Hilal Ahmed is Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. He is interested in two broad areas of research: (a) political Islam and the evolution of Muslim modernities in South Asia and (b) politics of symbols in relation to visual culture. Ahmed has done his PhD on Politics of Monument and Memory in North India: A Study of Muslim Political Discourse on Jama Masjid and Babri Masjid from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2007).

Ahmed has recently finished a project Environment of the Marginalized and the Marginalization of Environment: A Study of an Unofficial Waste Disposal site in East Delhi (2010-11) for the Indian Council for Social Science Research. He also produced a research based-report Conservation of Indo-Islamic Historic Buildings in India: An Evaluation of the Postcolonial Indian Conservation Policy and Legal Framework for the World Bank for its trans-regional project on Policies and Financial Mechanisms for Culture in Sustainable Development Learning Initiative (2008).

Ahmed has designed and conducted a course History, Memory and Identity for Researching the Contemporary Teaching Program of the CSDS (June-July 2010). He was the co-convenor for an undergraduate course on Colonial and Nationalism in India for University of Delhi (2008). Ahmed had designed a course on Contemporary Challenges of Muslim Societies for Syracuse University's Muslim Cultures: Historical Diversity and Contemporary Realities program (2007). He was also involved in a training course on Basic Islamic Awareness for NGO professionals working in London (2006). Ahmed has taught Political Science at the University of Delhi.

Ahmed is currently working on three projects: (a) The Politics of Muslim Political Representation, which looks at the issues and debates on Muslim political representation in postcolonial India. This project is a part of Lokniti’s larger project on Democracy and New Publics (b) Mosques as Monuments: Memory, Islam and National Identity in Bangladesh. This project is funded by the Asian Scholarship Foundation, and it examines relationship between mosque architecture and the questions of political identities. (c) Ahmed is also editing two books: Kaviraj Reader (in Hindi), which is a part of the Lokchitak Granthmala series of CSDS, and Naubat-e-Panchroza (an Urdu text written in mid-19th century with Mohammad Ahmad). He is also writing short-article related to Islam and Muslims for a forthcoming Encyclopedia of Social Science (in Hindi).

Ahmed has published essays, articles and commentaries in national and international journals, newspapers and websites. He writes in Hindi and English. In addition, he has produced a short documentary video entitled Encountering the Political Jama Masjid (18m, Colour, 2006) on different images of the Jama Masjid of Delhi.

Ahmed was awarded the Ford Foundation IFP Fellowship for his doctoral work (2002-05). He also received the Asia Fellow Award (2010-11) for his Bangladesh project. Ahmed also selected for the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies Fellowship in 2008-09. He was the recipient of the Association for Third Sector Research- Charities Aid Foundation Fellowship 2001-2002 and the UGC Junior/Senior Research Fellowship (1997-2001).

A film Beacons of Hope, http://vimeo.com/5606982 based on the works of four selected IFP India Alumni (Moving Images, /the Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program Production, 2008, colour 25Min. English) has documented the struggles and achievements of Ahmed.

	Hyderabad, All India Itehad-ul-Muslimin (MIM) and Muslim Politics: A note, background paper submitted to Centre for Policy Research, September 2011
	Environment of the Marginalized and the Marginalization of Environment: A Report (report submitted to ICSSR)

	An Indo-Islamic Discourse of Democracy: An Introduction to the Political Ideas of Syed Shahabuddin, Asian Studies Review, April 2010.
	Religion, Politics and Public Policy: Interrogating Discourses, (review article on Mahajan Gurpreet, Jodhka Surinder, S. (2010). Ed. Religion, Community and Development: Changing Contours of Politics and Policy in India. Routledge. New Delhi.) The Book Review, Vol. XXXV, No.1. January 2011.
	Political Dilemma of a Modernist, (review article on Wajahat, Asghar, 2009. Barkha Rachai, Rajkamal. Delhi). The Book Review Vol. XXXV, No. 2, February 2011.
	Untitled Review of Irfan Ahmad's Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaate-Islami, South Asian History and Culture (Routledge), April 2010.

