Joy LK Pachuau is Professor of History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, where she teaches medieval Indian history. Her research interests include the history of women and gender relations in medieval India, and the history of Portuguese expansion in Asia especially in relation to religion. More recently, she has been working on the history of Northeast India with a focus on history of identity formations. Prof. Pachuau’s major publications include Entangled Lives: Human-Plant-Animal Histories of the Eastern Himalayan Triangle (with Willem van Schendel), Being Mizo: Identity and Belonging in Northeast India, and The Camera as Witness: A Social History of Mizoram, Northeast India (with Willem van Schendel). Being Mizo won the Sneh Mahajan Prize for best book in Modern Indian History awarded by the Indian History Congress.
Joy LK Pachuau
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