Main Results of the Project
1. Research Trips. To collect primary data, sources, and materials, project participants carried out research trips to Afghanistan, Great Britain (British Library, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, University of Cambridge), India (Delhi), Pakistan (Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore), Russia (Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Moscow), where they engaged in conducting focus groups, in-depth semi-structured interviews, consultations with researchers, library work, and archival research. The results of the research are/will be incorporated into research articles and presentations at the conference.
2. International conference within the project. As a part of the implementation of the research project, on April 5–6, 2024, the Faculty of Oriental Studies of KazNU organized an international conference “Nation-building in South and Central Asia: Ethnicity, Religion, and Traditions.”
The project participants presented the following papers at the conference:
1 Yerekesheva L.G. Main Results of the Scientific Project (in English)
2 Yerekesheva L.G. From Informal to Formal and Vice Versa: Social and Religious Institutions among Indian Muslims (in English)
3 Muratbekova A.M. Political Informal Institutions in Kashmir (in English)
4 Kanafieva Sh.E. Legislative Sphere and Cultural Identity of the Pashtuns of Pakistan (in Kazakh)
5 Gabdullin K.T. The Role of Traditional Informal Institutions in the Identification of the Sikhs of Punjab (based on an expert survey) (in Russian)
6 Urumova T.B. The Trauma of Partition and Sikh Identity in Khushwant Singh's Novel “Train to Pakistan” (in Kazakh)
Basic information about the conference is in the attached files and links.
2. International conference within the project. As a part of the implementation of the research project, on April 5–6, 2024, the Faculty of Oriental Studies of KazNU organized an international conference “Nation-building in South and Central Asia: Ethnicity, Religion, and Traditions.”
The project participants presented the following papers at the conference:
1 Yerekesheva L.G. Main Results of the Scientific Project (in English)
2 Yerekesheva L.G. From Informal to Formal and Vice Versa: Social and Religious Institutions among Indian Muslims (in English)
3 Muratbekova A.M. Political Informal Institutions in Kashmir (in English)
4 Kanafieva Sh.E. Legislative Sphere and Cultural Identity of the Pashtuns of Pakistan (in Kazakh)
5 Gabdullin K.T. The Role of Traditional Informal Institutions in the Identification of the Sikhs of Punjab (based on an expert survey) (in Russian)
6 Urumova T.B. The Trauma of Partition and Sikh Identity in Khushwant Singh's Novel “Train to Pakistan” (in Kazakh)
Basic information about the conference is in the attached files and links.
- Poster (pdf)
- Conference Program (pdf)
- Video release about the conference (MP4)
- Link to information about the conference posted on the website of KazNU:
3. Publications
1. Yerekesheva L.G. Intellektual'nyy diskurs natsiyestroitel'stva: natsionalizm i osmysleniye istorii v Indii [Intellectual Discourse of Nation-Building: Nationalism and History Writing in India] // Novyye issledovaniya Tuvy [New Research of Tuva] – 2024. – N 4. – р. 310-324. (In Rus) DOI: https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2024.4.20
2. Egamberdiyev M.Sh., Kanafyeva Sh.E. The Tradition of Sufism in the Context of Historical Interaction: The Case of Kazakhstan and Pakistan // Turkish Culture and Hacı Bektaş Veli Research Journal. – 2025. – N 113. – P. 267-285. https://doi.org/10.60163/tkhcbva.1596648
3. Kanaf'eva Sh.E. Oñtüstik Azïyanıñ dästürli qoğamdarındağı taypalıq faktor (pwştwn étnosı mısalında) [The tribal factor in traditional societies of South Asia (on the example of the Pashtun ethnos)] // Vestnik KaZNU. Seriya Vostokovedeniya [Bulletin of KazNU. Oriental Studies Series]. – 2024. – No1 (108). – P. 73-83. (In Kaz) https://bulletin-orientalism.kaznu.kz/index.php/1-vostok/article/view/2039/1519
4. Kanaf'eva Sh.E. Qazirgi Päkistandağı étnïkalıq jäne dinï azşılıqtardıñ dïskwrsı [Discourse of ethnic and religious minorities in contemporary Pakistan] // Vestnik KazNU. Seriya Religiovedenie [Bulletin of KazNU. Religion studies Series]. – 2024. – N 2 (38). – P. 84-94. (In Kaz) https://bulletin-religious.kaznu.kz/index.php/relig/article/view/636/411
5. Muratbekova A.M., Gabdullin K.T. Vzaimodeistvie neformal'nykh institutov Kashmira v usloviyakh neopredelennosti [Interaction of Kashmir's informal institutions under uncertainty] // Vestnik KazNU. Seriya Vostokovedeniya [Bulletin of KazNU. Oriental Studies Series] – 2024. – N 2(109). – P. 26-37. (In Rus) https://doi.org/10.26577/JOS.2024.v109.i2.03
6. Zharbosynova N.D. Qazirgi Päkistandağı pendjabïlerdiñ étnïkalıq biregeyligi men memlekettik ïnstïtwttar [State Institutions and Punjabi Ethnic Identity in Contemporary Pakistan] // Vestnik KaZNU. Seriya Vostokovedeniya [Bulletin of KazNU. Oriental Studies Series] – 2024. – N 110(3). – P. 48–56. (In Kaz) https://doi.org/10.26577/JOS.2024.v110.i3.05
7. Gabdullin K.T., Muratbekova A.M. Rol' instituta Hal'sy v identifikacii sikkhov indijskogo shtata Pendzhab: istoriya i sovremennost' [The Role of the Khalsa Institute in the Identification of Sikhs in the Indian State of Punjab: History and Modernity] // Kazakhstan Oriental Studies. – 2025. – №1. – Том 13. - P. 60-76. https://doi.org/10.63051/kos.2025.1.60 (in Rus).
