Qualification

• PhD (Sociology) Tezpur University, 
• UGC NET JRF 
• MSc Anthropology (specialization in Social Anthropolgy), MIranda House, University of Delhi 
• BSc Anthropology (hons), Hansraj College, University of Delhi

Publication

1. "Daikhos—Sacred Groves, Clan Rituals, and Gender Exclusion Among the Dimasas of Assam", 'Sacred Forests of Asia', Routledge. ISBN: 9780367698720
2. "Sacred Spaces and Gendered Sites Nation, Nationalism and Public Sphere": 'religious Politics in India', Sage. ISBN: 978-93-5388-380-5 (HB)
3. Menstruation and Hygiene: A Bio-Cultural Perspective: 'Anthropology and Health', Rawat. ISBN: 9788131608746
4. "Kinship, double descent and gender politics amongst the Dimasas of Northeast India", SCOPUS, Asian Ethnicity. ISSN: 1463-1369
5. "Conserving Human-Nature Nexuses: Biodiversity, Eco-Ethics and Sacred Forests of Assam", UGC Care Listed Category 1, Journal of OKD Institute of Social Change & Development. ISSN: 0975-4016
6. The Entangled Sphere of the Dimasas' socio-Cultural Life and its Implications for Water Governance (The Focus - Spring 2023)

Paper Presentation

1. ‘Daikhos- Sacred Groves, clan Rituals, and Gender Exclusion Among the Dimasas of Assam’ at Sacred Forests of Asia: Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation, organised by Bard College at Simon’s Rock, USA from 22th-24th April 2022.
2. ‘Daikho: A sacralised ritual geography of the Dimasas’ at 8th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association, organised by University of Évora, Portugal from 6th-9th September 2022.
3. The Ecopolitics of Sacred Geography: The Case of the Dimasas of Northeast India at Feminist and Queer Spatialities: Care, Connection and Change Conference, organised by IGU commission on Gender and Geography and School of Geography, University College of Dublin, Ireland from 21st-22th August 2024.
4. ‘(Re)looking at a Traditional Tribal Institution’ in the National Seminar on “Reading and Writing about the Lives in Northeast India” organized by the Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, Assam from 3rd-4th February, 2020.
5. ‘Sacred Spaces Controlled Places, Gendered Surroundings: The Daikho of the Dimasa’ in the 7th HSS Seminar, organised by Tezpur University, Assam on 14th November 2019.
6. ‘Daikho and the Dimasas: A Sociological Study’ at the Graduate Seminar during the International Conference on Locating Northeast India: Human Mobility, Resource Flows and Spatial Linkages organized by the Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, Assam from 8th-9th January, 2019.
7. ‘Redefining Local Governance in accordance with the Caste System’ in the International Conference on Governance and Development: Asian Perspective 2017, organized by the Department of Public Administration, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh from 28th-29th January, 2017.
8. ‘The Politics of Double Descent’ in the XV National Conference on Women’s Studies Women in a Changing World: Restructured Inequalities, Countercurrents and Sites of Resistance, held in University of Madras, Chennai from 22nd-25th Janauary 2017.
9. Marriage through the lenses of Cultural Industry’ in the One-day of 2nd National Seminar on ‘Current Trends and Issues on Dimasa: Language, History and Culture’ organized by Dimasa Youth Forum (DYF), Haflong at Dishru Field, Maibang, Assam on 12th January 2018.
10. “Reflexivity & the Field Experience: An Encounter with the Caste” in the National Seminar on “Negotiating Fieldwork: Unfolding of Institutional Practices and Contemporary Challenges” held at the University of Delhi from 16th-17th September 2016.
11. ‘Menstruation and Hygiene: A Bio-Cultural Perspective’ in the National Seminar on ‘Anthropology: Unveiling the Mystique’ held at School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) from 28th-29th October 2015.

Area of Interest

Ethnographic Research, Indigenous Knowledge System, Urban Anthropology, Sociology of North-East, Cultural Ecology, Gender Studies.