Curriculum Vitae. Arshad Alam Assistant Professor Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies Jamia Millia Islamia DOB:

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1 Curriculum Vitae Arshad Alam Assistant Professor Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies Jamia Millia Islamia DOB: Qualifications PhD on The Reproduction of Islamic Education: A Study of Two Madrasas of Mubarakpur, Uttar Pradesh from Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University MPhil on State, Community and Ideology: Locating Contemporary Madrasas from Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Cumulative grade point: Masters in Sociology from Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Cumulative grade point: Graduation in Sociology from Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. First Class (66.7%) Intermediate in Science, Gaya College, Gaya. First Class Matriculation, Zila School, Gaya. First Class Teaching Experience Six years in the capacity of Assistant Professor at the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies since December Courses Taught: Issues and Methods in Interdisciplinary Social Science Research (Semester I) Contemporary Indian Society and Culture (Semester II) The State of Muslims in India (Semester II- Seminar Course) Research Supervision PhD Current: 02 MPhil Awarded: Education and Social Change Among Muslims in North India (2010) 2. Dalit Access to Education in Sitamarhi, Bihar (2009) 3. Male Child Sex Work: An Exploration of Sexual Exploitation in Kerala (2009) 4. Muslim Women and Education: A Study of Haldoni Village, U.P (2010) 5. Women and Politics: A Study of Muslim Women Participation in Parliamentary Politics Since Independence (2010) 6. Muslim Images in Hindi Print Media (2011) 7. Muslims In Murshidabad: A Community Study (2011) 8. Interrogating Theoretical Discourse on Minority Rights with Special Reference to Pasmanda Muslims in North India (2011) Current: 02 1

2 Publications Books Inside a Madrasa: Knowledge, Power and Islamic Identity in India. New Delhi: Routledge Articles in Journals Ansaris, Deobandis, Barelwis: Contextualizing Muslim Identity in Uttar Pradesh in Economic and Political Weekly, 44: Challenging the Ashrafs: The Politics of Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz in Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 29: The Enemy Within: Madrasas and Muslim Identity in North India in Modern Asian Studies, 42: New Directions in Indian Muslim Politics: The Agenda of All India Muslim Pasmanda Mahaz in Contemporary Perspectives: History and Sociology of South Asia, 1: Beyond Rhetoric: Understanding Contemporary Madrasas in Islam and Muslim Society, 2: Science in Madrasa in Economic and Political Weekly, 40: Understanding Madrasas in Economic and Political Weekly, 38:22 Articles in Edited Volumes Making Muslims: Identity and Difference in Indian Madrasas in Jamal Malik (Ed): Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching Terror? London: Routledge From Custom to Scripture: Observation on the Direction of Indian Islam in Mushirul Hasan (Ed): Living With Secularism; the Destiny of India s Muslims. New Delhi: Manohar (Reprint) Beyond Rhetoric: Understanding Contemporary Madrasas in Tahir Mahmood (Ed): Politics of Minority Educational Institutions; Law and Reality in the Subcontinent. Gurgaon: ImprintOne Understanding Deoband Locally: Interrogating Madrasa Dhiya al Ulum, in Jan Peter Hartung and Helmut Reifeld (Ed): Islamic Education, Diversity and National Identity; Dini Madaris in India Post 9/11. New Delhi: Sage Book Reviews 2010 (November-December). Islam in South Asia: In Practice edited by Barbara Metcalf in Biblio: A Review of Books 2010 (August). Raziuddin Aquil s In the Name of Allah: Understanding Islam and Indian History and Marc van Grondelle s The Ismailis in the Colonial Era: Modernity, Empire and Islam, in The Book Review 2010 (January). Sadanand Dhume s My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist in The Book Review 2008 (June). Harlan O Pearson s Islamic Reform and Revival in Nineteenth Century India: The Tariqah-i Muhammadiya in Biblio: A Review of Books Usha Sanyal s In the Path of the Prophet; Deitreech Reetz s Muslim Groups in India reviewed in Contemporary Perspectives: History and Sociology of South Asia, 1: (June). Muhammad Qasim Zaman s Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change in The Book Review Derek Robbins Bourdieu and Culture reviewed in Sociological Bulletin, 50: 1-2 2

