PERSONAL INFORMATION Ghulam Hussain

PhD Scholar & Visiting Faculty @ PIDE, Islamabad

Department of Anthropology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
+92-336-3589481
mahesarg@gmail.com
Web of Science ResearcherID P-7210-2018
ORCID 0000-0002-9538-1840
Sex: Male
Date of birth: 29/03/1978
CNIC:43203-7736752-1
Nationality: Pakistani

RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Academic writer for Roundtable India and Brill’s Encyclopedia of Religions of
Indigenous People of South Asia
Visiting Faculty Member @ Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)

Jan 2010 – Feb 2012 Master's Student (Sociology)…… 82.9% ...... CGPA 3.96/4.00
Subjects covered: History of Sociological Thought, Sociology of Population, Social Psychology,
Methods of Social Research, Principles of Sociology, Social Statistics, Rural Sociology,
Criminology, Social Problems of Pakistan, Sociology of Religion, Industrial Sociology, Social
Change and Development, Sociology of Human Rights, Social Problems of Pakistan.
Jun 2012 – Jul 2014 M.Phil Scholar (Anthropology)…… A Grade….. CGPA 4.00/5.00
Quaid-i-Azam University, Department of Anthropology. Islamabad, Pakistan
Subjects covered: Current Theories in Anthropology, Symbolic & Cognitive Anthropology,
Ethnology of Pakistan, Anthropology & Development, Issues in Anthropological Research
Methodology, Production & Exchange, Folklore Theory & Techniques

Oct 2012 – Oct 2013 Research Scholar @ Hanns Seidel Foundation, Pakistan
Completed one year research project on “Peasant Identities and Activism: Creating Space for
Marginalized” ( See link : https://nationbuildinginpakistan.wordpress.com/research-
grants/scholarship-holders/ )

PhD (Anthropology, QAU, Islamabad). Thesis sent for evaluation in April 2019
August 2014 –July
2019
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Awards & Grants

DAAD Fellow (Bi-nationally Supervised Program @ Bielefeld University, Germany

Sept 2016-Septr 2018
Sept 2014-May-2016 Indigenous PhD Scholarship from HEC, Pakistan.
Dec 2014 Best Paper Award for "Historical Sketch of Peasant Activism in Sindh".
Oct 2013 Grant: Research Project on 'Ideas and Issues of Nation-Building' addressed to
'Peasant Identities and Activism: Creating Space for Marginalized' funded by Hanns
Seidel Foundation, Pakistan, for the year 2012/13.
Feb, 2011
Silver Medalist, First Class, First Position in M.A. Sociology, from University of
Sindh, Jamshoro.

Publication Highlights

1. Understanding Hegemony of caste in Political Sufism and Islam in Sindh, Pakistan, Journal of Asian and African Studies (JCR
Impact factor: 0.5). (2019). 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909619839430.
2. Legitimacies of caste positions in Pakistan: Resolving ‘upper caste’ dilemma in shared space of knowledge production and
emancipation. Panjab University Research Journal, Volume XLV, No.1, January-June 2018
3. Historical Sketch of Peasant Activism: Tracing Emancipatory Political Strategies of Peasant Activists of Sindh. International Journal
of Humanities and Social Sciences (2014) (IJHSS) ISSN (P): 2319-393X; ISSN(E): 2319-3948. Vol. 3, Issue 5, 23-42
4. Conflict Resolution Mechanism in Rural Sindh: Rationalizing Life-world of Peasants. (2013) Voice of Intellectual Man-An
International Journal, 3(2), 35-54.
5. Nature of Conflicts, Tensions and Exploitation in Sharecropping in Rural Sindh. Open Journal of Applied Sciences, (2013), 3(08),
482.
6. Multiple Conventions of Unpaid Labour (Begar) in Sindh Rice Belt: Dualistic Resistance & Cooperation in Sharecropping
Arrangements. Science International.(2014) (Lahore), 26(1), 425-431
7. The Practice of Unpaid Labour (Begar) in Sindh Rice Belt: Looking for the Evidence of Exploitation in Sharecropping Arrangements.
(2014)Grassroots, 4(1), 22-32
8. Sindhi Civil Society: Its Praxis in Rural Sindh, and Place in Pakistani Civil Society (2014), Advances in Anthropology.3(2), 35-5.
9. Virtues of Food Autonomy, Cooperative Farming & Sufic-Socialist Regimes: Encountering Peasant’s Exploitation in Sindh through
Agrarian Citizenship (2014) Mystic Thoughts.Vol-1, Issue 1, 38-53
10. Encountering Peasant’s Exploitation through Translocal and Transnational Agrarian Citizenship” Science International
(Lahore),( 2015), 27(3),2543-2550,

Conference Presentations/Proceedings

1. Presented a paper ‘Caste Politics and anti-caste Dalit assertions in Sindh’ in RINDAS International Conference on 3rd of Feb., 2017,
held in Kyoto, Japan.
2. Presented paper ‘Caste Politics and anti-caste Dalit assertions in Sindh’ in 5th International Conference in Jyväskylä, Finland, on
20–22 June 2017
3. Ghulam Hussain Mahesar, Vikram Das: Envionmental Justice and Community Empowerment : Case-study of Kolhi-peasant
community of Sindh, . Khairpur. Shah Abdul Latif University.. International Conference on Environmental Issues of Sindh and
Remedies (ICEISR), Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan; 04/2014

4. Ghulam Hussain, Chaudhry Waheed: Parkari and Katchchi Kolhi Migration: An assessment of Socio-political Impact of migration
on Kolhi community of Barrage-irrigated area of lower Sindh.. (67-68), Final Report of the International Conference on ‘Migration,
Education and Development in South Asia’.. Islamabad: Department of Anthropology, Quaid-i-Azam University.; 03/2014

Conferences Organized
First International Workshop ‘Reviewing Identity and Nation-Building’ 15th-16th March 2013, DSS Auditorium, Quaid-i-
Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan organized by: National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Department of History

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and DAAD Long Term Guest Professorship at Quaid-i-Azam University with support from Hanns-Seidel-
Foundation, Pakistan Office
International Conference on ‘Migration, Education and Development in South Asia’.. Islamabad: Department of
Anthropology, Quaid-i-Azam University.from 28th to 30th of March 2014 an international workshop, funded by the
German Hanns Seidel Foundation,

Important Workshops Organized

International Workshop “Reviewing Governance and Nation-Building in Pakistan” held during 28 to
29.03.2014, DSS Auditorium, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Teaching Experience
Taught social sciences, humanities and English language courses at various private schools and institution between
2001 and 2010.
English and Social Science teacher at Flying Birds Model School Larkano from March, 24, 2004 to July, 2006.
Taught course on ‘Development Studies’ in 2013, in the capacity of resource person at AIOU, Main Campus
Islamabad.
Working/ Job Experience
Community Mobiliser, Bhandar Sangat, from 21 Sept 2006 to January 2008.
Assistant Project Manager (Malnutrition) in Global Peace Pioneers (GPP) from January 20 th, 2012 to May 21st 2012.
References
Prof. Dr. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka
Fakultät für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld
Cell: ++49 521 106-4640
Email: joanna.pfaff@uni-bielefeld.de

Dr.Saadia Abid
Assistant Professor,
Department of Anthropology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
Office: +92-051 9064-3064
Email: saadiabid@yahoo.com

Dr. Anwaar Mohyduddin

Lecturer, Department of Anthropology,
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
Cell: +923455559255
+923335533392
Email: unwaar@gmail.com