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Adnan Tariq

Dr. Adnan Tariq

Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Archival Research, Archive Studies, Partition of India, Historiography, USSR

Biography

My name is Dr. Adnan Tariq. I was born in 1982 in Lahore. I completed my Bachelor of Arts from Forman Christian College and went on to earn my MA and MPhil from Government College University, Lahore. I later completed my PhD at the University of the Punjab. I also received a postgraduate fellowship at Royal Holloway, University of London, which further strengthened my academic training and research experience.

Education

  • PhD in History, University Of The Punjab (Lahore Pakistan) 2017

Teaching Areas

Archive Studies, Partition Violence, Archival Methodologies

Experience

From To Designation Firm/Institution
Aug 2009 Continue Lecturer/Assistant Professor Higher Education Department

Journal Papers

  • Mahboob, Ahmad., Tariq, Adnan. (2026). "Along the Grain of One’s Own Diary A 2005 Field Journal as an Archive of Elite–Rural Encounter in Southern Punjab." Dayal Singh Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences , Vol. 04 (01) , pp. 13-22..
  • Tariq, Adnan. (2026). "From High Politics to Hyper-Locality: Spatiality and the Historiographical Fault Lines of the 1947 Partition." Journal of Religion and Society , Vol. vol 5 (No 01) , pp. Page No.1029-1036.
  • Tariq, Adnan., Ahmad, Muhammd Mahboob., Ahmad, Muhammad. (2026). "From Social Reform to Separatism: The Rise and Decline of the Dravida Nadu Movement in Late Colonial India." Social Science Review Archives (January-March) ISSN: 3006-4708 , Vol. 04 (01) , pp. 5618-5627.
  • Tariq, Adnan. (2026). "Stalin's Rise to Power: Political Maneuvering and the Construction of Soviet Totalitarianism, 1922–1929." Physical Education, Health and Social Sciences ISSN: 2958-5996 , Vol. 04 (01) , pp. 1143-1148.
  • Tariq, Adnan., Shafi, Muhammad. (2026). "The All-India Sunni Conference and the Making of Pakistan: A Study of Sunni Religious Politics in Late Colonial India." Journal of Religion and Society 3006-130X , Vol. 04 (01) , pp. 1009-1016.
  • Tariq, Adnan., Shafi, Muhammad. (2026). "The Punjab Historical Society and the Emergence of Professional Historical Scholarship in Colonial Punjab (1911–1931)." Advance Social Science Archive Journal ISSN: 3006-2500 , Vol. 05 (01) , pp. 4506-4512.
  • Mahboob Ahmad, Muhammad., Tariq, Adnan (2025). "An Ecological Shahr Ashob: Literature, Multispecies Loss, and Lahore's Environment." Sociology & Cultural Research Review Print ISSN: 3007-3103; Online ISSN: 3007-3111 , Vol. 03 (01) , pp. 1478-1489.
  • Tariq, Adnan., Ahmad, Muhammd Mahboob., Ahmad, Muhammad. (2025). "Debating the End of the Soviet Union: An Analysis of Pakistani and Western Scholarship." Social Science Review Archives (July-September) , Vol. 03 (03) .
  • Tariq, Adnan., Ahmad, Muhammd Mahboob., Ahmad, Muhammad. (2025). "From Centralization to Collapse: Structural Weaknesses of the Soviet State." Social Science Review Archives (January-March) Print ISSN: 3006-4694; Online ISSN: 3006-4708 , Vol. 03 (01) , pp. 3162-3170.
  • Tariq, Adnan., Ahmad, Muhammd Mahboob., Ahmad, Muhammad. (2025). "From Tsarism to Soviet Communism: The Historical Continuity of Authoritarian Political Culture." Physical Education, Health and Social Sciences , Vol. 03 (01) , pp. 542-549.
  • Tariq, Adnan., Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob., Shafi, Muhammad. (2025). "From Western Knowledge to Colonial Modernity: The Evolution of Education Policy in Colonial Punjab, 1849–1900." Social Science Review Archives (July-September) Print ISSN: 3006-4694; Online ISSN: 3006-4708 , Vol. 03 (03) , pp. 1951-1959.
  • Tariq, Adnan., Shafi, Muhammad. (2025). "Rethinking Authority: Naqshbandi Responses to Political Transition in Early Nineteenth-Century India." Social Science Review Archives (October-December) ISSN: 3006-4708 , Vol. 03 (04) , pp. 4626-4634.
  • Tariq, Adnan., Ahmad, Muhammad Mahboob., Shafi, Muhammad. (2025). "Swadeshi Movement in Colonial Lahore: Education and Nationalism." Physical Education, Health and Social Sciences Print ISSN: 2958-5988; Online ISSN: 2958-5996 , Vol. 03 (03) , pp. 205-211.
  • Tariq, Adnan. (2025). "The Banality of Violence: Arendt, Partition and the Walled City of Lahore in 1947." Advance Social Science Archive Journal Print ISSN: 3006-2497; Online ISSN: 3006-2500 , Vol. 03 (01) , pp. 2295-2302.
  • Tariq, Adnan., Ahmad, Muhammd Mahboob., Ahmad, Muhammad. (2025). "The Era of Stability and Stagnation: Brezhnev's Political System in USSR." Social Science Review Archives (April-June) , Vol. 03 (02) , pp. 2344-2352.
  • Asif, Muhammad. Tariq, Adnan. (2025). "Too Many Things at Once: Why the Cripps Mission Failed?." Physical Education, Health and Social Sciences , Vol. 03 (04) , pp. 1026-1033.
  • Tariq, Adnan., Ahmad, Muhammd Mahboob. (2024). "Constructing Arya Identity: Making of Modern Hindu Public Culture in Colonial Lahore." Social Science Review Archives Print ISSN: 3006-4694; Online ISSN: 3006-4708 , Vol. 02 (02) , pp. 2672-2679.
  • Shahbaz, Muhamad, Tariq, Adnan. (2024). "Election 1997: The new Calculus of Pakistani Politics and Rise of the PML-N." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN AND SOCIETY (IJHS) Print ISSN: 2710-4958; Online ISSN: 2710-4966 , Vol. 04 (01) , pp. 1050-1063.
  • Shahbaz, Muhamad, Tariq, Adnan. (2024). "Electoral Performance of Religiopolitical Alliance (IJI) in Election 1988: An Assessment." Al-Qamar Print ISSN: 2664-438X; Online ISSN: 2664-4398 , Vol. 07 (01) , pp. 113-134.
  • Tariq, Adnan. (2024). "Researching Post-Partition Resettlement and Rehabilitation in South Asia: A Historiographical Survey." Sociology & Cultural Research Review Print ISSN: 3007-3103; Online ISSN: 3007-3111 , Vol. 02 (04) , pp. 887-893.
  • Tariq, Adnan. (2024). "Writing Partition Violence: Historiographical Trends and Emerging Perspectives." Advance Social Science Archive Journal Print ISSN: 3006-2497; Online ISSN: 3006-2500 , Vol. 02 (04) , pp. 1671-1681.
  • Tariq, Adnan. (2022). "City in Transit: Cross-Migration in Lahore during Partition of India." Pakistan Historical Society , Vol. Vol. IXX. (II) .
  • Tariq, Adnan (2021). "Nexus and the city: Battle for Lahore during Partition of India." JRSP , Vol. 58 (4) .
  • Tariq, Adnan. (2021). "Violence, Lahore, and Partition of India: Refocusing on the Great Fire of Shah Almi Bazar and the real exodus." JRSP, , Vol. 58 (2) .
  • Tariq, Adnan (2021). "Violence, Partition, and Locality of Lahore: A Critical Reappraisal." Pakistan Vision, , Vol. 19 (2) .
  • Tariq, Adnan. (2019). "Indology and Indologist: Conceiving India during Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries." Journal of Indian Studies Print ISSN: 2520-7296; Online ISSN: 2520-7288 , Vol. 05 (01) , pp. 17-28.
  • Tariq, Adnan. (2018). "The assassination of Lala Lekh Ram (1897)." The Historian , Vol. 16 (2) .
  • Tariq, Adnan. (2017). "From communitarianism to communalism, communal identity in late nineteenth century Lahore." Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan , Vol. 54 (1) .
  • chawla, I., Riffat,F., Tariq, A., (2016). "A History of Sindh from a Regional Perspective: Sindh and Making of Pakistan." Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan , Vol. 52 (2) .
  • Tariq, Adnan. (2015). "Presentation of the freedom movement in Pakistani Historiography." Faran Journal of Social Sciences , Vol. 1 (3) .

