डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्‍वविद्यालय दिल्ली
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Established by The Government of NCT of Delhi

• Ph D in Japanese Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi
• M. Phil (1998) in Japanese Studies from the Department of Chinese and Japanese Studies, University of Delhi. 
• One Year Japanese Language Diploma, Department of Chinese and Japanese Studies, University of Delhi, 1998. 
• Level 3 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test organized by the Japan Foundation and the Association of International Education, Japan, 1999. 
• One Year Diploma in Travel & Tourism, YWCA, New Delhi, 1993. 
• MA in History, University of Delhi 1992.
• BA (Hons) History, Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, 1990

• Domestic Travel Staff, Balmer Lawrie Travels, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, 1993-1994.
• Domestic Travels Staff, Govan Travels, Dalmia Cements, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, 1994-1995.
• Programme Officer cum Research Assistant, Institute of Chinese Studies, CSDS, Delhi, 2002-2005,
• Research Assistant in the East Asia Programme of the Institute from march 2006-March 2007.
• Research Assistant at Yomiuri Shimbun India Bureau Office at New Delhi, April 2007 – March 2011.
• Assistant Professor, Dr B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), April 2011 – current

• Japanese /East Asian society and culture, trans-regionalism, northeast of India, centre-periphery relations, education and society, cultural history and multiculturalism, material culture and community knowledge system,  education  and  indigenous belief system.

• Hosei International Fund for Foreign Scholars Fellowship, Hosei University, Tokyo, October 1, 2005 – September 30, 2006 for 12 months.
• Fellowship for Japanese-Language Programme, September –December 1997, The Japan Foundation Japanese Language Institute, Kansai, Japan.

Book/Chapters

• (Co-ed.), Objects-Identities-Meanings: Insider Perspectives from North East India, 2015. Dr. B.R.Ambedkar University Delhi Publication, ISBN No. 978-81-929849-0-2
• (Ed.) Mwdwi (मोदै) : A Memoir of Charan Narzary (2019),  a multi-lingual magazine, NL Publications, Kokrajhar, BTC- Assam.

Book Chapters

• The Abors of NEFA: A Historical Perspective, in Alka Acharya (edt.) Boundaries and Borderlands: A century after the 1914 Shimla Convention, Routledge: London and New York, 2023.
• ‘What is Buranji?’ in Traditions of History Writing in India, IGNOU Textbook, BHIE, June, 2022.
• ‘Role of Women in the Making of Boro Culture: From Knowledge Production to Empowerment’, in Surajit Sarkar and Nerupama Y Modewel (eds) Oral Traditions, Continuities and Transformations in Northeast India and Beyond, (2021). Routledge, Delhi.
• ‘Materiality of Boro Food Culture: Social and Cultural Meanings’, in Kanchan Mukhopadhyay (edt.) Food and Power: Expressions of Food Politics in South Asia, (2020). Sage Publications, Delhi.
•  ‘Weaving Material Culture: An Act of Identity Construction’, in Dharitri Narzray Chakravartty and Surajit Sarkar (eds), Objects, Identities, Meanings: Insider Perspectives from North East India, Ambedkar University Delhi Publication, 2015-16.
• ‘The Public and the Intimate: Ainu Family and School in Modern Japan’, in Wako Asato and Kaoru Aoyama (eds.), Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public Sphere, proceedings of the 1st Next – Generation Global Workshop, Kyoto University, January 2009.
• ‘State Education Policy and the Ainu in Modern Japan’, in Brij Tankha, Toshie Awaya and Yuriko Yoshida (eds.) Debating the Past, proceedings of Conference of Research Scholars from Japan and India, , the 21st Century Center of Excellence Programme, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2005.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• Co-Author, ‘Civil Society and Governance as Practiced in Japan, India and Egypt’, Yearly Academic Journal, Vol. XXII, published by Kalindi College, University of Delhi, 2022-23.
•  Co-Author, ‘Civil Society in Egypt: A Critical Analysis’, Indian Journal of African Studies, Vol. XXIV, Nos 1 & 2, April & October 2022, published by the Department of African Studies, University of Delhi.
•  ‘Buranjis and the Asian History Writing Tradition’, History and Sociology of South Asia, 15(1-2), pp. 7-27, Sage Publications, 2021.
•  ‘A commentary on Education, Enlightenment and Self-Awareness: An inside perspective’, Emerging Researcher, Vol. 7, Issue 2, April – June 2020.
•  Reflecting on Japanese Soft-Power: Past and Present, AD Valorem Journal of Law, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Part IV, January-March 2019.
•  ‘Historical Concerns and Contemporary issues in China-Japan Relation: Beyond Politics’, International Education and Research Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 5, May 2017.
•  ‘Myths of Japanese Homogeneity’, China Report, Vol. 40, Issue 3, Sage Publications, 2004.

