TORCH welcomes Professor Fouzia Farooq, Professor Sarah Ansari, Professor Nandini Chatterjee, and Dr Moin Nizami for a panel discussion exploring the reinterpretations of medieval histories of India. The discussion will examine how these narratives have evolved and been reshaped over time and the implications these shifts have for our understanding of identity, power, and collective memory.

Panel Discussion Members:
Professor Fouzia Farooq: Associate Professor of History at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad and the 2024-25 All Souls/ Global Visting Professor. Her research interests include Islamic history, socio-economic and religious history of medieval South Asia, Muslim intellectual thought, Muslim education, history of religions, and the history of cinema.

Professor Sarah Ansari: Professor of History (South Asia) at Royal Holloway. Her research focuses on the province of Sindh, and more broadly explores issues of religion, migration, identity, citizenship and gender.

Professor Nandini Chatterjee: Professor of Indian History and Culture at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. She is a historian of South Asia with expertise in the early modern (Mughal) and colonial (British-dominated) periods.

Dr Moin Nizami: Tun Abdul Razak Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies where he also serves as the Fellow Librarian. He specialises in the study of the social and intellectual history of Muslims in South Asia.

There will be a drinks reception with snacks held after the talk.