Goolam Vahed

1.1k total citations
78 papers, 429 citations indexed

About

Goolam Vahed is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Goolam Vahed has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 429 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 23 papers in Anthropology and 12 papers in Law. Recurrent topics in Goolam Vahed's work include South African History and Culture (42 papers), African history and culture studies (20 papers) and Legal Issues in South Africa (12 papers). Goolam Vahed is often cited by papers focused on South African History and Culture (42 papers), African history and culture studies (20 papers) and Legal Issues in South Africa (12 papers). Goolam Vahed collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Russia. Goolam Vahed's co-authors include Ashwin Desai, Ashok V. Desai, Vishnu Padayachee, Surendra Bhana, Mrinalini Sinha, Vinay Lal, Antoinette Burton and Faisal Devji and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The International Journal of African Historical Studies and International Review for the Sociology of Sport.

In The Last Decade

Goolam Vahed

69 papers receiving 341 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Goolam Vahed South Africa 12 358 106 78 41 39 78 429
Clifton Crais United States 13 314 0.9× 145 1.4× 33 0.4× 35 0.9× 30 0.8× 39 441
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan United Kingdom 13 290 0.8× 128 1.2× 170 2.2× 23 0.6× 89 2.3× 30 596
Jonathan Hyslop South Africa 11 374 1.0× 111 1.0× 31 0.4× 57 1.4× 16 0.4× 63 515
Lisa A. Lindsay United States 8 230 0.6× 204 1.9× 83 1.1× 22 0.5× 29 0.7× 22 404
Jane Rendall United Kingdom 13 370 1.0× 96 0.9× 68 0.9× 29 0.7× 74 1.9× 35 721
Luciana Ballestrin Brazil 7 215 0.6× 31 0.3× 52 0.7× 47 1.1× 22 0.6× 10 312
Wendy Kozol United States 10 213 0.6× 51 0.5× 88 1.1× 17 0.4× 23 0.6× 26 394
Joan B. Landes United States 8 265 0.7× 62 0.6× 77 1.0× 12 0.3× 65 1.7× 23 601
Clare Midgley United Kingdom 9 318 0.9× 122 1.2× 36 0.5× 24 0.6× 59 1.5× 24 486
Teresa Barnes South Africa 10 306 0.9× 89 0.8× 53 0.7× 49 1.2× 6 0.2× 30 414

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Goolam Vahed

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vahed, Goolam & Ashwin Desai. (2024). The revenge of history: Indian indenture and its afterlife in South Africa. South Asian Diaspora. 18(1). 89–104.
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Vahed, Goolam. (2024). Indentured Labour in South Africa. Interventions. 27(2). 332–350.
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Desai, Ashwin & Goolam Vahed. (2021). A fool’s errand? Black Consciousness and the 1970s debate over the “Indian” in the Natal Indian Congress. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 86. 18–18. 1 indexed citations
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Desai, Ashwin & Goolam Vahed. (2021). Colour, Class and Community - The Natal Indian Congress, 1971-1994. Wits University Press eBooks.
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Vahed, Goolam. (2020). Muslims in post-apartheid South Africa: race, community, and identity. Social Identities. 27(1). 44–58. 3 indexed citations
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Desai, Ashwin & Goolam Vahed. (2020). A history of the present a biography of Indian South Africans, 1990-2019. 1 indexed citations
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Vahed, Goolam. (2018). Innovative departures: anthropology and the Indian diaspora. South Asian Diaspora. 11(1). 106–108. 1 indexed citations
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Vahed, Goolam & Ashwin Desai. (2016). The Coming of Nelson and the Ending of Apartheid Cricket? Gatting’s Rebels in South Africa, 1990. The International Journal of the History of Sport. 33(15). 1786–1807. 2 indexed citations
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Vahed, Goolam, et al.. (2014). Passages of ink: Decoding the Natal indentured records into the Digital Age. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 40(1). 45–73. 4 indexed citations
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Vahed, Goolam & Ashwin Desai. (2014). Empire's soldier : Gandhi and Britain's wars, 1899 - 1918. 39(2). 1–14. 1 indexed citations
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Vahed, Goolam. (2013). “Gagged and trussed rather securely by the law”: The 1952 Defiance Campaign in Natal. 31(2). 68–89. 3 indexed citations
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Bhana, Surendra & Goolam Vahed. (2011). “Colours Do Not Mix”: Segregated Classes at the University of Natal, 1936–1959. 29(1). 66–100. 4 indexed citations
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Vahed, Goolam, et al.. (2009). Empire & cricket : the South African experience 1884-1914. 326. 3 indexed citations
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Vahed, Goolam. (2005). Passengers, partnerships, and promissory notes : Gujarati traders in colonial Natal, 1870-1920. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 38(3). 449–479. 6 indexed citations
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Vahed, Goolam. (2002). CONSTRUCTIONS OF COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY AMONG INDIANS IN COLONIAL NATAL, 1860–1910: THE ROLE OF THE MUHARRAM FESTIVAL. The Journal of African History. 43(1). 77–93. 16 indexed citations
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Vahed, Goolam. (2001). Mosques, Mawlanas and Muharram: Indian Islam in Colonial Natal, 1860-1910. Journal of Religion in Africa. 31(3). 305–335. 11 indexed citations
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Vahed, Goolam. (2000). Indians, Islam and the meaning of South African citizenship - A question of identities1. Transformation. 25–51. 7 indexed citations
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Vahed, Goolam. (2000). 'African Gandhi' : the South African war and the limits of imperial identity. 45(1). 201–219. 2 indexed citations
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Vahed, Goolam. (1997). Swami Shankeranand and the Consolidation of Hinduism in Natal, 1908-1913. Journal for the Study of Religion. 10(2). 3–34. 2 indexed citations

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