Dr. Amar Sohal

Biography

Amar Sohal is an intellectual historian specializing in modern South Asia, particularly the political ideas that shape contemporary India and Pakistan. His research centers on anti-colonial nationalism, religious politics, and the secular state. Currently, he is on a research fellowship at the Koch History Centre, University of Oxford, after receiving his DPhil and MSt from the University of Oxford and his BA from University College London. Amar has a broad training in Indian history, political thought, and Hindi-Urdu literature, which he applies to his previous role as an Early-Career Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he revised his DPhil dissertation into the monograph 'Muslim Secular: Parity Politics India’s Partition' published by Oxford University Press in 2023. His research examines the political thought of prominent Indian Muslim nationalists in the twentieth century. Amar's work has been published in prestigious academic journals and he has edited special issues in Global Intellectual History. He actively engages in public discourse, giving talks, and contributing to documentaries, enhancing broader understanding of Indian Muslim political visions before Partition. Amar teaches courses on Indian and global anti-colonial thought and European intellectual history, contributing significantly to the discourse on South Asian political thought.

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