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Professional Recognition

2008

Charles Wallace Trust Visiting Fellowship

Charles Wallace Trust, London, UK
1993

UGC JRF/SRF

University Grants Commission
2014

UGC-SAP Visiting Fellow

Centre for Advanced Study, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.
2015

UGC-SAP Visiting Fellow

•Centre for Advanced Studies, Centre for Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University. New D
2017

UGC-SAP Visiting Fellow

Dept. of Sociology, Tripura Central University
2015

Chair Professor Abroad

Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR)

Community & Membership

Technical Committee on Dolphin Conservation in the Kulsi River, Kamrup district and Local

Member

Committee for Recommending names to Screening Committee for CAS Promotion from Stage –III

Member

Governing Body, Assam Society for Social Audit, Department of Panchayat & Rural Developmen

Member

State Innovation and Transformation Aayog (SITA) (formerly the State Planning Board), Gove

Advisor

Committee to draft the State Population Policy, Department of Health and Family Welfare, G

Member

High Power Committee to Review the Structures of and Relationship between Cotton College S

Member
2020

Governing Body, Tezpur Law College

Member
2020

Advisory Board, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Guwahati Campus

Member

Institutional Ethics Committee, Lokapriya Gopinath Bardoloi Regional Institute of Mental H

Member
2019

Governing Body, Vivekananda Kendra – Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) Hospital. Assam

Member
2018

University Court, Cotton University

Member
2018

First Statutes Drafting Committee, Cotton University

Member
2017

Executive Council, Cotton University

Member
2017

Governing Council, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Gauhati University

Member
2019

Planning Board, Tezpur University

Member
2018

Library Committee, Tezpur University

Member
2013

Ethical Committee, TU

Member
2007

Research Committee, TU

Member
2006

Academic Council, TU

Member

Committee to Revise Rules and Regulations for External Membership of the University Librar

Chairperson

Committee for finalising the modalities for Assam College Services Recruitment Board, Dept

Member

Committee for developing a standard questionnaire for each identified scheme/policy with r

Member

Advisory Board (Search Committee) constituted by the Governor of Assam for recommending na

Member
2025

Governing body, Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development

Member

Sociological Association of Northeastern India

2023
Life (President)

Indian Sociological Society

2017
Executive Member

Indian Association for Asian and Pacific Studies

2015
Executive Member

International Sociological Association

2011
Member

Indian Sociological Society

1992
Life Member

Bio

Environment, Social Movements, Migration, Identity Politics, Urbanization, Agrarian Change, Northeastern India

Personal Details

  • Male
  • Dean , Tezpur University
  • Tezpur University Main Road, Napaam, Tezpur, Assam, India
PhD
University of Delhi 2006
M.PHIL
University of Delhi 1994
M.A.
University of Delhi 1992
Dean Jan 2025 – Present
Tezpur University
Professor Feb 1997 – Jan 2025
Tezpur University | Department of Sociology

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A Study on the Impact of PM SVANidhi Scheme in selected ULBs in Assam

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PI

269,040

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Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan

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1,895,250

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Nutrition and Community Action Resource Centre

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22,500,000

2020 - Ongoing

Ongoing
Forest and Forest Dwellers of Assam: Searching for a Sustainable Relationship

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800,000

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Status of Child Marriage in Assam

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UGC (SAP) DRS I

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A Study on the Political Economy of Conflicts along Assam-Arunachal Pradesh Foothills Border

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Sociology of Governance: A Study in Sonitpur District of Assam

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Small Tea Plantations and Changing Rural Landscapes in Assam

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Year 2016

Changing Agrarian Relations and Livelihood Practices in a village of Central Assam

University Tezpur University
Year 2017

Issues of conservation and Livelihood in A Forest Village of Assam

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Year 2013

Religious Conversion Among the Misings of Assam: A Case Study in Majuli

University Tezpur University
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A Study on the Inter-State Rural Out-Migration among the Nepali Community of Assam: A Case Study in Sonitpur District

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Year 2020

A Study among the Emerging Adi Middle Class of Arunachal Pradesh

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Year 2021

Changing Dynamics of Caste and Identity Among the Nepali Community of Assam

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Year 2021

Land and Identity: A Study of the Tiwa Community of Assam

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Year 2021

Development, Displacement and Livelihood: A study in Dhemaji District of Assam

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Year 2022

Urbanization of Guwahati City: Changing Dynamics of Urban Space and Governance

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Urban Land Governanace in a Post-colonial Frontier: A Study on Urbanisation in Arunachal Pradesh

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Indigenization and vernacularization of social science in India: revisiting the debate

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Contemporary Development Discourse in Northeast India and its Impact on the Tribal Communities

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Tribal Movements in Colonial and Post-Colonial India

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Contemporary Development Discourse and Its Impact on the Tribal Societies of Northeast India

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Social network, trust, and rural informalities: transfer of tribal land ownership in protected areas of Assam, Northeast India

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