Title First Name Last Name PhotographName DR PADAM NEPALDesignation ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND HEADEducational Qualification

M.A. (POLITICAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL);

M.PHIL. (POLITICAL SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL); Ph.D. (POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2007

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL); UGC NET (POLITICAL

SCIENCE) (JUNE 1999)Date of Joining 1ST SEPTEMBER, 2000Department POLITICAL SCIENCEAddressLocal ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE, P.O-NORTH

POINT,DARJEELING 734104PermanentPhone Numbers PAN ACKPN3365POffice (0354) 2270373 Cell

Phone 9434558055 7908748260

Email padamnepal@gmail.comFax (0354) 2270373

Teaching Experiences(Present & Previous)

19 YEARS (PRESENT )

Research Interests Alternative Social Research Methodologies, Critical Epistemologies and Pedagogies, Hydro-politics, Environmental and Green Political Theory, Folk and Cultural Dimensions of Politics, Micropolitics of Development of Marginal Communities, Politics of Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Livelihood Studies, Politics of Recognition and Identity, Gender and transgender studies, Methodologies of Collective Action Studies, and Spatial, Symbolic and Material Mediations of Social Movements.

Research Guidance(PhD)

2013: Ph.D Degree Awarded to Dr. Lalit P. Tirkey on Livelihood (In)Security of Tea Workers: A Study of Darjeeling Terai and Duars Region of North Bengal, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam.

Ongoing Ph.D (Mrs. Sushila Barailey) thesis on Student Politics in Darjeeling Hills: A Historical Survey (Tentative Title). Department of Political Science, North Bengal University.

Research Guidance(Master’s Theses)

Awarded. Master’s Thesis for MA (Political Science) on Vernacular Press and Media in the Development of Political Consciousness in Colonial Darjeeling. Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)

Awarded. Master’s Thesis for MA (Political Science) Bringing Gandhi Back In: A Study of the Use of Gandhian Ideology and Strategy in the Gorkhaland Movement in Darjeeling Hills, India, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)

Awarded. Master’s Thesis for MA (Political Science) on Rural Development Programmes In Darjeeling District Of West Bengal: A Study Of Select Programmes And Their Implementation, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)

Awarded. Master’s Thesis for MA (Political Science) on Student Politics and the Question of Identity: Role of Students’ Organisations in the Formation and Performance of Gorkha Identity in India. IGNOU.

Awarded. Master’s Thesis for MSc (Ecology and Environment) Solid Waste Management in Darjeeling Municipality: A Study. Sikkim Manipal University.

Awarded. Master’s Thesis for MSc (Ecology and Environment) Ecotourism and Sustainable Mountain Development: A Study of Sikkim. Sikkim Manipal University.

Awarded. Master’s Thesis for MSc (Ecology and Environment) National Parks, Ecotourism and Biodiversity Conservation: A Study in the Context of Manas National Park, Assam. Sikkim. Manipal University.

Awards Ph. D AWARDED IN 2007 M.PHIL AWARDED IN 2000 UNIVERSITY MEDAL AND PARESH CHANDRA CHATERJEE

PURASKAR ENDOWMENT MEDAL FOR HAVING STOOD FIRST CLASS FIRST IN M.A. EXAMINATION CONDUCTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL IN 1998.

Professional Achievement

RESOURCE PERSON/KEYNOTE SPEAKER IN VARIOUS NATIONAL /INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS/CONFERENCES

RESOURCE PERSON IN UGC REFRESHER COURSES MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF STUDIES UNDERGARADUATE

COUNCIL IN POLITICAL SCIENCE (COMPLETED TWO TERMS) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD OF HIMALAYAN

RESEARCH JOURNAL DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT TO NGO’S IN DARJEELING HILLS

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

COORDINATOR OF IQAC COORDINATOR OF RUSA MEMBER OF EXAM COMMITTEE MEMBER OF PLANNING BOARD (ST. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE) HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT

SELECT LECTURES DELIVERED AT UGC REFRESHER COURSES/ICSSR RESEARCH METHODOLOGY COURSES

ICSSR Research Methodology Course

Lectures

2015. Delivered Three Lectures as a Resource Person at the ICSSR Sponsored 10 Days (December 21 to December 30, 2015) Workshop on Research Methodology organized by Moridhal College, Dhemaji, Assam during 26th and 27th December 2015. The Three Lectures delivered were:

Session 1: Review of Literature in Social Science Research Session 2 : Preparation of Research Proposal, the Research Process,

and Report Writing Session 3: Researching the Margins: On the Emergent Anti-

Oppressive and Emancipatory Research Methodologies

UGC Refresher Course Lectures

2014: Delivered a Lecture on Green Themes: Emerging Areas in Social Science Research (Session IV) at the UGC Refresher Course in History (IX) at UGC Academic Staff College, Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam on 22. 2. 2014.

