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Professor Hilal Ahmed

Professor Hilal Ahmed

Professor, Politics
PhD, SOAS University of London
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Professor Hilal Ahmed works on Indian democracy, political Islam, and politics of symbols in South Asia. His first book, Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contestation (Routledge, 2014), explores these thematic concerns and develops an interdisciplinary approach to studying Indian democracy from the vantage point of Muslim politics. His later works, including A Brief History of the Present: Muslims in New India (Penguin, 2024), Allah Naam ki Siyasat (Hindi, Setu, 2023), Siyasi Muslims: A Story of Political Islam in India (Penguin Random House, 2019), and Democratic Accommodations: Minorities in Contemporary India (Bloomsbury, 2019) make a modest attempt to explain the discursively constituted nature of contemporary political discourse in India. He has also edited Companion to Indian Democracy: Resilience, Fragility, Ambivalence (Routledge, 2021), Rethinking Muslim Personal Law: Issues, Debates and Reforms (Routledge, 2022), and Sudipta Kaviraj: A Reader (Hindi, Setu, 2023).

Professor Ahmed was one of the Principal Investigators for the project Rethinking Affirmative Action for Muslims in Contemporary India (USIPI-CDPP, 2025). His academic appointments and fellowships include Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), University of Pennsylvania (2024); Visiting Professor at Krea University (2021–22); Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies-Nantes (IAS_Nantes), France (2018–19); Visiting Professor at Ashoka University (2016); Visiting Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington (2013–14); Visiting Asia Fellow at the University of Dhaka (2011); and Visiting Professor at the University of Pune (2011).

Professor Ahmed has also produced two documentaries, Encountering the Political Jama Masjid (English, 2006) and Qutub: Ek Adhura Afsana (Qutub: An Unfinished Story, Hindi with English subtitles, 2016). In addition, Beacons of Hope (English, 2008), a film commissioned by the Ford Foundation, documents his life story. He will be based out of Sri City.

 

Publications

Books 

  1. Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India Monuments, Memory, Contestation. 2026. (Second updated and revised edition) Routledge: London/ New York/Delhi
  2. Rethinking Affirmative for Muslims in Contemporary India (2025 with M. Sanjeer Alam and Nazima Parveen). Hyderabad: USIPI-CDPP
  3. A History of the Present: Muslims in New India. 2024. Penguin-Random House:  New Delhi
  4. Allah naam ki Siyasat. 2023. (Hindi). Setu publication: Noida UP
  5. Siyasi Muslims: A story of Political Islams in India.2019. Penguin-Random House: New Delhi
  6. Democratic Accommodations: Minorities in contemporary India. 2019(With Peter R de’Souza, and M. Sanjeer Alam) Bloomsbury: London and New Delhi
  7. Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India Monuments, Memory, Contestion. 2014. (First edition) Routledge: London/ New York/Delhi.

 

Edited Volumes

1. Companion to Indian Democracy: Resilience, Fragility, Ambivalence (with Peter R de’Souza, and M. Sanjeer Alam) Routledge: London/New York/New Delhi
2. Rethinking Muslim Personal Law in India: Issues, Debates and Reforms (with R K Mishra and K. N. Jehangir) Routledge: London/New York/New Delhi
3. Sudipta Kaviraj (in Hindi) Setu: Noida UP

 

Edited Special Issue of Journals

  1. Muslims in New India. A series of five articles commission for the India in Transition (IiT), Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), University of Pennsylvania. 2023. https://casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/hilalahmed
  2. Exploring Muslim India: A Symposium of Islamic Presence in New India. Seminar No. 758. October 2022. https://www.india-seminar.com/cd8899/cd_frame8899.html
  3. India@75: A Symposium on the Idea of People. Seminar No. 756. August 2022 (with Subir Sinha) https://www.india- seminar.com/cd8899/cd_frame8899.html

 

Articles/essays in peer-reviewed academic journals, periodicals and academic websites (English)

