Degrees Held
- D (History), Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, March 1995
- MA (History), Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, May 1987
- UHDE, University of Durban-Westville, 1983.
- BA (Hons.) [History], University of Durban-Westville, KwaZulu Natal, 1982
- BA [English, History],University of Durban-Westville, KwaZulu Natal, 1981
Research Interests
Goolam’s research interests include indentured labour in colonial Natal; Gandhi in South Africa; migration, citizenship, and transnationalism among Indian South Africans; history of education in South Africa; Islam and Muslims in South Africa; and the role of sport (cricket) and culture in South African society.
Teaching Interests
- African History in the 19th and 20th centuries
- South and Southern African History
- Theory and Methods
- Comparative History of Race and Racism
- Settler colonialism
Complete Research Record / Selected Publications
Books
Journal Articles
Chapters In Books
Books
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2025. Belonging. A History of Indian South Africans. Johannesburg and Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers. 2025. ISBN 978-1-77619-371-4; ebook ISBN 978-1-77619-372-1.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2025. University of Durban-Westville 1961-2003. Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. ISBN: 978 1 86914 583 5; eISBN: 978 1 86914 584 2.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2023. Durban’s Casbah. Bunny Chows, Bolsheviks, and Bioscopes. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press. With Ashwin Desai. ISBN: 978 1 86914 524 8 / e-ISBN 978 1 86914 525 5.
- Maurits S. Hassankhan, Narider Mohkamsingh, Goolam Vahed and Radica Mahase. Eds. 2023. Localisation and Globalisation of Religions. New Delhi: Manohar.
- Maurits S. Hassankhan, Hans Ramsoedh, Brij V. Lal, and Goolam Vahed. Eds. 2023. Ethnic Relations in Plural Societies. Social, Economic, and Political Dimensions. New Delhi: Manohar.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2021. Colour, Class and Community. The Natal Indian Congress, 1971-1994. Johannesburg: Wits University Press.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2019. A History of the Present. A Biography of Indian South Africans,1994–2019. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN-13 (print edition): 978-0-19-949801-7).
- Goolam Vahed. 2018. Chota Motala. A Biography of Political Activism in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. ISBN 9781869143824.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2016. The South African Gandhi. Stretcher-Bearer of Empire. Stanford University Press. (ISBN: 9780804797177 / ISBN-10: 080479717X) and New Delhi: Navayan Publishing (ISBN 9788189059743).
- Maurits S. Hassankhan, Goolam Vahed, Lomarsh Roopnaraine. Eds. 2016. Muslims in the Diaspora. Identity and Belonging of Minority Groups in Plural Societies. New Delhi: Manohar (ISBN 9789350981313).
- Maurits S. Hassankhan, Goolam Vahed, Lomarsh Roopnaraine. Eds. 2017. Muslims in the Diaspora. Identity and Belonging of Minority Groups in Plural Societies. New Delhi: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-28050-2 (hbk); 978-1-315-27203-0 (ebk).
- Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen. 2015. Schooling Muslims in Natal. State, Identity and the Orient Islamic Educational Institute. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu Natal Press. ISBN: 9781869142926.
- Goolam Vahed and Surendra Bhana. 2015. Crossing Space and Time in the Indian Ocean: Early Indian Traders in Natal — A Biographical Study. Pretoria: UNISA Press. ISBN: 9781868887798.
- Len Rosenberg and Goolam Vahed. 2014. Dirty Linen. The ‘other’ Durban 1870s-1980s. Durban: Durban University of Technology.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. Eds. 2013. The Making of a South African township. Pietermaritzburg: KZN Press. ISBN: 978-1-86914-255-1.
- Goolam Vahed. 2013. Ahmed Deedat. The Man and His Mission. Durban: IPCI Press. ISBN 978-0-6205-3897-8.
- Len Rosenberg, Goolam Vahed, and Sam Moodley. 2013. The Making of Place. The Warwick Junction Precinct: 1870s-1980s. Durban: Durban University of Technology. ISBN 978-1-919858-24-1.
- Len Rosenberg, Goolam Vahed, and Sam Moodley. 2013. Curries Fountain. Sport, Politics, Identity. Durban: DUT, 2013. ISBN 978-1-919858-23-4.
- Goolam Vahed. 2012. Muslim Portraits. The Anti-Apartheid Struggle. Durban: Madiba Publishers. ISBN: 1-874945-25-X.
- Goolam Vahed, Ashwin Desai and Thembisa Waetjen. 2010. Many Lives. 150 Years of Being Indian in South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter. ISBN 9781430600107.
- Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen. 2010. Gender, Modernity, and Indian Delights. The Women’s Cultural Group of Durban, 1954-2010. Cape Town: HSRC Press. ISBN 978-0-7969-2336-3.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2010. Monty Naicker. Between Reason and Treason. Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2010. Indian Indenture. A South African Story, 1860-1914. Cape Town: HSRC Press. ISBN 978-0-7969-2244-1.
- Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen. 2009. Dear Ahmedbhai, Dear Zuleikhabhen. The Letters of Ahmed Kathrada and Zuleikha Mayat 1979-1989. Johannesburg: Jacana.
- Bruce Murray and Goolam Vahed. Eds. 2009. Empire & Cricket. The South African Experience 1884-1914. Pretoria: UNISA Press. ISBN 978-1-86888-435-3.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2007. Inside Indenture. A South African Story, 1860-1914. Durban: Madiba Publishers.
- Surendra Bhana and Goolam Vahed. 2005. The Making of a Social Reformer. Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa, 1893-1914. Delhi: Manohar Books.
- Vishnu Padayachee, Krish Reddy, Ashwin Desai, and Goolam Vahed. 2002. Blacks in Whites: A Century of Sporting Struggles in Kwazulu-Natal, 1880-2002. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press.ISBN-10: 1869140257.
