Minority Rights: Comparative Perspectives on Muslim and Sikh Identities (London: Routledge, 2014), Minority Nationalisms in South Asia (ed.), (London and Delhi: Routledge, 2012) and The Minority Conundrum: Living in Majoritarian Times (ed.) (Delhi: Penguin-Random House).

Publications Books: Monographs/edited volumes/Special Issues

1. Nation-state and Minority Rights in India: Comparative Perspectives on Muslim and Sikh Identities [London: Routledge, 2015]

2. Minority Nationalisms in South Asia (ed.) [Delhi and London: Routledge, 2012]

3. Violence, Justice and Reconciliation: Communalism in our Times (ed.) [Delhi: NMCPCR, 2009]

4. Edited Special Issue of the Journal, South Asian History and Culture, [Routledge, April 2012]

5. Edited special issue of the journal Seminar, ‘The Bihar Ballot’ [No. 678 February 2016]

6. Edited Special Issue of the Journal, Indian Anthropologist, Everyday State and Politics [2016]

7. The Minority Conundrum: Living in Majoritarian Times (ed.) [Delhi: Penguin-Random House, December 2019 forthcoming]

8. Practices of the State: Muslim, Law and Violence in India [Delhi: Three Essays, 2020 forthcoming]

Research Papers in Journals

1. ‘Migrant, Home and Politics: Biharilabour in Metropolis’, Indian Anthropologist, special issue on Everyday State and Politics, 2016.

2. ‘Migrant Speak’, Seminar (Symposium on Bihar Ballot), no 678, 2016.

3. ‘Minority Rights and the Nationalist Doctrine: Contest and Coalescence in the Public Sphere’, South Asian History and Culture, vol. 3, no. 2, April 2012.

4. ‘Minorities and their Nationalism(s): The Terms of a Discourse in South Asia’, South Asian History and Culture, vol. 3, no. 2, April 2012.

5. ‘The Conundrum of Muslim Reservation: Negotiating Caste and Community’, Contemporary Perspectives: History and Sociology of South Asia, vol. 1, no. 2, July-Dec 2007.

6. ‘Religion and Language in the Formation of Nationhood in Pakistan and Bangladesh’, Sociological Bulletin, vol. 48, nos. 1 & 2, 1999.

7. ‘Between ‘Minorityism’ and Minority Rights: Analysis of Post-Sachar Strategies of Intervention’, Contemporary Perspectives: History and Sociology of South Asia, Volume 4, Number 2, 2010.

8. ‘Scheduled castes, reservations and religion: Revisiting a juridical debate’, Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 51, no. 1, 2017.

9. ‘Everyday State and Politics in India’, in Indian Anthropologist, special issue on Everyday State and Politics, 2016.

10. ‘‘Peace Talks’ as Strategic Deployment: The State, Maoists and Political Violence in India’, in Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 26, Special focus: Conflict Resolution in South Asia (2015).

11. The Unfinished Agenda of Social Justice, Economic and Political weekly, vol. 52, no. 33, 19 Aug, 2017.

12. ‘The Mosque as Juristic person: Law, Public order and Inter-religious Disputes in India’, South Asia History and Culture, vol. 10, no. 2, 2019.

Chapters in edited volumes/working papers

1. ‘Being Muslim’ in Contemporary India: Nation, Identity and Rights’, in Jeffrey Robin and Ronojoy Sen (eds.), Being Muslim in South Asia [Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014].

2. With Rajeev Kumar, ‘Muslims in India: A Study of Socio-Economic and Educational Levels in Four Focus States’, in Hasan Zoya (ed.), India: Social Development Report 2013 [Delhi: Council for Social Development and Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2013].

3. Millennium Development Goals and Muslims of India [Oxfam India Working Papers Series, 2013].

4. ‘Between Identity and Equity: An Agenda for Affirmative Action for Muslims’, in Gurpreet Mahajan and Surinder S. Jodhka (eds.) Religion, Community and Development: Changing Contours of Politics and Policy in India [Delhi: Routledge, 2010].