  1. The relevance of Imtiaz Ahmad’s writings to contemporary debates on Indian Muslim identity. Contributions to Indian Sociology. Vol. 58, Issue 3, October 2024, Pp. 386-390.
  2. Three Facets of Muslim Representation. India in Transition (IiT): Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), University of Pennsylvania. https://casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/hilal-ahmed-2025
  3. Muslim Imaginations of Islam in India. Journal of Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society. Fall 2024. Vol. 8 No. 2. Pp. 4.18.
  4. Indian Muslims: (Self-)Perceptions and Voting Trends in 2024 (With Christophe Jaffrelot) Studies in India Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/23210230241296356
  5. Commemorating Imtiaz Ahmad, intellectually. Social Change. Volume 53, Issue 3. September 2023. Pp. 428-431.
  6. A Note to Right-Wing Studies: A Roundtable on the State of the Field. Journal of Right-Wing Studies. Vol. 1 January 2023. Pp 20-23.
  7. The Problem. Seminar No. 758.  https://www.india-seminar.com/cd8899/cd_frame8899.html
  8. The Problem (with Subir Sinha) Seminar No. 756. August 2022 https://www.india-seminar.com/cd8899/cd_frame8899.html
  9. Rethinking Muslim Political Representation in India.  India in Transition (IiT): Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), University of Pennsylvania. https://casi.sas.upenn.edu/iit/hilalahmed
  10. Afterlife of a Text: Hind Swaraj and Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha. Gandhi Marg. Vol. 44. No. 1. April-June 2022. Pp. 7-26
  11. New India, Hindutva Constitutionalism, and Muslim Political Attitudes. Studies in Indian Politics. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/23210230221082833. 2022. Pp 1-17.
  12. Dhirubhai L. Seth 1936-2021: Commemorating Intellectual Politics. Studies in Indian Politics. Fall 2021. Pp. 152–154
  13. Concepts, Methods and Indian Politics: A conversation with Sudipta Kaviraj. Studies in Indian Politics, Fall 2021, pp 1-8.
  14. Researching India’s Muslims: Identities, Methods, Politics. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory.  10 (3): 776–785. 2020
  15. The Contemporary Moment of Indian Democracy. CSDS Digipapers 03. (https://www.csds.in/uploads/custom_files/1604640763_DigiPaper%2003%20Hilal.pdf)
  16. Making Sense of India’s Citizenship Amendment Act 2019: Process, Politics, Protest. Asie Visions. No. 114. ifri, June 2020 https://www.ifri.org/en/publications/notes-de-lifri/asie-visions/making-sense-indias-citizenship-amendment-act-2019-process
  17. Does Muslim vote matters? Presence, Representation and Participation. Indian Politics and Policy, Vol 3, no. 1 Spring 2020, pp 129-138
  18. Demystifying Muslim Votes, Seminar, No. 720, August 2019, pp. 70-74
  19. Elections Results in Odisha: Welfarism versus Hindutva (with Gyanranjan Swain), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. LIV No. 33. 17 August 2019, pp. 13-15
  20. Zakir Naik. Oxford Islamic Studies online, Oxford Islamic Studies Online. http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t343/e0183. September 2015.
  21. How to (Not) Study Muslim Electoral Responses. Studies in India Politics. Vol 3 No. 2 June 2015. Pp, 299-304
  22. Bihar: Do Muslims Act as a Political Community? Democracies, Vol. XXXIV, March 2015. Pp. 93-100.
  23. Muslims in Uttar Pradesh: Caste, Class and Electoral Politics, Economic and Political Weekly, (Election Special Web exclusive) Vol. XLIX No. 18, May 03, 2014.
  24. Secularising the ‘Secular’:Monumentalisation of the Taj Mahal in Postcolonial India. Economic and Political Weekly, Special issue on Secularism vol.  xlviII no 50. December 2013
  25. Muzaffarnagar 2013: Meanings of Violence, Economic and Political Weekly, XLVIII, No 40, 5 October 2013
  26. Asghar Ali Engineer: Emancipatory Intellectual Politics. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLVII NO. 22. 1June 2013.
  27. Afterlife of a ‘Monument’: The Taj Mahal (online publication on Sahapedia.com) http://sahapedia.org/afterlife-of-a-monument-the-taj-mahal/
  28. Mosque as Monuments: Afterlives of Jama Masjid and the political memories of a royal Muslim past. South Asian Studies, 29:1, 51-59. April 2013.
  29. Fictions of Intellectual Politics: Manto, Social Scientist, Vol. 472-473, December 2012.
  30. Public Presence of Mosques and Muslim Identity in Postcolonial Delhi, The Book Review, Vol. XXXVI, January 2012
  31. A past without history: In conversation with Ashis Nandy. (With Priyadarshini Vijaisri) Seminar, 639, November 2012
  32. The Centre and Indian Realities: Interview with Rajni Kothari. (With Priyadarshini Vijaisri and Dubey, Abhay Kumar) Seminar, 639, November 2012.
  33. An Indo-Islamic Discourse of Democracy: An Introduction to the Political Ideas of Syed Shahabuddin, Asian Studies Review, April 2010.
  34. Muslims as a Political Community, Seminar, 602, October 2009.
  35. Reception of Nehruvian Secularism and the Political Architecture of Jama Masjid, Third Frame, Vol.2 No. 3. July- September 2009 (Special issue on Nehru and Minorities).
  36. Debating Muslim Political Representation, Seminar, 586, June 2008
  37. Social Action and Indian-Muslim Communities: Understanding Islamic Religious Plurality in India, SAGAR, South Asian Graduate Research Journal, Vol.15, Fall 2005 South Asian Centre, University of Texas