Book Review

• Brett L Walker, The Conquest of Ainu Land: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1500-1800, University of California Press, London, Berkeley and los Angeles, 2001, pp. 344. China Report, Vol. 39, Issue 4 (2003).

Newsletter article

• An Inter-Community Dialogue on Rice as a Site of Knowledge and Meaning, IIAS, The Newsletter 83 Summer 2019, Leiden. https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/inter-community-dialogue-rice-site-knowledge-and-meaning

• Resource Person: Knowledge, Practice and Belief: Meaning-Making of Traditional Culture, Resource Person, UGC-HRDC Refresher Course on Traditional Knowledge System: Sources, Concept, Practice and Relevance, Session – III, 28 February 2023, Gauhati University.
• Resource Person: Community Knowledge Production and Gender Relations, Resource Person, UGC-HRDC Refresher Course on Traditional Knowledge System: Sources, Concept, Practice and Relevance, Session – IV, 28 February 2023, Gauhati University.
• Resource Person: Materiality of Boro Food Culture: Social and Cultural Meanings, Resource Person, UGC-HRDC Refresher Course on Traditional Knowledge System: Sources, Concept, Practice and Relevance, Session – I, 01 March 2023, Gauhati University.
• Invited Talk on The Ainu in Japanese History, Platinum Jubilee Talk, Department of History, 02 March 2023, Gauhati University.
• Centering the Periphery: From the Northeast to ‘India’ and South-east Asia, one day Internation Conference on India ASEAN Connect: Shared Values and Common Destiny, organized by Chennai Centre for China Studies, 20 January 2023.
• Reflecting on Japanese Soft-Power in Contemporary Period, 1st All India Conference of East Asian Studies, organized by Shiv Nadar University and Institute of Chinese Studies, 21-22 March 2022.
• Bodo Literature and History, All India Bodo Women Writers Association Conference (Webinar) on 30th June 2021, organized by Sahitya Academy and Bodo Women Writers’ Association.
• Resource Person: International Winter School 8-14 January 2020 on the theme, Globalization and Religious Diversity: Issues, Perspectives and the Relavance of Gandhian Philosophy, organized by Ambbedkar University Delhi and Aarhus University, Denmark.
• Storytelling around Rice, Storytelling and Writing Workshop, 19-21 December 2019, organized by IIAS (Leiden), Kenyon College (Ohio) and MIDS (Chennai), Chennai.
• Place, Practice and Nature in Experiential Perspective II: Rice, Round Table Panellist, The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars, IIAS Leiden, Netherlands, 15-19 July 2019.
• Digital Storytelling Workshop II: Humanities Across Borders Archive in the Making, The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars, IIAS Leiden, Netherlands, 15-19 July 2019.
• Tertiary Education Network Meeting, Asia –Pacific Regional Network for Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding, 17-19 July, 2018, Seoul and Buyeo, South Korea.
• Rice in the Border Areas of Assam and Bhutan: A comparative perspective, 6th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network on Borderland Space: Ruins, Revival(s) and Resources, 13-15 August, 2018, Byshkek, Kyrgyzstan.
• Spiritualism, Superstition and Politics Among the Bodos of Assam, the 10th International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS 10), 20-23 July, 2017, Chiangmai, Thailand.
• Narratives of Everyday, paper presented at the 4th Annual Hutton Lecture & Symposium, Kohima, 8-9 December 2016, organized by Kohima Institute of Nagaland, North East Forum Forum, Ambedkar University Delhi and Centre for Community Knowledge, Ambedkar University Delhi.
• Notion of Marginality and Identity in the Borderlands of Lower Assam, Annual Symposium on ‘Borders and Mobility’, organized by Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 6-8 April 2016.
• Confucianism in 21st Century China, during, Indian Think-Tank group’s meeting and interaction with counterparts in China (Beijing and Sichuan), 21-29 April 2016.
• Regional Symposium for development of post-graduate curriculum on Intangible Cultural Heritage, 2-3 November, 2015, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Resource Person for Workshop on Community Level Culture Resource Centres at Sanskriti, Guwahati, 18-21 February 2015, organized Anthropological Survey of India (Kolkata), Ministry of Culture, Government of India.

• Worked as a PI of a research network, Humanities Across Border, (humanitiesacrossborders.org IIAS, Leiden, 2017-19), on a project themed ‘Rice - Practice’, supported by Mellon Foundation. As part of this project organized workshops, conference panels and round table discussions in India and outside, and contributed to online repository on rice and rice related culture.
• North East Forum-Centre for Community Knowledge (AUD) project research project on Material Culture in the North East of India (2012-15. The project was completed in 2015 with a publication of a community based research volume as titled, Objects: Identities: Meaning: Insider perspectives from North East.