5. ‘Minorities and their Nationalism(s): The Terms of a Discourse in South Asia, Idem (eds.) Minority Nationalisms in South Asia [London: Routledge, 2012].

6. ‘Religion and Language in the Formation of Nationhood in Pakistan and Bangladesh’, in K.L. Sharma and T.K. Oommen (eds.), Nation and National Identity in South Asia [Delhi: Orient Longman, 2000].

7. ‘Religion and Language in the Formation of Nationhood in Pakistan and Bangladesh’, reprinted in Rowena Robinson (ed.) Sociology of Religion in India [Delhi: Sage, 2004].

8. Religion and Language in the Formation of Nationhood in Pakistan and Bangladesh’’, reprinted in SekharBandyopadhyay edited Decolonization and the Politics of Transition in South Asia, Orient BlackSwan, 2016

9. ‘Ummah, Qaum and Watan: Elite and Ordinary Constructions of Nationhood among Muslims in India’, CAS Occasional Paper Series [CSSS, JNU, New Delhi, 2014].

10. ‘Theorising the nation-state: hegemonic discourses and counter-narratives’, in MaitrayeeChaudhuri and Manish Thakur (ed.) Doing Theory: Location, Hierarchies and Disjunctions [Delhi: Orient-Blackswan, 2018].

11. ‘Minority Rights and the Nationalist Doctrine: Contest and Coalescence in the Public Sphere’ in Idem (eds.) Minority Nationalisms in South Asia [London: Routledge, 2012].

12. ‘Question of Loyalty: Minorities and South Asian Nationalisms’, in VivekSachdevaet. al (eds.), Identities in South Asia: Conflicts and Assertion [London and New York: Routledge, 2019].

13. ‘Caste, Religion and Recognition: Trajectories of Pasmanda Muslim Movements’, in Sobin George et. al eds., Change and Mobility in Contemporary India: Thinking M.N Srinivas Today, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2020].

Book Reviews

1. ‘Muslims in Multiple Loci’, Review of A New Anthropology of Islam by John R. Bowen, The Book Review, Volume XXXVII Number 10, October 2013.

2. ‘Dynamics of Segregation’, Review of Jafferelot Christopher and L. Gayer (eds.), Muslims in Indian Cities, Biblio: A Review of Books, May-June, 2013.

3. ‘Just and Unjust Wars’, Review of On Suicide Bombing by TalalAsad, Biblio: A Review of Books, Volume XIII (7&8), 2008.

4. ‘Muslim, and Indian too’, Review of Composite Nationalism and Islam by Hussain Ahmad Madani, Biblio: A Review of Books, Volume X, Numbers 7 & 8, 2005.

5. ‘Civilisational Wars? Not Really’, Review of The Borders of Islam: Exploring Samuel Huntington’s Faultlines from Al-Andalus to the Virtual Ummah by StigJarle Hansen, AtleMesoy, Biblio: A Review of Books, November- December, 2010.

6. Book Review of Articles of Faith: Religion, Secularism and the Indian Supreme Court, in South Asian History and Culture, Volume 2 (3), 2011.

7. ‘Dual Existence’, Review of Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of Indian Middle Classes, BaviskarAmita and Raka Ray (eds.), Biblio: A Review of Books, Volume XV, Numbers 11 & 12, November-December 2011.

8. Review of Rowena Robinson (ed), Minority Studies, in Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 50, no. 3, October 2016.

9. Review of T.K Oommen’sSocial Inclusion in India: Dimensions and Approaches, in the Journal of the National Human Rights Commission, India, vol. 15, 2016.

10. ‘Consistencies and Variations’, Review of Nation and Family: Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism and Gendered Citizenship in India by Narendra Subramanian in The Book Review, Vol. XXXIX No.2, February 2015.

