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CURRICULUM VITAE
Kham Khan Suan Hausing, PhD

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Nationality: Indian First language: Tedim Chin (vernacular) Gender: Male
Language spoken: English (good), Hindi (good) and Tedim Chin (good)
Date of birth: 27 March 1978 Marital Status: Married to Ms Nemmuankim

Present address: Local residential address:

Office address:
Department of Political Science, School of Social
Sciences, University of Hyderabad, P.O Central
University, Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500 046.
Telephone: 91-(40) 6679 3209 (Office)
B-103, Vaibhav Signature, Opposite Jawahar
Navodaya School, Nallagandla, Serilingampally,
Ranga Reddy district, Hyderabad 500 046.
Email:kksuanh@gmail.com
https://uohyd.academia.edu/khamkhansuanhausing

Permanent address: (L) Zel Za Kap (Father)

New Lamka-G, Thangho street, Churachandpur, Manipur, Northeast India, PIN 795128

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences,
University of Hyderabad, Prof C.R. Rao Road, Gachibowli, P.O. Central University,
Hyderabad 500 046, A.P., India (from 31 August 2012 to till date).
Visiting Fellow (under the Centre for Advanced Studys programme of the University
Grants Commission), Department of Politics and Public Administration, Savitribai
Phule Pune University, Pune, India, 18-23 March 2016.
FulbrightNehru Postdoctoral Research Fellow (13 September 2012 to 02 September
2013) at the Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, 3440 Market
Street, Suite 300, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (Faculty associate: Brendan OLeary).
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi, India (from 13 May 2004 to 30 August 2012).

SPECIALISED AREA OF STUDY INTEREST

Federalism
Ethnic conflict
Nationalism
Indian politics
Northeast India

EDUCATION
MA, MPhil, and PhD in Political Science (Centre for Political Studies, School of Social
Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India).
Bachelors of Arts (with honours in Political Science)[S.D. College, Ambala Cantt.,
Haryana, India(affiliated to Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra)].

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Title of PhD dissertation: Identities, autonomy and patriotism: Asymmetric federalism in North-East
India (Supervisor: Balveer Arora. External examiners: Harihar Bhattacharyya and
Monirul Hussain).

Title of MPhil dissertation: Special status of the North-East in Indian federalism

(Supervisor: Balveer Arora. External examiner: Sanjoy Hazarika)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
I. Referee service to peer reviewed academic journals
Asian Ethnicity (Routledge)
Contemporary South Asia (Routledge)
Economic and Political Weekly (Sameeksha Trust)
Ethnicities (Sage)
India Review (Routledge)
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Routledge)
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (Wiley online)
Studies in Indian Politics (Sage)

II. Professional membership

Honorary Fellow, Centre for Multilevel Federalism, Institute of Social Sciences, New
Delhi, India.

PUBLISHED WORKS AND PAPERS

I. Articles in journals
Indian federalism at the crossroads: Limits of the territorial management of ethnic
conflict, India Review (ISSN: 1557-3036), forthcoming in 2017 (coauthored with
Harihar Bhattacharyya and Jhumpa Mukherjee).
Multiculturalism and intercultural dialogue in north-east region (NER) of India,
Indian Journal of Public Administration (ISSN: 0019-5561), Vol.62, no.3, July-September
2016, pp.399-418.
'Framing the Northeast in Indian politics: Beyond the integration framework,' Studies
in Indian Politics (ISSN: 2321-0230), Vol.3, no.2, December 2015, pp.277-83.
'From opposition to acquiescence: District Councils election, 2015 and the localisation
of politics in Manipur,' Economic and Political Weekly (ISSN: 2349-8846), Vol.50, no.46-
47, November 21, 2015, pp.79-83.
Asymmetric federalism and the question of democratic justice in Northeast India,
India Review (ISSN 1557-3036), Vol. 13, no.2, April-June 2014, pp.87-111.
State versus people: Understanding minority nationalism in North-East India,
Research Journal Social Sciences (ISSN:0251-348X), Vol.20, no.1, 2012, pp.129-61.
Rethinking tribe identities: The politics of recognition among the Zo in north-east
India, Contributions to Indian Sociology (Print ISSN: 0069-9667), Vol.45, no.2, May-
August 2011, pp.157-87.
Understanding sub-nationalism in north-east India,' Indian Journal of Federal Studies
(ISSN No. 0976-8408), 1/2008, pp.84-104.
Salvaging autonomy in Indias north-east: Beyond the Sixth Schedule way, Eastern
Quarterly (ISSN no.0975-4962), Vol.4, issue 1, April-June 2007, pp.5-16.
Asymmetry in local democracy: An overview of north-east India's experience,

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Indian Journal of Federal Studies (ISSN No. 0976-8408), 2/2003, pp. 103-28.