Journal Articles
- Goolam Vahed. 2025. “Indentured Labour in South Africa: the evolution in historical writing since the 1970s,” Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 27 (2): 332-350. DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2024.2365134.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2025. “The Revenge of History: Indian Indenture and its afterlife in South Africa”, South Asian Diaspora. DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2024.2388399. Online 9 August 2024. Awaiting hard copy.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2024. ‘Suturing the Professional and the Amateur?’, Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa 78 (1): 105-132.
- Goolam Vahed. 2022. ‘Muslim marriages, the South African state and the courts: between limbo, liberation, and the spaces for contestation in-between, Contemporary South Asia, 30 (1):44-57, DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2021.2021852.
- Goolam Vahed 2022. ‘Between the Local and the Global: The Iranian Revolution and Sunni-Shia Relations in South Africa,’ Islamic Africa 13: 87–114. doi:10.1163/21540993-01301001.
- Goolam Vahed. 2021. “The Journal is History, but the Past is Ever Present,’ Journal of Natal and Zulu History, Vol. 34/35: 178-181.
- Goolam Vahed. 2021. ‘Outsider and Insider: On being a Historian of Islam and Muslims in South Africa,’ Journal for Islamic Studies, 39 (1): 140-168.
- Goolam Vahed. 2021. ‘Muslims in post-apartheid South Africa: race, community, and identity,’ Social Identities. Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, 27 (1): 44-58. DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2020.1814724.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2021. ‘A fool’s errand? Black Consciousness and the 1970s debate over the “Indian” in the Natal Indian Congress,’ New Contree, 86: 9-26.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2021. ‘Inside the cricket change room: undressing whiteness in South Africa, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 39 (2): 199-213. DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2020.1863931.
- Goolam Vahed. 2021. ‘Covid-19, Congregation Worship, and Contestation over ‘Correct’ Islam in South Africa,’ Journal for the Study of Religion 34 (1): 1 – 30. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3027/2021/v34n1a4.
- Goolam Vahed. 2020. ‘The contagious power of words: Muslim South Africans during the pandemic,’ Transformation. Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 104: 42-53.
- Goolam Vahed. 2020. ‘Negotiating the (Uncertain) Corridors of Power in Post-Apartheid South African Cricket,’ South African Historical Journal, 72 (3): 495-519.
- Goolam Vahed. 2019. ‘Chota Motala. The Making of a South African Political Biography’, Politikon, 4 (2): 175-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2019.1611219.
- Goolam Vahed. 2019. ‘“An evil thing”: Gandhi and Indian Indentured Labour in South Africa, 1893–1914, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42 (4): 654-674. DOI:10.1080/00856401.2019.1608002.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2018. ‘BOOK FORUM: The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire’, Journal of Natal and Zulu History, 32 (1): 100-118.
- Goolam Vahed. 2018. ‘The Protector, Plantocracy, and Indentured Labour in Natal,’ Pacific Historical Review. An International Journal Published by the University Of California Press, 87 (1): 101-127.
- Chris Bolsmann and Goolam Vahed. 2017. ‘They are Fine Specimens of the Illustrious Indian Settler’: Sporting Contact between India and South Africa, 1914-1955. Journal of Southern African Studies, 43 (6): 1273-1291.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2017. ‘The Guptas, the Public Protector’s Report and Capital Accumulation in South Africa,’ Alternation, 24 (1): 26-49.
- Thembisa Waetjen and Goolam Vahed. 2017. ‘New histories of education in South Africa: authors’ reflections on Schooling Muslims in Natal,’ Transformation, 94: 66-70.
- Goolam Vahed. 2017. ‘The Past in the Present: Writing the South African Gandhi,’ Journal of Labor and Society, 20 (1): 107-127.
- Goolam Vahed. 2017. ‘Diaspora, Citizenship and Identity: Migration from Kathor (Gujarat, India) to Durban (Natal, South Africa)’, Indian Anthropologist, 47 (1): 35-50.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2017. ‘Stuck in the middle: Indians in South Africa’s rainbow,’ South Asian Diaspora, 9 (2): 147-162.
- Goolam Vahed. 2017. ‘Indentured Labour Migration and the Making of an Indian Diaspora in South Africa, 1860-1911,’ Fijian Studies, 15 (1): 27-46.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2016. ‘The Coming of Nelson and the ending of Apartheid cricket. Gatting’s Rebels in South Africa,’ The International Journal of the History of Sport, 33 (15): 1785-1803.
- Goolam Vahed. 2016. ‘Family, Gender, and Mobility among Passenger Migrants into Colonial Natal: The Story of Moosa Hajee Cassim (c.1840s–1921),’ Journal of Southern African Studies, 42 (3): 505-522.
- Goolam Vahed 2015.Nehru is “just another coolie”: India and South Africa at the United Nations, 1946-1955,’ Alternation, 15 (2015): 54-85.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2015. ‘Migrants, Drugs and Xenophobia: The Case of Whoonga Park in Durban.’ Oriental Anthropologist, 2015: 15 (2): 1-22.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2015. ‘The Natal Indian Congress, the Mass Democratic Movement and the Struggle to Defeat Apartheid: 1980–1994,’ Politikon, 42 (1): 1-22.
- Goolam Vahed. 2015. ‘Gandhi, Indian Opinion, and the making of Indo – South African identity, 1903 – 14,’ Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 35 (2): 354-360.
- Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen. 2015. ‘Shifting Grounds: A.I. Kajee and the Political Quandary of ‘Moderates’ in the Search for an Islamic School Site in Durban, 1943–1948,’ South African Historical Journal, 67 (3): 316-334.
- Goolam Vahed. 2015. ‘Women and national liberation in South Africa: an oral history perspective,’ South Asian Diaspora, 7 (2): 129-147.
- Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen. 2014. ‘Moon Sightings and the quest for Muslim solidarities in twentieth century Natal,’ New Contree, 71: 49-64.
- Goolam Vahed. 2014. ‘The formal education journey of Cassim Dangor, 1963–1985: Reflections on education challenges in apartheid South Africa,’ Historia 59 (1): 38-58.
- Goolam Vahed. 2014. ‘Muslim women’s identities in South Africa: A Zanzibari perspective in KwaZulu-Natal,’ New Contree, 70: 107-130.
- Thembisa Waetjen and Goolam Vahed. 2014. ‘Passages of Ink: Decoding the Natal Indentured Records into the Digital Age,’ Kronos, 40 (3): 45-73.
- Goolam Vahed. 2014. ‘After Mandela Met Gandhi: The Past and Future of India-South Africa Relations,’ Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 4: 9-18.
- Goolam Vahed. 2014. ‘Empire’s soldier: Gandhi and Britain’s wars, 1899-1918,’ Journal for Contemporary History, 39: 1-14.
- Goolam Vahed and Yasmeen Vahed. 2014. ‘Development Impact of Mosque Location on Land Use in Australia: A Case Study of Masjid al Farooq in Brisbane,’ Journal of Muslim Minorities Affairs, 34 (1): 1-16.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2014. ‘A case of “strategic ethnicity”? The Natal Indian Congress in the 1970s,’ African Historical Review, 46 (1): 22-47.
- Goolam Vahed. 2013. ‘Cricket and corruption: the post-apartheid relationship between India and South Africa within and beyond the boundary,’ Diaspora Studies, 6 (2): 80-91.
- Goolam Vahed. 2013. ‘School sports. The Missing Dimension in the Debate about Sports Transformation in Democratic South Africa since 1994,’ Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 3: 49-59.
- Goolam Vahed and Surendra Bhana. 2013. ‘In the end it was academic: Responses to the establishment of the University College for Indians,’ Journal of Natal and Zulu History, 31 (1): 22-44.
- Goolam Vahed. 2013. ‘Indian Muslim Responses To Islamophobia In Australian Cities: Conflicts over Mosques,’ Man In India, 93 (4): 689-711.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2013. ‘Non-Governmental Organisations and Xenophobia in South Africa: A Case study of the Gift of the Givers (GOTG),’ Alternation, Special Edition, 20 (7): 241-266.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2013. ‘The May 2008 Xenophobic Violence in South Africa: Antecedents and Aftermath,’ Alternation, 20 (7): 145-175.
- Goolam Vahed. 2013. ‘Institutional Hinduism: The Founding of the South African Hindu Maha Sabha, 1912,’ Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 4 (1-2): 17-29.
- Goolam Vahed. 2013. ‘“Gagged and trussed rather securely by the law”: The 1952 Defiance Campaign in Natal,’ Journal of Natal and Zulu History, 31 (2): 68-89.
- Vinay Lal and Goolam Vahed. 2013. ‘Hinduism in South Africa: Caste, Ethnicity, and Invented Traditions, 1860-present,’ Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology. 4 (1-2): 1-15.
- Goolam Vahed, 2012. ‘Race, Empire, and Citizenship: Sarojini Naidu’s 1924 Visit to South Africa,’ South African Historical Journal, 64 (2): 319-342.
- Ahswin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2012. ‘Chatsworth: Between Continuity and Change.’ Oriental Anthropologist. 12 (2): 223-233.
- Goolam Vahed. 2012. ‘Power and Resistance: Indentured Labour In Colonial Natal, 1860-1911’ Man In India, 92 (2): 299-317.
- Goolam Vahed. 2012. ‘Urban Violence and the textures of everyday life in post-apartheid South Africa.’ Oriental Anthropologist. 12 (2): 299-317.
- Thembisa Waetjen and Goolam Vahed. 2012. ‘Gender, Citizenship and Power: the Westcliff Flats Residents Association’ Oriental Anthropologist. 12 (2): 249-268.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2012. ‘Indian Indenture: Speaking Across the Oceans,’ Man In India, 92 (2): 195-213.
- Surendra Bhana and Goolam Vahed. 2011. ‘”Colours Do Not Mix”: Segregated Classes at the University of Natal, 1936-1959,’ Journal of Natal and Zulu History, 29: 66-100.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. ‘Between Apartheid and Neoliberalism in Durban’s Indian Quarter,’ Capitalism Nature Socialism 22 (4): 43-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2011.619684.
- Thembisa Waetjen and Goolam Vahed. 2011. ‘The Diaspora at home: Indian Views and the making of Zuleikha Mayat’s public voice,’ Africa, 81 (1): 23-41. Project MUSE, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/430927.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2011. ‘Race, Class and nationalism: The 1947 visit of Monty Naicker and Yusuf Dadoo to India,’ Journal for Contemporary History, 36 (1): 1-19.
- Goolam Vahed. 2010. ‘An “Imagined Community” in Diaspora: Gujarati’s in South Africa,’ South Asian Journal of History and Culture, 1 (4): 615-629.
- Goolam Vahed. 2010. ‘Identity and belonging in post-apartheid South Africa: the case of Indian South Africans,’ Journal of Social Sciences, 11 (1/2): 1-12.
- Goolam Vahed. 2010. ‘World Cup 2010: Africa’s Turn or the turn on Africa?,’ Soccer and Society. Special Issue: ‘South Africa and the global Game: Football, Apartheid and Beyond.’ 11 (1/2): 154-167.
- Goolam Vahed. 2009. ‘Monty … Meets Gandhi … Meets Mandela: The Dilemma of Non-Violent Resisters in South Africa, 1940-1960,’ Historia, 54 (1): 51-91.
- Goolam Vahed. 2009. ‘Ahmed Deedat and Muslim-Christian Relations at the Cape, c. 1960-1980.’ Journal for Islamic Studies, 29: 2-32.