2014: Delivered a Lecture on Museum As History: Artifacts and Research Methods (Session III) at the UGC Refresher Course in History (IX) at UGC Academic Staff College, Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam on 22. 2. 2014.

2014: Delivered a Lecture on Microhistory and Indigenous Methodologies (Session II) at the UGC Refresher Course in History (IX) at UGC Academic Staff College, Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam on 21. 2. 2014.

2014: Delivered a Lecture on Mythistory and the Construction of Nation: Illustrations from the Eastern Himalayas (Session I) at the UGC Refresher Course in History (IX) at UGC Academic Staff College, Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam on 21. 2. 2014.

SELECT PUBLICATIONSSome Major

Research Articles In Journals

2016. Water Crisis and the Emergent Hydropolitics in Darjeeling: A Preliminary Investigation. In The Himalayan Review. Vol. 1, No.2, 2016. ISSN 2348-2893.

2015. Contrasting the ASEAN and Chinese Response to India’s Look East Policy: Inventing South East Asia as a Strategic Arena . JAIR Journal of International Relations. Vol. 2, Issue 1, January to June 2015 (with Obja B. Hazarika).

2015. Gender, Governance of Commons and Livelihood Security: A Study of the North Bengal Tea Region of West Bengal, India. Dynamics of Public Administration. Vol. 32, No. 2, June 2015 (With Lalit P Tirkey).

2014. Poetics of Identity. International Journal of Integrated Research and Development (ISSN 2278-8670, Vol. 2, Year 3, December.

2014. Reclaiming Spaces: Politics of Place, Locality and Identity of Lepcha community in the Eastern Himalayas. Dynamics of Public Administration. ISSN 0975-3907, Vol. 31, Issue 2, July-December.

2013: Exclusivist Language Policy and Marginality: Accentuating the Thami Linguistic Marginality in Sikkim, India. In Indian Journal of Political Studies (JNV Jodhpur University), ISSN 0251-303X, Vol. XVII, No. 1. Pp. 179-187.

2013: Alienation or Liberation? Interrogating Marxist Approach to Labour, Leisure and Liberty. In the Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol 4. No. 2, 2013.

2012: Fractured Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition: Contextualising Language Policy in Sikkim, in Dynamics of Public Administration (Lucknow), Vol. 29, Issue 2, July-December, 2012.

2011: Plantation Industry in Darjeeling Hills: Ecological Impact and Livelihood Implications (with Lalit P. Tirkey), Hydro-Nepal, Journal of Water, Energy and Environment, December 2011.

2011: Democracy’s Marginal Citizens in Journal of Politics, 2011. 2011: ‘Ecological Crises and Gandhian Solution’, in Quest (Journal

of the UGC-ASC, Kumaun University, Nainital, ISSN Print 0974-5041/Online 2249-0035), Vol. 5, Issue 2, November 2011.

2010: The Role of Caste in Environmental Movement Dynamics: A Study from the Garhwal Himalayas and the Narmada Valley in India , Quest- The Journal of UGC-ASC Nainital, Vol. 4, May 2010.

2010: Of Social Contract and Ecopolitics: Revisiting the Ideas of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau in an Ecopolitical Context , Indian Journal of Political Science, Vol. LXXI, No. 3, July-September, 2010.

2009: Money and Movement Dynamics: A Study of ‘Fund’ as a Realm of Contestation in Ecoprotest Campaigns with special reference to the Narmada Bachao Andolan in India, Indian Journal of Political Science, (2009).

2009: How Movements Move? Evaluating the Role of Ideology and Leadership in Environmental Movement Dynamics in India with Special Reference to the Narmada Bachao Andolan, Kathmandu: Hydro Nepal (2009).

2009: Of Work and Women: A Study of the Female Participation in Labour Force in the Economy of Darjeeling Hill Areas (1961-1981) with Shanti Chhetry, Journal of Politics, University of North Bengal, West Bengal, (2009).

2004: Ecotourism in Sikkim: Some Reflections on its Economic and Environmental Viability, South Asia Politics, 2004.

2004: Participation of Marginal Women in Decision Making Process, Indian Journal of Political Science, September, 2004.

2004: Ecopolitics and Ideology: Relocating Green Themes in Modern Ideological Thinking, Indian Journal of Political Science, December, 2004.

