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Recent Projects:
Recent Projects:
● Research Fellowship with the Women's History Network (2023-24), and with Showtown History Centre funded by the Theatre & Performance Research Association (TaPRA) (2022-24).
● Research Fellowship with the Women's History Network (2023-24), and with Showtown History Centre funded by the Theatre & Performance Research Association (TaPRA) (2022-24).
● Research Commission with the Museum of Colour (2023-24) for A Very British Rhythm :
● Research Commission with the Museum of Colour (2023-24) for A Very British Rhythm :
Research interests:
Research interests:
● theatre, performance and dance cultures in south Asia, with particular focus on the northeastern regions of India, and south Asian diaspora in Britain/UK.
● theatre, performance and dance cultures in south Asia, with particular focus on the northeastern regions of India, and south Asian diaspora in Britain/UK.
● visual methodologies, archived photographs and films, screen-dance, photo-ethnography
● visual methodologies, archived photographs and films, screen-dance, photo-ethnography
● critical dance studies
● critical dance studies
● colonial encounter, and the Second World War at India-Burma-Bangladesh borderlands
● colonial encounter, and the Second World War at India-Burma-Bangladesh borderlands
● transregionality and transnationality in the formation of identity and belonging
● transregionality and transnationality in the formation of identity and belonging
PUBLICATIONS
Guest Co-Editor
2024. 'The Moving Body, Identity, Non-Human Interactions' Journal of Emerging Dance Scholarship,
Vol X. https://jedsonline.in/2023-call-for-submissions
Edited Book
2024. Nachom: Exploring Harmony through Manipuri Dance Writings. Curated by P. Chatterjee,
Gurugram: Shubhi Publications.
Link: https://www.flipkart.com/nachom-exploring-harmony-through-manipuri-dance-writings/p/itm02e7e24062e13? pid=9788196861520&lid=LSTBOK9788196861520SZHRXY&marketplace=FLIPKART&cmpid=content_book_8965229628_gmc
Journal Articles (Peer-reviewed)
2025. ‘Staging En/k/counter: Coevality of violence and theatre in India’, Studies in Theatre and
Performance, https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2025.2551383
Finalist for PGR Essay Prize, TaPRA Annual Conference, 2023
2024. ‘We can’t let go”: Navigating dance in a (post) conflict society’, co-authored with
Devi, Chabungbam Babina in Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies, vol.43:249-267;
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/conversations.5959
2023. ‘Roof/Room Pieces: An Ethnography of Lockdown Lives, and Digital Performances of
Rabindranritya’, UNC-Charlotte, Journal of South Asian Dance Intersections. 2(1): pp.38-57
(ISSN:2834-5606). Link: https://doi.org/10.55370/sadi.v2i1.1556
2016. ‘Assembling Dance History of Manipur through a Life Narrative: Thiyam Suryamukhi Devi’
in Eastern Quarterly. 12 (I-II). New Delhi: Manipur Research Forum (ISSN 0975-4962). pp 5-15.
2012. ‘Her Body, Her Story: Situating the Maibis in the ritual-performance of Lai Haraoba’,
Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society (ISSN: 0019-4387) 47(1): 29-38.
Book Chapters
2022. ‘Dance Cultures’ in The Routledge Companion to the Indian Northeast. Jelle J.P. Wouters & T.
Subba (eds.) London, New York: Routledge, pp 109-114.
2021. ‘Building Bridges: Manipuri Dance in Indian Cinema’. in 50 Years of Manipuri Cinema: Stories
We Breathe. Imphal: Manipur State Film Development Society. pp 71 – 74.
2013. ‘Ritual Objects and Ritualised Bodies’ in Gendering Material Culture: Representations and
Practice. Subhadra M. Channa (ed.) Jaipur: Rawat Books, pp 183 – 198.
2012. ‘Whose dance is it anyway?’ in Dancing Mosaic: Issues on Dance Hybridity. Mohd. Anis Md. Nor
(ed.) Kuala Lumpur: Cultural Centre University of Malaya and National Department for Culture
and Arts pp. 193-210.
2010. ‘The Altered Space: Community dances from everyday to the proscenium’,
in Traversing Traditions: Celebrating Dance in India, Urmimala Sarkar & Stephanie Burridge
(eds.), New Delhi: Routledge pp-192- 211 (co-authored with Anirban Ghosh).
Book Reviews
2024. Dixita Deka, Bengt Karlsson, Joel Rodrigues, Meenal Tula, Dolly Kikon and Sanjay Barbora' (eds.)
Seed and Food Sovereignty: Eastern Himalayan Experiences', Doing Sociology (online).
2017. Sara Shneiderman, ‘Rituals of ethnicity: Thangmi identities between Nepal and India’,
Contemporary South Asia, 25:1, 113-114. DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2017.1307582
2014. Anna Morcom, ‘Illicit worlds of Indian dance: cultures of exclusion’, Contemporary South Asia,
22:4, 433-434. DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2014.965488
Web – based Publications
2024. 'Women Performers, their Writhing Reptiles and that Wrought Indian Connection', Women's
History Network blog.
URL: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/women-performers-their-writhing-reptiles-
and-that- wrought-indian-connection-debanjali-biswas/
2021. ‘Imagining Bengal’s Past: Dance in Ray’s Cinema’. in Café Dissensus Magazine:
Special Commemorative Issue: 100 years of Satyajit Ray (59)
URL: https://cafedissensus.com/2021/05/06/imagining-bengals-past-dance-in-rays-cinema/
2020. ‘Hasta in Manipuri’ in Akademi Wednesday Wisdom Series
URL: https://akademi.co.uk/hasta-in-manipuri-part2
2019. ‘Raas Vignettes: Personal Notes from Ritual Spaces’. in Yendai Journal: Subversion Issue
URL: http://yendai.org/subversion/raas-vignettes/
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