Soheb NIAZI

Soheb Niazi is a Gerda Henkel postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the Friedrich-Meinecke Institute, Berlin. He specializes in the social and economic history of modern India. His research focuses on non-elite (non-ashrāf) Muslim actors in South Asia. His current research project investigates the entangled networks of meat, hides and leather industry in colonial India. His further research interests include the history of science and technology as well as Urdu literature and poetry.

Soheb has been a Doctoral Fellow at the Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures where he defended his PhD on social stratification and hierarchy among Muslims in colonial India, at the Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies from the Department of History and Culture Studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Following his doctoral studies, he was a fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden as well as the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi. He is also a co-editor of the project Tazkira-e Jamia: Retrieving Past Lives from Jamia, a collaborative initiative of the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies and the Centre de Sciences Humaines in New Delhi.