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Humaira Chowdhury is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King’s India Institute. Her postdoctoral research explores the intertwined histories of modern capitalism through the lens of Islam, specifically examining the Dawoodi Bohras' trade networks across the Indian Ocean. Humaira received her MPhil in Modern South Asian History and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. She has joined King’s as a postdoctoral research associate on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project titled ‘Enablers and Obstacles to UK-India Trade: Banks and Diasporas’ (2023-2024). Her research focuses on artisan-labour histories, trade diaspora, and migration/immobility in relation to Muslim lives in South Asia. Humaira's PhD thesis brought together a body of scholarship on the immobility of artisan capitalism, particularly focusing on Darzis (Muslim tailors) who stayed in Calcutta from 1890 to 1967. As part of the ESRC funded project, she conducted qualitative fieldwork among women weavers in the Kashmir valley, investigating the connections between trade, gendered labour, and informality amidst protracted religious conflict.
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