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Dr. Ghulam Hussain Sufi

ID: P-7210-2018

ORICD id: 0000-0002-9538-1840

Current Affiliation
Assistant Professor: Bahria University, Islamabad
Research Fellow: Institute of Policy Studies Islamabad: research and consultancy on
Islamophobia, Hindutva, Dalit activism, forced marriages, forced
conversions, electoral systems, participatory democracy and academic
translations (Jan 2020-present).
Visiting Faculty: Department of Anthropology, and School of Political Science and
International Relations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. 2019-
2022
[email protected]
[email protected] Former Affiliation
Cell: +92-336-3589481 Visiting Faculty: a) Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad, (2019).
Sex: Male/ He b) University of Sindh, Bhitt Shah Campus, (2014).
Date of birth: 29/03/1978 Consultant: a) The Research Initiative (TRI) on electoral systems, participatory democracy,
forced conversions and academic translations.
CNIC:43203-7736752-1
b) Indus Cottage Libraries Network (ICLN). Locating prospective libraries.
Nationality: Pakistani

Language: English, Urdu, Sindhi,

Hindi, Siraiki

EXPERIENCE (Starting from the Current Position)

Institution/Organization Position/Job Title From To Total
Period (in
D/M/Y D/M/Y Years/Mon
ths)

Bahria University, Islamabad Assistant Professor 10-01-2022 Till today

Institute of Policy Studies, Research Fellow 01-11-2019 10-01-2022 2 years, 11 months (Full
Islamabad time)

Quaid-i-Azam University (School of Visiting 20-09-2019 23-09-2022 3 years (Part time)

Political Science & IR, Dept. of Faculty/Lecturer
Anthropology, Dept. of Biology)

Bielefeld University, Germany Research Fellow 01-10-2016 30-09-2018 2 years (Full time)

Pakistan Institute of Development Visiting 05-6-2019 10-01-2019 6 months (Part time)

Economics Faculty/Lecturer

The Research Initiative Research Assistant 01-01-2018 01-10-2019 1 year 10 months (Full
time)

Hanns Seidel Foundation Research Fellow 09-08-2012 09-30-2013 1 year (Full time)

University of Sindh Visiting 02-02-2012 01-02-2013 1 year (part time)

Faculty/Lecturer

Total Field, teaching and research experience (as Full Time/Permanent Job) in Years/Months 8 years and 9 months

Publication Metrics

GOOGLE H-INDEX PUBLICATIONS WEB OF SCIENCE WEB OF SCIENCE

CITATIONS PUBLICATIONS CITATIONS

67 4 13 7 28
Verified Reviews:
(1) Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Journal of American Psychological Association. (Impact
Factor 2.329) 4 reviews
(2) Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (Impact Factor 2.564) 1 review
(3) Reproductive Health Matters (Impact Factor 1.421) 2 reviews
(4) Critical Sociology (Impact Factor 1.8) 1review
(5) American Ethnologist (Impact Factor 1.906) 1review
(6) International Social Science Journal (IF 0.4)
(7) Policy Perspectives (2 reviews)

Academic Degrees/Courses
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2022 PhD Thesis (Anthropology) “Identity Politics in Pakistan: An Ethnographic Study of Dalit Activism in Sindh”,
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

M.Phil. (Anthropology) CGPA 4.00/5.00 (Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad).

2014
Monograph titled “Peasant Identities and Activism: Creating Space for Marginalized” as a part of the M.Phil thesis
2012 and a project on “Ideas, Issues, and Questions of Nation-Building in Pakistan” of Hanns Seidel Foundation,
Pakistan.

2012 M.A. (Sociology) CGPA 3.96/4.00 (University of Sindh, Jamshoro).

Awards and Scholarships

1. DAAD fellowship (2018)

2. Indigenous Ph.D. scholarship (2013-2017)
3. Research scholarship, Hanns Seidel Foundation, Pakistan (2012-2013) Publications

1. Ethno-nationality of Caste in Pakistan: Privileged Caste Morality in Sindhi Progressive Literature and Politics. Critical
Sociology. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/0029096198396190. (Impact Factor 1.8)
2. Understanding Hegemony of Caste in Political Sufism and Islam in Sindh, Pakistan. Journal of Asian and African
Studies. 2019 (54)4. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909619839430. (Impact Factor 0.8).
3. ’Dalits are in India, not in Pakistan’: Exploring the Discursive Bases of the Denial of Dalitness under the Ashrafia
Hegemony. Journal of Asian and African Studies. 2019. (Impact Factor 0.8).
https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909619863455.
4. ‘Politics of Metaphors: Traces of Casteism, Fatalism and Patriarchy in Shah Abdul Latif’. Postcolonial Studies. 2021
https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2021.1923154. (Impact Factor 0.92).
5. Appropriation of Caste Spaces in Pakistan: The Theo-Politics of Short Stories in Sindhi Progressive Literature. Religions
2019, 10, 627. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10110627.
6. Politics of Sufism in Pakistan Contemporary Relevance of Shah Abdul Latif as an Icon of Sufi Sindh. DOI:
10.1558/ROSA.21249. 2022
7. Historiography of Caste: The Notion of the ‘Declassed’Castes in Michel Boivin’s ‘Sufi Paradigm’. Contemporary Voice
of Dalit, https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X211063069.
8. Legitimacies of caste positions in Pakistan: Resolving ‘upper caste’ dilemma in shared space of knowledge production
and emancipation. Panjab University Research Journal, 2018. Volume XLV, No.1.
9. The Practice of Unpaid Labour (Begar) in Sindh Rice Belt: Looking for the Evidence of Exploitation in Sharecropping
Arrangements. (2014) Grassroots, 2014. 4(1), 22-32.
10. Ghulam Hussain (2022) The Myth of Sufi Sindh: Reflections on the Orientalist and Nationalist Historiography,
Interventions, DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2157310
.
Essay in Encyclopedia

