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ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1063-6486
Key Expertise: Urban Social Formations and Youth Cultures, Media and the Public Sphere, Popular Culture and Nationalism, Public History.

Saeed Ahmad

Ph.D. (University of Goettingen) M.Phil. (University of Delhi) M.A.

Assistant Professor

Modern South Asia

The Politics and History of Planning

The Built Environment and its Histories

The City: A multiple perspective (Intro to urban studies)

The Past Recalled: Memory, History, and the Archive

Reframing sacred urbanism: India-UK diasporic worlding and nationalist heritage revival (Co-I with Dr. Rishika Mukherjee and Dr. Jen Dickinson, University of Southampton), British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Grant (282,782 GBP), 2024-2026

DAAD 'New Passage to India' Fellow, Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Goettingen, 2016-2017

2024

Ahmad, Saeed, 2024. ‘Forging Communal Space: Negotiating streets and practices in a Delhi neighbourhood, 1922-1965’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 46(6): 1222-1239. 10.1080/00856401.2024.2303836.

Ahmad, Saeed. 2024. Book review: Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth Century Calcutta. Urban Studies, 61(10): 2033-2036. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241265050.

2023

Ahmad, Saeed. 2023. PhD Dissertation. City on the move: Migration, public culture and urban identity in Delhi, c. 1911- present, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Goettingen. http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-9943

Ahmad, Saeed, 2023. ‘Fragments of the city: Engaging the urban through its neighbourhoods’ (Review Essay), SAMAJ: South Asia Multi-Disciplinary Academic Journal. https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/8564.

2022

Ahmad, Saeed, 2022. ‘Muslim Pasts and Presents: Displacement and city-making in a Delhi neighbourhood’. Modern Asian Studies 56 (6): 1872-1900. 10.1017/S0026749X21000512.

2020

Ahmad, Saeed, 2020. ‘Of Monks, Space, and Law: Notes on an experiment with interdisciplinarity’. Rechtswirklichkeit. https://barblog.hypotheses.org/3541

2016

Ahmad, Saeed. 2016. MPhil Dissertation. Daily Akhbar: Newspapers and reading publics in Delhi, c. 1945-1952, Department of History, University of Delhi.

Jindal School of Design & Architecture
Jindal School of Design & Architecture
Jindal School of Design & Architecture
Jindal School of Design & Architecture