Books (Complete)

  • Author (2026). Punjab:Blood and Borders, understaning Partition Violence through Archival and Secret Records , 1 ed. "Vangaurds Books Lahore" , ISBN: 9789694027258
  • Adnan Tariq (2024). Lahore@Partition , 1 ed. "Vanguard" , ISBN: 9789694026633

Thesis/Research Supervisions

  • FAHEEM LEHRI (2025), BS. Thesis: "POLITICS OF ARCHIVES IN BALUCHISTAN" (Completed)
  • HIKMAT ULLAH (2025), BS. Thesis: "AJMAL KHATTAK: A POLITICAL FIGURE IN PAKISTAN’S POLITICS FROM NAP TO ANP (1957-2010)" (Completed)
  • Muhammad Imran, (2025), BS. Thesis: "Role of Jamat-e-Islami in Politics of Pakistan (1947-1958)" (Completed)
  • Muhammad Hassan Nawaz (2024), BS. Thesis: "Print Culture and the Urbanization of Colonial Lahore: A Case Study of Paisa Akhbar (1887-1947)" (Completed)
  • Muhammad Ibrar Zafar (2024), BS. Thesis: "Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD) in Pakistan (1981-1988" (Completed)
  • SALMAN GR (2024), BS. Thesis: "Silencing the Archives: A Case study of the Kallat Archives ." (Completed)
  • Syed Ahmad Ullah (2024), BS. Thesis: "The Role of Jamaat-e-Islami in the Soviet-Afghan War: A Histori-cal Descriptive Analysis (1979- 1989)" (Completed)
  • ZAHID HUSSAIN (2024), BS. Thesis: "HISTTORY AND CONTRIBUTION OF NAZIR AHMAD MUSIC SOCIETY TO THE MUSIC INDUSTRY OF PAKISTAN" (Completed)