Lubna Irfan
Scholar, medieval Indian history
Lubna Irfan is a scholar of medieval Indian history at Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History, AMU. Her areas of interest are social history, history of art and architecture and gender history. She's also a poet.
By Lubna Irfan
How one travels has always been a statement of wealth and social status.
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When people were looking for reasons to behead Sarmad, they didn’t find homosexuality a reason enough to punish him.
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Spaces of public use have changed a lot since the medieval times, but some things remain the same.
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Absence of accounts from women’s perspectives leaves one sceptical of historical accounts composed by the privileged gender.
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Patriotism test for madrasas in Uttar Pradesh on Independence Day shows the rotten condition of our independent nation.
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Stereotypes and biases lead to distorted understandings of the past, which negatively affects the present and haunts the future.
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