Select Chapter’s in Edited Volume

2013: Livelihood Insecurity of North Bengal Tea Workers: Contours, Complexities, Challenges and Opportunities in Himadri Sinha (ed.) Governance of Commons and Livelihood Security, 2013 (with Lalit P. Tirkey). XISS Ranchi.

2013: Virtualisation of the Politics of Recognition, in Gaurav Desai (Ed.) The Virtual Transformation of the Public Sphere, New Delhi: Routledge, 2013.

2012: Religio-Cultural Space, Development and Politics of Ecology: Evaluating the Movement of the Lepcha Against the Hydro-Power Project in Dzongu, Sikkim, in Md. Yasin and Durga P. Chettri (eds.) Politics, Society and Development: Insights From Sikkim, New Delhi: Kalpaz Publications, 2012.

2012: Role of Folk/Popular Songs in Social Movement Mobilisation: Experiences from Beyond the North East, in Padam Nepal and A S Chakraborty (Eds.) Politics of Culture, Identity and Protest in North-east India, New Delhi: Authorspress, 2012.

2012: ‘Introduction’(with Anup Shekhar Chakraborty), in Padam Nepal and Anup Shekhar Chakraborty (Eds.) Politics of Culture, Identity and Protest in North-east India, New Delhi: Authorspress, 2012.

2011: Ritual Regulation of Environmental Behaviour and Cultural Modes of Environmental Conservation in B. L. Sah et al (Eds.) Environment, Development and Society, Nainital: UGC-ASC, Kumaun University, 2011.

2010: Versical Expressions Of Marginality, Identity And Nationality: A Study of the Protest Songs of the Gorkhaland Movement in Darjeeling Hills, India, in A K Jana and Maya Ghosh eds. Democratisation, Development and Governance, New Delhi, South Asia Publishers, 2010.

2008: Social Forestry- Rural Development Interface (with Swapan Rakhshit and Manas Chakraborty), in Pankaj Debnath and Subhasis Bhattacharjee (eds.) Economy and Society of North Bengal, Kolkata: Progressive Publishers, 2008).

2007: Scheduled Caste Women in Decision Making: A Study of Darjeeling Municipality (with Namrata Pariyar), in Anil Bhuimali (ed) Development of Scheduled Caste, Serials Publications, New Delhi, 2007.

Book Monograph/ Edited Book

BOOKS AUTHORED Environmental Movements in India: Politics of Dynamism and

Transformation, Authors Press, New Delhi (2009) ISBN 978-81-7273-490-9.

An Introduction to Politics, Bimaleswari Publications, Darjeeling (2009) ISBN 978-81-9096-850-8.

Understanding Political Science. Darjeeling: St Joseph’s College Press, 2018 (ISBN: 978-81-909690-5-5)

Perspectives on Public Administration. Darjeeling: St Joseph’s College Press, 2018 (ISBN: 978-81-909690-6-2)

Public Opinion and Survey Research: Darjeeling: St Joseph’s College Press, 2018 (ISBN: 978-81-909690-7-9)

BOOKS EDITED Politics of Culture, Identity and Protest in Northeast India (Two

Volume Set), Authorspress, New Delhi (2012), ISBN 978-81-7273-626-6.

Politics of Exclusions and Inclusions in India: Construing Complexities and Commonalities, Delhi: Authorspress (2016). ISBN 978-93-5207-152-4.

Currently co-editing (With A. S. Chakraborty), Collective Action

across Cultures and Contours: Theory, Methodology Practices.RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS

Environmental Movements in India, UGC Sponsored Special Lecture Series, Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal, 2007.

Project Completed. University Grants Commission (UGC, India) Sponsored Research Project entitled Multiculturalism and the Politics of Linguistic Recognition in Sikkim: Context, Contours, and Complications with Reference to the Kin States (Kin Units of Federation) Politics in India.

Completed a University Grants Commission (UGC, India) Sponsored Research Project entitled Verses of Protest: An Assessment of the Role of Folk Music in Protest Movement Mobilizations in North and North East India.

Ongoing: International Collaborative Research on Folklore in Eastern Bhutan with the Royal University of Bhutan.

Book Reviews BOOK REVIEWS 2014: A Book Review of ‘A Contested Issue- Questions of identity

in Assam: Location, Migration, Hybridity by Nandana Dutta, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2012, pp XXXIV+270, July 2014. In The Book Review, South Asia

2012: A Book Review of Einsiedel, Sebastian von, David M. Malone & Suman Pradhan eds, Nepal in Transition: From People’s War to Fragile Peace. Cambridge University Press, 2012, Pp. XIV + 398, ISBN 978-1-107-66898-0. In The Book Review, South Asia, Vol. XXXVI No. 9

2011: A Book Review of Economic Development and Employment in Sikkim/Anjan Chakrabarti, New Delhi, Authorspress, 2009, pp.XVIII+113, ISBN-978-81-7273-501-2, in the Special Issue of Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (on Mountain Economy, Resources, Sustainability, Governance), Vol. II, No.2, December 2011.

