Gowhar has formally taught Political Science and Sociology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels for several years. His ethnographies of political subjectivity in Kashmir examine the intermeshing of the intimate and the political around local agitations, familial grief, narratives of local policemen and fictional writing in Kashmiri language. His writing has appeared in various journals—academic and popular and edited volumes focused on civil wars and anthropology of political violence. A monograph based on his doctoral thesis is slated to be published by Routledge India as part of the series titled Ethnographic Innovations: South Asian Perspectives. His current areas of interest include: masculinity; political subjectivity; anthropology of emotions; literature as an archive of political emotion; humiliation; social movements; fascism and totalitarianism; the idea of implicated subject and collective/political responsibility towards the other.
Gowhar acquired his Masters in Political Science from CPS, JNU and completed his MPhil and PhD from Delhi School of Economics, Sociology, University of Delhi.
