Publications

BOOKS

• Pakistan: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2021).
• From the Ashes of 1947: Reimagining Punjab (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
• Panikos Panayi and Pippa Virdee (eds) Refugees and the End of Empire: Imperial Collapse and Forced Migration during the Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
• Coming to Coventry: Stories from the South Asian Pioneers (Coventry: The Herbert, 2006).

JOURNALS

• ‘Partitioning the University of the Panjab, 1947’ with Yaqoob Khan Bangash, The Indian Economic & Social History Review 59, no. 4 (2022): 423-445. DOI: 10.1177/00194646221130414
• ‘Histories and Memories in the Digital Age of Partition Studies’ The Oral History Review 49, no. 2 (2022): 328-345. DOI: 10.1080/00940798.2022.2097877  
• ‘Women and Pakistan International Airlines in Ayub Khan’s Pakistan’ The International History Review (2018): 1-26.  DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2018.1472622
• ‘From Mano Majra to Faqiranwalla: Revisiting the ‘Train to Pakistan’’ with Arafat Safdar, South Asia Chronicle, (January 2018). DOI: 10.18452/18788.
• ‘Remembering Partition: Women, Oral Histories and the Partition of 1947’ Oral History, 2013, Volume 41, Issue 2, pp. 49-61. JSTOR link.
• ‘Negotiating the Past: Journey through Muslim Women’s Experience of Partition and Resettlement’ Cultural and Social History, 2009, Volume 6, Issue 4, pp. 467–484. https://doi.org/10.2752/147800409X466290.
• ‘Tranquility and Brutality: The Paradox of Partition Violence in Punjab’, The Historian, 2006, Volume 4, No 1, pp. 26-38.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• ‘Dreams, Memories and Legacies: Partitioning India’, In Knut A. Jacobsen (ed) Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India (Routledge, 2015), pp.21-34.
• ‘No-mans Land’ and the Creation of Partitioned Histories’, In India/Pakistan’, In Remembering Genocide, eds Nigel Eltringham and Pam Maclean (Routledge, 2014), pp.19-37.
• ‘‘No Home but in Memory’: The Legacies of Colonial Rule in the Punjab’, In Panikos Panayi and Pippa Virdee (eds) Refugees and the End of Empire: Imperial Collapse and Forced Migration during the Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), pp.175-195.
• ‘Partition in Transition: Comparative Analysis of Migration in Ludhiana and Lyallpur’, In Anjali Gera Roy and Nandi Bhatia (eds) Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement and Resettlement (Pearson, 2007), p.156-173.
• ‘Partition and the Absence of Communal Violence in Malerkotla’, In Ian Talbot (ed.) The Deadly Embrace: Religion, Politics and Violence in the Indian Subcontinent 1947-2002 (Oxford University Press, 2007), p.16-35.
• ‘Refugee Experiences of Migration and Post Partition Resettlement in Lyallpur’, in Sustainable Development Policy Institute (edited) Troubled Times. Sustainable Development and Governance in the Age of Extremes (Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 391–404.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS 