11. ‘Mapping Muslims in the Development Landscape’, Review of Farah Naqvi authored, Working with Muslims: Beyond Burqa and Triple Talaq—Stories of Development and Everyday Citizenship in India, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 54, no. 10, 09 Mar, 2019.

Newspapers/ Magazines/Websites

1. ‘The Muslim Factor in Bihar: Can Laloo Count on it?’, Newspaper article published in the backdrop of LokSabha elections in Bihar, The Indian Nation (Sunday Edition), Patna, 24^th August, 1997.

2. Excerpts, ‘Constructing the Other’, Dawn, April 11, 2001.

3. ‘De-reserve these Myths’, lead article in Indian Express, September 7, 2006.

4. ‘Targeting Muslims’, lead article in Times of India, September 20, 2006.

5. With Amir Ali, ‘Perceptions from the Other side of the Border: Parting of Ways’, Dawn (Special Issue on 100 years of the Muslim League), December 30, 2006.

6. ‘A Cliché and Other Demons’, Hard News, October, 2007.

7. ‘Unpacking the Muslim Monolith’, Op-Ed, Indian Express, April 1, 2010.

8. ‘From a Corner of a Foreign Court’, Op-Ed, Indian Express, January 21, 2011.

9. With Abu SalehShariff, ‘Beyond the Bluster-Equity and Justice in West Bengal’, Kafila.org, May 19, 2011.

10. ‘Achieving Just Peace in Bodoland’, One World South Asia, August 23, 2012.

11. ‘Lineages of a Riot: Muzaffarnagar Foretold’, The Hindu Centre, October, 2013.

12. ‘One Community, Many Rights’, Hard News, December, 2013.

13. ‘Development Leaves Muslims Out’, The Hindu Businessline, June 2, 2014

14. ‘It’s not Faith but Politics of Conversion that Hurts’, Hardnews, January 2015

15. ‘Fidelity and Dissent’, Indian Express, op-ed, Feb. 26, 2016.

16. Does Islam Preach Terror, Kindle Magazine (online webmagazine), February, 2017http://kindlemag.in/does-islam-preach-terror/

17. BJP and the New Caste Commissions, Catch News, August 26, 2017, http://www.catchnews.com/india-news/bjp-the-new-caste-commissions-is-something-more-sinister-afoot-78946.html

18. ‘NRC: Tested frequently since Partition, the Indian theory of citizenship has faltered once again’, Scroll.in, August 25, 2018.

19. ‘Why the Poor backed the Politics of Hindutva’, Hindu Businessline, June 15, 2019.

20. ‘Some Questions on the Ayodhya Verdict’, HinduBusinessline, November 16, 2019.

21. ‘Good Protestor, Bad Protestor: The Uneven Police Response to Anti-CAA Protests’, Caravan magazine, January 08, 2020.

Fellowships/Visiting Faculty

1. Visiting Faculty, Department of History, Wakeforest University, Winston- Salem, North Carolina, USA, 2013

2. Participated in two week Advance Research Institute organized by Brown University, Rhode Island, Providence, USA on the theme Ethnicity, Conflict and Inequality, June 7-21, 2015.

3. Associate Fellow (Hony.), Delhi Policy Group, New Delhi, 2014-2016.

4. Senior Research Fellow, UGC, 2000-2001

5. Junior Research Fellow, UGC, 1997-1999

Work Experience

Associate Professor, CSSS, JNU (March, 2014- January 2020)
Associate Professor, NMCPCR, JMI (March 2013-February, 2014)
Assistant Professor, NMCPCR, JMI (December 2006-March 2013)
Research Consultant, PM’s High Level Committee (Sachar Committee), (May 2005-November 2006)
Lecturer (temporary), Department of Sociology, JMI (January 2004- March, 2005)
Lecturer, Sociology, Government Degree College, Baghpat, UP (December 2001-July 2003)

Research Papers in Conferences/Seminars/Workshops

1. ‘Interrogating Counter Insurgency: Conflicts and their Resolutions in India’s North-East’, International Workshop on Peacemaking and Peace- Building in Europe & South Asia, Dublin City University, Dublin, February 26-28, 2009.