- Goolam Vahed. 2009. ‘Caste, class and identities among Surtee Muslims in KwaZulu Natal (South Africa), c. 1880-2009,’ The Anthropologist: 4: 91-104.
- Goolam Vahed. 2008. ‘The Viability of Islamic Banking and Finance in a Capitalist Economy: A South African Case Study,’ Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 28 (3): 453-472.
- Goolam Vahed. 2008. ‘Young Muslims in Brisbane: Negotiating Cultural Isolation and Alienation,’ Journal of Social Sciences, 10: 35-52.
- Goolam Vahed. 2008. ‘Post-Apartheid South African Muslim Migration to Brisbane, Australia,’ Loyola Journal of Social Sciences, XXII (1): 7-32.
- Goolam Vahed. 2007. ‘Islam in the Public Sphere in Post-apartheid South Africa: Prospects and Challenges,’ Journal for Islamic Studies, 27: 116-149.
- Goolam Vahed. 2007. ‘The Beards Versus the Bards among Indian Muslims in South Africa: a 21st century of traveling cartoons and protests,’ Oriental Anthropologist, 7 (1): 109-128.
- Goolam Vahed. 2007. ‘Adaptation and Integration of Indian migrants in Brisbane, Australia,’ The Anthropologist. 9: 37-51.
- Goolam Vahed. 2006. ‘Unhappily torn by dissensions and litigations’: Durban’s `Memon’ Mosque, 1880-1930,’ Journal of Religion in Africa, 36 (1): 23-49.
- Vishnu Padayachee, Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2006. ‘Beyond apartheid: race, transformation and governance in KwaZulu-Natal cricket,’ Transformation, 61: 63-88.
- Goolam Vahed. 2005. ‘Passengers, Partnerships, and Promissory Notes: Gujarati Traders in Colonial Natal, 1870-1920,’ International Journal of African Historical Studies, 38 (3): 449-479.
- Goolam Vahed. 2005. ‘Obituary: Ahmed Hoosen Deedat (1918-2005),’ Annual Review of Islam in South Africa, 8: 81-85.
- Goolam Vahed. 2005. “`A Man of Keen Perceptive Facilities’: Aboobaker Amod Jhaveri, an `Arab’ in Colonial Natal, circa 1872-1887, Historia, 50 (1): 49-74.
- Goolam Vahed. 2004. ‘The Quest for ‘Malay’ identity in Apartheid South Africa,’ Alternation. 11 (1): 256-282.
- Goolam Vahed. 2005. ‘Contested Meanings and Authenticity: Indian Islam and Muharram Performances in Durban, 2002,’ Journal of Ritual Studies, 19 (2): 129-145.
- Goolam Vahed. 2004. ‘Multiple Communities? Muslims in Post-Apartheid South Africa,’ Annual Review of Islam in South Africa, 7: 56-62.
- Goolam Vahed. 2004. ‘Dawood Ngwane and the Journey to Ubagha (“the Light”),’ Annual Review of Islam in South Africa, 7: 28-32.
- Vishnu Padayachee, Ashwin Desai, and Goolam Vahed. 2004. ‘Managing South African Transformation: The Story of Cricket in KwaZulu Natal, 1994-2004,’ Patterns of Prejudice, 38 (3): 253-278.
- Goolam Vahed. 2003. ‘Muslim marriages in South Africa: the Limitations and Legacy of the Indian Relief Act of 1914,’ Journal of Natal and Zulu History, 21: 1-40.
- Goolam Vahed. 2003. ‘Deconstructing “Indianness”: Cricket and the Articulation of Indian Identities in Durban, c.1900-32,’ Culture, Sport, Society, 6 (2/3): 144-168.
- Goolam Vahed. 2003. ‘Taking up the White Man’s Game: The Rise and Decline of African Cricket in Durban, 1930-1960,’ Historia, 48 (2): 111-126.
- Goolam Vahed. 2003. ‘A Sufi Saint’s Day in South Africa: The Legend of Badshah Pir,’ South African Historical Journal, 49 (1): 96-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/02582470308671449.
- Goolam Vahed. 2003. ‘A Sufi Saint’s Day in South Africa: The Legend of Badshah Pir,’ Islamic Culture. LXXVII (4): 31-70.
- Goolam Vahed. 2003. ‘”Contesting “Orthodoxy”: The Tablighi-Sunni Conflict among South African Muslims in the 1970s and 1980s,’ Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 23 (2): 315-336.
- Goolam Vahed. 2002. ‘Cultural Confrontation: Race, Politics and Cricket in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s,’ Culture, Sport, Society, 5 (2): 79-107.
- Goolam Vahed. 2002. ‘Constructions of Community and Identity among Indians in Colonial Natal, 1860-1910: The Role of the Muharram Festival,’ Journal of African History, 43.1: 77-93.
- Goolam Vahed. 1999/2001. “‘Give Till It Hurts’: Durban’s Indians and the First World War,’ Journal of Natal and Zulu History, 19: 41-61.
- Goolam Vahed. 2001. ‘Uprooting, Rerooting: Culture, Religion and Community Amongst Indentured Muslim Migrants in Colonial Natal, 1860-1911,’ South African Historical Journal, 5: 191-222.
- Goolam Vahed. 2001. ‘“There is plenty of play left in South Africa’s Race Game”: Hansiegate, Race, Cricket and Nation in Post- Apartheid South Africa,’ Societies in Transition, 32 (2): 227-246.
- Goolam Vahed. 2001. ‘Mosques, Mawlana’s and Muharram: Establishing Indian Islam in Colonial Natal, 1860-1910,’ Journal of Religion in Africa, XXXI: 3-29.