 

Chapters In Edited Volumes 

  1. India’s Muslims and Federal Democracy. In Sisodia, Yatindra Singh, Kumar, Ashutosh, and Chattopadhyay, Pratip (eds.) State Politics in Contemporary India: Conundrums and Possibilities. 2025 London: Routledge. Pp. 121-132.
  2. Political Participation and Electoral Behavior of Muslims in India Since Independence: An Overview. In Sisodia, Yatindra Singh, Chattopadhyay, Pratip (eds.) Electoral Narratives of Democracy and Governance in India. 2024 London: Routledge. Pp. 100-130
  3. Idea of Minority: An Indian Story. In Mithlesh Kumar Jha, Kamla Nayan Choubey (eds.). 2024. Indian Politics and Political Processes: Ideas, Institutions and Practices. London: Routledge. Pp. 409-435.
  4. Muslim Imaginations of Islam in India. In Amir Ullah Khan and Nahia Hussain (eds.). 2023. New Challenges for Indian Muslims: Beyond Citizenship Concerns. Hyderabad: CDPP. Pp. 211-228.
  5. Does the Muslim Vote Matters? Parliamentary Elections of 2019 and its Aftermath. In Subrata K. Mitra, Rekha Saxena and Pampa Mukherjee (Eds.) The 2019 parliamentary elections in India: Democracy at the Crossroads? Routledge: London and New York. 2023. Pp. 255-276.
  6. Researching India’s Muslims: Identities, Methods, Politics. In M H Illias (ed.) Research in the Islamic Context Political and Methodological Reflections from South Asia, Indian Ocean and the Arab World. Routledge: London and New York. 2023 Pp. 88-101.
  7. Politics of Hijab: A Note. P K Yasser Arafat and G Arunima (eds.) The Hijab: Islam Women and the Politics of Clothing. Simon & Schuster: London, New York, Sydney, Toronto and New Delhi. 2023. Pp. 25-40.
  8. Afterlife of a Text: Hind Swaraj and Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha. In Rajeev Bhargava (ed.) Politics, Ethics and the Self: Re-reading Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj. Routledge: London and New York 2023. Pp. 304-319.
  9. Nation, Nationalism and Muslim Politics in Secular India: A conversation with Shray Mehta. In Shray Mehta and Ravi Kumar (eds.) The New Republic: Popularism, Power and the Trajectory of Indian Democracy. Aakar: New Delhi. 2022. Pp. 87-105.
  10. Politics of Shariat in Postcolonial India. In Hilal Ahmed, R K Mishra and K.N. Jehangir (Eds.) Rethinking Muslim Personal Law in India: Issues, Debates and Reforms. Routledge: London/New York 2022. Pp. 120-132.
  11. ‘Muslim Presence’ in Padamavat in Ira Bhaskar and Richard Allen (eds). Bombay Cinema’s Islamicate Histories. Hyderabad: Orien Blackswan, 2022. pp. 182-200.
  12. Odisha Dual Verdict: Leadership, Welfare, Hindutva (With Gyanaranjan Swain) in Sandeep Shastri, Ashutosh Kumar, and Yatindra Singh Sisodia (eds) Electoral Dynamics in the States of India. Routledge: London and New York. 2022 Pp. 231-242.
  13. Introduction (With Peter R. deSouza and Sanjeer Alam). Companion to Democracy in India: Resilience, Fragility, Ambivalence (with Peter R de’Souza, and Sanjeer Alam, Routledge: London and New York. 2022)
  14. Contemporary Moment of Indian Democracy. Companion to Democracy in India: Resilience, Fragility, Ambivalence (with Peter R de’Souza, and Sanjeer Alam, Routledge: London and New York. 2022).
  15. Politics of Constitutionalism: Muslims as Minority. Kalul, Volker and  Vajpeyi , Ananya (eds). Minorities and Populism – Critical Perspectives from South Asia and Europe, Springer, 2021 pp. 95-106
  16. Discourse(s) of Dawa in postcolonial India. Weismann. Itzchak and Malik, Jamal (eds.) Culture of Dawa: Islamic Preaching in the Modern World. 2020. University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City, pp. 31-46.