II. Chapters in edited books

(coauthored with Balveer Arora, K.K. Kailash and Rekha Saxena), Indian federalism
in K.C. Suri and Achin Vanaik (eds.), Political Science: Indian democracy, Vol.2 (New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp.100-60.
Hills-valley divide as a site of conflict: Emerging dialogic space in Manipur, in
Sanjib Baruah (ed.), Beyond counter-insurgency: Breaking the impasse in Northeast India
(New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp.263-89.

III. Book review

Territorial pluralism: Managing difference in multinational states (edited by Karlo Basta,
John McGarry and Richard Simeon and published by University of British Columbia
Press) in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, forthcoming, Vol.55, no.1, 2017,
forthcoming.
'Understanding a possible India,' [Book review of Stuart Corbridge, John Harris and
Craig Jeffrey, India: Economy, society, politics (New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
2014)] in The Book Review, Vol.39, no.1, January 2015, pp.26-27.
When things fall apart, [Book review of Uddipana Goswami, Ethnic conflict and
reconciliation: The case of Assam (New Delhi: Routledge, 2014)] in The Book Review,
Vol.38, no.3, March 2014, pp.7-9.
Caught between hostile geography and unfortunate history [Book review of
Rakhee Bhattacharya, Development disparities in Northeast India (New Delhi:
Foundation Books, 2011) and Hans-Peter Brunner (ed.), North East India: Local economic
development and global markets (New Delhi: Sage, 2010) in The Book Review, Vol.36, no.5,
May 2012, pp.23-24.
(http://www.cambridgeindia.org/reviews/9788175967984/Development%20Dispari
ties%20-%20The%20Book%20Review.pdf)

IV. Articles in National Newspapers

'The hills are alive,' The Indian Express (New Delhi), 22 September 2015, Op-Ed.
Message from the Northeast, The Indian Express (New Delhi), 09 April 2014, Op-Ed.
'Adding fuel to the fire,' The Hindu (New Delhi), 09 August 2013, Lead opinion.
Perpetuating ethnic dilemma in Manipur, The Statesman (New Delhi), 11 September
2011 (online version)/12 September 2011 (paper version).
State vs people, The Statesman (New Delhi), 19 February 2005, p.7.

V. Articles in Conference Proceedings

Can deep differences be accommodated (Paper presented as a part of the Young
Professionals Programme, Fourth International Conference on Federalism, Vigyan
Bhawan, New Delhi, 5-7 November 2007)[Available online at:
http://www.forumfed.org/libdocs/IntConfFed07/Volume_5/IntConfFed07-Vol5-
Suan.pdf]
Graduate political studies at major Asian Universities: An Indian perspective ( Seoul:
Department of Political Science, Seoul National University, 2006).

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UNPUBLISHED WORKS AND PAPERS

[PhD dissertation]
Identities, autonomy and patriotism: Asymmetric federalism in North-East India. PhD
dissertation submitted to the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India in December 2009.
[MPhil dissertation]
Special status of the north-east in Indian federalism.Unpublished MPhil dissertation
submitted to the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, India in July 2002.
[Selected International conference/national seminar papers]
Asymmetric autonomy and the art of accommodation in Northeast India: The case of
the Hill Areas of Manipur (paper presented at a national conference on Tribals and
constitutional safeguards: The question of land rights in India organized by the Centre for
the Study of Social Systems, JNU, New Delhi, 31 March 2016.
Telangana and the politics of state formation in India: Towards a non-domination
model of federalism (paper presented at the Leverhulme International Network
Workshop on Continuity and change in Indian federalism, University of Bristol, UK, 15-16
December 2015).
Regionalism as a non-domination model of politics: Telangana and beyond (paper
presented during the national seminar on Retrieving peoples history of Telangana:
Participation, perceptions and prospects, BR Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, 7-8
September 2015).
Making federalism matter: Telangana and the politics of state formation in India,
(paper presented at the Leverhulme International Network Workshop on Continuity
and change in Indian federalism, University of Hyderabad, India, 9-11 April 2015).
Telangana and the politics of state formation in India: Towards a non-domination
model of federalism (paper presented during the national seminar on Regional
autonomy, new politics and statehood: With special focus on Telangana, Osmania
University, Hyderabad, 26- 27 March, 2015).
Land, resources and the limits of autonomy in Northeast India: A comparative study
of Manipur and Nagaland (paper presented during the national seminar on Resource
conflict, democracy and federalism: The South Asian context, University of Calcutta, 23-24
March 2015).
Asymmetric federalism and the question of democratic justice in Northeast India
(Paper presented at the international seminar on State and society in Northeast India
organised by the North East India Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi at JNU, 26-28 February 2014).
"Revisiting 'equality as tradition': The question of women's reservation in Nagaland
municipalities." Paper presented at the seminar on Continuities and discontinuities of
Asian engagement: Borders, mobility and identity in Northeast India and Asia jointly
organised by the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati and Institute of Chinese
Studies, New Delhi at IIT-Guwahati during 17-18 October 2013.
Giving multiculturalism its due: Indias north-east and beyond. Paper presented
during the international symposium on Intercultural dialogue between North East India
and South East Asia jointly organised by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
and North East India Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi at
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IGNCA and JNU, New Delhi (17-20 March 2010).

