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Tanka B. Subba

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Tanka B. Subba

Visiting Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences

  • BA (Hons): Kalimpong College, 1977
  • MA: University of North Bengal, 1980
  • PhD: University of North Bengal, 1985

Email: tanka.subba -AT- iitgn.ac.in



  • Selected Publications

    1. Verrier Elwin and His Fieldwork Method. Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India, 69(1), 7-14, 2020. DOI: 10.1177/2277436X20905924

    2. Migration, Inner Line Permit and Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Northeast India: A Ring-side View. Fifth Jayashree Roy Memorial Lecture published by North East India Studies Programme, JNU, New Delhi, in November 2016.

    3. Problems of Conceptualising Cultural Diversity among the Tribes of North East India. Anthropology Today, 2015, 1(1): 79-90.

    4. Power Projects, Protests, and Problematics of Belonging in Dzongu, Sikkim. In Gerard Toffin and Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (eds), Facing Globalisation in the Himalayas: Belonging and the Politics of the Self. New Delhi: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd., 2014, pp.326-43.

    5. Cultural Roots of Gendered Historiography. Northeast Researches, 2012, 3(3): 95-109.

  • Work Experience

    • Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (Jul 2024 to present)
    • Professor, North-Eastern Hill University (Oct 2017 - Apr 2022)
    • Vice-Chancellor, Writing Center, University of Houston (Oct 2012 - Oct 2017)
    • Professor, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya (Sep 1997 - Oct 2012)
    • Reader, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya (Sep 1991 - Mar 1997)
    • Sr. Lecturer, University of North Bengal, Dt. Darjeeling, West Bengal. (Mar 1990 - Sep 1991)
    • Lecturer, University of North Bengal, Dt. Darjeeling, West Bengal. (Mar 1985 - Mar 1990)

  • Awards

    • Gold Medal for securing first class first in MA (1980).
    • Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Sociey (CISRS, Bangalore) Junior Research Fellowship 1980-81.
    • University Grants Commission (New Delhi) Junior Research Fellowship 1981-85.
    • Homi Bhabha Fellowship (Mumbai) 1992-94.
    • Dr. Panchanan Mitra Lectureship 2007 awarded by the Asiatic Society, Kolkata.
    • DAAD Guest-professorship at the Free University of Berlin from April 1 to July 30, 2008.
    • Baden-Wuerttemberg Fellowship at the South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany from 15 October 2010 to 15 January 2011.
    • R.P. Chanda Centenary Medal for 2015, awarded by the Asiatic Society, Kolkata for my contribution to Anthropology.

Research Interests

  • ● Social/Cultural Anthropology of the Eastern Himalayas

Complete List of Publications