PAPER PRESENTED IN SEMINARS/ CONFERENCES

A. Select International Seminars/Conferences 2016. Paper titled ‘Culture, Power and Praxis: Accentuating Indian

Nepali Poetry, Political Imagination, and the Everyday’ presented at the First International Conference on Archaeology, History and Culture Studies at Sherubtse College, Bhutan organised by Centre for Archaeology and Royal University of Bhutan on 6th- 7th October 2016.

2015. “Landscapes Ordering, Spatial Fixation, Biopower and Subjectification: Accentuating Species Loss and Socionatural Relations in Ecotourism across Experiences in the Anthropocene”. XVIII International Conference of the Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda on The Wider Significance of Nature, at Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Orissa, during 20-23 December 2015.

2013: Participated and presented a paper on ‘Gender, Governance

of Commons, and Livelihood Security: A Study of the Tea Gardens in Darjeeling District of West Bengal, India’ at the National Commission for Women (India) sponsored International Conference on Gender Equity: Issues of Theory, Practice and Policy in the Asia Pacific Region at the UGC-Academic Staff College, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India during 21st March to 22nd March, 2013.

2012: Participated and presented a paper on ‘Indian Nepali Poetry and Political Imagination’ at the International Conference on Indigenous and Ethnic Himalayan Languages, Literature & Culture at Department of Indian Languages, Banaras Hindu University organized by Department of Indian Languages and B P Koirala Foundation, Embassy of Nepal, New Delhi during 5th-6th October, 2012.

2012: Participated and presented a paper on ‘Livelihood Insecurity of North Bengal Tea Workers: Contours, Complexities, Challenges and Opportunities’ at the International Conference on Governance of Commons and Livelihood Security at XISS Ranchi organized by XISS and AICTE during 17th-18th August, 2012.

2012:Participated and presented a paper entitled “Water Crises and the Nature of Emergent Hydropolitics in Darjeeling” at the International Conference on Global Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Environmental Sustainability in the 21st Century organised by the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, during 15th-17th February, 2012.

2011:Participated and presented a paper entitled “Oppressed Epistemologies: Critical Engagement with the Counter Hegemonic Discourses in Protest Movement Politics” at the XIV International Conference of the Forum on Contemporary Theory on Transcending Disciplinary Decadence: Exploring Challenges of Teaching, Scholarship, and Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences held at Hotel Fortune Belacasa, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India during 18th-21st December, 2011.

2010: Participated and Presented a research paper entitled “Virtualisation of the Politics of recognition: Mapping the Physical—Virtual Complementarity in the Lepchas’ Struggle for Primitive Tribal Groups” at the International Conference on Virtualisation of the Public Sphere, organized by Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda, Gujarat, India held at Hotel Park View, Chandigarh, India during 15-18 December, 2010.

2010:Participated in an International Conference on Biodiversity and Environmental Governance in Canada and India: Safeguarding Ecosystems for Human Welfare (Sponsored by Departm9ent of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada and organized by Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India), 21st to 23rd October, 2010 and presented a paper entitled “Cultural Spaces, development and Ecopolitical Protest: Contextualising the Lepcha Movement in Sikkim”.

B. Select National/Regional/State Level Seminars and Conferences

Presented a Research paper in the Nation Seminar under UGC SAP DRS III at the Department of Political Science, University of North Bengal on March 20th, 2018.

2017. Paper entitled Culture, Power and the Politics of Protest at the UGC National Seminar on March 09, 2017 at the Department of Political Science, North Bengal University

2014. Participated and presented a paper on ‘Ordering Landscapes, Biopower and Subjectification: Tourism Practices of Mobility and Spatial Fixation from a Foucaldian Perspective’ at the UGC and ICSSR sponsored National Seminar on Eco (Sustainable) Tourism in Sikkim: A legal Perspective at the Sikkim Government Law College, Gangtok, India during 8th and 9th March, 2014.

2014. Participated and presented a paper on ‘Politiking Marginalisationin the Post-Liberalisation Era: Adivasi Vikas parishad in Context’ at the UGC and ICSSR sponsored National Seminar on Post Liberalisation democratic Experience in India at the Department of Political Science, North Bengal University, India during 27th and 28th February, 2014.

