Chiangmong Khiamniungan

What were the many different ways in which the Nagas envisioned their political future during the historically dense and consequential 1940s? I discuss this question in ‘Destiny rests upon our shoulders’ out with @contemporarySA Please DM for copy. doi.org/10.1080/095849…

@kksuanh Thank you!

A very happy and proud moment indeed to see one of our brightest land up in a prestigious place to begin his academic career. Best wishes @chiangmong_k

So very grateful for your kindness, patience, and encouragement! @i_anagha

@uohpolsci congratulates alumnus Dr @chiangmong_k on joining NLSIU Bengaluru @NLSIUofficial as Assistant Professor. Awarded PhD Jan 2026 for thesis "The Perfection of Equality" on Ambedkar's egalitarian thought. @HydUniv #UoHAlumni #NLSIU #PoliticalScience #AcademicSuccess

My article on caste and indentured Indian sanitary workers on ships and in colonial South Africa has been recently published with the Past and Present. Please do give it a read and share it widely. I will love to know what you all think of it! academic.oup.com/past/advance-a…

More ways of reading Phule, and reading Phule in English. Thanks @kailashkk for sharing this.

My review of The Troubling State of India’s Democracy, edited by Šumit Ganguly, Dinsha Mistree and Larry Diamond (@UMich, 2024) for @contemporarySA @uohpolsci tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

PDF opportunity at @uohpolsci UoH-HYI Post-doctoral Fellowship in China Studies. Applications are open. @HydUniv @HarvardYenching socialsciences.uohyd.ac.in/polscience/pos… @bhimeas @CommunitasPolSc @School_SocialSc

@i_anagha, Faculty @uohpolsci, has published a book review of "The Third Eye and Other Works: Mahatma Phule's Writings on Education" by Rohini Mokashi-Punekar in @epw_in. Read here: epw.in/journal/2026/8… @HydUniv @School_SocialSc @CommunitasPolSc #UniversityOfHyderabad #Phule

What a privilege to have contributed to "Threads of Time:A Cultural Journey" for UK-based Hali Publications.This comprehensive 408-page book showcases artisanal textiles from 16 global regions including Indonesia,India (featuring Nagaland & Punjab),Peru & the Navajo Nation.

Wrote on the Cambridge Companion to Periyar, why it matters and what it could have been. For @thewire_in thewire.in/books/a-canon-…

“Sir Toby [Belch] has left behind advice as to how one should deal with one’s enemy: ‘soon, so soon as ever thou seest him, draw, and as thou drawest, swear horrible’. But this is not possible for an individual who wants to stand up against a govt”. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

The bibliography.

#Ambedkar’s Ranade, Gandhi Jinnah (1943) is now up at #theannotatedambedkar. Cross-references to Ambedkar’s texts are to the wonderful site baws.in (@baws_bot) annotatedambedkar.com/ranade-gandhi-…

Had the chance to present at @Princeton some preliminary work on mid-20th-century Naga intellectual attempts to think about the question of what makes Nagas a “distinctive community”.

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma, Department of Political Science, School of Social Science at University of Hyderabad, has been elected Fellow of the ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY (RHS), a prestigious recognition for his contributions to intellectual history. As a Fellow, Professor Sharma joins a community of esteemed historians and scholars who are shaping the field of history globally. The RHS is a leading UK-based organization dedicated to promoting historical research, education, and public engagement. As a result of conferment of the Fellowship, Professor Sharma will have access to a range of benefits, including research funding opportunities, events, and networking possibilities. Professor Sharma has been the recipient of many awards, academic distinctions and fellowships. In 2019–2021 and 2012-2013, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, The Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study, Germany. From 2015–2021, he was appointed, Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany. Between September 2015 to June 2016, he was Visiting Fellow, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Institute for Human Sciences), Vienna, Austria. The Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, invited him as Visiting Professor between 18-22 March 2014. In January 2012–June 2012, he was Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden. The International House, Japan and Japan Foundation awarded him the Asia Leadership Fellow Programme (ALFP) fellowship in 2008. His recent publications include, Elusive Non-Violence: The Making and Unmaking of Gandhi’s Religion of Ahimsa. Context, Chennai, 2021 (Reprinted in paperback in 2023), The Ocean of Mirth: Reading Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ of Jagadēśvara Bhaṭṭāchārya, A Political Satire for All Times, Routledge: London and New Delhi, 2019 (South Asian Paperback in 2020), and ‘Violence Affirmed: V.D. Savarkar and the Fear of Non-Violence in Hindu Nationalist Thought’. In Social Science at the Crossroads, 7:108–39. Annals of the International Institute of Sociology 13, Brill, Leiden, 2019. His forthcoming book (edited) with Routledge is titled Are there Indian Ways of Thinking? Congratulations to Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma. #RoyalHistoricalSociety #Fellowship #IntellectualHistory #UniversityOfHyderabad #ResearchExcellence #Historians #Scholars #AcademicAchievements #PrestigiousHonor @jyotirmaya56051 @ugc_india @HydUniv @dpradhanbjp @mygovindia @PMOIndia @routledgebooks @RoyalHistSoc @uohpolsci @School_SocialSc

Privileged to have been a part of #ECSAS2025 @UniHeidelberg. It was a fascinating and rigorous panel on “Footprints of Socialism in South Asian Intellectual and Political History” convened by Judhajit Sarkar and @Prateek_Pankaj3. Thanks to @ICSSR for support.

I reviewed two books on #Ambedkar for Studies in Indian Politics (@StudiesIndian): Prof. Valerian Rodrigues' (@ValerianRo) Ambedkar's Political Philosophy with @OxUniPress and Dhananjay Soindaji's (@wanjarid) Humanizing Power with @BloomsburyIndia. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

Friends, Some of us are putting together a panel for the 2026 ISFNR #conference to be held in Iceland next summer. It is titled "indigenous folkloristics in North East India", with a vision to center indigenous knowledge systems in the light of ecology nomadit.co.uk/conference/isf…

Announcing 'The Cambridge Companion to #Periyar', a landmark work & our foremost publication in 2025. Developed over several years with an exceptional team of editors @ARV_Chalapathy & @KRManoharan & contributors, it brings critical insights on the modern thinker's ideas & legacy

Starting out with the first few sections/chapters of Ranade, Gandhi & Jinnah (1943) and Chapter 1 of Who were the Shudras? (1946) Ranade annotatedambedkar.com/ranade-gandhi-… Shudras annotatedambedkar.com/who-were-the-s…

Sharing a website that has been (is still) in the works... its called annotatedambedkar.com and here I shall be sharing annotated and referenced (as exhaustively as possible) versions of Ambedkar’s texts, concentrating on those that have not received the treatment...