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South Asia, Sindh, Sindhis, British empire, partitions, refugees, refugee regimes, and citizenship
Uttara Shahani
Uttara Shahani is a historian. She has research interests in the history of modern South Asia, the British Empire, colonialism, partitions, refugee regimes, Sindh, and the Sindh diaspora.
Uttara qualified as a lawyer before completing a PhD on Sindh and the partition of India and an ESRC funded postdoctoral research fellowship at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Prior to her appointment as a Departmental Lecturer, she was a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr Anne Irfan at the Refugee Studies Centre on the British Academy-funded research project Borders, global governance and the refugee, examining the historical origins of the global refugee regime with a focus on South Asia and Palestine.
Uttara teaches on the postcolonial borders and forced migration and research methods courses for the MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.
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Journal articles and special issues( ) Following Richard Burton: Religious Identity and Difference in Colonial Sindh . Philological Encounters
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Other publications( ) Refugee Legal Challenges to the Bombay Government's Land Requisition Housing Scheme . Economic and Political Weekly 73-79