- Goolam Vahed. 2001. ‘“What Do They Know of Cricket Who only Cricket Know?” Race, Class and Transformation in Post-Apartheid South Africa, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 36 (3): 319-336.
- Goolam Vahed. 2001. ‘Race, Class, Community and Conflict: Durban’s Indian Municipal Employees Union, 1914-1949,’ Journal of Southern African Studies, 27 (1): 104-125.
- Goolam Vahed. 2000. ‘Indian Muslims In South Africa: Continuity, Change And Disjuncture, 1860-2000,’ Alternation, 7 (2): 67-98.
- Goolam Vahed. 1999/2000. ‘Indians and the White Man’s War, 1899-1902,’ S.A. Archives Journal. 41: 49-55.
- Goolam Vahed. 2000. ‘Indian Islam and the meaning of South African Citizenship – A Question of Identities,’ Transformation, 43: 25-51.
- Goolam Vahed. 2000. “‘African Gandhi”: The South African War and Loss of Imperial Identity,’ Historia, 45: 201-219.
- Goolam Vahed. 2000. ‘Changing Islamic Traditions and Emerging Identities in South Africa,’ Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 20 (1): 43-73.
- Goolam Vahed. 1999. ‘Control and Repression: The Plight of Indian Hawkers and Flower Sellers in Durban, 1910-1948,’ The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 32 (1): 19-48.
- Goolam Vahed. 1999. ‘Natal’s Indians, the Empire and the South African War, 1899-1902,’ New Contree, 45: 185-216.
- Goolam Vahed. 1999. “’A Public Nuisance’: The Victoria Street Squatters’ Market in Durban, 1910-1934,’ South African Historical Journal, 40: 130-153.
- Goolam Vahed. 1998. ‘The Control of African Leisure Time in Durban during the 1930s,’ Journal of Natal and Zulu History, 18: 67-123.
- Goolam Vahed. ‘Swami Shankeranand and the consolidation of Hinduism in Natal, 1908-1914,’ Journal for the Study of Religion, 10 (2): 3-35.
- Goolam Vahed. 1997. ‘The Making of Indianness: Indian Politics in South Africa during the 1930s and 1940s.’ Journal of Natal and Zulu History, 17: 1-37.
Chapters In Books
- Saleem Badat and Goolam Vahed. 2025. “Introduction”. In: Saleem Badat and Goolam Vahed. Eds. University of Durban-Westville 1961-2003. Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 1-16.
- Saleem Badat and Goolam Vahed. 2025. “Towards a University for Indian South Africans”. In: Saleem Badat and Goolam Vahed. Eds. University of Durban-Westville 1961-2003. Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 17-42.
- Saleem Badat and Goolam Vahed. 2025. “From University College to the University of Durban-Westville, 1961-1976”. In: Saleem Badat and Goolam Vahed. Eds. University of Durban-Westville 1961-2003. Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 43-70.
- Saleem Badat and Goolam Vahed. 2025. “Towards an ‘Open’ University, 1977-1990”. In Saleem Badat and Goolam Vahed. Eds. University of Durban-Westville 1961-2003. Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 86-109.
- Goolam Vahed. 2025. “The Difficult Transition to a Democratic Institution, 1990-2003”. In: Saleem Badat and Goolam Vahed. Eds. University of Durban-Westville 1961-2003. Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 110-142.
- Thiru Munsamy and Goolam Vahed. 2025. “The Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre”. In: Saleem Badat and Goolam Vahed. Eds. University of Durban-Westville 1961-2003. Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 335-354.
- Suleman Dangor and Goolam Vahed. “Department of Islamic Studies”. 2025. In: Saleem Badat and Goolam Vahed. Eds. University of Durban-Westville 1961-2003. Undoing Apartheid, Building a Non-Racial Culture. Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 465-485.
- Goolam Vahed “Race and Identity: The Revival of the Natal Indian Congress, 1971-974,” In Vishnu Padayachee, Robert Van Niekerk and Imraan Valodia. Eds. Political Economy and Critical Engagement in South Africa. Essays in Honour of Vishnu Padayachee. Pietermaritzburg: University of KLwaZulu-Natal Press, 293-311.
- Goolam Vahed. 2025. “Muslim marriages, the South African state and the courts: between limbo, liberation, and the spaces for contestation in-between”. In: Patricia Jeffery and Kaveri Qureshi. Eds. ‘Muslim Woman’/Muslim women: Lived Experiences beyond Religion and Gender in South Asia and Its Diasporas. London: Routledge, 44-57. ISBNs: HBK 978-1-032-87786-0; PBK 978-1-032-87791-4; eBook 978-1-003-53448-8.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2024. “Rooting History: Indian Indenture in South Africa and The Sultan of Many Journeys”. In: Ashutosh Kumar and Crispin Bates. Eds. Girmityas and the Global Indian Diaspora Origins, Memory, Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 225-253.
- Goolam Vahed. 2024. “Negotiating power in Colonial Natal: indentured migrants in Natal, 1860-1911,” In: Crispin Bates. Ed. Beyond Indenture: Agency and Resistance in the Colonial South Asian Diaspora.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19-37. [I have not entered this as we do not have a ltter from the publisher / editor]
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2024. “There Are Hearings but Is Anyone Acting? Re-Making South African Cricket, or Following On? In: Souvik Naha. Ed. Cricket and Nationhood in the Twenty-First Century. Identity Projects in Uncertain Times. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 38-63.
- Goolam Vahed. “Research, Supervision and Publishing in the Time of Pandemics: A South African Perspective”. In: Maheshvari Naidu and Vivian Ojong. Eds. The Pandemic and Social Science Approaches to Teaching and Learning. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, 9-28.