The Bibliographic Catalogue
The bibliographic catalogue includes sources, materials, research works published in English, Pushto, Russian languages, as well as online resources on the topic of the project.
1. Yerekesheva L.G. Intellektual'nyy diskurs natsiyestroitel'stva: natsionalizm i osmysleniye istorii v Indii [Intellectual Discourse of Nation-Building: Nationalism and History Writing in India] // Novyye issledovaniya Tuvy [New Research of Tuva] – 2024. – N 4. – р. 310-324. (In Rus) DOI: https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2024.4.20
2. Egamberdiyev M.Sh., Kanafyeva Sh.E. The Tradition of Sufism in the Context of Historical Interaction: The Case of Kazakhstan and Pakistan // Turkish Culture and Hacı Bektaş Veli Research Journal. – 2025. – N 113. – P. 267-285. https://doi.org/10.60163/tkhcbva.1596648
3. Kanaf'eva Sh.E. Oñtüstik Azïyanıñ dästürli qoğamdarındağı taypalıq faktor (pwştwn étnosı mısalında) [The tribal factor in traditional societies of South Asia (on the example of the Pashtun ethnos)] // Vestnik KaZNU. Seriya Vostokovedeniya [Bulletin of KazNU. Oriental Studies Series]. – 2024. – No1 (108). – P. 73-83. (In Kaz) https://bulletin-orientalism.kaznu.kz/index.php/1-vostok/article/view/2039/1519
4. Kanaf'eva Sh.E. Qazirgi Päkistandağı étnïkalıq jäne dinï azşılıqtardıñ dïskwrsı [Discourse of ethnic and religious minorities in contemporary Pakistan] // Vestnik KazNU. Seriya Religiovedenie [Bulletin of KazNU. Religion studies Series]. – 2024. – N 2 (38). – P. 84-94. (In Kaz) https://bulletin-religious.kaznu.kz/index.php/relig/article/view/636/411
5. Muratbekova A.M., Gabdullin K.T. Vzaimodeistvie neformal'nykh institutov Kashmira v usloviyakh neopredelennosti [Interaction of Kashmir's informal institutions under uncertainty] // Vestnik KazNU. Seriya Vostokovedeniya [Bulletin of KazNU. Oriental Studies Series] – 2024. – N 2(109). – P. 26-37. (In Rus) https://doi.org/10.26577/JOS.2024.v109.i2.03
6. Zharbosynova N.D. Qazirgi Päkistandağı pendjabïlerdiñ étnïkalıq biregeyligi men memlekettik ïnstïtwttar [State Institutions and Punjabi Ethnic Identity in Contemporary Pakistan] // Vestnik KaZNU. Seriya Vostokovedeniya [Bulletin of KazNU. Oriental Studies Series] – 2024. – N 110(3). – P. 48–56. (In Kaz) https://doi.org/10.26577/JOS.2024.v110.i3.05
7. Gabdullin K.T., Muratbekova A.M. Rol' instituta Hal'sy v identifikacii sikkhov indijskogo shtata Pendzhab: istoriya i sovremennost' [The Role of the Khalsa Institute in the Identification of Sikhs in the Indian State of Punjab: History and Modernity] // Kazakhstan Oriental Studies. – 2025. – №1. – Том 13. - P. 60-76. https://doi.org/10.63051/kos.2025.1.60 (in Rus).
The Bibliographic Catalogue
The bibliographic catalogue includes sources, materials, research works published in English, Pushto, Russian languages, as well as online resources on the topic of the project.
