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Ayesha Jalal is the Mary
Richardson Professor of History and the Director of the Center for South
Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at Tufts University.
Between 1998-2003 she was a MacArthur Fellow. She obtained her BA, majoring
in History and Political Science, from Wellesley
College, USA,
and her doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge.
Dr Jalal has been Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
(1980-84), Leverhulme Fellow at the Center of South Asian
Studies, Cambridge
(1984-87), Fellow of the Woodrow
Wilson Center
for International Scholars in Washington, DC (1985-86) and Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area
Studies (1988-90). She has taught at the University
of Wisconsin at Madison,
Tufts University,
Columbia University
and Harvard University. Her publications include
The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for
Pakistan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1985 and 1994); The State of Martial Rule: the
Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) and Democracy
and Authoritarianism in South Asia: a Comparative and Historical
Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1995) and Self
and Sovereignty: the Muslim Individual and the Community of Islam in South
Asia since c.1850 (Routledge, 2000;
Oxford University Press and Sang-e-Meel, 2001).
She has also co-edited Nationalism, Democracy and Development: State
and Politics in India (Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1997) and co-authored Modern South Asia:
History, Culture and Political Economy (Routledge
1998) with Sugata Bose which has been published
by Oxford University Press in India
and by Sang-e-Meel in Pakistan. Her most recent book
is Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia (Harvard
University Press, 2008). She is currently working on several projects,
including A Short History of Pakistan (Cambridge University
Press), Jinnah (Permanent Black and Indiana Press)
and is the general editor of the Oxford Companion of Pakistani
History.
     
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