Amar Sohal

Amar Sohal is an intellectual historian of modern India and Pakistan and Lecturer in the History of Political Thought at King’s College London.

Amar Sohal's research focuses on anti-colonial nationalism, religious politics, and the secular state. After completing his DPhil in History at Merton College, Oxford, Amar was elected Early-Career Research Fellow in Politics and International Studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. There he revised his DPhil dissertation for a monograph, The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India’s Partition (Oxford University Press, 2023), published in the Oxford Historical Monographs series.

Amar’s academic articles and edited special issues on minorityhood and Kashmir have been published in leading journals: Global Intellectual History, Modern Intellectual History, and South Asia. His second research project explores the political thought of Hindu and Muslim conservatives across the twentieth century. Surmounting institutional divisions, these thinker-politicians collectively theorised ideas of state authority, freedom, (non)violence, and national culture.