3 Other Publications Contributor to Introducing Sociology (Textbook for Class XI), NCERT: New Delhi, 2005 Have been published in leading national newspapers like The Hindu, The Times of India, The Pioneer and magazines like Hardnews. Have been a regular contributor on Paper Presentations National Seminars/Conferences/Workshops Minority Rights or Minorityzation: Madrasas and Right to Education in India, paper presented at seminar on Minority Rights: Vision and Reality organized by Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University, November 14 th -15 th Invited to participate in a Workshop on Academic Program organized by the Programme for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, October 31 st Understanding Muslim Access to Education: Some Reflections, paper presented at the annual conference of Comparative Education Society of India (CESI), hosted by Zakir Husain Center for Educational Studies, JNU, November Including to Exclude?, paper presented at National Conference on Exclusionary Perspectives for Muslims and Marginalized Groups organized by Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, th February Re-reading Sachar Committee Report paper presented at National Seminar on Education Policy and Practice in India: Emerging Scenarios organized by Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, th March Invited to participate in a workshop on Understanding Social Exclusion: Concepts, Methods and Issues organized by the Programme for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, th February The Widening Divide: Islamic Reform and its Discontents, paper presented at National Seminar on Violence, Justice and Reconciliation: Communalism in Our Times organized by Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, 22 nd February Ansaris, Deobandis, Barelwis: Islam and Muslim Identity in Mubarakpur, paper presented at National Seminar on Frontiers of Embedded Muslim Communities in India: Domestic and Public Spheres, organized by Central University of Hyderabad, 7-9 th February On Islam and Muslim Identity in North India, paper presented at National Seminar on Islam, Identity and Politics organized by JBAS Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Madras on 5 th March The State of OBC Muslims with special reference to Sachar Committee Report, paper presented at the seminar Religious Communities and Development organized by Centre for Political Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, th March Questioning the Ashraf Hegemony: The Political Agenda of All Indian Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz, paper presented at National Seminar on Protective Discrimination in Favour of Muslims: Possibilities and Challenges, held at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, February Attended and chaired a workshop session on Conferment of SC Status on Muslim and Christians Dalits, organized by Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, August

4 2006. Making Muslims: Identity and Difference in Indian Madrasas presented at the National Seminar on Sociology of Education in India: Looking Back, Looking Ahead organized by Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, March Locating Power in Education presented at the Indian Sociological Congress organized by Department of Sociology, Aligarh Muslim University at Aligarh International Seminars/Conferences/Workshops We are Reformists Too! : Discussing Islamic Reform in a Barelwi Qasba presented at the International Symposium cum Conference on Tradition, Reform and Revival in Muslim Societies: Multiple Readings, organized by Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, January 16 th -18 th At the Intersection of Religion, Education and Law: The Case of Islamic Madrasas in India presented at the Workshop on Global Trends in Law and Religion in the 21 st Century, School of Law, University of Lucerne, Switzerland, November 18 th -19 th The Making of a Madrasa: Religion, Caste and Politics in a North Indian Qasba, presented at International Seminar on Negotiating and Accommodating Religious Identity in Public Arena: Comparing Indian and European Experiences with Special Reference to Muslim Minorities, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, February Islamic Reform in a North Indian Qasba; the Case of Muabarakpur, presented at International Seminar on Islamic Reform in South Asia, SOAS, London, May Making Maslak: Constructing Identity in a Barelwi Madrasa, presented at International Workshop on Islamic Learning in South Asia, University of Erfurt, Germany, May Islam s Other in India: Expectations from caste in Indian Muslim Politics, presented at International Seminar on Indian Society: Continuity and Change, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, January Contemporary Indian Islam: Denominational Plurality; Religious Insularity? paper presented at European Association for South and South East Asian Studies Conference at University of Lund, Sweden, July Lectures History and Sociology of Madrasas in India at the Department of Sociology, Hyderabad Central University, 24 th February What Does the Sachar Committee Report Really Say at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU, 4 th November The Problem of Muslim Education at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, JNU, 28 th September How to Understand Madrasas at the R K Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minority Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, 21 st September Organizational Current: Assistant Editor, History and Sociology of South Asia (A bi-annual peer reviewed journal of the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, published by Sage: New Delhi) One of the Organizers of Inter-Disciplinary Discussion Group (IDDG), a forum for MPhil/PhD students of Jamia Millia to present and discuss their research 4

5 Faculty co-ordinator of Subject Association of the Centre Scholarships/Fellowships US Department of State funding for attending a six week institute on Religious Pluralism in the US, hosted by University of California, Santa Barbara, 20 th June to 3 rd August, 2009 Ford Foundation Fellowship from 2003 to 2005 UGC- Junior Research Fellowship from 1998 to 2002 Correspondence Arshad Alam Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies Noam Chomsky Complex Jamia Millia Islamia Jamia Nagar New Delhi