2. ‘Indian Nationalism or Religious Nationalism?: Indian Muslims in a Multi- Religious Society’, International Conference on Rights of Religious Minorities in South Asia: Learning from Mutual Experience, Hanns Seidel Foundation and the Islamabad Policy Research Institute, Islamabad, 3-4 July, 2012.

3. ‘Peace Talks’ as Strategic Deployment: The State, Maoist and Political Violence in India, International Research Workshop on The Changing Dynamics of Conflicts in South Asia, Dublin City University, Dublin, 18-19 October, 2012.

4. ‘Violence That Heals: Bombay Films’ Response to Terrorism’ (with ManishaSethi), International Inter-disciplinary conference on Re- visioning Terrorism, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University, Lafayette, USA, 7-9 October, 2011.

5. ‘Theorizing the ‘Nation-State’: Hegemonic Discourses and Counter Narratives’, National Workshop on Theorising the Social: Location and Hierarchies, organized by the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU, January 22-23, 2014.

6. ‘The Politics of Muslim Reservation: Constitutional and Legal Framework, Panel Discussion on Diversity within Muslims of India: Social and Legal Implications’, organized by US-India Policy Institute and Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, JamiaMilliaIslamia, 7 January 2014.

7. ‘Millennium Development Goals and the Muslims of India’, Round Table on Muslims, Inequalities and post-MDGs, OXFAM, Delhi, 5 November 2012.

8. ‘Minorities and their Nationalisms: The South Asian Experience’, International Conference on Dynamics of Conflict: Pathways of Peace, M.K. Gandhi Chair, Nelson Mandela Centre, JMI, New Delhi, November 8-9, 2012.

9. From Recognition to Redistribution: Muslims in the Development Discourse, National Conference on Mainstreaming Minorities, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, February 12-13, 2013.

10. ‘Minorityism or Minority Rights: Interrogating Post-Sachar Strategies of Intervention’, International Conference on Plural Societies and Imperatives of Development: Religions, Communities, Citizenship, Department of International Development (DFID), UK and Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi, 19-20 April 2010.

11. Five Years of Sachar Committee: Issues of Governance and Governmentality, International Conference on Good Governance in a

Globalising World, Institute of Objective Studies, Kolkata, November 18- 20, 2011.

12. ‘Minority Rights and the Nationalist Doctrine: Contest and Coalescence in the Public Sphere’, International Conference on Negotiating and Accommodating Religious Identity in Public Arena: Comparing Indian and European Experiences, Centre for West Asian Studies, JMI, New Delhi, February 10-12, 2010.

13. ‘Representations of Minority and Minority Rights in the Public Sphere’, National Conference on Minority Rights in India: Vision and Reality, Department of Political Science, AMU, Aligarh, November 14-15, 2011.

14. ‘Nationalism and its Discontents’, National Conference on Minorities and the Margins: Colonial Encounter and Post-Colonial Discourses, Program for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, JNU, February 17-18, 2011.

15. ‘Three Models of Reservation for Muslims: Ambiguities and Contestations’, National workshop on Religious Communities and Development, Religion and Development Research Program, University of Birmingham and Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, March 26-27, 2007.

16. ‘Theorizing the ‘Nation-State’: Comparative Perspectives from Europe and South Asia’, National Workshop on The Theory Question in Indian Sociology, Institute of Advance Study, Shimla, 13-14 July 2012.

17. ‘Models of Reservation Policy: An Analysis, National Seminar on ‘Protective Discrimination in favour of Muslims: Possibilities and Challenges’, Centre for the Promotion of Educational and Cultural Advancement of Muslims (CAPECAMI), AMU, Aligarh, February, 10-11, 2007.

18. ‘Minorityism as Governmentality: Issues of Governance in India’, ICSSR National Seminar on Indian Republic at 60s, RamlalAnand College, University of Delhi, March 21-22, 2012.