	Hind Swaraj ka Punarpath aur Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, (Re-reading Hind Swaraj and Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha) Tadbhav, March 2010.
	Uttar Opniveshik Bharat me Akadhik Muslim Adhunitaon ka Vimarsh: Hindi Aur Muslim Pehachano ka Nirman (Multiple Muslim Modernities in Postcolonial India: Hindi and the making and remaking of Muslim identities), Tadbhav, January 2010.
	Hinsa ke Tark Aur Tarko ki Hinsa (Arguments of Violence and Violence of Arguments) Lokmat, Annual Divali Number, October 2010.
	Zamin se Kata Udarvad (Liberalism without Roots), Samayik Varta, January 2011.
	Deshaj Gyan aur Hindi me Samaj Chintan (Indigenous knowledge Systems and Social Thinking in Hindi) Samayaik Varta, July-August 2011.
	Nagrik Samaj ka Sedhantik Ashay (Theoretical meanings of civil society), Sablog, August 2011

	>Babri Masjid: Look at the issue in all its complexity, The Economic Times, Delhi, 17, September 2010.
	The emptiness of Deoband controversy, The Asian Age, New Delhi, 30 January 2011.
	How to Not Read the Ayodhya Judgement, Kafila, http://kafila.org/2010/10/02/how-to- not-read-the-ayodhya-judgement-hilal-ahmed/
	Pehchan ekrup na sarokar sthir (Multiple Identities and discourses of Muslims in India), Hastkshep, Rashtriya Sahara, 16 July 2011.

	>Exploring Muslim Modernities: Public Presence of Mosques in Delhi and London, International Seminar on Negotiating and Accommodating Religious Identity in Public Arena: Comparing Indian and European Experiences with Special Reference to Muslim Minorities, Jamia Millia Islamia, 10 February 2010.
	An 'Official' Memory of India: Monuments, Memorials and Samadhis as Political Texts, Critical Studies in Politics workshop, IIAS-Shimla, 4-6 March 2010.
	An 'Official' Memory of India: Monuments, Memorials and Samadhis as Political Texts, Conference on Power in Modern India: Discourses and Practices, CPS-JNU, 27 March 2010.
	Muslims and Affirmative Actions in Postcolonial India: The Reservation Debate, International Seminar on Plural Societies and Imperatives of Development: Religions, Communities, Citizenship, JNU, 19 April 2010.
	Mosque as Monument: Afterlives of Jama Masjid and the Political Memories of a Royal Muslim Past, International conference on ‘Afterlife of Monuments’, organized by the Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design and The University of the Arts London Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, London 28-30 April 2010.
	Public Presence of Mosques and Political Memories of Muslims in Post colonial Delhi. Lecture delivered at Department of Political Science, University of Pavia, Italy, 1 May 2010.
	Participated in the Orientation Program for the Asia Fellow Award 2010-11 and the Annual Conference organized by the Asian Scholarship Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand, 7-8 July 2010.
	Public Presence of Mosques and Muslim Identity in Postcolonial Delhi, International conference on When the ties that bind unravel: Art Practices in an Age of Cultural Relativism, organized by Religare Art India, 28 October 2010, British Council, New Delhi.
	An 'Official' Memory of India: Monuments, Memorials and Samadhis as Political Texts, Critical Studies in Politics workshop, CSDS, 30 October-1 November 2010.
	Muslims Modernities and the question of politics: a note, Roundtable on Religion and Politics, CPS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 19 November, 2010
	The Idea of the Political, lecture delivered at Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi, 8 February 2011.
	Politics and Political Science, lecture delivered at Dayal Singh College, University of Delhi, Delhi, 2 February 2011
	Delivered a lecture on Languages: Holy, unholy and not-so-holy at CSDS on 22 July 2011 for the teaching program of the CSDS, 'Researching the Contemporary.

	Participated in the Panel Discussion on Reservation for Muslims, Public Forum program, Lok Sabha Television, 19 April 2010.
	Lecture on The idea of Contemporary and Muslim Modernities, UGC TV lecture series. 17 September 2010

	Designed and conducted the History, Memory and Identity course for Researching the Contemporary, the research training program of the CSDS as Course Coordinator June- July 2010.
	Conducted a teaching module on Monuments and Monumentalisation, PhD fellows’ workshop, CSDS, July 2010.

Ahmed is the co-supervisor of the following doctoral candidates:
	Jyoti Bhosale, Department of Politics, Central University Hyderabad/Doctoral Fellow, CSDS. Topic: State and Prison Labour in Colonial and in Independent India.
	Indrajit Kumar Jha, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi/Doctoral Fellow, CSDS. Topic: Changing Role of Higher Judiciary in India: Comparative Study of Pre and post Liberalization Era.
(For the complete list of publication see CV)