Asymmetric federalism and the accommodation of minorities: Locating the Indian
debates in a comparative perspective. Paper presented during the international
seminar on Emerging dynamics of democracy in India organised by the Department of
Political Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (18-19 November 2010).
Politics of identities in the language of the tribe: The case of Zo people in Indias
north-east (Paper presented at an international conference on Writing the Northeast:
New perspectives, organised by the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi, 14-16 January 2009.
Can deep differences be accommodated (Paper presented alongwith Jan Zlatan
Kulenovic at the Fourth International Conference on Federalism as a part of the Young
Professionals Programme, Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, 5-7 November 2007).
Can deep differences be accommodated (A preparatory paper for the Fourth
International Conference on Federalism presented at the Asia-Pacific Regional Round
Table Conference, Shangri-La Hotel, New Delhi, 27-28 September 2007).
Graduate political studies at major Asian Universities: An Indian perspective (Paper
presented at the First Asian Political Science Graduate Conference, organised by the
Department of Political Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 3-4
November 2006).
Stateness-democracy continuum in the Hill Areas of Manipur: Critical reflections
(Paper presented at an international seminar on State and democracy in India: Critical
reflections, organised by the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, 23-24 March 2006).
State versus people: Understanding minority nationalism in North-East India (Paper
presented at an international conference on Wounded history and social healing,
organised jointly by the Developing Countries Research Centre, Delhi University and
the Vidyajyoti College of Theology, Delhi, 23-25 February 2006).
Managing or accommodating political diversities? Autonomous societal cultures
and the politics of (mis)recognition (Paper presented at the Global Dialogue Round
Table on Diversity and Unity: India Round Table of the Forum of Federations held at the
Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 18 March 2008).

INVITED AS A DISCUSSANT/COMMENTATOR/TO DELIVER LECTURE IN

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP/SYMPOSIUM
Invited as one of the panelists to talk on "Challenges and opportunities of doing
research in a US University," by the United States India Educational Foundation, New
Delhi during the Indian Fulbright-Nehru Scholar Pre-Departure Orientation at Taj
Mahal Hotel, New Delhi, 21 May 2015.
Invited to deliver a Fulbright Occasional Lecture at the Department of Political Science,
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY as a part of their Watson Seminar series on 7
May 2013 on 'Asymmetric federalism and the question of democratic justice in
Northeast India.'
Invited to deliver a lecture on Understanding local cultures: An ethnographic
approach at a national workshop on Research methodology in social sciences and
humanities: Exploring interdisciplinary perspectives on 25 November 2011 that was
organised by the Centre for Study of Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Banaras Hindu
University, Varanasi (24-30 November 2011).

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Invited as one of the commentators/discussants on South Asia Forum for Human

Rightss (SAFHR) project draft report on Auditing conflict resolution and partitions
in South Asia: A human rights perspective at a regional symposium organised by
SAFHR at Dhulikhel, Nepal, 14-15 May 2011.
Invited as one of the discussants in the Workshop on Indian
elections 2009 at the India International Centre, Delhi, on 31st July
2009 (Organizers: Stphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal and Balveer Arora for the Centre de
Sciences Humaines, New Delhi).

WORK EXPERIENCE
(i) Over twelve years and six months of teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate
students and guiding research scholars at two Indian Central University, viz,
Banaras Hindu University and University of Hyderabad.
(ii) Preparation of resource material including books, reading materials, laboratory
manuals, etc.
Helped the Department of Political Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
in preparing course contents and reading materials of MA optional groups on
South Asia which covers the following topics/papers:
a) Government and politics of South Asia (of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
Maldives, Bhutan and Nepal)
b) Nation-building in South Asia
c) Foreign policy of South Asian states
d) Indian foreign policy

(iii) Organisation of conference/seminar/workshop

As an Organizing Secretary helped the Department of Political Science, BHU
organise a two-day seminar on, Equality and inclusiveness in contemporary
India: Emerging discourses at HNT Seminar Hall, FSS, BHU on 28-29 January
2010.
As an Organizing Secretary helped the Department of Political Science, BHU
organise a two-day national seminar on, Role of Indian Parliament: Emerging
dimensions, at HNT Seminar Hall, FSS, BHU on 24-25 November 2004.