2013: Participated and delivered a lecture on “Themes of Cultural Integration in Post Colonial Indian Nepali Poetry” in the National Seminar on Post Colonial Writing in Nepali organised by the Department of Nepali, University of Sikkim in col;laboration with Sahitya Akademi New Delhi during 09th-10th November, 2013.

2013:Participated and presented a paper on “Reclaiming Spaces: Politics of Place, Locality and Identity of Lepcha Community in the Eastern Himalayas” in the Conference on Continuities and Discontinuities of Asian Engagement: Borders, Mobility and Identity in Northeast India and Asia organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sxciences, IIT Guwahati in collaboration with ICS New Delhi during 17th-18th October, 2013.

2013:Participated and presented a paper entitled “Entitlement Deprivation and Resource Scarcity in the North Bengal Tea Region” in the National Seminar on Transborder Migration, Human Security and Environmentalism in South Asia with Reference to the Himalayan and Adjacent Regions organised by the Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal during 19th-20th

March, 2013 2013:Participated and presented a paper entitled “Poetics of

Protest Movement: Contextualising Stereotypical representations and Infliction of Pain as Agencies of Mobilisation for Gorkha Ethnic Identity in India” in the ICHR and ICSSR Sponsored -National Seminar on State, Social Movements and Democracy in Northeast India organised by Department of Political Science, Gauhati University during 27th February-March 1, 2013.

2012:Participated and presented a paper entitled “Fractured Linguistic Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition: Contextualising Language Policy in Sikkim” in the UGC Sponsored -National Seminar on Democracy and Diversity in Northeast India organised by Department of Political Science, Gauhati University on

09th-10th February, 2012. 2012: Participated and presented a paper entitled “Alienation or

Liberation: Interrogating Marxist Approach to Labour, Leisure and Liberty” in the UGC Sponsored -National Seminar on Sports and Games: New Approaches to Holistic Education organised by Salesian College, Siliguri, Bengal, during 3-4 August, 2012.

2012: Participated and presented a paper entitled “Linguistic Minorities and Language Politics in Sikkim” in the XX Annual Conference of the Northeast Political Science Association (NEIPSA) organised by Department of Political Science, Cotton College, Gauhati, Assam on April 9yh-10th, 2012.

2012:Participated and presented a paper entitled ‘Democracy’s Marginal Citizen: Non-recognition of Claims and Perpetual Marginalisation of the Thamis in Darjeeling’ (with Dr. Ambika Thami), at the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Regional Movements: Identity Questions and National Integration: Contextualising India’s Growing Regional Assertions’, at the Department of Political Science, North Bengal University, during 15th and 16th of March, 2012.

2012:Participated and presented a paper entitled ‘Dead on Arrival?: Interrogating the Possibilities and Limits of Knowledge Creation and Dissemination at the Margins’ at the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Social Ex(in)clusion and Women in India’, organised by Women’s Studies (COP), of Southfield College, Darjeeling, during 16th- 17th March, 2012.

2012:Participated and presented a paper entitled ‘Lost Space, Erased History: A Mythistorical Analysis of Lepchas’ Reclamation of Memory, Rewriting History, and Reframing and Performing Identity ’ at the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Representation, Imagination and Narration: Tracing and Locating the Nation through History and Narratives’, organised by the Department of English of St. Joseph’s College, North Point, Darjeeling, in collaboration with Southfield College, Darjeeling, during 19th- 20th March, 2012.

2011:Participated and Presented a Research Paper entitled “Virtual Political Agency—Counterpublics Interface in Democratic Assertions” at the UGC-SAP –DRS National Seminar on Democratic Responses to Political Assertions: The Contemporary Indian Scenario, organized by the Department of Political Science, University Of North Bengal, West Bengal, India during 12-13 March, 2011.

2011:Participated and Presented a Research Paper entitled “De-Demonising Nehru: A Critical Engagement with the Contemporary Environmental Discourses in India” at the UGC National Seminar on Nehru as the Builder of Modern India, organized by the Centre for Nehru Studies, Department of Political Science, University Of North Bengal, West Bengal, India on March 17, 2011.

2011:Participated and Presented a Research Paper entitled “Quest for Tribalhood: Thami Community’s Struggle in Darjeeling” at the UGC Sponsored Two Days State Level Seminar on Interrogating the

Grand Narrative of Nation: Sub-National Movements and Issues of Identity in North Bengal, organized by the Departments of English and History, Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhupguri (Jalpaiguri) in collaboration with Maynaguri College (Jalpaiguri), West Bengal, India on March 09th-10th September, 2011.