  17. Gandhi’s Imaginations of Muslims, S K Srivastava and Ashok Vohra (eds.) Gandhi in Contemporary Times, Routledge: London/New Delhi. 2020. Pp. 55-71.
  18. Azan, Rukumini Bhaya Nair and Peter Ronald deSouza (eds.) Keywords for India: A conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century.  Bloomsbury: London. 2020
  19. Ramzan/Ramadan Rukumini Bhaya Nair and Peter Ronald deSouza (eds.) Keywords for India: A conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century.  Bloomsbury: London. 2020
  20. Communal Violence, Electoral Mobilization, and Muslim Representation: Muzaffarnagar 2013-14, Irfan Ahmad and Pralay
    Kanungo (Eds.): The Algebra of Warfare-Welfare: Along View of India’s 2014 Election. Oxford University Press :2019 Delhi. Pp. 163-196
  21. The Politics of Shariat, Aakash Singh Rathore and Garima Goswami: Rethinking Indian Jurisprudence: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (London and New Delhi: Routledge, 2018), pp. 95-103.
  22. Indian Democracy and world’s Largest Muslim Minority (with Sudipta Kaviraj), Alfred Stepan (ed.) Democratic Transition in the Muslims World: A Global Perspective, Columbia University Press, New York, 2018. pp. 201-226
  23. Place, Politics and Voting: Lok Sabha Election 2014, (With Md. Sanjeer Alam), Suhas Palshikar, Sanjay Kumar, Sanjay Lodha (Eds). Electoral Politics in India: The Resurgence of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Routledge, New York, 2017.   
  24. Rashtrapati Bhavan as a Republican Monument, Sudha Gopalkrishnan and Yashswini Chandra (Eds), Life at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Publication Division, Government of India, Delhi 2016 pp. 90-109
  25. Exploring Muslim Modernities: Public Presence of Mosques in Delhi and London, Anwar Alam, Konrad Pedziwiatr (Eds), Muslim Minorities in Europe and India: Politics of Accommodation of Islamic Identities. New Century publications, Delhi. 2016. Pp. 111-132.
  26. Representing Muslims in Postcolonial India: Constitution of a Political Discourse, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, (ed.) Decolonisation and the Politics of Transition in South Asia, Oriental Blackswan, Delhi, 2016. Pp. 348-374
  27. Manto: Fictions of Intellectual Politics, Swati Acharya (ed) Sa’adat Hasan Manto: Chronist des ungeteilten Irrsinns der Teilung Indiens,  Drupati, 2015.
  28. Mosque as Monuments: Afterlives of Jama Masjid and the political memories of a royal Muslim past, Deborah Cherry (ed.) Afterlives of Monuments. Routledge, London 2014, pp. 51-61.
  29. Debating Political Representation, B. D. Dua, M. P. Singh, Rekha Saxena (eds.) The Indian Parliament: The Changing Landscape. Manohar, New Delhi. 2014. Pp. 57-14
  30. An ‘Official’ Memory of India: Monuments, Memorials and Samadhis as Political Texts, Nivedita Menon, Sanjay Pulishikar, Aditya Nigam (eds.)Critical Studies in Politics: Exploring sites, selves, power, Oriental Black Swan, 2014. Pp 418-453.
  31. The Anna Movement could not produce a counter hegemony, M. N. Thakur and Dhananjay Rai (eds.) Democracy on the Move? Reflections on Moments, Promises and Contradictions. Aakar, Delhi, 2013. Pp-221-234.
  32. Making Sense of Social Justice: Professional Commitment and Intellectual Politics. Opening Doors– Ten Years of IFP Program. Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program Publication. Pp.154-156.