19. ‘Ummah or Watan: Nationhood and National Identity among Muslims of India’, International Conference on The Making of Religious Identities: Historical and Contemporary Themes, organized by the Centre for Comparative Religions and Civilizations, JMI, New Delhi, March 14-15, 2013.

20. ‘Minorityism or Minority Rights: Interrogating Post-Sachar Strategies of Intervention’, National Conference on Muslim Alienation: Manifestation and Challenges, Department of Sociology, JMI, New Delhi, November 17- 18, 2009.

21. ‘The question of Loyalty: Minorities and South Asian Nationalisms’, International conference on Identity Assertions and Conflicts in South Asia, Centre for Human Values and Ethics, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. 2-4 November 2015.

22. ‘Migrant, Home, and Politics’, National, State and Local Elections in India (2014-15): Analysis and Reflections, EECURI Network Conference, Sariska, Rajasthan. 18 -19 January 2016.

23. ‘Caste, Conversion and Anxieties of Nationhood: Revisiting Article 341’, National Conference on Discrimination, Difference and Legal Justice, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 3-4 February 2016.

24. ‘Caste, Conversion and Claims of Equality: Revisiting Article 341’, National Conference on Elusive Inequality: Mapping Social Hegemony in India, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad. 19-20 February 2016.

25. ‘Beyond Sensationalism: Media, Marginality and the Possibilities of ‘Just Peace’ , Media and Minorities: Text, Context and Discourse, Centre for culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, 13-14 October 2015.

26. ‘Rurbanization, Smart Villages, Cities and Minorities: A Research Study’, Delhi Policy Group, New Delhi. 1-2 December 2015.

27. ‘Revisiting Article 341: Caste, Conversion and Anxieties of Nationhood’, CSSS Colloquium, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU, 13 August 2015.

28. ‘Migrant,’ ‘Home’ and Politics: BihariLabour in the Metropolis’, International workshop on Other Citizens: Realignments of the People and the Political in the Long Twentieth Century, Centre for the Study of Social Sciences (CSSSC), Kolkata. March 9-10, 2016.

29. ‘Caste and Conversion: ‘GharWapsi’ in the Indian Courtrooms’, International Workshop on Religion and Law: Colonial and Post-Colonial Encounters, Centre for the Study of Comparative Religions and Civilizations, JamiaMilliaIslamia, 9-11 March 2016.

30. “Caste, Conversion and Anxieties of Nationhood: Revisiting Article 341”, National Conference on Discrimination, Difference and Legal Justice, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 3-4 February 2016

31. Development Indicators of Muslims in Bihar: An Overview’, Workshop on Muslim Youth in Bihar, Asian Development Research Institute, Patna, September 22-23, 2016.

32. ‘The Antinomies of Recognition: Trajectories of Pasmanda Muslim Movements’ paper presented in International Workshop on Political Economy of Cross-Class Alliances in India, CISLS, SSS, JNU, March 4-5, 2015.

33. ‘Post-1984 Nationhood and Identity Among Sikhs’, Paper Presented in the National Seminar on Guru Granth Sahib in 21^st Century: Traditions and Modernity, Guru Nanak DevKhalsa College, University of Delhi, 27^th February, 2015.

34. Deconstructing Article 341: Implications for a Theory of Justice, Paper presented in the Workshop on, Is There an Adequate Theory of Justice, IIAS, Simla, March 20 and 21, 2015

35. Minorityism or Minority Rights: Sachar Committee, Muslims and the question of Social Justice, National conference on Identity Politics in India, Department of History, Calcutta University, March 30, 2017.

36. Religion, Law and Justice: ‘Gharwapasi’ in the Indian Courts, National Conference on Towards Equality, Justice and Fraternity in Contemporary India: Creating a Better Tomorrow Through Law, Institute of Objective Studies and Aliah university, Kolkata, April 22-23, 2017.

