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Sadia Mahmood

Sadia Mahmood

Visiting Scholar

Sadia Mahmood holds a PhD in Religious Studies from Arizona State University. Her research investigates religious difference and the production and governance of postcolonial minorities in South Asia. Grounded in fieldwork among Hindu communities in the Tharparkar region of Sindh and archival work in Pakistan and Bangladesh, her work examines the governance of minorities through legal and bureaucratic regimes in Pakistan, caste and identity politics along the Sindh-Rajasthan borderlands and Dalit strategies of assertion in Sindh. 

She also studies the enduring legacies of Evacuee and Enemy Property laws in Pakistan and their role in redefining belonging in postcolonial South Asia. Her recent article, “The Long Migration: Revisiting Postcolonial Minority/Refugee Crisis and Governance in East Pakistan” (South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2024), addresses governance struggles in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) within broader patterns of Communist suppression across Asia. 

Her research has been published in journals such as The Indian Economic & Social History Review, Journal of South Asia: South Asian Studies, and Journal of Sindhi Studies. She speaks Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi, and is proficient in Arabic.

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