 

Professor Hilal Ahmed’s Blog: Economic and Political Weekly (http://www.epw.in/blogs/hilal-ahmed)

    1. Exploring Muslim political representation, 13 January 2014
    2. “Fixed plurality” and the institutional geometry of Indian secularism, 20 January 2014.
    3. Does Salman Khan represent Muslims of India? 28 January 2014
    4. What is BJP’s ideology? 3 February 2014.
    5. Pasmanda Muslim politics and caste-based reservation, 10 February 2014.
    6. Meanings of Rajnath Singh’s apology? 28 February 2014.
    7. What is Muslim vote bank? 8 March 2014.
    8. Freedom of Expression: K. A Abbas and his Sardarji, 19 March 2014.
    9. What is a mosque? 13 May 2014.
    10. What is an electoral wave, 29 May 2014.
    11. Electoral Politics in Urban India, 10 June 2014.
    12. What is an “official memory”? 7 July 2014.

 

Review Articles (ENGLISH) 

  1. Review of Partha Chatterjee. 2025. For a Just Republic: The People of India and the State. Ranikhet: Ashoka & Permanent Black. Studies in Indian Politics. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23210230261429655
  2. Unpacking Muslim Political Representation. Review article. Kidwai, Rasheed. Ghosh, Ambar Kumar. 2025. Missing from the House: Muslim Women in the Lok Sabha. New Delhi: Juggernaut Books. The Book Review. Vol. L. No. 5 May 2026, pp 34-35.
  3. Theorizing Hindutva. A Review article based on Jan Breman and Ghanshyam Shah, Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politics: India’s Injurious Frame of Communalism. Tulika Books: New Delhi.  Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 57. No. 38. 19 September 2022.
  4. Loss of Hindustan: A political reading https://kafila.online/2021/03/19/loss-of-hindustan-a-symposium-iii-hilal-ahmed/  March 2021.
  5. From the Margin of Political society (Review article based on Kamal Nayan Chaubey’s Janagal ki Haqdari: Rajniti aur Sangharsh, CSDS Vani Prakashan, Delhi, 2016). The Book Review, Vol. XLI No. 3 March 2017
  6. Review essay on Mohammad Sajjad, Muslim Politics in Bihar: Changing Contours. History, Sociology and Culture of South Asia. Vol. 10No. 1 January 2016.
  7. Making memory Meaningful-Politically! (A review article based on Richard M. Eaton and Phillip B. Wagoner’s Power, Memory, Architecture: Contested Sites on India’s Deccan Plateau 1300-1600,Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014) The Book Review, Vol. XXXIX No. 1 January 2015.
  8. Diversity and Different Kinds of Difference (A review article based on Jeffery, Robin and Sen, Ronojoy (eds.) (2014). Being Muslim in South Asia: Diversity and Daily Life. New Delhi. Oxford University Press). The Biblio, Vol.  XIX, No. 1 and 2 January 2015.
  9. Debating Monumental Matters: A Political Reading. Review article based on Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi. 2011.Monumental Matters: The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India’s Mughal Architecture. Durham, Duke University Press.) The Book Review, Vol. XXXVII No.10 October 2013.
