Journal of Tribal Intellectual Collective India
ISSN 2321-5437
Digitized Space for Archives related to Tribes

Greetings!

The Tribal Intellectual Collective India is a knowledge-producing community constituted by teachers, academics and knowledge partners from various Universities in India and across the globe who are engaged in Tribal, Indigenous peoples and Adivasi studies. We meet regularly in “Evening Webinars”, and once in two years at a national conference to exchange ideas, debate theoretical positions and refine our own understanding of complex concrete social conditions. We are a wholly self-sustaining collective and take no funds from any agency nor individual.

The Tribal Intellectual Collective India is led by three senior academics from the Tribal community who constitute the National Leadership Council. They are assisted by a 25-member National Academic Council. Together, these two committees form the National Council which is the decision-making body of the TICI. Members of the General Body support and contribute to TICI academic activities.

The TICI is an academic community engaging with multiple intersecting realities, with a definitive focus on Tribal episteme. Our publications encourage respectful scholarly writing that engages with fundamental issues sourced directly from people’s lived experiences. We provide opportunities for constructive theoretical engagement and critical dialogue in the interest of empowerment. Our publications are unique in the sense that it is owned and managed by the Tribal community in India.

The Journal of Tribal Intellectual Collective India (JTICI) is managed by the National Council of Tribal Intellectual Collective India (TICI). All articles submitted to the journal go through a rigorous blind peer-review process. A peer review report by two reviewers will be provided to the author within fifteen days from the date of acceptance of the article. The Journal follows the Online First publication process. The JTICI is supported by academics from the Tribal communities. The National Convener (Academic) holds the copyright of all articles in the JTICI.

Please NOTE that our Journal, the JTICI is NOT recognized by the UGC List of Care Journals and neither do we seek to be recognized in the coming future. 

IMPORTANT!

We take no processing fee for articles submitted to us, nor funds from any Institution for the Tribal Intellectual Collective India. Ours is NOT a commercial project but a knowledge enterprise arising out of our felt need to engage theoretically and more rigorously with social reality.

NOTICE TO MEMBERS:

The National Council of the TICI has initiated the launching of Two physical TICI Archives – the Bodoland Centre in NERSWN Kokrajhar Campus headed by Raju Narzary, and the Kolhan Centre in Chaibasa headed by Deepak Tubid. All members are requested to send any digitized archival material to tici.archives@gmail.com.

Tribal Intellectual Collective India

…National Leadership Council… …Members…
Convener Prof.Virginius Xaxa
National Convener (Academic) Dr.bodhi s.r | Associate Professor and Chairperson | Centre for Social Justice & Governance | TISS | Mumbai
National Convener (Organisation) Prof.Bipin Jojo | Dean | School of Social Work | TISS | Mumbai
…National Academic Council… …Domain of Interest & Affiliation…
Dr. Venkatesh Vaditya Social Exclusion & Justice Studies | English & Foreign Language University | Hyderabad
Dr. Batskhem Myrboh Identity, Society & Politics | North Eastern Hill University | Shillong
Dr. Rajunayak V. Language & Cultural Studies | English & Foreign Language University | Hyderabad
Dr. Pandurang Bhoye Government, Governance & State Institutions | Savitri Phule Pune University | Pune
Dr. Jacob Islary Public Health & Social Care | St.Xavier University | Kolkata
Dr. Joseph Riamei Development & Community Studies | Tata Institute of Social Sciences | Guwahati
Dr. Biswaranjan Tripura Indigenous Issues & International Politics | Tata Institute of Social Sciences | Mumbai
Prof. Alex Akhup Social Research & Northeast Studies | Tata Institute of Social Sciences | Mumbai
Dr. Rimi Tadu
Oral History & Gender Studies | Independent Researcher | Arunachal Pradesh
Dr. Manoranjan Pegu
Labour Studies and Trade Unions | Country Director | Sri Lanka Office | Solidarity Center
Dr. Manjusha K.A.
Tribal History and Indigenous Methodologies | Mahatma Gandhi University | Kerala
Prof. Bhangya Bhukya
History and Tribal Studies | Hyderabad Central University | Telangana
Dr. Raile Rocky Ziipao Margin Thinking & Border Studies | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Dr.Victor Narzary Social Welfare & Development Education | Assam Don Bosco University | Assam | Currently OSD to Chief of Bodoland Territorial Region | Kokrajhar
Dr. Bibharani Swargiary Tribal Feminism and Post Conflict Studies | Assam Don Bosco University | Assam
Mr. Neelam Kerketta
Environment and Biodiversity Studies | Naveen Government College | Jashpur | Chhattisgarh
Ms. Ritu Kongari Law & Jurisprudence | Independent Researcher | Bengaluru
Dr. Babudhan Tripura Tripura Studies | Adwaita Malla Barman Smriti Mahavidyalaya, Amarpur | Tripura
Ms. Nolina Minj Tribal Feminism and Philanthropy Studies | Reporter | Scroll.in | Maharashtra and Jharkhand
Mr. Manish Meena Cultural & Tribal Studies | Independent Writer and Researcher | Rajasthan
Ms. Hengam Riba Education Technology and Bahujan Studies | Adhyayan Quality Education Foundation | Arunachal Pradesh
Ms. Alisha Tirkey Displacement and Rehabilitation Studies | Independent Writer and Researcher | Odisha
Mr. Robert Khongwir Human Resource Management & Labour Studies | Independent Columnist and Researcher | Meghalaya
Ms. Ruby Hembrom Director, Adivaani Publishing House | Independent Columnist and Researcher | Jharkhand
Mr. John F. Kharshiing Chairman | Society for the Promotion of Indigenous Knowledge and Practice (SPIKAP) | Shillong

