Dr. Hoineilhing Sitlhou

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Room No. 152, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY,

UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD, GACHIBOWLI, HYDERABAD -500046

Email: hoilhing@gmail.com, Phone no. 040-2313-3266/ 9949687722

Dr. Hoineilhing Sitlhou completed her PhD (Sociology) from JNU, New Delhi. She is currently working as Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad. She is a recipient of the M.N. Srinivas Award, 2016. She has published three books 'Kuki Women' (Ed.), 2014, 'Deconstructing Colonial Ethnography: An analysis of Missionary Writings in North East India', 2017 and Identity and Marginality in Northeast India: Challenges for Social Science Research (Ed.), 2024. She has also contributed articles in Economic and Political Weekly, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, International Journal on Religion and Spirituality, Asian Ethnicity, Indian Anthropologist, Explorations (E-Journal of Indian Sociological Society), The Eastern Anthropologist, Sociological Bulletin, Journal of North East India Studies, Third Concept and chapters in edited books. She has written on social and gender issues for online news portal like The Wire, News Click, Times of India and the Quint.

TEACHING COURSES

1. SL 101 Introduction to Study of Society 2011 to 2019 (July-Dec Sem)
2. SL 351 Roots of Social Protest 2012 (July-Dec Sem)
3. SL 353 Religion and Society 2012 till date (Jan-May Sem)
4. SS 545 The Sociology of Culture 2013 to 2016 (July-Dec Sem)
5. SL 528 Debating Ethnicity and Race 2020 till date (July-Dec Sem)
6. SL 221 Changing Indian Family 2023 (Aug-Dec Sem) with N. Annavaram
7. SL803 Academic Writing Course 2023 (Sept-Jan Sem) with C. Nagalakshmi
8. FN 202: Sociology in India: Contemporary Issues 2024 (Jan-May Sem)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Religion, Culture, Ethnicity and Race and North East India

RESEARCH PAPERS PUBLICATIONS

1. Article, ‘Straying beyond Conquest and Emancipation: Exploring the Fault lines of Missionary Education in North East India,’ published by the Indian Anthropologist, Journal of the Indian Anthropological Association, Department of Anthropology, New Delhi, Volume 39, Number 1&2, Jan-Dec. 2009.

2. Article, ‘Continuity and Change: The Setting of a Customary Court amongst the Kukis,’ in the edited book Kuki Society: Past, Present and Future, published by Maxford Books, 2011.

3. Article, ‘Colonialism and Textualisation of Cultures: A Critical Analysis of Christian Missionary Writings in India’ in The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, Vol 1, Issue 4, Published by Common Ground Publishing, Champaign, Illinois, USA, 2012.

4. Article entitled "Religion and death: The concept of death and the afterlife among the Mizos", in Malsawmdawngliana et al (Ed.) Orality and Folk Literature in the Age of Print Culture: India's Northeast Experience. 2015. Scientific Book Centre.

5. Article entitled "Patriarchal bargains and paradoxical emancipation: Issues in the politics of land rights of Kuki women" in Indian Journal of gender Studies. February 2015. 22(1): 1-26.

6. Article titled “Confronting the State: Land Rights Discourse in the Hills of Manipur”, in Economic and Political Weekly (Special Article Section), VOL L No. 30, July 25th, 2015 (pages 70-77).

7. Sitlhou, Hoineilhing. (2016) "Forest Conservation and Community Land Rights in Manipur" in Identity, Contestation and Development in Northeast India, edited by Komol Singha and M. Amarjeet Singh, India: Routledge.

8. Sitlhou, Hoineilhing and Salah Punathil. 2017. Racial Discrimination and Violence against Northeasterners and Bezbaruah Committee Report, 2014 (Research in Progress). Indian Sociological Society. Explorations, ISS e-journal, Vol.1(1), April: 91-102.

9. Published the article "Identity, Contestation and Ethnic Revivalism among Nepalis in Darjeeling" co-authored with Sangay Tamang, in Economic and Political Weekly (Perspective Section), Vol.53, Issue No. 1, 06 Jan, 2018

10. Sitlhou, Hoineilhing. 2018. The shifting ‘stages’ of performance: a study of ‘Chavang Kut’ festival in Manipur, Asian Ethnicity, 19:4, 468-488, DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2018.1476834

11. Sitlhou, Hoineilhing. 2018. Changing face of Death in Northeast India. in Sociology of Northeast India: Empirical Reality and Disciplinary Practice, edited by Jyoti Prasad Saikia and Partha Pratim Borah, New Delhi/ Gauhati: DVS Publishers, pages 102-119.

12. Sitlhou, Hoineilhing. (Forthcoming 2019). Her-Story in History: Women's Roles and Participation in the Anglo-Kuki War. in Jangkhomang Guite and Thongkholal Haokip's edited The Anglo-Kuki War, 1917-1919: A Frontier Uprising against Imperialism during World War I, London and New York: Routledge.