- Goolam Vahed and Vinay Lal. 2023. “Hinduism in South Africa, 1860-2020”. In Maurits S. Hassankhan, Narinder Mohkamsingh, Goolam Vahed and Radica Mahase. Eds. Localisation and Globalisation of Religions. Edited by New Delhi: Manohar, 55-84. ISBN: 8119139216, 9788119139217.
- Goolam Vahed. 2023. “Afro-Indian Relations in South Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives”. In: Maurits S. Hassankhan, Hans Ramsoedh, Brij V. Lal, and Goolam Vahed. Eds. Ethnic Relations in Plural Societies. Social, Economic, and Political Dimensions. New Delhi: Manohar, 35-54. ISBN – 9788119139224.
- Goolam Vahed. 2022. ‘Indians in Africa: roots, recognition and racial nationalism”. In: Ruben Gowricharn. Ed. New Perspectives on the Indian Diaspora. London and New York: Routledge, 104-124. ISBN-10: 8119139224 and ISBN-13: 978-811913922.
- Goolam Vahed. 2022. “Contestation and transformation: Muḥarram practices among Sunni Muslims in South Africa, 1860–2020”. In: Pushkar Sohoni and Torsten Tschacher. Eds. Non-Shia Practices of Muḥarram in South Asia and the Diaspora. Beyond Mourning. London and New York: Routledge, 71-90. ISBN 9781032108629.
- Goolam Vahed. 2022. “On the Margins: Writing History at a Time of Change”. In: Brij V. Lal. Eds. Girmitiyas: The Making of their Memory-keepers from Indian Indentured Diaspora. New Delhi: Primus Books, 167-198. ISBN-10: 9355720742; ISBN-13: 978-9355720740.
- Goolam Vahed. 2021. “Can Ambedkar Speak to Africa? Colour, Caste, and Class Struggles in Contemporary South Africa”. In: Aakash S. Rathore. Ed. R. Ambedkar. The Quest for Justice. Vol 4. Gender and Social Justice. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 230-247.
- Goolam Vahed. ‘Racelessness and Ambedkar’s Idea of Annihilation,’ in Aakash S. Rathore. Ed. B.R. Ambedkar. The Quest for Justice. Vol. 4. Gender and Social Justice. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021: 184-204. Added Author Justification. ISBN-10: 0190126299; ISBN-13: 978-0190126292.
- Goolam Vahed. 2021. “‘Where’s Our Monument?” Commemorating Indian Indentured Labour In South Africa”. In Hilton Judin. Ed. Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, NYU Press, 256-277. ISBN: 9781776146673. DOI: 10.18772/22021066673.
- Goolam Vahed. 2021. “Gokhale, Polak and the end of indenture in South Africa, 1909-1911”. In Neilesh Bose. Ed. South Asian Migrations in Global History. Labor, Law, and Wayward Lives. London: Bloomsbury, 37-62.
- Goolam Vahed. 2020. ‘‘Indentured Muslim Women in Colonial Natal: Mothers, Wives and Work.” In Amba Pande. Ed. Indentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diaspora. Singapore: Springer, 95-110.
- Goolam Vahed. 2020. “South African War, Union, Segregation”. In: Daniel Magazinier. Ed. The Oxford Handbook of South African History. Online publication. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190921767.013.27.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2018. “Race, Place and Indian Identities in Contemporary South Africa”. In: Roderick R. Hewitt and Chammah J. Kaunda. Eds. Who Is An African? Maryland, USA: Lexington Books / Fortress Academics, 330-340.
- Goolam Vahed. 2018. “Networks, caste and transnational identities”. In: Radha Sarma Hegde and Ajaya Kumar Sahoo. Eds. Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 61-84.
- Goolam Vahed. 2018. “India in the Imagination of South African Indian Cricket”. In Bruce Murray, Richard Parry, and Jonty Winch. Eds. Cricket and society in South Africa. From Union to Isolation. London: Palgrave, 167-190. ISBN 978-3-319-93607-9.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2018. “Can Ambedkar Speak to Africa? Colour, Caste and Class Struggles in Contemporary South Africa”. In Suraj Yengde and Anand Teltumbde. Eds. The Radical in Ambedkar. Critical Reflections. London: Allen Lane, 17–31.
- Goolam Vahed. 2017. “Brij V. Lal: Rooting for History”. In: Doug Munro and Jack Corbett. Eds. Bearing Witness. Essays in Honour of Brij V. Lal. Canberra: Australian National University, 65-86.
- Goolam Vahed. 2016. “Islam and Muslims in South Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Revolt, Revivalism and Accommodation.” In Maurits S. Hassankhan, Goolam Vahed and Lomarsh Roopnaraine. Eds. Indentured Muslims in the Diaspora. Identity and Belonging of Minority Groups in Plural Societies. New Delhi: Manohar, 19-58. ISBN 9789350981313.
- Goolam Vahed. 2016. “Indian Muslims in South Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 1860-2016”. In: Maurits S. Hassankhan, Goolam Vahed and Lomarsh Roopnaraine. Eds. Indentured Muslims in the Diaspora. Identity and Belonging of Minority Groups in Plural Societies. New Delhi: Manohar, 81-106. ISBN 9789350981313.
- Goolam Vahed. 2016. “Muharram in Diasporic Settings in the Twenty-First Century.” In Maurits S. Hassankhan, Goolam Vahed and Lomarsh Roopnaraine. Eds. Indentured Muslims in the Diaspora. Identity and Belonging of Minority Groups in Plural Societies. New Delhi: Manohar, 301-324. ISBN 9789350981313.
- Goolam Vahed. 2014. “Indian Muslims and Mosque Construction in Australia.” In: P. Kumar. Ed. Indian Diaspora. Social Cultural and Religious Worlds. Leiden: Brill, 316-344. ISBN: 9004287981.
