7 former students clear state civil service exams even as my former employer TISS Guwahati Campus shuts down centres on Peace & Conflict Studies, Labour Studies and Public Health. A dream campus dedicated to indigenous NE region thus crumbles despite evidence of its impact.

Reimagining the Himalaya through the lens of diasporic indigeneity. Rohini Rai rgs.org/our-collection…

We need to pay less attention to American sociologists who are vastly different from other sociologists in being 1) highly insular and provincial (only study the US) 2) highly positivist and quantitative 3) almost anti-interdisciplinary, 4) decades behind in terms of theorising.

Join us tomorrow for this exciting talk.

📢Axel Borchgrevink and I have edited a special issue: "Riverine Rights", that reflects broadly on the rights of rivers, community and nature. I've an article, too in this series. We are thankful to "Riverine Rights" project funded by Norges forskningsråd and generous contributors🧵

Call for papers for the 15th Yale Modern South Asia workshop organized by Yale South Asian Studies Council on June 7-8 2025. Details below, application deadline Dec 2, 2024 macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/mode…

We're Listening, and We're Hiring! Department of Political Science invites aplications, from eligible Indian Citizens and Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) for the appointment to various faculty positions under the Special Recruitment Drive – 5.

Sharing a publication of my first Ph.D scholar in the Journal of South Asian Development where we attempt to theorise caste capital to explain the persistence of educational inequality in India. Pls have a read & share us your thoughts… journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

R&B workshop has provided space & nurtured many of us. Excited for this year too….

Pls relay this great opportunity for a residency exchange b/ween two First Nations writers from Australia & two Adivasi writers from India. The location of this fully-funded (visa incl) residency is Aus. Pls request Adivasi writers in your networks to apply. Deadline 22/12/2024👇🏽

The Writing Urban India Fellowship 3.0 Applications are now open! If you are an urban practitioner, PhD candidate, or junior faculty working on the urban question, this is for you.

The plenary and memorial lecture schedule for the 49th ISS conference is now available on the official website insoso.org/iss-conferences

This is to all the Sociology aspirants for various exams like NET/ CUET/ GATE etc. I have prepared a list of various free accessible classes. Kindly access them here. You can also refer to the topic-wise divisions here. The list will get updated everytime a new class happens.

Call for Proposals: We invite applications to our #AASInAsia2025 "Modernities, Mobilities, and Change" dissertation workshop, made possible by Henry Luce Foundation. Advanced graduate students are invited to apply for this opportunity by February 14. More info: bit.ly/MMC-workshop

CFP: The Ethnography Lab at IIIT Delhi is organising a workshop for early PhD students. Accommodation and food will be provided for participants. Please help spread the word. Link: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/…

The cfp for 12th Edition of Roots and Bridges is now open. One of the few platforms for scholars working on northeast India to engage and share ideas.

"We need people from our community to consolidate the works of people like Xaxa. We need to write about him, so that it can be an inspiration for future generations to come" Jacinta Kerketta Five years without Dr Abhay Xaxa. You will continue inspiring caravanmagazine.in/communities/re…

Joined as one of the Associate Editor for the journal Development in Practice Development in Practice. Hoping to learn a lot from the role.

Submit a Manuscript to the Journal of Urban Affairs for a Special Issue on "Platform Gentrification: New Urban Inequalities in the Age of Digital Capitalism". Abstract deadline: 15 November 2025. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues… #urban #sociology

hindustantimes.com/opinion/imprin… with Ornit Shani Assembling India's Constitution maps how "the most intense public struggles were over the Constitution’s potential to radically change the social order based on caste"