Staff Profile

I lecture on core areas in Sociology, South Asian history, politics, and on ethnic minorities in Britain and Europe.

• Race and Ethnicity in Britain
• Gender Issues in Society
• Dissertation workshop
• Research and Evaluation

My research interest fall in the ethnicity, multiculturalism and managing diversity strand of research in the department.

• ‘Race’, ethnicity and multiculturalism
• Religion, ethnicity and nationalism
• Identity politics

Research Projects

• Muslim Community Cohesion’, for COMPAS, Oxford University 2006
• Conflict Resolution India-Pakistan under the Global Conflict Prevention Programme, FCO, conducted the review of Pakistan for the team 2003.
• Youth and Gender –Trans-national Identities and Islamophobia, Accompanying Measure proposal to the European Union FP5 – Improving the Socio Economic Knowledge Base Programme 2002.
• 'Community Perpetions of Forced Marriages' funded by Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 2001

Books

• With Gayen Pandey, Faultlines of Nationhood, Roli Press, New Delhi, 2007.
• With Kasturi Sen, Islam in the European Union: Muslim Youth and the War on Terror, Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2007. http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780195472516
• With John Eade, Community Perceptions of Forced Marriage FCO, pp 120, 2003. http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kfile/clureport.pdf.
• Fatal Attraction: Pakistan and the War on Terror, Hurst & Co, London, forthcoming.
• With John Eade, Community Perceptions of Forced Marriage FCO, pp120, 2003.
• With T. Ranger, and O. Stuart (eds.) Culture Identity and Politics: Ethnic Minorities in Britain, Avebury, Aldershot, pp. 156, 1996.
• A Nation in Turmoil: Nationalism and Ethnicity in Pakistan 1937-58, Sage, New Delhi, pp 232, 1995.

Edited journals

• 'Special Issue on Muslims in Europe', Innovation: European Journal of Social Science, 10(4), pp 98 1998

Articles

• 'Nuclear Pakistan: The Emergence of a Peace Movement', in 'The South Asian Bomb: Reality and Illusion' a special issue of Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars', Vol. 31, No 2/ April-June 1999.
• 'Media and Muslim Identity: Intersection of Generation and Gender', Innovation: European Journal of Social Science, 10(4), 1998.
• 'Reflections on Partition: A Pakistani Perspective', International Journal of Punjab Studies, 4(1), 1997 .
• J. Rex and Y. Samad, 'Multi-Culturalism and Political Integration in Birmingham and Bradford', Innovation: European Journal of Social Science, 9(1) pp 11-31 1996.
• 'Kashmir and the Imagining of Pakistan' Contemporary South Asia, 4(1) pp 65-77, 1995.
• 'Pakistan or Punjabistan: Crisis of National Identity' International Journal of Punjab Studies, 2(1) pp 23-42, 1995.
• 'Military and Democracy in Pakistan', Contemporary South Asia, 3(3) pp 189-201, 1994.
• Book Burning and Race Relations: Politicisation of Bradford Muslims, New Community, 18(4) pp 507-519, 1992.

Chapters in Books

• 'The Religious Right and Violence in Pakistan' in The Deadly Embrace: Religion, Violence and Politics in India and Pakistan ed by Ian Talbot, Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2006/7
• 'I giovani musulmani in gran Bretagna: dall' indentia etnica all' indentia regliosa' in Giovani Musulmani in Europa: Tipologie di Appartenenza Religiosa e Dinamiche Socio-culturali, edited by Jocelyne Cesari and Andrea Pacini, Centre Di Studi Relgiosi Comparati Edoardo Agnelli, Torino, 2005
• 'In and Out of Power but Not Down and Out: Mohajir Identity Politics' in Pakistan at 50, (ed.) Christophe Jaffrelot, Manohar, Delhi, and Zed Press, London, 2002.
• 'Reflections on Partition: Pakistan Perspective' in Region and Partition: Bengal, Punjab and the Partition of the Subcontinent' (eds.) Ian Talbot and Gurharpal Singh, Oxford University Press, Karachi, 1999.
• 'Le "Problème Mohajir' in Le Pakistan carrefour de tensions régionales, (ed.) Christophe Jaffrelot, Éditions Comlexe, Bruxelles, 1999.
• 'Imagining a British Muslim Identification' in Muslim European Youth: Reproducing Ethnicity, Religion Culture (ed.) S. Vertovec and A. Rogers, Ashgate, Aldershot, 1998.
• 'The Plural Guises of Multiculturalism: Conceptualising a fragmented Paradigm', in Politics of Multiculturalism, edited by T. Modood and P. Werbner, Zed Press, 1997.
• 'Pakistan or Punjabistan: Crisis of National Identity' Punjabi Identity: Continuity and Change (eds.) Gurharpal Singh and Ian Talbot, Manohar, New Delhi, 1996.
• 'The Politics of Islamic Identity among Bangladeshis and Pakistanis in Britain' in T. Ranger, Y. Samad, O. Stuart (ed.) Culture Identity and Politics: Ethnic Minorities in Britain, Avebury, 1996.
• 'Islam and Islamic Organizations in Germany' and 'Islam and Islamic Organizations in Britain' in Islam and Islamic Organizations: A World Reference Guide, (ed.) by F. Sheikh, Longman, pp 81-4, 261-6, 1992.

