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Roluahpuia
Associate Professor
puia[at]hs.iitr.ac.in
https://iitr-in.academia.edu/RoluahPuia
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Biosketch
Educational Details
Professional Background
Research
Projects
Publications
Patents
Books
Collaborations
Honours and Awards
Honors
Memberships
Teaching Engagements
Teaching Engagements
Students
Supervisions
Associate Scholars
Miscellaneous
Events
Visits
Administrative Positions
Miscellaneous
Research Interests
Sociology of Climate and Environment, Urban Studies, Political Sociology, Sociology of Tribes, Sociology of Development, Borderland Studies
BioSketch
Educational Details
Harvard University
2019
Post Doc Fellow, South Asian Studies
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, North East Regional Campus (NERC)
2017
Ph.D., Social Sciences (Sociology)
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
2013
M.A., Development Studies
Professional Background
Associate Professor
12 Sep 2025 - Present
IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India
Assistant Professor
20 Jul 2020 - 11 Sep 2025
IIT Roorkee
Research Affiliate
31 Jan 2022 - Present
South Asia Institute, Harvard University
Raghunathan Family Fellow (Post Doc Position)
01 Aug 2018 - 19 Jun 2019
Harvard University, United States (US)
Assistant Professor
13 Jul 2017 - 13 Jul 2018
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi
Research
Projects
TOPIC START DATE FIELD DESCRIPTION FINANCIAL OUTLAY FUNDING AGENCY OTHER OFFICERS
Agrarian Change and Economic Transformation in Mizoram, Northeast India 01 Apr 2025 Agrarian Studies, Environmental Studies 11 lakhs ICSSR, New Delhi, India NA
Economic Transformation and Upland Livelihoods in Eastern Himalayas 15 Jul 2021 Manipur and Mizoram FIG, IIT ROORKEE SRIC, IIT Roorkee
Transforming Urban Landscapes: A Study of the Implementation of AMRUT in Aizawl, Mizoram 10 Sep 2023 Urban Studies, Development Sociology, Tribal Studies 400000 ICSSR New Delhi
State, territory and conflict: a study of land related conflict in the northeastern state of Manipur 02 Jun 2014 State, territory and conflict: a study of land related conflict in the northeastern state of Manipur 3 Lakhs OKD Institute of Social Change and Development
Devolution of Powers to the Existing Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) of Manipur 25 Aug 2017 Devolution of Powers to the Existing Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) of Manipur 3 Lakhs Tribal Research Institute (TRI), Imphal, Manipur.




Publications

JOURNALS:

14. Kamal, U. & Roluahpuia. (2025). Educational Inequality and Household Dynamics in India. Journal of South Asian Development 20(1): 117-138.

13. Roluahpuia and Joseph K. Lalfakzuala. (2024). Beyond anti-incumbency: winds of change in Mizoram. Economic and Political Weekly LIX(2): 21-24.

12. Utkarsh Kamal and Roluahpuia. (2024). Digital Capital and Seggregated Schooling: Addressing Educational Inequality. Economic and Political Weekly LIX(11):
10-13.

11. Roluahpuia and Joseph K. Lalfakzuala. (2024). Beyond anti-incumbency: winds of change in Mizoram. Economic and Political Weekly LIX(2): 21-24.

10. Roluahpuia (2022). Border Nation: Indigenous Peoples, State, and the Border in Indo-Myanmar Borderlands. Journals of Borderlands Studies. Online first. DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2076250

9. Roluahpuia (2021). Unsettled autonomy: ethnicity, tribes and sub-national politics in Mizoram, Northeast India. Nations and Nationalism 27 (2): 412-426. (Awarded the 2020 ASEN/Nations and Nationalism Best Article Prize in Memory of Dominique Jacquin-Berdal).

8. Roluahpuia (2020). Whose border is it anyway? Control, contestation and confluence in Indo-Myanmar borderlands. Contemporary South Asia 28 (1): 74-86.

​7.Roluahpuia (2019). The Bru-Mizo conflict. Economic and Political Weekly 54(29): 111-113. 

6. Roluahpuia (2018). Memories and Memorials of Mizo National Front (MNF) Movement: Problems and politics of memorialization. Economic and Political Weekly LIII (25): 38-45. 

5. Roluahpuia (2018). Hydro-nation, discourse, and discontents in northeast India: the case of Tipaimukh Dam, Manipur. Society and Culture in South Asia 4(2): 255-277.  

