Assistant Professor Raisur Rahman
South Asian History
B-112 Tribble Hall; 758-3674
e-mail: rahmanmr@wfu.edu

Education:
B.A., St. Xavier's College, Ranchi
M.A. and M.Phil, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

Courses offering:
HST 109: Asia and the World
HST 260: Premodern South Asia
HST 261: Modern South Asia
HST 334: Islam in South Asia
HST 335: Intellectual History of Modern South Asia

Professional and research interests: Modern South Asia; Indo-Muslim history and culture; qasbahs in South Asia; colonialism; Islam and modernity; Muslim education

Selected Publications:
"Islam, Modernity, and Educated Muslims: A History of Qasbahs in Colonial India." PhD Dissertation. The University of Texas at Austin, 2008.

“The Mahatma and the Maulana: Understanding Minority Politics in British India,” Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici II, 2007: 57-84.

"Globalisation and the Representation of Islam," Journal of Peace Studies, 12 (4), October-December 2005.