Afsar Mohammad
Senior Lecturer in South Asian Studies, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
This talk is about the making of an alternative history of 1948 Police Action in Hyderabad. Despite an unprecedented violence and trauma, the history of 1948 Police Action in Hyderabad was totally ignored by mainstream histories. By juxtaposing oral testimonies and written narratives including fictional and non-fictional works, Afsar Mohammad discusses the importance of rewriting the Muslim past.