- Goolam Vahed. 2014. “Power and Resistance: Indentured Labour in Colonial Natal 1860-1911”. In Maurits S. Hassankhan, Brij V. Lal, and Doug Munro. Eds. Resistance and Indian Indenture Experience. Comparative Perspectives. New Delhi: Manohar, 95-120.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2013. “Writing Chatsworth: An Introduction”. In: Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. Eds. The Making of a South African Township. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 1-18. ISBN: 978-1-86914-255-1.
- Goolam Vahed. 2013. “Segregation, Group Areas and the Creation of Chatsworth.” (pp. 19-30); In Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed Eds. The Making of a South African Township. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 19-30. ISBN: 978-1-86914-255-1.
- Goolam Vahed. 2013. “The Zanzibaris”. In: Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. Eds. The Making of a South African Township. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 84-98. ISBN: 978-1-86914-255-1.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2013. “Of Cabals, Butterflies and Detentions: Extra-parliamentary Resistance in the 1980s and its Aftermath”. In: Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. Eds. The Making of a South African Township. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 155-170. ISBN: 978-1-86914-255-1.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2013. “The Flats of Bayview”. In: Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. Eds. The Making of a South African Township. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 171-184. ISBN: 978-1-86914-255-1.
- Thembisa Waetjen and Goolam Vahed. 2013. “Gender, Citizenship and Power: The Westcliff Flats Residents Association”. In: Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. Eds. The Making of a South African Township. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 185-198. ISBN: 978-1-86914-255-1.
- Mark Hunter and Goolam Vahed. 2013. “Schooling in Chatsworth: The Persistence of Inequalities in Post-apartheid South African Education”. In: Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. Eds. The Making of a South African Township. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 243-256. ISBN: 978-1-86914-255-1.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam 2013. “Young and Restless: Living ‘In the Moment’ between the Past and Future”. In: Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. Eds. Chatsworth. The Making of a South African Township. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 276-291. ISBN: 978-1-86914-255-1.
- Goolam Vahed and Karin Willemse. 2013. “Mad about Drugs, ‘Mad Against Drugs’” In: Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. Eds. The Making of a South African Township. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 292-304. ISBN: 978-1-86914-255-1.
- Goolam Vahed. 2013. “‘Our Indian Polices are Bought Off’: Chatsworth’s Men in Blue Speak Back”. In Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. Eds. The Making of a South African Township. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 319-331. ISBN: 978-1-86914-255-1.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2013. “Trading in the Township: A Checkered History”. In: Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. Eds. The Making of a South African Township. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 349-360. ISBN: 978-1-86914-255-1.
- Karin Willemse and Goolam Vahed. 2013. “Between the Heavens Above and Havens Below: The Growing Power of Pentecostalism”. In: Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. Eds. The Making of a South African Township. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 415-432. ISBN: 978-1-86914-255-1.
- Goolam Vahed. 2013. ‘“Kicking a Flat Ball in the Streets’: The Inequities of School Sports”. In: Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. Eds. The Making of a South African Township. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 456-464. ISBN: 978-1-86914-255-1.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2012. “Indenture and Indianness in South Africa, 1860–1913.” In: Sujata Patel and Tina Uys. Eds. Contemporary India and South Africa. Legacies, Identities and Dilemmas. New Delhi: Routledge, 21-34.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2012. “Identity and Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The case of Indian South Africans”. In: Sujata Patel and Tina Uys. Eds. Exclusion, Social Capital and Citizenship. Contested Transitions in South Africa and India. New Delhi: Routledge, 488-508.
- Goolam Vahed. 2011. “Monty… Meets Gandhi … Meets Mandela: The Dilemma of Non-violent resisters in South Africa, 1940-60.” In: Isabel Hofmeyr and Michelle Williams. Eds. South Africa & India. Shaping the Global South. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 105-125.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2011. “Between Apartheid and Neoliberalism in Durban’s Indian Quarter.” In Patrick Bond. Ed. Durban’s Climate Gamble. Trading the Carbon, Betting the earth. Pretoria: UNISA Press, 51-58.
- Goolam Vahed. 2010. “An ‘Imagined Community’ in Diaspora: Gujarati’s in South Africa.” In: Nalin Mehta and Mona G. Mehta. Eds. Gujarat Beyond Gandhi. Identity, conflict and Society. New Delhi: Routledge, 210-231. ISBN-10: 0415556120.
- Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. 2010. “World Cup 2010: Africa’s Turn or the turn on Africa?”. In: Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann. South Africa and the Global Game. Football, Apartheid and Beyond. London: Routledge, 154-167.
- Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai. 2010. “Beyond the nation? Colour and class in South African cricket.” In: Ashwin Desai. Ed. The Race to Transform. Sport in post-apartheid South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 176-221.
- Vishnu Padayachee, Ashwin Desai, and Goolam Vahed. 2010. “Between black and white: A case study of the KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Union (KZNCU).” In Ashwin Desai. Ed. The Race to Transform. Sport in post-apartheid South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 222-258.
- Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen. 2009. “Editors’ Introduction.” Dear Ahmedbhai, Dear Zuleikhabhen. The Letters of Ahmed Kathrada and Zuleikha Mayat 1979-1989. Johannesburg: Jacana, 1-17.
- Goolam Vahed. 2009. “Indian Muslims in South Africa’s History: Continuity and Change.” In: Ali A. Mazrui. Ed. Africa’s Islamic Experience. History, Culture, and Politics. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 73-108.
- Goolam Vahed and Vishnu Padayachee. 2009. “Gandhi, Cricket, Empire, 1880-1914.” In: Bruce Murray and Goolam Vahed. Eds. Empire & Cricket. The South African Experience 1884-1914. Pretoria: UNISA Press, 81-100.
- Goolam Vahed. 2009. “Contesting Indian Islam in KwaZulu-Natal: The Muharram Festival in Durban, 2002.” In: Preben Kaarsholm and Isabel Hofmeyr. Eds. The Popular and the Public: Cultural Debates and Struggles over Public Space in Modern India, Africa and Europe. London: Seagull Books, 107-140.