10. Bhil (of Pakistan). Published in Brill's Encyclopedia of the Religions of the Indigenous People of South Asia Online. DOI:
10.1163/2665-9093_BERO_COM_033485

Book (in progress)

11. Caste Question in Pakistan
12. Embracing Islam in Pakistan

Ethnographic translations/ essays (selected)

13. ‘The Man Smriti Mafia Still Haunts Us’: A Speech by a Pakistani Dalit Rights Leader’, (Translation) Roundtable India,
2017. https://roundtableindia.co.in.
14. ‘Dr Khatumal Jeewan on the Rise of Meghwars in local politics of lower Sindh’, (Translation) Roundtable India, 2017.
https://roundtableindia.co.in .
15. ‘Journey of a Dalit Corpse’ by Ganpat Rai (Translation) Roundtable
India, November, 29, 2017. https://roundtableindia.co.in.

Conference Presentations/Proceedings (selected)

1. ‘Caste Politics and anti-caste Dalit assertions in Sindh’ in RINDAS International Conference on 3rd of Feb. 2017, held
in Kyoto, Japan.
2. ‘Anti-caste Dalit assertions in Sindh’ in the 5th International Conference in Jyvaskyla, Finland, on 20–22 June 2017.
3. The post-Partition migration in the borderlands of Sindh, in Borderland Ethics and Borderline
4. ‘Sayedism and casteism in Sindh: Possibilities of Dalit emancipation’ presented at the 25th European Conference on
South Asian Studies (ECSAS2018) held in Paris from July 24 to July 27, 2018.
5. Hindutva: Views of a Dalit Activist, co-authored with Dr. Sono Khangarani (Dalit activist) at the International
Conference Hindutva Policies and the State of Minorities in India'. The seminar was organized by the Institute of Policy
Studies (IPS), Islamabad, on February 19, 2019. URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ5xJ62TGUI&feature=youtu.be.
6. Biopolitics of the frontiers: Investigating the identity shift among Parkari Communities during and after 1971 Indo-Pak
War at The Familiar Stranger: Exploring Sindh- Gujarat (Dis) connections SOAS South Asia Institute, SOAS University
of London held on Friday 18th of January and Saturday 19th 2019.
7. Communities in Cholistan, organized by Islamia University Bahawalpur, on 2022-06-08.
https://www.ips.org.pk.
8. Anthropology of Activism: Engaging with the Narrative of Forced Conversion in Pakistan. Watson Institute for
International and Public Affairs. Brown University, USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HANjmoZEYg&t=1656s.
9. Presentation at Brown University, USA on
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10. ‘Environmental Justice and Community Empowerment: Case-study of Kolhi-peasant community of Sindh. Khairpur.
Shah Abdul Latif University. International Conference on Environmental Issues of Sindh and Remedies (ICEISR), Shah
Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan; 04/2014.
11. Indigenous People’s Festival-2020, the proposal suggested and prepared by was approved on Sept: 16, 2019 by Minister
of Culture & Tourism Department, Government of Sindh.
12. ‘Parkari and Katchchi Kolhi Migration: An assessment of Socio-political Impact of migration on Kolhi community of
Barrage-irrigated area of lower Sindh. (67-68), Final Report of the International Conference on ‘Migration, Education
and Development in South Asia’. Islamabad: Department of Anthropology, Quaid-i-Azam University; 03/2014.

Workshops, Conferences, Webinars: Assistance in conception and organization (selected)

1. Webinar 'South Asia, Neo-Communal Settings and Implications for Social Democracy’, held on Friday, 21 August,
2020. https://www.youtube.com.
2. Research Methodology: Theory and Practice in Activist Policy Research’ organized by Karachi University and Institute
of Policy Studies, Islamabad on 2022-07-01. https://www.ips.org.pk.
3. International Conference on ‘Migration, Education and Development in South Asia’. Islamabad: Department of
Anthropology, Quaid-i-Azam University from 28th to 30th of March 2014, an international workshop funded by Hanns
Seidel Foundation.
4. International Workshop “Reviewing Governance and Nation-Building in Pakistan” held during 28 to 29.03.2014, DSS
Auditorium, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
5. First International Workshop ‘Reviewing Identity and Nation-Building’ 15th-16th March 2013, DSS Auditorium,
Quaidi-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan organized by: National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Department of
History and DAAD Long Term Guest Professorship at Quaid-i-Azam University with support from Hanns-Seidel-
Foundation, Pakistan Office.

Referees
1. Professor Dilip Menon
Director, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa and Mellon Chair in Indian Studies, City of
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Email: [email protected]
2. Dr.Sumeet Mhaskar
Professor & Associate Dean (Student Affairs), Jindal School of Government and Public Policy,
India
Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]
3. Dr. Dag Erik Berg
Associate Professor at Høgskolen i Molde, Britvegen 2, Molde, Norway.
Email: [email protected] ; [email protected]
4. Prof (dr.) Ronki Ram
Fellow & Dean (Arts Faculty)
Shaheed Bhagat Singh Chair Professor of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160 014,
India
E-mail: [email protected]