Curriculum Vitae Arshad Alam Assistant Professor Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies Jamia Millia Islamia DOB: 30.06.1974 alam.arshad@gmail.com Qualifications 2009. 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 2000. MPhil on State, Community and Ideology: Locating Contemporary Madrasas from Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Cumulative grade point: 7.25 1998. Masters in Sociology from Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Cumulative grade point: 7.06 1995. Graduation in Sociology from Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. First Class (66.7%) 1991. Intermediate in Science, Gaya College, Gaya. First Class 1989. 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 2005. 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: 08 1. 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
Publications Books 2011. Inside a Madrasa: Knowledge, Power and Islamic Identity in India. New Delhi: Routledge Articles in Journals 2009. Ansaris, Deobandis, Barelwis: Contextualizing Muslim Identity in Uttar Pradesh in Economic and Political Weekly, 44:24 2009. Challenging the Ashrafs: The Politics of Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz in Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 29:2 2008. The Enemy Within: Madrasas and Muslim Identity in North India in Modern Asian Studies, 42: 2-3 2007. New Directions in Indian Muslim Politics: The Agenda of All India Muslim Pasmanda Mahaz in Contemporary Perspectives: History and Sociology of South Asia, 1: 2 2006. Beyond Rhetoric: Understanding Contemporary Madrasas in Islam and Muslim Society, 2:2 2005. Science in Madrasa in Economic and Political Weekly, 40:18 2003. Understanding Madrasas in Economic and Political Weekly, 38:22 Articles in Edited Volumes 2008. Making Muslims: Identity and Difference in Indian Madrasas in Jamal Malik (Ed): Madrasas in South Asia: Teaching Terror? London: Routledge 2007. 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 2007. (Reprint) Beyond Rhetoric: Understanding Contemporary Madrasas in Tahir Mahmood (Ed): Politics of Minority Educational Institutions; Law and Reality in the Subcontinent. Gurgaon: ImprintOne 2006. 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, 1839-1969 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 2006. 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, 1:1 2006 (June). Muhammad Qasim Zaman s Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change in The Book Review 2001. Derek Robbins Bourdieu and Culture reviewed in Sociological Bulletin, 50: 1-2 2
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 www.outlookindia.com Paper Presentations National Seminars/Conferences/Workshops 2011. 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 2011. 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 2010. 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 15-17 2010. 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, 22-24 th February 2009. 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, 13-14 th March 2009. 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, 26-28 th February 2008. 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 2008. 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 2007. 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 2007. 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, 26-27 th March 2007. 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, 10-11 February 2006. 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 18-19 3
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 9-10 1998. Locating Power in Education presented at the Indian Sociological Congress organized by Department of Sociology, Aligarh Muslim University at Aligarh International Seminars/Conferences/Workshops 2012. 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 2011. 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 2010. 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 10-12 2005. Islamic Reform in a North Indian Qasba; the Case of Muabarakpur, presented at International Seminar on Islamic Reform in South Asia, SOAS, London, May 26-27 2005. Making Maslak: Constructing Identity in a Barelwi Madrasa, presented at International Workshop on Islamic Learning in South Asia, University of Erfurt, Germany, May 19-21 2005. 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 2004. 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 2010. History and Sociology of Madrasas in India at the Department of Sociology, Hyderabad Central University, 24 th February 2009. What Does the Sachar Committee Report Really Say at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU, 4 th November 2007. The Problem of Muslim Education at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, JNU, 28 th September 2006. 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
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- 110 025 5