Kham Khan Suan Hausing
Kham Khan Suan Hausing is Professor, and formerly Head (2 August 2020 to 1 August 2023), Department of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad, India. He earned his Master, MPhil and PhD degrees from the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He previously taught Political Science at the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi for over eight years (13 May 2004 to 30 August 2012). He was a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2012-13 at the Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia where he completed a project on “Asymmetric federalism and the question of democratic justice in Northeast India" (DoI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2014.904151) under the able mentorship of Professor Brendan O'Leary.
Hausing had also completed, as a co-researcher, the Leverhulme International Network Project on “Continuity and change in Indian federalism” (2014-15 to 2016-17) where his focus was on 'Telangana and the politics of state formation in India' (DoI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2018.1473856). This project also enabled him to collaborate with Harihar Bhattacharyya and Jhumpa Mukherjee to publish a coauthored article which compared the territorial management of ethnic conflicts in Bodoland and Telangana (DoI: 10.1080/14736489.2017.1279934). The Leverhulme project, co-ordinated by Wilfried Swenden of the University of Edinburgh, involved the Universities of Bristol, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Burdwan, Delhi and Hyderabad.
Hausing has recently completed a major research project titled, 'Asymmetric autonomy and the politics of accommodation in Northeast India' (2019-2021) which was funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research as a part of its flagship programme called 'Impactful Policy Research in Social Science' (IMPRESS). This project has succeeded in drawing a typology of actually existing autonomy in Northeast India, an outcome of which has been published as 'Autonomy and the territorial management of ethnic conflicts in Northeast India,' in Territory, Politics, Governance 10(1), 2022, pp.120-143. DoI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21622671.2021.1884591. This article has won the Territory, Politics, Governance Best Paper Award, 2023. The Award was conferred to him by Klaus Dodds, the editor of Territory, Politics, Governance at a virtual event organised by the Regional Studies Association based in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2023. (https://www.regionalstudies.org/news/2023-territory-politics-governance-best-paper-award/)
Hausing’s works have been published in peer-reviewed journals including Contributions to Indian Sociology, Economic and Political Weekly, India Review, Indian Journal of Public Administration, Regional and Federal Studies, Studies in Indian Politics, and Territory, Politics, Governance. His opinion pieces have appeared in leading Indian newspapers/magazines including The Hindu, The Indian Express, Livemint, The Quint, The Statesman, The Tribune, Outlook, and The Diplomat.
Hausing has rendered his professional service as a peer-reviewer in noted journals including Alternatives, Asian Ethnicity, Asian Journal of Political Science, Asian Security, Asian Survey, Contemporary South Asia, Economic and Political Weekly, Ethnicities, Ethnopolitics, Indian Journal of Public Administration, India Review, Journal of Borderland Studies, Mission Studies, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Regional and Federal Studies, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ), Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Studies in Indian Politics, and Third World Quarterly.
Hausing was awarded the T.N. Chaturvedi Award, 2016 for the best article published in the Indian Journal of Public Administration in 2016 for his article titled, "Multiculturalism and intercultural dialogue in North-East Region (NER) of India," https://doi.org/10.1177/0019556120160305. This Award was conferred to him by Venkaiah Naidu, the Vice President of India, on behalf of the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) at its Annual General Meeting at its campus in New Delhi on 11 October 2017.
Hausing is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal, Ethnopolitics (Taylor and Francis). He is an honorary Senior Fellow of the Centre for Multilevel Federalism, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. His research interest includes, among others, federalism, ethnic conflicts, nationalism and Indian politics with particular focus on Northeast India.
Supervisors: Balveer Arora and Brendan O'Leary
Hausing had also completed, as a co-researcher, the Leverhulme International Network Project on “Continuity and change in Indian federalism” (2014-15 to 2016-17) where his focus was on 'Telangana and the politics of state formation in India' (DoI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2018.1473856). This project also enabled him to collaborate with Harihar Bhattacharyya and Jhumpa Mukherjee to publish a coauthored article which compared the territorial management of ethnic conflicts in Bodoland and Telangana (DoI: 10.1080/14736489.2017.1279934). The Leverhulme project, co-ordinated by Wilfried Swenden of the University of Edinburgh, involved the Universities of Bristol, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Burdwan, Delhi and Hyderabad.