2011:Participated and presented a paper entitled “Right to water Qua Vadis?” in the UGC and ICSSR Sponsored -National Seminar on Environment Security and Human Rights Issues organised by Department of Law and Legal Jurisprudence, Sikkim University on 11th-12th November, 2011.

2011:Participated and presented a paper entitled “Interrogating The Exclusivity-Identity Interface: Politics of (mis)/(non) Recognition and the Dynamics of Thami Identity in Darjeeling Hills, India” at the 54th Annual Congress of the Indian Political Science Association held at Lucknow during 28th-30th December, 2011.

2010:Attended a National Seminar on Gandhian-Nehruvian Social Order organised by the Center for Nehru Studies, Department of Political Science, University of North Bengal on 30 th and 31st march 2010 and presented a paper entitled: Gandhian Methodology of Social Research: Research Without Boundaries?

2010:Attended a National Seminar on Environment, Development and Society at UGC_Academic Staff College, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India (Sponsored by Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology, Dehradun and organized by UGC-ASC Kumaun University, Nainital), 20th to 21st October, 2010, and presented a Paper entitled “Ritual regulation of Environmental Behaviour and Cultural Modes of Environmental Conservation: A Study of Lepcha Tribes in Darjeeling Hills, West Bengal and Sikkim, India”.

2010:Attended a National Seminar on Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi in the 21st Century, Organised by the Center for Gandhian Studies, Department of Political Science, University of North Bengal and Sponsored by the UGC, 24th November, 2010, and presented a Paper entitled “Environmental Crises and Gandhian Solution: (Re)Locating Gandhi in the Contemporary Environmental Discourses”.

2008: A UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Industrialisation, Urbanisation and Political Socialisation in West Bengal on 28-29 March, 2008 organized by Siliguri College, Siliguri, Darjeeling, West Bengal and presented a paper entitled Urbanisation, Environment and the Tea Gardens: A Study of the Environmental Impact of Urbanisation in the Tea Gardens of Darjeeling District in West Bengal, India.

2008: A Two Days’ National Workshop on ‘Transformation of Print Materials in to Self Learning Materials’, organized by the Directorate of Distance Education, University of North Bengal and sponsored by Distance Education Council of India on 29-30 March, 2008, at University of North Bengal.

2007: Workshop on Undergraduate Syllabus in Political Science,

Organised by West Bengal Political Science Association and Department of Political Science, North Bengal University No Paper Presented Department of Political Science, North Bengal University, West Bengal: 2007.

2007: Seminar on Politics of Exclusion in North and North East India UGC-SAP, Department of Political Science, North Bengal University Of Music and Social Movements From Below: Explorations on the Role of Folk Songs in the in Social Movements Mobilizations in Eastern and Western Himalayas North Bengal University, March 2007.

2007:Tenth Annual Conference of West Bengal Political Science Association at Siliguri College, Siliguri, Darjeeling, West Bengal on 15-16 December 2007 and presented a paper entitled How Movements Move? Evaluating the dynamics of Environmental Movements in India.

2006: National Seminar on ‘Human Rights Situation in India’ sponsored by the University Grants Commission. Read a paper on State and Environmental Human Rights: A Study in the Context of Narmada Bachao Andolan at the Department of Political Science, University of North Bengal, West Bengal in 2006.

2006:Participated in a Research Scholars’ Workshop held at Salesian College, Sonada, Darjeeling during April 21-22, 2006 and presented a paper entitled “Ethical and Methodological problems Confronting a Researcher: An Experience”.

2005: Seminar on ‘Politics of Identity: Socio-Economic Implication in the Contemporary Indian Situation’ UGC-SAP, Department of Political Science, North Bengal University. Presented a Paper entitled Politics of Recognition and Language: Case Studies from North Bengal and Sikkim. Held at the Department of Political Science, University of North Bengal, West Bengal during 19-20 March, 2005.

2005: National Seminar on ‘Changing Face of Indian Women’ sponsored by the University Grants Commission. Read a paper on Scheduled caste Women in Decision Making: A Study of Darjeeling Municipal Administration at Dinhata College, West Bengal during 21-22 March 2005.

RESOURCE PERSONSHIP /

KEYNOTE ADDRESS IN SEMINARS/ WORKSHOPS

2019. Acted as a Resource Person and Conducted one day Orientation {Programme for teachers at North Bengal St. Xavier’s College, Rajganj, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal on July 30, 2019.