37. ‘The ‘Missing’ Muslim Middle class: Structure, Identity and Mobility’, International Conference on State, Civil Society and India’s Religious Margins, CSSS, JNU, New Delhi, December 7-8, 2017.

38. The Mosque as a juristic person: Law, Public Order and Inter-religious disputes in India, ICAS: MP Inaugural Conference on Changing Contours of the Political, Organized by M.S Merion-Rabindranath Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies, Berlin, October 9-10, 2017.

39. ‘The Muslim Middle Class: Structure, Identity and Mobility’, 43^rd All India Sociological Conference on Neo-Liberalism, Consumption and Culture, Indian Sociological Society and Department of Sociology, University of Lucknow, 9-12 November, 2017.

40. ‘Does Islam Preach Terror?’, National Conference on Religious Identity, Pluralism and Peaceful Coexistence in India, , Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, JamiaMilliaIslamia, New Delhi, February 15, 2018.

42. ‘Muslim Middle Class in India: Structure, Identity and Patterns of Mobility’, International Seminar on India-South Korea Relations: Beyond Challenges and Limitations, Centre for East Asian Studies, SIS, JNU, Korean Institute for International Economics (KIEP) and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), January 24, 2018.

43. ‘Minorities and their Nationalisms: The terms of a Discourse in South Asia’, International Conference on Ethnicity and Minority: Debates and Discourses in Contemporary India, Al Beruni Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies, Maulana Azad Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad, March 15-16, 2018.

44. ‘“Truths” at War: Reading History of Violence through Riot Inquiry Commission Reports’, ICAS:MP International Workshop, Negotiating History Education in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, October 9-10, 2018.

LECTURES DELIVERED

1. ‘Theorizing Communal Violence’, Refresher Course in Political Science, Academic Staff College, JMI, New Delhi, November 26, 2013.

2. ‘Development Schemes for Minorities: Minorityism or Minority Rights’, Training Programme on Rights of Minorities, Action Aid India, held at Jim Corbett, Ramnagar, June 24-27, 2013.

3. ‘Minority Responses to Nationalism(s): Experiences from South Asia’, Public Lecture organized by Department of History, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA October 10, 2013.

4. ‘The Idea and Practice of Secularism’, Guest Lecture, Department of History, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA, October 3, 2013.

5. ‘Religion and Politics in South Asia’, Guest Lecture in the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA, October 9, 2013.

6. ‘Secularism and Multiculturalism in India’, International Summer School, Department of Political Science and Incredible India, JMI, New Delhi, July 10, 2013.

7. ‘The Association of Religion with Violence: Critical Reflections’, Refresher Course in Sociology, Academic Staff College and Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU, New Delhi, March 10, 2011.

8. ‘Interrogating Citizenship: Analysis of the Sachar Committee Report on the Status of Muslims’, Refresher Course in Political Science, Academic Staff College and Centre for Political Studies, JNU, New Delhi, April 9, 2009.

9. ‘Conflict Resolution and Protective Discrimination: Situating Muslims in the Reservation Discourse’, Refresher Course in Peace and Conflict Studies, Academic Staff College, JMI, April 18, 2007.

10. Panelist in symposium on Bihar Elections and the Future of Indian Democracy, Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. 9 November 2015.

11. Lectures on ‘Understanding Qualitative Research’, Research Methodology Workshop for Ph. D students in Social Sciences, The Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar. 13 March 2016.

‘Minorities and their Nationalisms in South Asia’, Lecture delivered at the Refresher Course in Sociology, UGC-ASC, JNU, September 25, 2014.
‘Religion, Peace and Violence: Critical Reflections’, lecture delivered in the workshop on Non-Violent Approaches to Development, NMCPCR, JamiaMilliaIslamia and Save the Children, November 20-21, 2014.
‘From Recognition to Redistribution: Muslims in the Development Discourse’, lecture delivered in the workshop on Non-Violent Approaches to Development, NMCPCR, JamiaMilliaIslamia and Save the Children, November 20-21, 2014.
‘Inter-religious Violence in India: A Theoretical Perspective’, Orientation Programme in Social Science Research, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi, March 11, 2015.