  10. Where Lies India that is Bharat? (Review article based on Dalmia Vasudha, Sadana, Rashmi. 2012. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (South Asian Edition) The Book Review, Vol. XXXVII No.8 August 2013. 
  11. Partitioned Politics and Imaginary Homelands (Review article based on Neeti Nair’s Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and Partition of India, Permanent Black, Delhi, 2011) The Book Review (South Asia XIX) Vol. XXXVI Number 3, March 2012.
  12. Religion, Politics and Public Policy: Interrogating Discourses, (Review article on Mahajan Gurpreet, Jodhka Surinder, S. (2010). Ed. Religion, Community and Development: Changing Contours of Politics and Policy in India. Routledge. New Delhi.) The Book Review, Vol. XXXV, No.1. January 2011.
  13. Political Dilemma of a Modernist (Review article on Wajahat, Asghar, 2009. Barkha Rachai, Rajkamal. Delhi). The Book Review Vol. XXXV, No. 2, February 2011.
  14. Politics/Partitions/Memories: Everyday Discourse of Partitions in South Asia. (A review of Tyranny of Partition: Hindus in Bangladesh and Muslims in India by Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff, Gyan Publication, Delhi 2006), Social Change, Vol. 39, No. 2, June 2009.
  15. Histories and Memories of ‘Survival’: ‘Welcome’ to the Emergency, a reviews article on Emma Tarlo, Unsettling Memories: The Narratives of the Emergency in Delhi, Hurst & Co., London, 2004, Public Administration and Management: An Interactive Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2005, pp. 46-54. 
  16. The Present History of Indian Islam? Milli Gazette, December 2004, Delhi [a review of Yoginder Sikand, “Indian Muslims Since 1947: Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations”, Routledge Curzon, London and New York, 2004] 
  17. New Trend in Islamic Literature for Children in English, The Muslim News, London 28 November 2003[Review of Shiban Akbar’s My Little Book of Light, Ta-Ha Publication, London and New York, 1998 and The Adventures of Zulqarnain, Ta-Ha Publication, London and New York, 2002.]

 

Book Reviews

  1. Review of Farah Naqvi with Sadhbhavna Trust, Working with Muslims: Beyond Burqa and Triple Talaq—Stories of Development and Everyday Citizenship in India, Social Change Volume 48 Number 4 December 2018, pp. 673-675
  2. Review of Faisal Devji, Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013. The Indian Economic and Social History Review. 53: 3. July September 2016
  3. Review of David N. Gellner (ed.), Varieties of Activist Experience: Civil Society in South Asia. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2010. Contribution to India Sociology, October 2013.
  4. Review of Abdul Shaban (ed) Lives of Muslims in India: Politics, Exclusion and Violence, Routledge, Delhi, 2012, Seminar 632, April 2012.
  5. Review of Hancock, Mary E. 2008. The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai.  Indiana University Press: Bloomington/Indiana) South Asia Research, Vol. 31 No. 3. March-June 2012.
  6. Review of Irfan Ahmad’s Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaate-Islami, South Asian History and Culture (Routledge), April 2010.

