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(1978) from Wellesley College, and a Ph.D. (1983) from Trinity College, University of Cambridge. U.S.-Pakistan Relations in the 21st Century," Dawn (2000) Jalal has co-authored "Modern South Asia: History, Culture and Political Economy" with Sugata Bose.
Jalal received a B.A. "Between Myth and History." Jalal's work explores the creation of the Pakistani state, its struggle to become a democracy, Indian-Pakistani relations, and the current changes in Muslim identity in the face of modernity and globalization. In particular, Dr. Ayesha Jalal focuses on the role of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the leader of the AllIndia Muslim League, and the main proponent of the ‘twonation’ theory on which the demand for ‘Pakistan’ was based. Historian Ayesha Jalal says Britain could have done more to prevent the violence that followed the partition in 1947. Jalal has been Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1980-1984); Leverhulme Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge (1984-1987); Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C. (1985-1986); and Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (1988-1990). DR Ayesha Jalal is widely recognised, both nationally and internationally, as a pre-eminent historian for South Asia in general, and Pakistan in particular. After majoring in history and political science at Wellesley College, she obtained her doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge.
Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University. The Fletcher School "'History of Pakistan', revised and updated essay for South Asia 2014, London, Europa Publications'Egypt can Learn from Pakistan's Fallacy', The BRICS Post, July 29, 2013'Resisting Dictatorship: Counter-Narratives in Military Dominated Pakistan' in Translocal: Miniaturist Practice out of Pakistan, Tufts University, 2013"India, Pakistan, and the New Order," National Review (August 2004)The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014)The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times and Work Across the India Pakistan Divide, The Lawrence Stone Lectures April 2011,(Princeton University Press, 2013)Reader for Modern South Asia - companion volume to Modern South Asia (co-author) (in preparation)Manto, joint editor with Nusrat Jalal for this Bilingual (Urdu and English) commemorative volume on Saadat Hasan Manto's birth centenary, Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2012)Oxford Companion to Pakistani History, editor, (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2012)Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since c. 1850s (2000)"South Asian Nationalism," The Encyclopedia of Nationalism (2000)Modern South Asia: History, Culture and Political Economy (third edition, co-author) (in preparation)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 PerspectiveThe 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)Reader for Modern South Asia (companion volume to Modern South Asia based on selections from primary sources) with Sugata Bose (Routledge) (In Preparation)An Uncertain Trajectory: Islam's Contemporary Globalization, 1971-1979' in The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, edited by Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel Sargent (forthcoming)"Methodologies and Sources for Studying Pakistani Women," Encyclopedia for Women and Islamic Cultures (forthcoming)Masters of Mutilation, India Today, August 22, 2009Jalal, Ayesha.
Her first book, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan (1985), revised the accepted account of the role played by Jinnah and the Muslim League in the creation of an independent Pakistan in 1947. Committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world
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"On the Wrong Side of History? Jalal’s second book, The State and Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan’s Political Economy of Defense (1990), examines the construction of the early Pakistani state from 1947 to 1965. Connect with us on social media or view all of our
Tufts University Photography hide caption toggle caption She is also the author of Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical Perspective (1995) and Self and Sovereignty: The Muslim Individual and the Community of Islam in South Asia Since 1850 (2000) and the co-author of Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (2004).
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A Graduate School of International Affairs Jalal's work explores the creation of the Pakistani state, its struggle to become a democracy, Indian-Pakistani relations, and the current changes in Muslim identity in the face of modernity and globalization.