Centre for Nepal Studies UK (CNSUK) invites you to a Talk Programme in London, 12 July 2012 on Nepali Diaspora in the India's North East Hill in the Current Indian Context By Professor Tanka Subba, North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong
Thursday 12-July 2012 Time: 17.00-19.00
Venue Crown House 8th Floor Room 816 North Circular Road, London NW10 7PN There are limited places available. Please confirm your participation by contacting Dr Raju Babu Shrestha:
Professor Tanka B. Subba
Professor Tanka Bahadur Subba is Head of the Anthropology Department at North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, India. He is originally from the Darjeeling District of West Bengal where he did his early education. He completed his PhD in 1985 from North Bengal University on “Caste, Class and Agrarian Relations in the Nepali Society of Darjeeling and Sikkim”. Since then he has been researching on various aspects of the North Eastern Himalayas of India on caste and agrarian relations, ethnicity and development, cultural adaptation, politics of culture and identity, health and disease and diaspora in the Nepali society. He has held very prestigious academic positions throughout his career. He is Honorary Director, Indian Council of Social Research, North Eastern Regional Centre, NEHU Campus, Shillong. He is a member of the Academic Council of Sikkim University and the Advisory Board of the National Museum of Mankind in Bhopal, India. He was Dean, School of Human and Environmental Sciences, NEHU from 1 March 1999 to 10 February 2002.
He has received several state, national and international awards and honours including the Homi Bhabha Fellowship (Mumbai), Dr. Panchanan Mitra Lectureship (Asiatic Society, Kolkata), a guest professorship at the Free University of Berlin under the programme of German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst - DAAD), and Baden-Wuerttemberg Fellowship at the South Asian Institute of Heidelberg University.
He has written extensively, including more than 60 papers in several national and international journals. He is the editor of The NEHU Journal (ISSN 0972-8406), an internationally refereed biannual journal of North- Eastern Hill University, Shillong and Man and Society: A Journal of North-East Studies (ISSN 2229-4058), a biannual journal of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, North Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong. He is a member of the editorial advisory boards of several international journals like Contributions to Indian Sociology (Delhi) and Asian Anthropology (Chinese University of Hong Kong).