• ‘Lessons from Malerkotla’, National Herald, 6 October 2019.
• ‘The Trouble with Nostalgia’, The Friday Times July 2019.
• ‘Corridor of Opportunity’, Asian Affairs, January 2019, pp. 46-7.
• ‘Sikh shrines in India and Pakistan – why construction of visa-free Kartarpur corridor is so historic’, The Conversation, 5 Dec 2018.
• ‘No Man’s land: the Wagah-Attari Border‘, LSE South Asia Blog, August 2017.
• ‘Freedom and Fear: India and Pakistan at 70‘, The Diplomat August 2017.
• Kiyotaka Sato, Life Story of Mr Ram Krishen, (Research Centre for the History of Religious and Cultural Diversity, Meiji University, Tokyo, 2016).
• ‘Revive the Past to Protect the Future’, Asian Affairs, May 2016.
• ‘The coming of the jet age: women, advertising and tourism in Pakistan’, The News on Sunday, 23 November 2014.
• ‘Recovering history through nostalgia’, The News on Sunday August 24, 2014.
• Kiyotaka Sato, Life Story of Mr Sarup Singh and Mrs Gurmit Kaur, (Research Centre for the History of Religious and Cultural Diversity, Meiji University, Tokyo, 2012).
• ‘The Punjab: Migrations and Memories of the Homeland’, Asian Voice (2012).
• Lucy Chester, ‘Borders and Conflict in South Asia. The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab’, Reviews in History (2010), No. 995, pp. 1–4.
• ‘The Heart Divided: Muted Narratives and the Partition of the Punjab’, Transactions of the Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society, 2010, Volume 104, pp. 22-24.
• ‘From the Belgrave Road to the Golden Mile: the transformation of Asians in Leicester’, From Diasporas to Multi-Locality: Writing British Asian Cities, Working Paper, 30 June 2009, pp. 1–18.
• ‘Pakistan: women’s quest for entitlement’, Open Democracy, 9 April 2009.

BOOK REVIEWS

• Sam Dalrymple, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia (HarperCollins, 2025), BBC History, September 2025, p. 75.
• Ali Usman Qasmi, Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat: Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan, (Standford University Press, 2023), Journal of Islamic Studies, forthcoming 2025.
• Amber H. Abbas, Partition’s First Generation: Space, Place, and Identity in Muslim South Asia (I. B. Tauris, 2021), Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 34, Issue 1, 2023, pp. 129–132. 
• Francis Robinson, Jamal Mian: The Life of Maulana Jamaluddin Abdul Wahab of Farangi Mahall, 1919–2012 (Oxford University Press, 2017), The English Historical Review Volume 135, Issue 575, August 2020, pp. 1073–1075.
• Peter Gatrell, Free World? The Campaign to Save the World’s Refugees, 1956–1963 (Cambridge University Press, 2011), The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 161–162.
• Kavita Daiya, Violent Belongings: Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India, (Temple University press, 2008), The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2010, 38:4, pp. 645-647.
• Review article, Lucy Chester, Borders and Conflict in South Asia. The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab (Manchester, 2009). In Reviews in History. (2010), No. 995, pp. 1–4.
• Satish Saberwal, Spirals of Contention: Why India was Partitioned in 1947 (Routledge, 2008) AND Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, The Long Partition and The Making of Modern South Asia, (Penguin, 2007) in The Book Review, 2008.
• Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan, (Penguin Viking, 2007) AND An American Witness to India’s Partition, Phillips Talbot (Sage Publications, 2007) The Book Review, 2007.
• Meeto (Kamaljit Bhasin-Malik), In the Making: Identity Formation in South Asia (Three Essays Collective, 2007), Journal of Punjab Studies, Volume 16, No 1, 2009, pp. 130-132.
• Nigel Collett, The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer (Hambledon & London, 2005), Journal of Punjab Studies, Volume 14, No. 1, 2007, pp. 134–36.
• Tan Tai Yong, The Garrison State: The Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849-1947 (Sage, 2005), The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Volume 34, Issue 3, 2006, pp. 467–468.
• Adeel Khan, Politics of Identity: Ethnic Nationalism and the State in Pakistan (Sage, 2005), National Identities (2006), Volume 8, No. 1, 2006, pp. 106–07.
• Chandraprakash Dwivedi (director) Pinjar, 2003. Journal of Punjab Studies, Volume 11, No. 1, 2004 pp. 118-121.
• Gyanesh Kudaisya and Tan Tai Yong, The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia (Routledge, 2000), The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Volume 30, Issue 2, 2002, pp. 152–153.
• Mohammad Zaigham Pasha and Shaukat Ali Shahid, From Sand Dunes to Smiling Fields: History of Lyallpur now Faisalabad, (Faisalabad: Kitab Markaz, 1996) in The Historian, 2002.