- Goolam Vahed and Surendra Bhana. 2006. “Indians in South Africa.” In: Peter Reeves, Brij V. Lal, and Rajesh Rai. Eds. The Encyclopedia of the Indians Overseas. Singapore: Archipelago Press, 242-253.
- Goolam Vahed. 2005. “Indentured Masculinity in Colonial Natal, 1860-1910.” In: Robert Morrell and Lahocine Ouzgane. Eds. Anthology on African Masculinities. London: Pelgrave, 239-256.
- Goolam Vahed and Shamil Jeppie. 2004. “Multiple Communities: Muslims in Post-apartheid South Africa.” In: John Daniel, Roger Southall, and Jessica Lutchman. Eds. The State of the Nation: South Africa 2003-2004. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 252-286.
- Goolam Vahed. 2004. “Deconstructing ‘Indianness’: Cricket and the Articulation of Indian Identities in Durban, c.1900-32.” In: J.A. Mangan and Andrew Ritchie. Eds. Ethnicity, Sport, Identity: Struggles for Status. London: Frank Cass, 144-168.
Community Involvement
External Examiner: Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses: Centre for Contemporary Islam, UCT; University of Fort Hare; University of Pretoria; University of the Witwatersrand; Stellenbosch University; University of Mauritius (2014-2016);
Reviewer: National Research Foundation (ongoing); leading academic journals like the Journal of African History, SAFUNDA, and Journal of Southern African Studies; and academic publishers like Routledge, Springer, and Cambridge.
Advisory Board / Executive Member: Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre; 1860 Heritage Centre; the Indian Ocean Committee of the Indentured Labour Route Project.
Editorial Board: CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion (2018-); Migration and Diasporas: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2018); Historia (2003-); Journal of Natal and Zulu History (2017-); Nidan. International Journal for Indian Studies (2016-); Global South Asians series, Cambridge University Press (2019-); Journal of Bonded Labour Migration
Teaching Expertise
CURRENT
- HIST700: Honours seminar: Comparative History of Race and Racism”
- HIST700: Theory and Methods
- HIST 206H2: Law, Crime, and Society in History
- HIST 105 Empires of the Modern World
- HIST202H2: Law and Society
- HIST302H2: Topics in 20th Century History
PAST
- Industrialisation in History: The English experience (2006-07)
- Background to the Contemporary World (1998-1999)
- African History to 1800 (1996-1999)
- Themes in World History (2000/01)
- Industrialisation and Social Change in South Africa, 1865-1950 (1997-2000)
- Themes in African History, post-1945 (2002-2004)
- Globalisation and the Modern World (2002-2003)
- Research Methodology (2002/04)
- Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa (2002/05)
- The World in the 20th Century, c. 1900-1945
- Sport, Culture, and Society (2003)
- History of America to 1870 (1997)
Student Supervision
Masters
PhD
Masters
- Jele, Nomonde. 2024. ‘Forced removals in the Mjindi area in Jozini, Northern KwaZulu-Natal, c. 1970s.’
- Mthethwa, Bongumenzi. 2024. ‘The Silencing of Black Intellectuals in Apartheid South Africa: An Historical Study Drawing from the Lives and Experiences of Es’kia Mphahlele, Archie Mafeje and Bernard Magubane.’
- Qhelani, Banzi Msweli. 2023. ‘Community, Identity, and Memory: Group Areas and the forced relocation of “Coloureds” to Woodlands, Pietermaritzburg, 1960 – 1990’.
- Swart, Ashliegh. 2017. ‘Transnational Activism amongst Muslim Women in KwaZulu-Natal: Their Responses to the Palestine/Israeli Conflict.’
- Asmal, Fatima. 2016. History. MSC. ‘Demystifying the Muslimah: Changing Subjectivities, Civic Engagement and Public Participation of Muslim Women in contemporary South Africa.’
- Fynn, Ramon 2015. ‘Elizabeth Georgina Firmstone: A Great South African Teacher.’
- Ngidi, Mphumeleli. 2014. ‘The Natal Inter-Race Soccer Tournament of 1950s: challenging or reinforcing race identities?’
- Gopalan, Karthigasen. 2011. ‘Caste, class and Community: The South African Hindu Maha Sabha, 1912-1960.’
- Ndlovu, Bonginkosi. 2000. ‘Conflict and Co-operation: Farmworkers and farmers in Umvoti County, 1880-1901.’
PhD
- Ngidi, Mphumeleli. 2021. ‘Forced Removals from Cato Manor: An Oral History’
- Ramjettan, Trivern. 2020. ‘An historical and ethnographic study on the migration of South African Hindus from the Greater Durban area to the Greater Johannesburg area.’
- Rwodzi, Aaron. 2019. ‘Constraints on Multiparty Democracy in Zimbabwe: Opposition Politics and Zanu (PF) 1980-2015’.
- Partab, Veena. 2019. ‘HERSTORIES: Womens’ Recollections of forced removals from Durban’s inner city, 1960s-1980s.’
- Gopalan, Karthi. 2016. ‘The destruction of the Magazine Barracks and remaking of “community” in Chatsworth, c 1960-1994.’
- Simura, Blessing. 2015. ‘Military intervention and international law: a critical analysis of the role of the international community in political uprisings in Libya and Syria.’ [Co-supervision with Dr Lubna Nadvi]
- du Bois, Duncan. ‘Sugar and Settlers: the colonization of the Natal South Coast, 1850 -1910.’
- Lubna Nadva. 2010. ‘Political Islam in the 21st Century: An analysis of the contestation between “Militant” and “Progressive” Islam and forms of political expression, with particular emphasis on Muslims in post-apartheid South Africa.’