Dr. Mazhar Abbas

Dr. Abbas is a historian, educator, and researcher specialising in the political and social history of Asia, particularly Pakistan and Punjab. He has taught history at Government College University Faisalabad since 2011, where he also supervises Ph.D. and M.Phil. research on social movements, women’s empowerment, agrarian resistance, student politics, coalition governments, political history, and public institutions. He regularly delivers workshops on research methodology, proposal development, thesis writing, and contemporary approaches to historical research.

His research examines landed aristocracy, agrarian relations, peasant movements, women’s land rights, Partition, citizenship, marginalisation, governance, and social movements. He has also served as a Research Fellow at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics and as a Research Assistant at Shanghai University’s Center for the History of Global Development. His research has received funding from Pakistan’s Ministry of Planning and Development, the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, and other national and international organisations.

Dr. Abbas has published or has forthcoming research in journals including Third World Quarterly , South Asian History and Culture , Social Identities , Interventions , India Review , and Pacific Rim Property Research Journal . He is a co-editor of The Aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971: Enduring Impact , published by Routledge, and has contributed chapters to edited volumes on Partition, citizenship, and social movements in Pakistan. He has presented his work at universities and conferences in Pakistan, China, Ireland, Poland, and the United Kingdom, including the University of Oxford and Durham University. He also contributes to academic reviewing, conference organisation, public lectures, and media discussions on history and contemporary social issues.