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Thongkholal Haokip

Thongkholal Haokip

Thongkholal Haokip
Thongkholal Haokip
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for the Study of Law and Governance
Room No
004
Off. Phone
011-26708940
Email
th.robert@yahoo.co.in , haokip@jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage
https://haokip.com/
Qualifications
Ph.D
Areas of Interest/Specialization
Institutions, Governance, Democracy, Deeply Divided Societies, Minority Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Upland Societies
Experience

Assistant Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (27 May 2015 to present)
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Presidency University, Kolkata (5 November 2012 to 26 May 2015)
Lecturer, St. Peters College, Shillong (July 2004 to June 2005)
Editor, Journal of North East India Studies (Since 2011)
Executive Editor, Asian Ethnicity (2015-2021) 

Awards & Honours
Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission (2002)
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. Selective Outrage, Selective Targeting: The Politics of Othering in Manipur, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 59(31), 2024, pp. 36-40. https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/31/insight/selective-outrage-selective-targeting.html
  2. Unfolding the Manipur Riots, Economic and Political Weekly, 58(19), 13 May 2023. https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/19/comment/unfolding-manipur-riots.html
  3. Territoriality, Conflict and Citizenship in the India-Myanmar Borderlands, The Journal of Indian and Asian Studies, Vol. 4(1), February 2023. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2717541323500018
  4. Glimpses from villages in the Northeast: Traditional quarantine measures came alive during the COVID-19 pandemic, Contributions to Indian Sociology, 56(1), February 2022, pp. 94-98. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667221106017
  5. Voting behaviour in deeply divided societies: partisanship and ethnic voting in the hills of Manipur, Asian Ethnicity, 23(3), 2022, 427-441. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2020.1799750
  6. Unwillingness to Share Power: Manipur and the ADCs Bill, 2021, Economic and Political Weekly, 2022, 57(14), 25-28, Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4063599
  7. Traditional Ideas and Institutions of Democracy in India’s North East, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 2022, 1-15 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X211069680
  8. From ‘Chinky’ to ‘Coronavirus’: racism against Northeast Indians during the Covid-19 pandemic, Asian Ethnicity, 22(2), 353-373, 2021, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2020.1763161
  9. Dereliction of Duties or Political Interference? The Governor, Hill Areas Committee and Upsurge in the Hills of Manipur, Indian Journal of Public Administration, 63(3), 2017: 456–474. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019556117720606
  10. Spurn Thy Neighbour: The Politics of Indigeneity in Manipur, Studies in Indian Politics, 4(2), 2016: 1-13. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2321023016665526
  11. India’s Look East Policy: Prospects and Challenges for Northeast India, Studies in Indian Politics, 3(2), 2015: 198-211. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.117/2321023015601742
  12. The Politics of Scheduled Tribe Status in Manipur, Society and Culture in South Asia, 1(1), 2015: 82-89. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2393861714550952
  13. Inter-ethnic relations in Meghalaya, Asian Ethnicity, 15(3), 2014: 302-316. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2013.853545
  14. The Kuki-Naga Conflict in the light of recent publications, South Asia Research, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2013, pp. 77-87. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0262728013475545
  15. Recent trends in regional integration and the Indian experience, International Area Studies Review, 15(4), 2012: 377-392. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2233865912465605
  16. Political Integration of Northeast India: A Historical Analysis, Strategic Analysis, 36(2), 2012: 302-312. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2012.646508
  17. India’s Look East Policy: Its Evolution and Approach, South Asian Survey, 18(2), 2011: 239-257. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0971523113513368

 