 

Published Conversations in professional academic journals 

  1. A past without history: In conversation with Ashis Nandy. (With Vijaisri Priyadarshini )Seminar, 639, November 2012
  2. The Centre and Indian Realities: Interview with Rajni Kothari. (With  Vijaisri Priyadarshini, and Dubey, Abhay Kumar) Seminar, 639, November 2012.

 

Reports 

  1. The State of “Official Memory”: Politics of sites and rituals at national war memorial. IEA, Nantes, 2022.
  2. English in India: A Study of Power, Culture and knowledge (with Abhay Kumar Dubey and Satendra Kumar) ICSSR, 2021.
  3. Minority Question in India, 2017-18(with Peter R deSouza and Sanjeer Alam). Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany.
  4. Muslim Representation in the Rajya Sabha: Forms and Trajectories (Report submitted to the Rajya Sabha Secretariat, Government of India, December 2016) https://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/fellowship/Hilal_Ahmed.pdf
  5. Communal Violence and political representation in post-Babri Masjid India: A study of Muzaffarnagar (Report submitted to ICSSR April 2016)
  6. Politics of Muslim Political Representation in Postcolonial India (Report submitted to ICSSR April 2015)
  7. Mosques as Monuments: Memory, Islam and National Identity in Bangladesh, (Submitted to the Asia Scholarship Foundation) April 2012.
  8. Environment of the Marginalized and the Marginalization of Environment: A Report (report submitted to ICSSR) July 2011
  9. Hyderabad: All India Itehad-ul-Muslimin (MIM) and Muslim Politics: A note, background paper submitted to Centre for Policy Research, September 2011
  10. The National Child Labour Project in West Bengal: An Evaluation of four Districts, [with Ashish Ghosh, A.P. Singh and Sanjeev Kumar] submitted to the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, India (NLI), September 2002.
  11. The Islamic Philanthropy in India: A Study of Selected Muslim Social Organisations, submitted to the Charities Aid Foundation, April 2002.
  12. The Socio-Economic Status of Burmese Refugees in India, submitted to UNHCR, New Delhi, June 2001.
  13. The Naga Peace Process: A Dossier, The Other Media Publication, New Delhi, October 2000 (Published in March 2001).
  14. Apne Liye Apna Niyojan (Hindi) and People’s Planning (English), submitted to Lokshala Programme, March 1999.
  15. Politics of People’s Rights, [with Neera Chandhoke] submitted to the ICSSR, January 1997.

 

Published Interviews in newspapers and websites (English)   

 

