Tanweer Fazal is currently, Alexander Von Humboldt senior research fellow at University of Göttingen, Germany. He is professor of sociology at BML Munjal University, Gurgaon and Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad (on Leave). He is the author of Practices of the State: Muslims, Law and Violence in India (Three Essays 2024), Mobilities and Marginalities Among Muslims of India: Elusive Citizenship (Co-ed.) (Routledge 2023), The Minority Conundrum: Living in Majoritarian Times (ed.) (Penguin 2020), Nation-state and Minority Rights in India: Comparative Perspectives on Muslim and Sikh Identities (Routledge, 2015) and Minority Nationalisms in South Asia (ed.) (Routledge 2012). Earlier he taught at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and at Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia. He has been a visiting Professor at Wake Forest University, an ICAS-MP research fellow/visiting Professor at Gottingen University and an associate fellow at Delhi Policy Group.