JNU RTI Directory Contact Us Emergency Services List of Holidays 
A- A A+

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[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]in , haokip[at]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in
Personal Webpage
https://haokip.com/
Qualifications
Ph.D
Areas of Interest/Specialization
Democracy, Institutions, Governance, Legal History, Emergency and Exceptional Laws, Minority Rights, 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. Traditional Ideas and Institutions of Democracy in India’s North East, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, 17(3), September 2025, 331–344, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X211069680
  2. For a Just Peace in Manipur, Economic and Political Weekly, 60(11), 2025, pp. 8-9. https://doi.org/10.71279/epw.v60i11.43684
  3. Selective Outrage, Selective Targeting: The Politics of Othering in Manipur, Economic and Political Weekly, 59(31), 2024, pp. 36-40. https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/31/insight/selective-outrage-selective-targeting.html
  4. Unfolding the Manipur Riots, Economic and Political Weekly, 58(19), 13 May 2023. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4447075
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Inter-ethnic relations in Meghalaya, Asian Ethnicity, 15(3), 2014: 302-316. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2013.853545
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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. Dialogue, Justice and Political Autonomy, in Suresh Nambath and Joan Sony Cherian (eds.). Manipur: A State of Conflict. Chennai: The Hindu Group Publishing Prvt. Ltd, 2025.

  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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. 2026. (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)

 

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

 

4. The Kukis of Northeast India: Politics and Culture. New Delhi: Bookwell, 2013.
Patents (if any)

NA