Articles and Essays in Hindi Peer Reviewed Academic Journals and Periodicals 

  1. मैं नमाज़ क्यों पढ़ता हूँ? (Why do I offer Namaz?) Tadbhav, No. 44 January 2022. Pp. 26-43
  2. मुस्लिम राजनीतिक विमर्श: उपस्थिति, प्रतिनिधित्व, भागीदारी. (Muslim Political Discourse: Presence, Representation, Participation) Samajik, Vol. 1. No. 1. 2020, pp. 1-10.
  3. मुशीरुल हसन: भारतीय मुसलमानों को समझने के संदर्भ बिंदु (Mushirul Hasan: A reference point to study India’s Muslims) Pratiman, Vol. 6 No. 12. 2018 Pp. 369-371
  4. गांधी का राजनीतिक चेहरा (A Political Face of Gandhi), Gandhi Marg, November-December 2017.
  5. गांधी के मुसलमान (Gandhi’s Muslims) Pratiman: Vol. 5 No.10 July-December 2017
  6. सैयद शहाबुद्दीन: एक मुस्लिम भारतीय की वैचारिक कल्पनाशीलता (Syed Shahabuddin: Political imagination of a Muslim Indian) Pratiman: Vol. 5 No.9 Jan-June 2017
  7. मुस्लिम राजनीतिक विमर्श: एक टिप्पड़ी (Muslim Political discourse: A Comment), Pratiman, Vol. 2. No. 2, March 2016
  8. रणधीर सिंह: प्रतिबद्धता कभी नही मरती (Radhir Singh: Commitment never dies) Pratiman, Vol. 4. No. 7, June 2016
  9. आप कौन है? भारतीय या मुसलमान. (Who are you? An Indian or a Muslim?) Alochana, No. 53, June 2015.
  10. हिंदुत्व और हिंदुस्तानी मुसलमान (Hindutva and Indian Muslims) Pratiman. Vol.3 Jan-June 2014.
  11. युवा विमर्श: एक खुलती हुई श्रेणी (Youth discourse: an unfolding category) Pratiman Vol.3 Jan-June 2014.
  12. असगर अली इंजीनियर: इस्लाम में लिबरेशन थीओलॉजी की तलाश (Asghar Ali Engineer: A search for liberation theology in Islam) Pratiman. Vol.2 July-December 2013.
  13. मुजफ्फरनगर 2013: राजनीतिक समाजशास्त्र के आईने मे (Muzaffarnagar in the mirror of political sociology) Pratiman. Vol.2 July-December 2013.
  14. सियासत के अधूरे अफसाने: मंटो  (Unfinished stories of politics). Pratiman. Vol.1 Jan-April 2013.
  15. नागरिक समाज का सैद्धांतिक आशय (Theoretical meanings of civil society), Sablog, August 2011
  16. देशज ज्ञान और हिन्दी मे समाज चिंतन (Indigenous knowledge Systems and Social Thinking in Hindi) Samayaik Varta, July-August 2011.
  17. ज़मीन से कटा उदारवाद (A Disillusioned Liberalism ), Samayik Varta, January 2011.
  18. हिंसा के तर्क और तर्कों की हिंसा (Arguments of Violence and Violence of Arguments) Lokmat, Annual Diwali Number, October 2010.
  19. हिन्द स्वराज का पुनर्पाठ और छत्तीसगढ़ मुक्ति मोर्चा (A Re-reading Hind Swaraj and Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha) Tadbhav, March 2010.
  20. उत्तर-औपनिवेशिक भारत मे एकाधिक मुस्लिम आधुनिकताओं का विमर्श: हिन्दी और मुस्लिम पहचानो का निर्माण (Multiple Muslim Modernities in Postcolonial India: Hindi and the making and remaking of Muslim identities), Tadbhav, January 2010.
  21. वैकल्पिक राजनीति का वैकल्पिक अधयन (Alternative Study of Alternative Politics), Samayik Varta, January 2009
  22. मुसलमानों का राजनीतिक प्रतिनिधित्व: एक बहस (Political Representation of Muslims in India: A Debate), Samayik Varta, 31: 6, March 2008.

 

Encyclopedia articles (published in the Hindi Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, SAMAJ VIGYAN VISHVKOSH (Vol-I-VI) edited by Abhay Kumar Dubey, Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Vardha and the Raj Kamal Prakashan, Delhi, 2013)

  1. Islam
  2. Masjid (Mosque)
  3. Dalit Muslims
  4. Syed Ahmad Khan
  5. Abul-alaa al-Moududi
  6. Mohammad Iqbal
  7. Mohammad: Ek Darshnik ke roop me (Mohammad as a political philosopher)
  8. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
  9. Asghar Ali Engineer
  10. Sudipta Kaviraj
  11. Partha Chatterjee
  12. Civil Society, Political Society and Creative Society

 

Articles in Newspapers and Websites 

(I have written over 400 articles in various newspapers and websites in English and Hindi, which include The Times of India, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, The Hindu, Telegraph, The New Indian Express, Deccan Herald, ThePrint, The Quint, NDTV, Indian Today, Frontline, Nav Bharat Times). Many articles have also been translated in Marathi, Tamil and Malayalam.

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https://www.hindustantimes.com/author/hilal-ahmed-101701617678744

https://indianexpress.com/profile/columnist/hilal-ahmed/

https://www.thequint.com/author/45647/hilal-ahmed

https://theprint.in/author/hilalahmed/

https://www.newslaundry.com/author/hilal-ahmed

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