Latest Publications by National Council Members

  1. Becoming a Scheduled Tribe in India: The History, Process and Politics of Scheduling. Contemporary Voice of Dalits, Sage. November 2023. Link to Article
  2. Out of Coverage Area: Tribes and Digital Exclusion in Nort-east India. Journal of Development Policy and Practice. Sage, 2023. Link to Article
  3. Decolonizing Ethnography and Tribes in India: Towards an Alternative Methodology. Frontiers in Political Science. Frontiers, January, 2023. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2023.1047276/full
  4. Ethnic Diversity and Politics of Inclusion: Tribes in North East India. Journal of Development Policy and Practice. Sage August 2022. Link to article
  5. Negotiating the Everyday State in Contemporary Tripura, Northeast India. Journal of Asian and African Studies. July 2022. doi:10.1177/00219096221113580  Link to Article
  6. Tribal Studies in India: Pre and Post Xaxa. Journal of Tribal Intellectual Collective India. Link to Article
  7. The Decolonial-Historical Approach in Social Research: Its Methodological Contours. Journal of Tribal Intellectual Collective India. Link to Article
  8. The current landscape of Philanthropy for Adivasi and Tribal Women at the Grassroots. Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy. Ashoka University, 2021. Link to Working Paper
  9. Epistemology of the Peripheralized: A Decolonial-Historical Approach. Methodologies in Social Research Series of the Tribal Intellectual Collective India. New Vehicle Publications, 2020 [ISBN: 978-81-948224-4-8] Link to Book 
  10. Infrastructure of Injustice: State and Politics in Manipur, Northeast India. Routledge: London and New York. Link to Book
  11. Asymmetrical Federalism in North-East India: Politics and Process.  Heritage Publishers, 2019,ISBN 817026417-0, New Delhi.Link to Book
  12. The Problematics of Tribal Integration- Voices from India’s Alternative Centers. The Shared Mirror & Tribal Intellectual Collective India, 2019 [ISBN: 978-81-929930-3-4] Link to Book
  13. The Federation of Khasi States: History, Epistemology and Politics. Tribal Intellectual Collective India, 2019. [ISBN: 978-81-942059-1-3] Link to Book
  14. Land, Words and Resilient Cultures: The Ontological Basis of Tribal Identity. Tribal Intellectual Collective India, 2019. [ISBN: 978-81-942059-0-6] Link to Book
  15. Social Work- Lectures on Curriculum and Pedagogy. The New Vehicle, 2019 [ISBN: 978-81-942059-2-0] Link to Book
  16. Tribal and Adivasi Studies, Vol.3- Social Work in India. Adivaani & Tribal Intellectual Collective India, 2016 [ISBN: 978-93-84465-04-9] Link to Book
  17. Tribal and Adivasi Studies, Vol.1-Identities and Their Struggles in North East.(Adivaani & Tribal Intellectual Collective India, 2014) Link to Book
  18. Formulating and Teaching a Course in International Social Work: Some Curriculum and Pedagogical Insights from the Indian Context, (August 2021) International Social Work, Sage Journals. https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728211026743. Link to Article 
  19. The Dalit Curriculum from Two Perspective. Curriculum Inquiry, Routledge. Link to article
  20. Politicising Road Infrastructure in Manipur: Spatial and Temporal Relation.’Economic and Political Weekly, LVI(4):38-42. Link to Article
  21. Historicising Tribal Struggles for Epistemological Integration in India. Vol. 71(03): 221-233, July-September 2021. Social Action- A Quarterly Review of Social Trends, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi. Link to Article
