Layli Uddin

Layli Uddin is Lecturer in Politics of South Asia at Queen Mary University of London. Dr. Uddin is a political and social historian of modern South Asia, bringing together interdisciplinary questions on religion, class and mass politics. Her research reconstructs subaltern political thought and movements in the context of decolonization, state-formation and the Cold War. Her broader interests are in liberation theologies and subaltern geopolitics in the Global South.

Before joining Queen Mary, Dr. Uddin was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London (2020-2021), Postdoctoral Fellow at Lahore University of Management Sciences (2019), and Curator of Two Centuries of Indian Print at the British Library (2016-2018).

Dr. Uddin completed her Ph.D. in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her dissertation explored the political mobilization of subaltern classes in the making and unmaking of Pakistan from the 1930s up to 1971. She is currently working on her first book based on her thesis, Land of Eternal Eid: Making and Unmaking Pakistan, 1930s-1971.

Dr. Uddin is on the advisory board of Jamhoor, a critical left media organization; Bangladesh on Record, a digital archive project; and for Lokayoto Bidyaloy, a campaign and advocacy group in Bangladesh. She blogs at layliuddin.wordpress.com.