1995–96, he was a Fulbright fellow (USA).He has also been Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford. He has been Academic Visitor at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and is Ordinary Member of Common Room (subject to rules) at the same college. In September 2014 he was appointed as the Dean of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences in the same university and he continues to serve at this position to date. He joined the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan in 2011 as Dean of the School of Education. Rahman was made distinguished national professor for life in 2004 and a tenured professor in 2007. In 1990, he joined the National Institute of Pakistan Studies. In 1989, he also got an M.Litt in linguistics from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. In 1987, he became professor and head of the English Department in the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir in Muzaffarabad where he introduced the subject of linguistics. Tariq Rahman joined the academia as an associate professor in the English Department of Peshawar University in 1985. Later he left the path of literature as his main interest was in social sciences. In 1979, he won a British Council scholarship, which later enabled him to obtain master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Sheffield in England in 1985. Meanwhile, he had obtained three master's degrees as a private candidate. This was recognised by the Government of Bangladesh which conferred upon him a civil award on 1 October 2013 in Dhaka. He finally resigned his commission in 1978. However, he decided to leave the army-on the grounds of being a conscientious objector to the military action in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. Educated at Burn Hall School (now Army Burn Hall College), he joined the army as an armoured corps officer in 1971. ![]() His father, Sami Ullah Khan, served as the head of the mathematics department at the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul, near Abbottabad. He was born in Bareilly (U.P.) in India on 4 February 1949. He has been awarded several national and international awards to recognise his research and scholarly work. Ĭurrently based in Lahore, he is author of many books and other publications, mainly in the field of linguistics. Tariq Rahman (born 4 February 1949) is a Pakistani academic scholar, newspaper columnist, researcher, and a writer. HEC Distinguished National Professor, 2004 Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Distinction), 2014 įor the academic year 2022-23, Raza is a Member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.Bareilly, United Provinces, Dominion of India The archive and its digital history projects can be accessed here. In addition to his other scholarly and pedagogical commitments, Raza is also the co-founder and co-curator of the LUMS Digital Archive. In addition, his work has appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Itinerario South Asian History and Culture and Contemporary South Asia as well as numerous edited volumes and other publications. The Internationalist Moment offers a collection of essays that look at South Asia's political, social, and intellectual engagements with the wider world between the Bolshevik Revolution and the onset of the Second World War. Raza is also the co-editor of The Internationalist Moment: South Asia, Worlds, and World Views, 1917-39 (Sage, 2015). The book was also shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Book Prize and the Karwaan Book Award. South Asian editions of Revolutionary Pasts appeared in Pakistan and India with Folio Books (2021) and Tulika Books (2022) respectively. Raza is the author of Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India (Cambridge University Press, 2020). His book narrates the lives, geographies, dreams, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and how they sought to remake the world. ![]() His research and teaching interests include the social and intellectual history of South Asia, comparative colonialisms, anti-colonialism/decolonization, and post-colonial theory. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. Ali Raza, Associate Professor, is a historian of South Asia.
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