2019. Invited as a Resource Person at a Seminar on ‘General Election 2019: Democratic Awareness and Voting Behaviour’ at Indian Institute of Legal Studies, (IILS), Siliguri on March 02, 2019, and delivered a talk on Post Truth, Public Opinion and Voting Behavoiur.

2018. Invited as a Resource Person to deliver a Talk on “Preparing Research Proposals” for MA students of English, Postgraduate Department of English, Yonphula Centenary College, Royal University of Bhutan on may 4th, 2018.

2018. Invited as a Resource Person for Briefing on ‘Critical Editing, Transcription, Transliteration, Translation, Transcreation, Classification And Analysis and Interpretation of Folklore Data’ as a part of the Collaborative Research on Folklore in Bhutan at Sherubtse College, Kanglung (Royal University of Bhutan) on May 5th 2018.

2017. Resource Person for Orientation Program on data collection for Folklore Studies to the Research Team on the Collaborative Research on Folklore in Bhutan at Sherubtse College, Kanglung (Royal University of Bhutan) in June 2018.

2017. Participated as a Resource Person in the National Seminar on India’s Experience with Local Democracy on March 22, 2017 at the Department of Political Science, Raiganj University and Chaired a Session.

2017. Participated as a Resource Person in the National Seminar on India’s Experience with Local Democracy on March 22, 2017 at the Department of Political Science, Raiganj University and delivered a Plenary Lecture “Of Phronesis and Local Democracy”.

2017. Participated as a Resource Person in the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Higher Education and its Perspectives with Special Reference to Educationally Backward Areas on March 11, 2017 at Kokrajhar Science College, Kokrajhar, Assam and delivered a Plenary Lecture on the theme.

2016. Participated as a Resource Person in the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Democratization, Development, Governance: Images Of Assam And Northeast during May 17-18, 2016 at Ganesh Lal Choudhury (GLC) College, Barpeta Road, Assam and delivered a Plenary Speech entitled Politics of Knowledge and the Possibilities of a Phronetic Social Science: Contextualizing the Issues of Democratization, Development and Governance In Northeast India.

2016. Participated as a Resource Person in the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Socio- Economic Status of the Marginalised Communities in India with special reference to Assam” during 28th

&29th June, 2016 at Barnagar College, Sorbhog, Assam and delivered a Plenary Speech entitled Understanding ‘Marginality’ and Marginalisation.

2015. Acted as a Resource Person and Chaired a Session in the UGC Sponsored National Seminar On “Gender Equality And Empowerment Of Women In North East India” Organized By Department Of Political Science, Moridhal College, Moridhal Dist. Dhemaji, Assam. 15- 16 October 2015.

2015. As a Convener of the JAIR Darjeeling National Conference 2015, organized the National Conference on “India In The Emerging International Order: Issues And Opportunities”, in the Department Of Political Science, St. Joseph’s College Darjeeling with Jadavpur Association Of International Research (JAIR), Kolkata. 2nd-

3rd November 2015. 2015. Organized as a Joint Convener, the UGC sponsored three-

day National Seminar on “State Politics in India: Emerging issues and Challenges” organized by The Department Of Political Science, St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling in Collaboration With the Discipline of Political Science, Department Of HSS, Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, Assam, 27-29TH APRIL 2015.

2014: Participated as a Resource Person and delivered Keynote Address at the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Vision and Mission: Relevance in the Contemporary Scenario at the Center for Ambedkar Studies, Moridhal College, Dhemaji, Assam on March 02, 2014.

2014: Participated as a Resource Person and delivered a Plenary Talk on Enclaved, Ignored, Excluded! A Synchronic And Diachronic Analysis Of Patriarchal Politics Of Knowledge/ Ignorance And Women’s Position In Darjeeling Hills, India at the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Socio-Economic Status of Women in  Northeast India (20-21 January 2014) at Moran Mahila Mahavidhyalaya, Sivsagar, Assam.

2013: Participated as a Resource Person and delivered a Plenary Talk on Epistemic Ignorance and the Deprivation of Human Rights: Politics of Knowing and the Politics of Marginality at the National Seminar on Human Rights at Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, Assam.

2012: Participated as a Resource Person and delivered an Invited Talk on Politics of Ignorance and the Displacement of History: Lepcha Community in Darjeeling Hills in Context at the 10th Annual Orientation Course of the Mahanirvan Calcutta Research Group (CRG) at Hotel Cedar Inn, Darjeeling during 9th and 10th of October, 2012.

2012: Participated in the UGC National Seminar on Autonomy Movements in India organised by Sonada Degree College, Sonada, Darjeeling during 27th-28th March, 2012 as a Resource Person, delivered a Plenary Speech, and Chaired a Session.

