Current Research:
Aga Khan III and the Politics of Refusal to Colonial Educational Policies in British Tanganyika, 1920-1940s
Playing Politics with the Youth: Aga Khan III’s Use of the Ismaili Girl Guide Movement in British Colonial Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania), 1920-1957
Women as a Canvas of Our Communal Identity: Efforts Taken to Construct Shia Ismaili Khoja Identity in British Colonial Tanganyika
Research Interests:
My research explores the nuanced relationship between colonizer and colonized and the integral roles played by women and children in the shaping of Ismaili identity in the British East African colonial system.