Iran Colloquium: Minority Pasts: Poetry, Patronage, and Sovereignty in Princely Rampur

Dr. Razak Khan is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Goettingen, Germany. He researches and writes about the socio-cultural, intellectual, and affective history of South Asian Muslims in Modern India and Germany. He has published articles and edited special issues in the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Brill, 2015) and Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (Duke University Press, 2020). He edited The Incomparable Festival (Penguin, 2021) and his monograph Minority Pasts: Locality, Emotions, and Belonging in Princely Rampur (Oxford University Press, 2022).