Dr. Nazima Parveen

Nazima Parveen is a scholar of contemporary India working at the intersection of modern history, political studies, and urban sociology. Her research revolves around the historical construction of political spaces and production of identities in the wider South Asian context. Her two monographs—Contested Homelands: Politics of Space and Identity (Bloomsbury: London, 2021 (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contested-homelands-9789389000900 ) and Understanding Inter-state Water Conflicts in India: Legal-Constitutional Framework and Debates (Delhi: Policy Perspective Foundation, 2023)—show the historical evolution of concepts like nation, homelands, region, and electoral constituencies in colonial and independent India. Parveen’s work also pays close attention to public policy discourse. She was one of the Principal Investigator for the US-India PolicyInstitute (USIPI) funded project, 'Rethinking Affirmative Action for Muslims in India' (Hyderabad: USIPI-CDPP, 2025 https://usipi.org/thought-leadership/rethinking-affirmative-action). She recently co-edited a special issue on Indian Muslim Women: Negotiating Space and Identity in Contemporary India (https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/9457) for the South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ). Parveen is currently working a book project, Making Sense of Political Constituency: Space, Representation and Vote Bank. Parveen has taught courses on modern Indian history, political sociology and research methodology at the Krea University, Andhra Pradesh, and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Parveen has also worked in the Third Sector as lead researcher on different government and international funded research programmes in the UK, India, and Nepal. She was awarded the prestigious Asia Fellow Award in 2009 by the Asian Scholarship Foundation, Bangokok, for her research project, Politics of inclusiveness in Nepal, co-hosted by the Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu. Parveen was the recipient of various scholarships and fellowships, which includes the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS), Krea Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2021-2023; the ICSSR Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2018-2020; the Royal Society of New Zealand Doctoral Scholarship 2013–2016; and the ICSSR-CSDS Doctoral Fellowship 2010–2012. Dr. Parveen has a public profile. She also been warites for different web portals like The Federal, The Quint, Indian Express, The Print, Scroll.in and others.