Ayesha Jalal

Published Articles

'Letter to India: in Manto's Spirit', Economic and Political Weekly, November 8-15, 2002 [Pakistan Special]

‘Negotiating Colonial Modernity and Cultural Difference: Indian Muslim Conceptions of Community and Nation, c.1870-1914', in Leila Fawaz’s edited volume European Modernity and Cultural Difference from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean 1890s-1920s (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001)

‘South Asia’, The Encyclopedia of Nationalism, Academic Press, 2000

‘Nation-States of South Asia’, Encyclopedia of Britannica

'Kashmir: the Deepening Scars', The News, February 2000

'On the Wrong Side of History? U.S-Pakistan Relations in the 21st Century', Dawn, May 2-4, 2000

'Identity Crisis: Rethinking the Politics of Community and Region in South Asia', Harvard International Review, Summer 1999, vol.xxi, no.3

‘Pakistan’s Tangle: Conflicting Security and Economic Interests’, Government and Opposition, Winter, 1999

‘Nation, Reason and Religion: Punjab’s Role in the Partition of India’, Economic and Political Weekly, August 8, 1998 (G.M.Trevelyan Seminar, University of Cambridge)

'Exploding Communalism: the Politics of Muslim Identity in South Asia', in Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal (eds.), Nationalism, Democracy and Development: State and Politics in India, (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997)

‘Ideology and the Struggle for Democratic Institutions’ in Victoria Schofiield (ed.), Fifty Years of Pakistan, (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1997)

'Women's Rights and Civil Society in Pakistan’, Democratic Rights of Women in Pakistan Conference Report, (Montreal: Centre d'etudes et de ressources sur l'Asie du Sud, 1996)

'Conjuring Pakistan: History as Official Imagining', International Journal of Middle East Studies, February 1995 (conference on Nationalizing the Past sponsored by SSRC, Goa, India, May 1993)

'The State and Political Privilege in Pakistan', Myron Weiner and Ali Banuazizi (eds.), The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan,(Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994)

'Pakistan', in Joel Kreiger (ed.), Oxford Companion of World Politics, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)

'The Convenience of Subservience: Women and the State of Pakistan', Deniz Kandiyoti (ed.), Women, Islam and the State, (London: Macmillan, 1991)

'Kashmir Scars: A Terrible Beauty is Torn', The New Republic, 23 July 1990

'State-Building in the Post-War World: Britain's Colonial Legacy, American Futures and Pakistan', Sugata Bose (ed.), South Asia and World Capitalism, (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990)

Pakistan: A Dialogue between History and Politics, Manzur Qadir Memorial Lecture, Lahore, December 1989

'Towards the Baghdad Pact: South Asia and Middle East Defence in the Cold War', The International History Review, XI:3, (August 1989)

'The Politics of a Constitutional Crisis: Pakistan, April 1953-May 1955', Anthony Low (ed.), Constitutional Heads and Political Crises in the Commonwealth since World War II, (London: Macmillan, 1988)

'Pakistan: 1947-1985', Ainslee T.Embree (ed.), Encyclopedia of Asian History, 1988

'India's Partition and the Defence of Pakistan: an Historical Perspective', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, (May, 1987)

'Inheriting the Raj: Jinnah and the Governor-Generalship Issue', Modern Asian Studies, 19 (1985)

'Alternative to Partition: Muslim Politics Between the Wars' with A. Seal in C.J. Baker, G. Johnson and A.Seal (eds.), Power, Profit and Politics, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)

Review Articles:

'Secularists, Subalterns and the Stigma of Communalism', Modern Asian Studies, (March, 1996)

'Post-Orientalist Blues: Cultural Fusions and Confusions', Indian Economic and Social History Review, (January, 1990)

'Pakistan's Predicament', Third World Quarterly, (July, 1989)

'Azad, Jinnah and the Partition', Economic and Political Weekly, (May 27, 1989)