Hamza Alvi

Hamza Alavi (10 April 1921 – 1 December 2003) was a Pakistani Marxist academic sociologist and activist.

[1] Alavi was born in the Bohra community in Karachi, then in British India (the area is now in Pakistan) and migrated in adulthood to the UK.

[1] The focus of his academic work was nationality, gender, fundamentalism and the peasantry.

His most noted work was perhaps his 1965 essay Peasant And Revolution in the Socialist Register which stressed the militant role of the middle peasantry.

[1][2][3] He believed that a “salary-dependent class of Muslim government servants, called the ‘salariat’ led the movement of an independent state for Muslims in the subcontinent as they saw a decrease in their share of jobs in pre-partition India.