Conference Papers

• European Identity and Muslim Youth, Centre for European Studies, University of Bradford, April 2007
• Forced Marriage among Men: An unrecognized problem, Troubling Men: Identities, Diversities and Practice, Bradford University, April 2007.
• 'Visible Difference to Cultural Difference: Rise of Islamophobia, COMPAS, Oxford University, December 2006.
• 'India-Pakistan Peace Process” Institute for Defence studies and Analysis, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, April 2006
• 'Ethnicity and Nationalism in Pakistan' School of International Relations Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, April 2006.
• 'Emergence of Islamic Nationalism in Pakistan', Jammu University, April 2006
• 'Faultlines of Nationalism: Case of Pakistan', Department of Political science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,, New Delhi, April 2006.
• 'Minority Discourse to Majoritarianism: Evolution of Pakistan Nationalism', Nehru Memorial Library and Museum, New Delhi. April 2006.
• 'Muslim Youth in the European Union' School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,, New Delhi, April 2006.
• 'Debate on Muslims and Multiculturalism, Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford University 2005.
• ‘Minority Rights to a Majoritarian Discourse in Pakistan’ Cambridge July 2005.
• 'Muslims, Multiculturalism and Islamophobia', Centre for Area Studies, Osaka Museum of Ethnology, Japan, November 2005.
• ‘Jihadi Islam and Kashmir’ 17th European Conference for Modern South Asian Studies, Heidelberg, September 2002.
• ‘Democracy in Pakistan’ South Asia seminar, Cambridge November 2002.
• Gender, Generation and Multiculturalism’, in Governing Multicultural Societies: Comparative Lessons for Public Policy, University of Warwick, March 2002
• ‘Globalisation and identity politics in Pakistan’, workshop on Pakistan, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 13 July 2001.
• Discussant on 'The Muslim League', conferences on Political Parties in south Asia: Asianization of a Western Model?, University of Nottingham, 29 March-1st April 2001.

Supervised Students

• Mphil Social Action Programme in Pakistan
• Mphil The Contribution to Jihadist Ideology of Sayyid Abu Al-Mawdudi, Sayyid Qutb and Abdullah Azzam
• MPhil/PhD Media Consumption on Identity amongst the youth in the Pakistani Diaspora
• PhD Ethnic social group identity and multiculturalism: the case of Bradford
• MPhil Social Control and Higher Education in Libya

• Director: Ethnicity Social Policy Research Centre, http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/socsci/research/espr/
• Deputy Director of the South Asia Research Centre, Geneva, http://southasian-studies.net/index.html
• Member of the Expert Group on Humanities in the FP 7 Programme for the European Commission 2005-6 http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/pdf/egh_final_report_2007_en.pdf
• Vice-chairman of the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS), 1999-2003 http://www.staff.brad.ac.uk/akundu/basas/
• Executive Committee member of the European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS), 1997-2003
• Member of the advisory board of the Journal of Peace and Democracy in South Asia, 2003.
• Member of the editorial board of Contemporary South Asia, 1997-
• Member of the advisory board of South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal , 2007- http://samaj.revues.org/