4. Roluahpuia (2018). The Bru Conundrum in Northeast India. Economic and Political Weekly LIV (29): 111-113. 

3. Roluahpuia (2017). Media in Conflict or Conflict in Media: dynamics of ethnic conflict in northeast India. Asian Ethnicity 18 (4): 488-504. 

2. Roluahpuia (2016). Ethnic Tension in Mizoram: Contested Claims, Conflicting Positions. Economic and Political Weekly, LI(29): 21-25. 

1. Roluahpuia (2015). Political Turmoil in Mizoram: Resolving the Hmar Question.  Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 31.  

 

 

Honors And Awards
Honors
London School of Economics and Political Science
2020
2020 ASEN/Nations and Nationalism Best Article Prize in Memory of Dominique Jacquin-Berdal
Harvard University
2019
Raghunathan Family Fellow
MemberShips
International Sociological Association (ISA)
01 Sep 2021 - 31 Dec 2024
Member
Indian Sociological Society
07 Oct 2020 - 07 Oct 2030
Member
Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)
08 Jan 2021 - Present
Member
Teaching Engagements
Teaching Engagements
Society Culture and Development ( IHS-918 )
Autumn
Sociology of India ( HSN-917 )
Spring
Identity and Belonging: Sociological Perspectives ( HSS-303 )
Autumn
Sociology ( HSS 02 )
Autumn
Sociology of Work ( HSS-503 )
Spring
Urban Sociology ( HSS-208 )
Autumn
Sociology of Development ( HSN-924 )
Autumn
Students
SuperVisions
Schooling, Merit and , Aspirational Mobility in Uttar Pradesh (UP)
10 Feb 2021 - 05 Sep 2025
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Utkarsh Kamal
Identity, Memories and Borders
10 Feb 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Towseef Ahmad Wani
The Politics of Access, Identity, and Conservation in the Jaunsar-Bawar Region of Uttarakhand
13 Nov 2023 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Mayukh Sarkar
Politics of Identity and Development among the Lois of Kakching, Manipur (Tentative)
24 Jul 2021 - Present
Other Supervisors: , Scholar: Sheetal Shalini Pebam
Miscellaneous
Events
Dreams of Independence: Vernacular Nationalism Among the Mizos of Northeast India
01 Jan 2019 - Present
What's the matter with orality: the poetics of Mizo nationalism in Northeast India
01 Jan 2019 - Present
Indigeneity in South Asia
30 Apr 2021 - Present
University of Hawaii
International Conference on South Asia
17 May 2021 - Present
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Rethinking Mizo Nationalism in Contemporary India
01 Jan 2019 - Present
Locating Northeast India Human Mobility, Resource Flows and Spatial Linkages
11 Sep 2020 - Present
Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
Annual Conference on South Asia
28 Apr 2021 - Present
Ireland India Institute
Borderland Spaces Ruins, Revival(s) and Resources
11 Sep 2020 - Present
Asian Borderlands Research Network
Dynamic Borderlands: Livelihoods, Communities and Flows
11 Sep 2020 - Present
Asian Borderlands Research Network
Re-imagining India’s North East: Networks, Narratives and Negotiations
11 Sep 2020 - Present
Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research
Understanding Nation: Issues and Comparative Ideas in the Contemporary Context
11 Sep 2020 - Present
Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
Borders and Border Studies The South Asian Perspective
11 Sep 2020 - Present
Association for Borderland Studies
Visits
Harvard University
2018-08-23
Post Doctoral Fellow
Brown University, United States
2019-02-01
Lecture
Yale University, United States
2019-02-02
Modern South Asia Workshop
Administrative Positions
HSS-02 Sociology Course Co-ordinator
28 Aug 2020 - 25 Dec 2023
IIT Roorkee
Member, Department Faculty Search Committee
01 Jan 2021 - 31 Jan 2022
IIT Roorkee
Member, Department Research Committee (DRC)
05 May 2021 - 05 Dec 2022
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Prof-in-charge Library
08 Jul 2021 - 07 Jul 2023
IIT-Roorkee
Member Secretary (DFC)
01 Apr 2025 - Present
IIT Roorkee
Member (Department Administrative Committee)
22 Jul 2025 - Present
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, ROORKEE, Uttarakhand, India
Prof-in-Charge (Time-table)
03 Dec 2023 - Present
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, ROORKEE, Uttarakhand, India
Member (DAPC)
06 May 2025 - Present
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, ROORKEE, Uttarakhand, India