Indian Foreign Policy: Themes and Issues, Sem III (Optional)

India and its Neighbors, Sem IV (Optional)

Regions in World Politics, Sem IV (Optional)

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS:

• Review Article: ‘The Indian Parliament: A Democracy at Work,’ B L Shankar & Valerian Rodrigues, OUP, New Delhi, 2011, Anasakti Darshan, Vol.7 No.2 & Vol.8 No.1, July2011-June2012, Gandhi Smriti & Darshan Smriti, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, New Delhi. Pp.81-89

•  ‘Making Sense of the House: Explaining The Decline of The Indian Parliament amidst Democratisation’ (co-authored),  Studies in Indian Politics, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 2013, ISSN- 2321-0230, (Sage and CSDS, New Delhi). Pp.153-178

http://inp.sagepub.com/content/1/2/153.abstract

• ‘Understanding the Political Shift in Assam: Withering Congress Dominanace’ (co-authored), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50, No. 39, September 26, 2015, (Mumbai). Pp. 67-71

http://www.epw.in/journal/2015/39/notes/understanding-political-shift-assam.html

• ‘Convergence of the ‘National and ‘State’ Level’: Explaining the BJP Victory in Madhya Pradesh’, Politico, Vol.4, No.2, 2015, (New Delhi). Pp. 29-38

• ‘Rethinking ‘Responsibility’: An Analysis of the Government- Opposition Relation in the Indian Parliament’, Journal of Political Science, Vol.IX, January 2017, (Gauhati University Press, Guwahati) Pp. 100-113.

• ‘The Making of the Constituent Assembly’ published by UGC e-PG Pathshala Project, MHRD, New Delhi. http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=29

• ‘The Constituent Assembly of India : Functioning’ published by UGC e-PG Pathshala Project, MHRD, New Delhi  http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ahl.php?csrno=29

• ‘National Narrative and Regional Subtext: Understanding the Rise of BJP in Assam (Co-authored) Studies in Indian Politics, Vol. 6, No. 1, June 2018, ISSN- 2321-0230, (Sage and CSDS, New Delhi). Pp.1-11

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2321023018762676

ARTICLES IN EDITED BOOKS:

• ‘Responsibility’ and ‘Accountability’ : Confidence and No Confidence Motions in the Indian Parliament in Ajay Mehra ed. The Indian Parliament and Democratic Transformation, (pp.251-272). New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis. ISBN-9781138107113

BOOK REVIEWS:

•  Constitutional Conundrum : Challenges to India’s Democratic Process, V. Venkatesh, Lexis Nexis, Gurgao, 2014  , ‘The Book Review’, VOLUME XXXIX NUMBER 5 May 2015. Pp.17-19 . http://www.thebookreviewindia.org/articles/archives-4454/2015/may/5/crisis-facing-indias-living-document.html

• The Indian Parliament: A Critical Appraisal, Sudha Pai & Avinash Kumar, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2014.  ‘The Book Review’, VOLUME XXXIX NUMBER 3 March 2015. Pp.25-27.

http://www.thebookreviewindia.org/articles/archives-4412/2015/march/3/reviving-studies-of-public-institutions.html

NEWSPAPER CONTRIBUTIONS:

• ‘The Decline of India’s Parliament’, Vikas Tripathi & Poonam K Borah, The Assam Tribune, September 12, 2012.
• ‘Stability Amidst Change : Explaining the AAP Victory’, Sandhya Goswami & Vikas Tripathi, The Assam Tribune, February 12,2015.
• Maha-Understanding: Assam Polls, 2016, Sandhya Goswami & Vikas Tripathi, The Assam Tribune, November26, 2015.
•  How will history view Pranab Mukharjee-Narendra Modi Relationship? Daily O, August 4, 2017.

http://www.dailyo.in/politics/modi-president-pranab-mukherjee-gst/story/1/18773.html

·         Presented a paper titled “Crisis of Representation facing Equality and Inclusiveness in Contemporary India” in ‘International Seminar on Equality and Inclusiveness in Contemporary India: The Emerging Discourses’ held on 27^th -28^th January, 2010 at Department of Political Science, Banaras Hindu University.