Select recent book chapters

  1. Home and Belonging in Northeast India: Ethnic-territoriality, Conflict, and Citizenship in the India-Myanmar Borderlands, in Amit Ranjan and Diotima Chattoraj (Eds.). Migration, Regional Autonomy, and Conflicts in Eastern South Asia, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 143-164. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28764-0_6
  2. Indigenous Knowledge as Early Warning Guide in Disaster Management, in Amita Singh (Ed.s). International Handbook of Disaster Research. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2022, pp. 71-82. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8800-3_8-1
  3. Territoriality, in Jelle J.P. Wouters and T.B. Subba (Eds.). The Routledge Companion to Northeast India, New Delhi: Routledge, September 2022, pp. 434-439. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003285540-72 
  4. Ethnocracy in Deeply Divided Societies: The Dynamics of Ethnopolitics in Manipur, in Jelle JP Wouters (Ed.). Vernacular Politics in Northeast India: Democracy, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 175-198. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192863461.003.0007
  5. Making a Case for the Formation of Regional Councils within Sixth Schedule Area, in Atul Sarma, Ashok Pankaj and Antora Borah (eds.). Social Sector Development in North-East India. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2020. pp. 361-380. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4237440 
  6. Escape Agriculture, Foraging Culture: The Subsistence Economy of the Kukis during the Anglo-Kuki War, in D.L. Haokip and N. Kipgen (eds.). Against the Empire: Polity, economy and culture during the Anglo-Kuki War 1917-1919. New Delhi, Routledge, 2020, pp. 118-136. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003000655-10
  7. Development through Trade: Re-examining India’s Act East Policy and the Northeastern Region, in Rakhee Bhattacharjee (ed.). Developmentalism as Strategy: Interrogating Post-colonial Narratives on India’s North East. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2019, 231-249. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9789353287689.n10
  8. Breaking the Spirit of the Kukis: Launching the ‘largest series of military operations’ in the Northeastern Frontier of India, in J. Guite & T. Haokip (eds.). The Anglo-Kuki War, 1917-1919: A Frontier Uprising against Imperialism during the First World War. London/New Delhi: Routledge, 2018, 93-117. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429431098-4
  9. Role of CBOs in Resilience Building: Good Practices and Challenges, in Amita Singh, et. al. (eds.) Development and Disaster Management: A Study of the North Eastern States of India. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, 2018, 281-299. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8485-0_19
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

1. Forgotten Fighters: Heroes of the Anglo-Kuki War, 1917-1919. New Delhi: Routledge. 2024. (Forthcoming, co-edited with P.K. Pau)

 

2. The Anglo-Kuki War, 1917–1919: A Frontier Uprising against Imperialism during the First World War. New York, London, and New Delhi: Routledge, 2019 (Co-edited with J. Guite)

Reviewed by

i) Jelle J.P. Wouters in Asian Ethnicity, Vol 20, Issue 4, 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2019.1619445

 

3. India’s Look East Policy and the Northeast. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2015. 

Reviewed by

i) Sachin Dewan, 'A policy's pre-bench...', Loksatta, 1 August 2015, https://epaper.loksatta.com/c/6070857

A. Ahmad, in CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Vol. 53 Issue 04, Dec. 2015, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/CHOICE.192665

ii) Obja Borah Hazarika, Social Change, Vol. 46 Issue 2, 2016, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0049085716635437

iii) Subir Bhaumik in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50, Issue No. 41, 2015, Link: https://www.epw.in/journal/2015/41/book-reviews/look-east-through-north-east.html

iv) Press Trust of India, Economic Times, 'Northeastern region must be involved to achieve Look East policy goals', Aug 09, 2015, Link: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/northeastern-region-must-be-involved-to-achieve-look-east-policy-goals/articleshow/48410562.cms

v) Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman in The Book Review, 'Transitions In Strategy', Vol 41, No. 12, 2017, Link: https://www.thebookreviewindia.org/transitions-in-strategy/

vi) Lynn Ockersz in The Island (Sri Lanka), 'India’s North-east emerges as potential economic growth hub', January 15, 2019, Link:  http://island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=197754

 

4. The Kukis of Northeast India: Politics and Culture. New Delhi: Bookwell, 2013.

Reviewed by

i) Lyna H Misao in Indian Journal of Public Administration, Vol 65, Issue 1, 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0019556118814669

ii) Kamminlen Haokip in Asian Ethnicity, Vol 17, Issue 3, 2016, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2015.1095420
Patents (if any)

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A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.