Relevant lecturing/ seminars/ symposiums

1. Presented a paper entitled, “A Narrative on Field Experience in the Hills of Manipur,” on 26th February (2010) in National Seminar on Social Research in North East India: Issues and Challenges organised by North East India Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

2. Presented a paper entitled, “Woman and Land Rights,” on 8-9 march (2010) at the First Indian Council of Social Science Research Social Scientists’ Meet organised by ICSSR, North Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong

3. Presented a paper on, “Gender and Politics in Land Rights: The case of the North Eastern Tribes of India,” in the International Conference on “Re-imagining Gender and Politics: Transnational Feminist Interventions,” on 27th/28th November 2010, Goethe University Frankfurt

4. Presented a paper on, “ Colonialism and Textualisation of Cultures: A Critical Analysis of Christian Missionary Writings in India,” in the International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, 15-17th February 2011, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The travel was funded by Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.

5. Presented a paper titled, “Agrarian Society in Transition: The Case of the Kukis of Manipur” at the 37th All India Sociological Conference during the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of Indian Sociological Society at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on 11th-13th December, 2011.

6. Convened a panel entitled’ ‘Cultural Dimensions of Ecology’, and presented a paper ‘Culture and Ecology in the Hills of North East India’ in the conference ASA 12: Arts and Aesthetic in a Globalising World organised by the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth held in New Delhi from 3rd April to 6th April, 2012.

7. Presented a paper titled ‘Colonialism, Evangelism and Print Culture in Mizoram’ in the National Seminar on “Orality and Folk Literature in the Age of Print Culture: Contemporary Challenges and Prospects”, from 29th to 31st October, organised by Pachhunga University College, Aizawl, Mizoram.

8. Chaired a session (Academic Session III) in the National Seminar on “Orality and Folk Literature in the Age of Print Culture: Contemporary Challenges and Prospects”, from 29th to 31st October, organised by Pachhunga University College, Aizawl, Mizoram.

9. Presented a paper titled, "Forest Conservation and Community Land Rights in Manipur", in the international conference on State and Society in North East India, organized by North East India Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 26-28 February, 2014.

10. Delivered a lecture on the topic, "Identifying areas for engagement with researchers and activists to work on customary laws related concerns", in the 4th National Conference organized by the Women in Governance--India on march 26th to 27th, 2014 at constitution club, New Delhi.

11. Presented a paper, 'Performance Historiography of the Thadous of Manipur', in the workshop organized by the UPE Phase II project, Towards an Enabling Historiography of Performative and Embodied Practices: Case Studies from Khasi, Kodava, Mizo, Tenvidie, and Thadou, on 8th December, 2016, Dean's SEMIS Conference Hall, Mizoram University, Aizawl.

12. Presented a paper, 'Symbolism of Bride wealth and gift-giving in Marriage system of the Kukis', in RC 2 Family, Kinship and Marriage of the Indian Sociological Society's 42nd All India Sociological Conference in Tejpur, Assam between 27th to 30th December, 2016.

13. Moderated a session/ panel titled ' India Beyond the Chicken's Neck ' on 28th January at the Hyderabad Literary Festival, 2017.

14. Chaired a session titled, "Ambedkar's Idea on Religion", of the two days national conference on dr. B. R. Ambedkar Perspective on the State, Society and Economy: Revisiting his Vision and Mission held on 22-23rd February 2017.

15. Delivered a lecture on 'Narrative Analysis' at the Ten Day Research Methodology Course (RMC) for Research Scholars from March 22 – 31, 2017 at the Department of Sociology, Social Science Building, University of Hyderabad.

16. Lecture on the topic 'Her Story in History: Women Roles and Participation in the Anglo_Kuki War (1917-1919)' at the Centenary Commemoration of Anglo-Kuki War 1917-1919 organised by the KSO (H) on 19th of October, 2017 at OM Campus, Hyderabad.

17. Presented a paper entitled, "Spatialising the Missionary Encounter: The Interaction between Missionary Work and Space in Colonial Settings", in the two-day National Seminar on Ethnography, Historiography and North East India organised by the Department of History, Manipur University in collaboration with the Asiatic Society, Kolkata on 26-27th October 2017 at committee room, VC's Secretariat, Manipur University.

18. Presented a paper titled, "The Shifting 'Stages' of Performance: A Study of 'Chavang Kut' festival in Manipur", in the National Conference on Revisiting the Hill-Valley connection in North-East India on 5th and 6th of January, 2018 at JNU, New Delhi.

· Reviewed manuscripts for the peer-reviewed international journal Asian Ethnicity and Journal of Gender Studies.

· Member, Editorial board, Journal of North East Studies.

· Organized a National Seminar, 'Identity and Marginality in North East India: Challenges for Social Science Research' on 16th and 17th January, 2017 sponsored by UGC-SAP and ICSSR.

· Introduced a new course of study 'Debating Ethnicity and Race' in the year 2017.

Books Published

Kuki Women (Ed.). 2014. Synergy Books India. New Delhi
Deconstructing Colonial Ethnography: An Analysis of Missionary Writings on North East India. 2017. Ruby Press. New Delhi.