COMMUNITY SERVICE
As a Programme Officer of the National Service Scheme (NSS) of the Faculty of Social
Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, I helped organize three successive NSS
camps respectively at Jawahar Adarsh Purva Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Susuwahi
(Bhindrawan), Varanasi from 11-17 February 2009, at Purva Madhyamik Vidyalaya,
Chhittupur Village, BHU, Varanasi from 08-14 February 2010, and at Purva
Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Nasirpur, Varanasi from 2-8 February 2011. NSS is the largest
national integration project launched by the Government of India to cater to college
and university students in India. These camps gave me opportunities to serve the
needs of local communities by organizing civic and philanthropic works like clearing
of the village drains and sanitizing the school campuses. We also extensively spread
awareness about the benefit of birth control and preventive measures needed for
community diseases like Tubercolosis, Polio, HIV/AIDs, etc. through street plays and
blood donations.
During my postgraduate studies, I also served the students community in my capacity
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as a Mess Secretary, which I held in three hostels, viz., Sutlej Hostel (1999-2000), Tapti
Hostel (2001-02) and Brahmaputra Hostel (2002-03)---all in Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi.
I have also served in various capacities in the local youth clubs/associations in
Sumchinvum village and Churachandpurboth in Manipur, and in New Delhi. I was
the Secretary of the Youth Department of the Zomi Christian Fellowship, Delhi from
2002-04.

AWARDS & OTHERS

2012-13
Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on the title, Asymmetric federalism
and the question of democratic justice in Northeast India (Mentor/US institutional
affiliation: Professor Brendan OLeary, Department of Political Science, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Duration: twelve months; 13 September 2012 to 02
September 2013).
2012
Appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of
Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India since 31 August 2012.
2007
Invited for the Young Professionals Programme of the Forum of Federations and
presented a paper on 'Can deep differences be accommodated?' at the Asia-Pacific
Regional Round Table Conference, Shangri-La Hotel, New Delhi, 27-28 September, and
also at the Fourth International Conference on Federalism, Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi,
5-7 November.
2006
Awarded Travel Grant to present a paper titled 'Graduate political studies at major
Asian Universities: An Indian perspective,' at the Department of Political Science, Seoul
National University, Seoul, South Korea, 3-4 November.
2004
Nominated for Commonwealth Fellowship (Canada) by the Human Resource
Development Ministry, Government of India in Political Science/International Relations.
2004
Appointed Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Political Science in Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India (from 13 May 2004 to 30 August 2012).
2000
Awarded the National Eligibility Test for Lecturership Certificate by the University Grants
Commission, Government of India.
2000
Awarded Juniour Research Fellowship in Politiacal Science by the University Grants
Commission, Government of India.
1999-2000
Awarded Jawahar Bhawan Trust Merit-cum-Means Scholarship for MA programme
sponsored by the Jawahar Bhawan Trust, Delhi.
1998 to 1999
Awarded the Merit-cum-means Scholarship for MA programme sponsored by the School of
Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

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1993
Paite Literature Society Award for having secured the highest marks in Paite Vernacular in
the Board of Secondary Education, Manipur, Examination, 1993.

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
English: Spoken & written (fluent); Manipuri: Spoken & written (fair); Hindi: Spoken &
written (good)

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
Proficient in Microsoft Office software

REFEREES
1. Balveer Arora (Supervisor in MPhil/PhD Programme)
Chairman, Centre for Multilevel Federalism, Institute of Social Sciences,
New Delhi, India
Fmr. Professor, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-67, India
Residential address:
D-6/34, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi-110 057, India
Tel: +91- (0)11-26140810 (R)
E-mail: balveerarora@gmail.com

2. Brendan OLeary (Mentor: Postdoctoral research)

Lauder Professor, Department of Political Science
Room no.308, 3440 Market Street
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Telephone: +1-215-573-0645 (Office)
Email: boleary@sas.upenn.edu

3. Harihar Bhattacharyya
Department of Political Science
University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Burdwan - 713104
West Bengal, INDIA.
Residential address:
'Jen', R. B. Chatterjee Road, Tikorhat
Post Lakurdi, Burdwan, District Burdwan, West Bengal
Email: harihar59@gmail.com

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