·         Attended a 10 day workshop on the ‘Use of Quantitative Methods in Political Science’ held at Karnal from 24.05.12 to 02.06.12 organised by ICSSR-CSDS, New Delhi.

·         Presented a paper titled “The crisis of ‘representative politics’, Social Movements and a vision of ‘New Politics’” in ‘National Seminar on State, Social Movements and Democracy in Northeast India’ held from 27^th February to 1^st March, 2013 at Department of Political Science, Gauhati University.

·         Presented a paper titled “Debating the Decline: Coalition and the Indian Parliament” in ‘National Conference on Democracy, Development and Social Justice’ held from 21^st March to 23^rd March, 2013 at Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

·          Presented a paper titled “The Parliament and Government in India: Confidence and no-confidence motions amid Fragmentation” in International Conference on ‘The Indian Parliament and Democratic Transformation’ held from 9^th April to 11^th April, 2013 organised by India International Centre (New Delhi), Centre for Policy research (New Delhi) and Conrad Adenaeur Stiflung (Germany).

·         Presented a paper titled ‘Politics beyond the Local: Explaining the electoral stability in Sagar Vidhan Sabha Constituency, Madhya Pradesh’ in The Second Annual EECURI Networking Meeting (International Workshop) held from 3^rd January- 4^th January, 2014 organised at Bangalore.

·         Presented a paper titled , ‘Amidst the 'National' and 'State Level': Explaining the MP Lok  Sabha Election Results’ at Workshop on ‘The 2014 Lok Sabha Elections in Urban And Rural India’ 19-20, August 2014  organized by ICSSR, New Delhi.

·         Presented a paper titled, ‘The convergence of Poll Surveys and Ethnographic Analysis: Explaining the BJP victory in 2014 MP Lok Sabha Elections’ at EECURI WORKSHOP (9 January 2015) titled ‘Studying Elections: Reflections on Methods’ held in JNU, New Delhi

·         Presented a paper titled, ‘Regionalism or Nationalism? Understanding the Rise of BJP in Assam at the Workshop (12-13 July, 2016) titled ‘Identity Movements and Regionalism in the Context of India’s North East’, Organised by OKDISCD, Guwahati.

·         Participated in a three day Teachers Training Programme in International Humanitarian Law at the Department of Law, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong from the 25th-27th April 2017 in Shillong, organised by International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) .

·         Presented a paper titled, ‘Recasting the Jatiyanayak : Understanding the Rise of Sarbanada Sonowal’ at National Seminar on ‘State Level Leadership in India : Patterns, Trends, Challenges and Opportunities’ held in MPISSR, Ujjain on February 22-23, 2018.

 ·         Master of Philosophy in 2009, from the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

·         M.A. in Political Science, 2006, from the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

·         Qualified National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) in June 2006.

·         Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (UGC-JRF) in June 2010.

·         B.A from Ewing Christian College, University of Allahabad in 2003.

·         Assistant Professor  (Ad-hoc) St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi (September 02, 2011 to January 01, 2012)

·         Assistant Professor  (Ad-hoc) Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi (January 18,2012 to 22.05.13)

·         Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Dr. H.S. Gour Central University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh (05.06.13 to 16.06.14)

·         Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam (19-06-14 onwards)

 Research Projects :

    ·      Member of India-Europe Research Networking project on ‘Explaining Qualitative and Quantitative Electoral Changes in Urban and Rural India’ (Joint collaboration between CERI, Paris; King’s India Institute, London; LSE, London ; CPS, JNU, New Delhi; BBAU, Lucknow; and Janagrah, Bangalore. 2013-2015)

Ongoing Research Activities

• Political Leadership of Sarbananda Sonowal and the Office of Chief Minister in Assam
• The Cabinet and the Parliament in India

• Indian Politics