2012: Participated as a Resource Person and Chaired a Session at the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Social Ex(in)clusion and Women in India’, organised by Women’s Studies (COP), of Southfield College, Darjeeling, during 16th- 17th March, 2012.

2011: Participated in the UGC National Seminar on Gandhi’s Non-Violence and its Relevance in the Present Day Context organised by Gandhian Study Centre, Moridhal College, Dhemaji Assam on 15th

October, 2011 as a Resource Person and delivered Keynote Address.

2011: Participated in the UGC National Seminar on Human Rights: Issues and Practices organised by Human Rights Education Centre, Moridhal College, Dhemaji Assam on 14th October, 2011 as a Resource Person.

2010: Participated as a Resource Person and delivered a Talk entitled “Development, Environment and the Gandhian Conception of the Social-Ecological” at the UGC National Seminar on Gandhi’s

Approach to Rural Development at the Centre for Gandhian Studies, Moridhal College, Dhemaji, Assam, on December 24, 2010.

2010: Participated as a Resource Person and delivered a Talk entitled “ (Re)Visiting ‘Justice’ and ‘Equality’ Through an Ambedkarian Epistemic Prism: Analysing Their Implications to the Politics of the Everyday” at the UGC National Seminar on B. R. Ambedkar: Maker of Modern India at the Centre for Ambedkar Studies, Moridhal College, Dhemaji, Assam, on December 25, 2010.

Invited Lectures(UGC and University

Invitations)

2017. Invited for a Special Lecture at the Department of History, Sikkim University during May 2017 and delivered the same on ‘Livelihood of Plantation Labourers in North Bengal’.

2014: Delivered a Lecture on Green Themes: Emerging Areas in Social Science Research (Session IV) at the UGC Refresher Course in History (IX) at UGC Academic Staff College, Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam on 22. 2. 2014.

2014: Delivered a Lecture on Museum As History: Artifacts and Research Methods (Session III) at the UGC Refresher Course in History (IX) at UGC Academic Staff College, Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam on 22. 2. 2014.

2014: Delivered a Lecture on Microhistory and Indigenous Methodologies (Session II) at the UGC Refresher Course in History (IX) at UGC Academic Staff College, Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam on 21. 2. 2014.

2014: Delivered a Lecture on Mythistory and the Construction of Nation: Illustrations from the Eastern Himalayas (Session I) at the UGC Refresher Course in History (IX) at UGC Academic Staff College, Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam on 21. 2. 2014.

2013: Delivered a UGC-Sponsored Special Lecture (Lecture No. 16) on Environmental Movements in India, at the Center for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal, Raja Rammohunpur, West Bengal.

UGC REFRESHER COURSES ATTENDED Participated in the UGC-orientation Course at the UGC-Academic

Staff College, University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India, during 4 th

to 31st January, 2003 (Awarded Grade A). Participated in the UGC-Refresher Course in Political Science

Organised by the Department of Political Science, University of North Bengal, West Bengal, India, during 14th February to 6th

March, 2005 ( Awarded Grade A). Participated in the UGC-Refresher Course in Political Science at the

UGC-Academic Staff College, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India, during 19th November to 10th December, 2007 (Awarded Grade A).

Participated in the UGC-Refresher Course in Human Rights (Multi-Disciplinary) at the UGC-Academic Staff College, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India, during 05 December to 23rd December, 2009 (Awarded Grade A).

Participated in the UGC-Refresher Course in Teaching Methodology

and Communication Skills Development at the UGC-HRDC, North Bengal University, India, during 08 January to 28th January, 2016 (Awarded Grade A).

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC BODIES

Life Member of the Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda, Gujarat, India.

Member, Research Board, NIT, Silchar, Assam (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences) for a PhD Scholar. (Till Degree Awarded/Degree Awarded).

Member of the Research Board (DRC) for 1 Researcher at NBU: Ongoing

Life Member of Indian Political Science Association Life Member of the West Bengal Political Science

Association. Member of the Think Tank IDEAS- a Research Forum of the

UGC Academic Staff College, Kumaun University, Nainital. Member, Advisory Board, Himalaya Research Journal Patron, Journal of Social Sciences, Moridhal College,

Dhemaji, Assam. Invited External Member, IQAC, Sonada Degree College,

Sonada, Darjeeling Member of the UG Board of Studies in Political Science Member of the Managing Committee, DLR Prerna,

Darjeeling Member of the Governing Body, North Bengal St Xavier’s

College

(Padam Nepal)Department of Political Science

St Joseph’s CollegeNorth Point

Darjeeling: 734104