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Lipokmar Dzuvichu

Lipokmar Dzuvichu
Lipokmar Dzuvichu
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Special Centre for the Study of North East India
Room No
411, SSS-I
Off. Phone
011-26708854
Email
lipokmar[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, lipokmardzuvichu[at]gmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

PhD in History, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Transport History; History of Frontiers and Borderlands; History of Goods and Circulation; Labour History; History of Modern Infrastructure; and Visual History.

Experience

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Assistant Professor, 2012 - Present

Series Co-editor of Book Series (with Manjeet Baruah), Empire and Frontiers (Routledge)

Awards & Honours

* Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, 2015-16

International Collaboration/Consultancy

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Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Books:

  1. (Co-edited with Manjeet Baruah) Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia: Between the Mekong and the Indus (New York & London: Routledge, 2019), ISBN: 978-0-367-34430-6
  2. (Co-edited withManjeet Baruah) Modern Practices in North East India: History, Culture, Representation (New York & London: Routledge, 2018),ISBN: 978-1-138-10691-8

Chapters in Books:

 

  1. ‘Introduction: Objects of frontiers,’ in L. Dzuvichu and Manjeet Baruah (ed.), Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia: Between the Mekong and the Indus (New York & London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 1-17, ISBN: 978-0-367-34430-6
  2. ‘The Colonial State and “Illegal” Arms Trade along the North East Frontier of British India, 1860s – 1900s,’ in Neeladri Bhattacharya and Joy L. K. Pachuau (ed.), Landscape, Culture and Belonging: Writing the History of Northeast India, (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 236-262; ISBN 978-1-108-48129-8  
  3. ‘The Arteries of Empire: Routes, People and Mobility in Colonial Naga Hills, 1850s-1920s,’  in L. Dzuvichu and Manjeet Baruah (ed.), Modern Practices in North East India: History, Culture, Representation (New York & London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 89-116, ISBN: 978-0-367-34430-6
  4. ‘Introduction: Frames of Region and People: Practices of Knowledge and Representation,’ in L. Dzuvichu and Manjeet Baruah (ed.), Modern Practices in North East India: History, Culture, Representation (New York & London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 1-20, pp. 89-116, ISBN: 978-0-367-34430-6
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Journal Articles:

  1. ‘Guns in the Hills: Firearms Circulation along the North-East Frontier of British India, 1860s- 1910s,’ Journal of Modern European History, Special Issue (2021), Vol. 19 (4), pp. 416-435.
  2. ‘Empire on their Backs: Coolies in the Eastern Borderlands of the British Raj,’ International Review of Social History, vol. 59, Special Issue (2014), pp. 89-112.
  3. ‘Roads and the Raj: The Politics of Road Building in Colonial Naga Hills, 1860s – 1910s’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 50, 4 (2013): pp, 473 – 494.
Patents (if any)

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