Hausing has recently completed a major research project titled, 'Asymmetric autonomy and the politics of accommodation in Northeast India' (2019-2021) which was funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research as a part of its flagship programme called 'Impactful Policy Research in Social Science' (IMPRESS). This project has succeeded in drawing a typology of actually existing autonomy in Northeast India, an outcome of which has been published as 'Autonomy and the territorial management of ethnic conflicts in Northeast India,' in Territory, Politics, Governance 10(1), 2022, pp.120-143. DoI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21622671.2021.1884591. This article has won the Territory, Politics, Governance Best Paper Award, 2023. The Award was conferred to him by Klaus Dodds, the editor of Territory, Politics, Governance at a virtual event organised by the Regional Studies Association based in the United Kingdom on 5 May 2023. (https://www.regionalstudies.org/news/2023-territory-politics-governance-best-paper-award/)
Hausing’s works have been published in peer-reviewed journals including Contributions to Indian Sociology, Economic and Political Weekly, India Review, Indian Journal of Public Administration, Regional and Federal Studies, Studies in Indian Politics, and Territory, Politics, Governance. His opinion pieces have appeared in leading Indian newspapers/magazines including The Hindu, The Indian Express, Livemint, The Quint, The Statesman, The Tribune, Outlook, and The Diplomat.
Hausing has rendered his professional service as a peer-reviewer in noted journals including Alternatives, Asian Ethnicity, Asian Journal of Political Science, Asian Security, Asian Survey, Contemporary South Asia, Economic and Political Weekly, Ethnicities, Ethnopolitics, Indian Journal of Public Administration, India Review, Journal of Borderland Studies, Mission Studies, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Regional and Federal Studies, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ), Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Studies in Indian Politics, and Third World Quarterly.
Hausing was awarded the T.N. Chaturvedi Award, 2016 for the best article published in the Indian Journal of Public Administration in 2016 for his article titled, "Multiculturalism and intercultural dialogue in North-East Region (NER) of India," https://doi.org/10.1177/0019556120160305. This Award was conferred to him by Venkaiah Naidu, the Vice President of India, on behalf of the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) at its Annual General Meeting at its campus in New Delhi on 11 October 2017.
Hausing is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal, Ethnopolitics (Taylor and Francis). He is an honorary Senior Fellow of the Centre for Multilevel Federalism, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. His research interest includes, among others, federalism, ethnic conflicts, nationalism and Indian politics with particular focus on Northeast India.
Supervisors: Balveer Arora and Brendan O'Leary
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This has since been breached in early September, which means that it is unimaginable to think today that a single Kuki can live in a Meitei majority areas or vice versa. Civil societies in Manipur are deeply communalised even as they embark on their exclusive agenda. Given the deep level of distrust, the space for dialogue has broken down. The pillarisation of societies in Manipur could not have been starker.
group of men in Manipur compelled Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his deafening silence on ethnic violence in the state. The clip, which was recorded on May 4, went viral on July 19.The incident shows how the weaponisation of rape in a conflict has not only outraged and brutalised the modesty of the women, and, by extension, of the targeted Kuki-Zomi community, but also shaken the collective conscience of Indian citizens.
It also demonstrates that howsoever hard state-controlled media or oppressive regimes may attempt to conceal or downplay acts of brutality, including the weaponisation of rape, to oppress any targeted group, there are inherent limitations to their efforts to suppress the truth.
This has since been breached in early September, which means that it is unimaginable to think today that a single Kuki can live in a Meitei majority areas or vice versa. Civil societies in Manipur are deeply communalised even as they embark on their exclusive agenda. Given the deep level of distrust, the space for dialogue has broken down. The pillarisation of societies in Manipur could not have been starker.
group of men in Manipur compelled Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his deafening silence on ethnic violence in the state. The clip, which was recorded on May 4, went viral on July 19.The incident shows how the weaponisation of rape in a conflict has not only outraged and brutalised the modesty of the women, and, by extension, of the targeted Kuki-Zomi community, but also shaken the collective conscience of Indian citizens.
It also demonstrates that howsoever hard state-controlled media or oppressive regimes may attempt to conceal or downplay acts of brutality, including the weaponisation of rape, to oppress any targeted group, there are inherent limitations to their efforts to suppress the truth.
processes for over two decades, I take the designs, structures, agenda
and strategies of agents or actors within institutions very seriously.
The first thing that struck me when I got admitted into JNU in the late
1990s is its ideational and structural designs well encapsulated in the
JNU logo, and in the architectural designs of academic buildings and
hostels. Sooner did I realise that I was engaged in ideas and structures
that are cascaded, which are also encapsulated in the ideational and
architectural designs of academic buildings and hostels in JNU. These
help me to reflect upon and critically engage with the various aspects
and dimensions of institutions and political processes in Northeast
India and beyond. The interface or interaction that JNU allows within
its ecology of interactive engagement, drawn as we are from different
corners of the country with diverse backgrounds and experience,
opens up a new vista of understanding, the kind of which is very well
encapsulated in the design of the JNU logo. The diya (meaning ‘light’,
which stands for knowledge) in this logo is illustrative of the intended
outcome of exchange of ideas and discursive communication/
interaction between the diversely different worlds from where we come
from so that we are amenable to inculcate self-reflexivity, and foster
creative and critical academic engagements in ways which strengthen and broaden our academic horizons. These, I think, are very critical
for students as well as researchers working on various dimensions of
institutions and political processes to locate our research problems
within a larger canvass of theory and concepts which are endogenous
or used elsewhere.