Professor Sarah Ansari
Royal Holloway, University of London
Expertise on
Countries: Pakistan
Policy Areas & Themes: History, Politics, Migration, Gender, Religion
Bio
Sarah Ansari is a historian with expertise on places that today constitute Pakistan, in particular the province of Sindh and its major port-city Karachi.
Sarah can advise on social and political developments at national level (in particular relating to Pakistan) and regional/international levels, and more broadly on intersections between domestic and foreign policy.
special research expertise on
Regional colonial history and its ongoing legacies.
Migration and demographic change in the region.
Religion and politics in the region.
Gender and politics in the region.
Legacies of the 1947 Partition, both in the region and for South Asia-heritage communities in the UK.
Engagement experience includes
Working on British Council projects in Pakistan.
Chairing the Charles Wallace (Pakistan) Trust.
Providing expert witness evidence in cases relating to e.g. the position of minorities in present-day Pakistan.
Working with campaigns in the UK to raise awareness of the significance of the 1947 Partition of colonial-era India.
Read a sample of Sarah’s research outputs
Boundaries of Belonging: Localities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan (co-authored with William Gould (book)
‘A way of life rather than an ideology?’: Sufism, pirs and the politics of identity in Sindh’ (book chapter)
‘Subjects or Citizens? India, Pakistan and the 1948 British Nationality Act’ (journal article)
‘Polygamy, Purdah and Political Representation: Engendering citizenship in 1950s Pakistan’ (journal article)
