Dr. Nazima Parveen

Dr. Nazima Parveen is a historian of modern India and politics. Her work spans modern history, politics, and urban sociology, with a focus on minority rights, spatial segregation, and urban transformation in South Asia. She completed her PhD in History from Victoria University of Wellington and has worked extensively across India, the UK, and Nepal on government- and EU-funded research projects. Her publications include Contested Homelands: Politics of Space and Identity and Understanding Inter-state Water Conflicts in India (2023). She has also co-edited a special issue of SAMAJ on Indian Muslim women. Dr. Parveen has received several prestigious fellowships, including the Asia Fellow Award, ICSSR Post-Doctoral Fellowship, and the Royal Society of New Zealand Doctoral Scholarship. She has taught at Krea University and Jamia Millia Islamia, and her writings appear in leading academic journals like JSAEPW, SAMAJ, EPW, SIP as well as public platforms: The Federal, The Quint, the Print, Indian express.