The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: Vazira F-Y Zamindar

Overview | Grants/Awards | Teaching | Publications

Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar is interested in cross-border and interdisciplinary histories for rethinking a divided South Asia, as well as the politics of violence and its impact on history-writing itself. Her first book, The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories, was published by Columbia University Press in 2007, and Indian and Pakistani editions of the book came out in 2008. At present she is working on a second book on the history of archaeology and war on the northwest frontier of British India, on the borderlands with Afghanistan.

Zamindar moved from the Netherlands to Brown in 2006, and teaches courses in the history of colonialism and nationalism in South Asia, including the Partition of 1947 and Gandhi.

Download Vazira F-Y Zamindar's Curriculum Vitae in PDF Format

VAZIRA F-Y ZAMINDAR
Associate Professor of History
History
Phone: +1 401 863 9118
E-mail: vfyz@brown.edu

Vazira F-Y Zamindar's Brown Research URL:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Vazira_F-Y_Zamindar

On The Web:
The Long Partition (Pakistani edition)
The Long Partition (Indian edition)
The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia
Review in London Review of Books
Times of India Article for Aman ki Aasha

Collaborators at other institutions:
N/A

Are you Vazira F-Y Zamindar? Click here to edit your research profile.

Back to search page

Back to search results

Research at Brown: The Directory of Research and Researchers: Research Profile