Dr. Layli Uddin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan. She is a social and intellectual historian of 19th and 20th century South Asia. She is currently working on her monograph, which focuses on the charismatic leadership of Maulana Bhashani and the political mobilisation of peasants and workers in the making and unmaking of East Pakistan, from the 1930s up to 1971. In February 2020, she will join King’s College London as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, and begin her new project, which will be a history of Islamic Socialism in South Asia, 1920s-1978.