  22. Tribes and State Policy in India: Revisiting Governing Principles from a Decolonial Social Work Perspective.Vol.50 (8): 2372-2388, December 2020. The British Journal of Social Work. Oxford Academic. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa186 Link to Article
  23. Frontier Tribes and Nation States: Infrastructuring Indo (Naga)-Myanmar Borderland. Asian Ethnicity. doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2020.1856643Routledge Publication. Link to Article
  24. Roads (Not) Taken: The Materiality, the Poetics, and the Politics of Infrastructure in Manipur, IndiaJournal of South Asian Development, 15(1): 34-62. Sage Publication.Link to Article
  25. Look/Act East Policy, Roads, and Market Infrastructure in North-East India. Strategic Analysis, 42 (5): 476-489, Routledge Publication. Link to Article
  26. Khasi Political Reality and the Struggle for Statehood: History, Context and Political  Process. In Handbook of Tribal Politics in India [eds] Ambagudia, J & Xaxa, V. January 2021. Sage India Publishing. [ISBN: 978-93-5388-458-1] Link to Chapter 
  27. The Politics of Tribal Representation in Manipur. In Ambagudia Jagannath and Xaxa Viginius (ed) (2021): Tribal Politics in India, Sage Publishing, HB: 978-93-5388-458-1. Link to Chapter
  28. Researching District Councils of Manipur From an Asymmetrical Federalism: Unraveling Complexities of Research Processes. Jharkhand Journal of Development and Management Studies (ISSN 0973-8444), XISS, Ranchi, Vol. 19, No. 3, July-September 2021, pp. 8923-8935. Link to Article
  29. Coloniality, Global Power Asymmetry and Epistemic Liberation. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective,  10 (11): 10-18. Link to Article
  30.  Political Accommodation and Tribal Electoral Politics in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. In  Jagannath Ambagudia  and Virginius Xaxa  (Eds) Handbook of Tribal Politics in India, New Delhi, Sage Publications, (2021) pp. 167-189. (ISBN 978-93-5388-458-I). Link to Chapter
  31. Roads, Tribes, and Identity in Northeast India. Asian Ethnicity, 21 (1): 1-22. Routledge publication. Link to Article
  32. Social Domination and Epistemic Marginalisation: towards Methodology of the Oppressed. Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy, Published online: 04 May 2018, (Print ISSN: 0269-1728, Online ISSN: 1464-5297). Link to Article
  33. Social Imaginary and Epistemic Discrimination: From Global Justice to Epistemic Injustice. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, 9 (10): 1-7.  (ISSN 2471-9560).Link to Article
  34. Economic Liberalization and Farmers’ Suicides in Andhra Pradesh (1995-2014). South Asia Research, Vol. 37, Issue 2, 2017, pp. 194 –212, (ISSN: 02627280). Link to Article
  35. Human Rights, Development and Tribal Movements in India: Critical Reflections. Social Action: A Quarterly Review of Social Trends, July-September 2021, 71 (3), pp. 311-323, (ISSN  0037-7627). Link to Article

Public Lectures by Members

  1. Dr. bodhi s.r on “Becoming a Scheduled Tribe in India: History and Process”. Link
  2. Dr. Raile R.Ziipao on “Vision 2047 for Tribes in India”. Link
  3. Dr. Batskhem Myrboh on “Vision 2047 for Tribes in India”. Link
  4. Dr. Lavinia Mawlong on “Vision 2047 for Tribes in India”. Link
  5. Mr. Biswaranjan Tripura on “Vision 2047 for Tribes in India”. Link
  6. Mr. Manoranjan Pegu on “Vision 2047 for Tribes in India”. Link
  7. Prof. Virginius Xaxa on “Tribal Studies in India”. Link
  8. Prof. Bipin Jojo on “Tribal Studies in India”. Link
  9. Prof. Alex Akhup on “Identities and their Struggles in North East”. Link
  10. Ms. Ruby Hembrom on “Challenges Before an Indigenous Publishers and Her Authors”. Link 

Our Publications