16. Discussant in the session on ‘Disability Rights and Advocacy’, as part of the international Conference on Disability Studies in India:Reflections on Future, CSSS, JNU, New Delhi, 6-7^thFebruary, 2015.

17. Panelist, Book release of Being Muslim in South Asia: Diversity and Daily Life (Jeffrey and Sen eds.), organized by Oxford University Press, Delhi and National University of Singapore, April 28, 2014.

18. ‘Question of Loyalty: Minorities and their Nationalisms in South Asia’, Extra Mural Lectures, Department of Sociology, Aligarh Muslim University, New Delhi, February 27, 2018.

19. ‘On the Nature of Reality: Positivism and its Critique’, Refresher Course on Methodology in Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, JamiaMilliaIslamia, March 7, 2018.

20. The Mosque as a Juristic Person: Law, Politics and Public Order, Thursday Colloquium, CSSS, JNU, October 12, 2017

21. Theories of Communalism, 45^th Refresher Course in Political Science and Law, HRDC-JNU, August 31, 2018.

22. ‘Minority Nationalism in South Asia’, International Summer School, July 17, 2018, (organized by Kautilya Council, New Delhi).

23. ‘Globalisation and Muslim Middle Class: Structure, Identity and Mobility, Department of Sociology’, AMU Aligarh, October 27, 2018.

24. ‘The Production of ‘Truth’ and the culture of Impunity: State Practices in Times of Collective Violence’, CSSS Colloquium, JNU, New Delhi, October 30, 2018.

Conferences/ Seminars organized:

‘Patterns of Mobilizations, Dynamics of Power: Bihar Elections 2015’, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU, 13 November 2015, (Partially funded by ICSSR Northern Region)
Co-Coordinator, Refresher Course in Sociology—‘Nation, space and Everyday State: New Frontiers in Political Sociology’, UGC-Academic Staff College, JNU, New Delhi, September 22 to October 17, 2014.
Co-Convenor, ‘National Seminar in Honour of Prof. Nandu Ram: Indian Society From the Margins’, March 18-19, 2015
Co-Convenor, International Conference on ‘State, Civil Society and Religious Margins’, Centre for Study of Social Systems, JNU, New Delhi, December 7 and 8, 2017.

Research Projects

1. Baseline Survey of North-East Delhi, ICSSR and Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India, 2008-2009.

2. Baseline Survey of Bhopal District, ICSSR and Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India, 2008-2009.

3. Muslims in India: Specific Vulnerabilities and Needs, Oxfam India, 2012.

4. Evaluation of SPQEM and IDMI, Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India.

5. UNDP Project on ‘Rurbanization, Smart Cities and Minorities: A Research Study’, Delhi Policy Group, 2016 (A study of the process of urbanization in 4 small and medium towns of India).

6. ‘Globalisation and Muslim Middle Class’, JNU-UPE, 2014 - 2019.

Membership of Committees

1. Ex-officio Member, Planning Commission’s Working Group on Empowerment of Minorities, 10^th Plan, 2006.

2. Member, Minority Committee constituted by the Vice Chancellor, JamiaMilliaIslamia to look into the implementation of PM’s 15-Point Program, 2010.

3. Member, Joint Appraisal Committee of MahilaSamakhyaProgramme, Department for International Development (DFID), Government of UK and Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India, 2006.

4. Member, International Editorial Advisory Board, South Asian History and Culture, published by Routledge, UK.

5. Member, Governing Body, Oxfam India, 2017— present.

6. Member, Committee of Courses, Department of Sociology, Gauhati University, Guwahati, 2017— present.

7. Member, Working Group on Social Justice and Empowerment, NitiAyog, Government of India, 2017—present.