Tahir Kamran

Tahir Kamran, (Urdu: طاھر کامران‎), is a notable Pakistani historian and former Iqbal fellow at the University of Cambridge,^[1] as professor in the Centre of South Asian Studies. He has authored four books and has written several articles specifically on the history of the Punjab, sectarianism, democracy, and governance. He is the head of the department of history where he founded the biannual journal 'The Historian' ^[2]

He has been influential in the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and implemented methods to improve educational standards in Pakistan.

Kamran has been a visiting fellow at Southampton University, the SOAS and at the University of Cambridge .

English language books

• Kamran, Tahir. Election Commission of Pakistan: Role in Politics. Lahore: South Asia Partnership — Pakistan, 2009. OCLC 608495037^[3]
• Kamran, Tahir. Democracy and Governance in Pakistan. Lahore: South Asia Partnership — Pakistan, 2008. OCLC 276144654^[4]
• With Ian Talbot, Lahore: In the Raj London: Hurst & Co., 2016.
• Role of Election Commission in Pakistan Politics, Lahore: South Asia Partnership, 2009

(Also translated in Urdu: Jamhoriyat aur Tarz-i-Hukamrani, Lahore: South Asia Partnership , 2009.

• Democracy and Governance in Pakistan, Lahore: South Asia Partnership, 2008 (Also

translated in Urdu: Pakistan mein Jamhuriat aur Governance (Lahore: South Asia Partnership, 2008)

• (Co-edited), Critical Perspectives on Social Sciences in Pakistan. Lahore: GC University,

2008.

• Idea of History through Ages. Lahore: Progressive Publishers, 1993.
• Tareekh-i-Pakistan, from 1707 to 1988 (History of Pakistan 1707-1988), Lahore: Majeed

Book Depot, 1993.

• TRANSLATIONS (Urdu)
• Punjab Mein Zarai Paidawar Aur Nau Abadyati Policy, Trans. of J. S. Grewal,

Tareekh Oct, 2003

• Ru Ba Taraqi Riyasat Ka Mazi Aur Mustaqbil, Trans. of Amiya Kumar Bagchi,

Tareekh, Apr, 2003

• Aik Masa’la: Tareekh Ki Tahreer-I-Nau, Trans. of Niladri Bhattacharia, Tareekh,

2003

• Kisan Aur Inqilab, Trans. of Hamza Alvi, Tareekh, 1999
• Pakistan - Raisat Ka Bohran, Anthology of Hamza Alavi’s sociological writings,

(Lahore: Fiction House, 2002)

• Jagirdari aur Samraj, Anthology of Hamza Alavi’s sociological writings, (Lahore:

Fiction House, 1999)

• Punjab mein baen bazoo kee Tareekh. Trans. of Dr Ajit Javed, Left Politics in

Punjab, (Lahore, Fiction House: Lahore, 1997)

• Khizar Tiwana, Trans. of Ian Talbot, Khizar Tiwana, (Lahore: Fiction House, 1996)
• Punjab: Ghulami say Azadi Tuk (1849-11947), Trans of Ian Talbot, Punjab and the

Raj, (Lahore: Takhliqaat, 1996)

• Pakistan kay Muashi, Siasi aur Talimi Masail, Trans. of Abdus Samad, Problems of

Governance in Pakistan, (Lahore: Fiction House, 1996)

References