IIT INDORE - School of Humanities and Social Science

Indian Institute of Technology Indore

School of Humanities and Social Science

Migration and Development Research Center

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Faculty Publications:

Authors: Nirmala Menon
Description: Practices of Digital Humanities in India Learning by Doing, Routledge

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Authors: Dishari Chattaraj
Description: Food Literacy, Curriculum, and The Global South: Examples from South Asia, Palgrave Macmillan

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Authors: Ashok Kumar Mocherla
Description: Democratization of Indian Christianity Hegemony, Accessibility, and Resistance, Routledge

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Authors: Dishari Chattaraj
Description: Pedagogy of Space and The Global South: A Machine Generated Literature Overview, Springer Nature

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Authors: Akshaya Kumar
Description: Provincializing Bollywood: Bhojpuri Cinema in the Comparative Media Crucible, Oxford University Press

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Authors: Ashok Kumar Mocherla
Description: Dalit Christians in South India: Caste, Ideology and Lived Religion, Routledge

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Authors: Dishari Chattaraj
Description: Critical Food Studies in Asia: A Machine Generated Literature Overview, Springer Nature

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Authors: Shomik Dasgupta
Description: Ethics, Distance, and Accountability: The Political Thought and intellectual context of Rammohun Roy (c. 1772-1833), Oxford University Press

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Authors: Nirmala Menon
Description: Remapping the Indian Postcolonial Canon: Remap, Reimagine and Retranslate, Palgrave Macmillan

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Authors: Nirmala Menon
Description: Migrant Identities of Creole Cosmopolitans: Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality, Peter Lang

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STUDENT'S CORNER

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• Monika presented a paper titled "Towards the Systematic Cross-Civilizational Comparison: How Civilizations Work (Case 2: The Indic Case)" at 54th Annual Conference of the International Society of Comparative Study of Civilization organized by International Society of Comparative Study of Civilization and Hallym University from 10-15 September 2025.
• Sadaf Khan presented a paper titled "Unifying or erasing? Language shift and hegemony in the Hindi dominant urban Indian cities" at Words on WORD organized by International Linguistic Association USA from 26 - 28 September 2025.
• Amrutha A et al. presented a paper titled "Entropy-Based Analysis of Urban Sprawl Dynamics: A Case Study of Indore India" at 24th IASSI Conference organized by Doon University from 10-12 October 2025.
• Priyanka Sinha presented a paper titled "Cosmopolitanism and Spirituality: A Case Study of the Brahma Kumaris" at An International Conference on Religion and Cities organized by University of Madras and Elon University .
• Priyanka Sinha presented a paper titled "Reframing Religious Carescapes in Central Indian Cities: Power of Care and Religious Morality among the Brahma Kumaris" at ECSAS 2025 organized by South Asia Institute Heidelberg University Germany .
• Priyanka Sinha presented a paper titled "Digital Media Anchored Democratisation of Religious Practices: Gender and Religious Belonging among the Brahma Kumaris of India" Religious Belonging and Digital Media organized by Erfurt University Germany .
• Sayali Suradkar presented a paper titled "Gender and Dual Stigma in Urban Criminality: Autobiographical Narratives of Women Prisoners in Mumbai" at International Conference on Data and Diversity: Rethinking Social Exclusion Economic Development and Wellbeing in India organized by Woxsen University from 24-25 February 2025.
• Sayali Suradkar presented a paper titled "Authoritarianism through the Indian Jail Craft: Gender Social Status and Patterns of Treatment in Women Prisons" at Authoritarianism Law and the Remaking of Society organized by SOAS University of London UK from 19-20 June 2025.
• Madhusmita Dungdung presented a paper titled "Jal Jungle Jameen: Adivasi Dispossession and Paradox of Development in the Sundargarh District Odisha" at 28th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) 2025 organized by South Asia Institute Heidelberg University Germany from 1-4 October 2025.
• Madhusmita Dungdung presented a paper titled "Adivasi Land Ownership as a New Symbol of Marginality: Legal Challenges and the Impact of Mining on Adivasi Communities in Odisha" at International Conference on Data and Diversity: Rethinking Social Exclusion Economic Development and Wellbeing in India organized by Woxsen University from 24-25 February 2025.
• Dibya Prakash Panda presented a paper titled "Negative Existential Cycle in Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages: A Typological Analysis" at 39th South Asian Languages Analysis Round Table organized by Institute of Oriental Studies Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznaÅ„ from 29 September-1 October 2025.
• Pramod Rathor presented a paper titled "Case marking strategies in Braj-Bhasha" at 47th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India organized by Linguistic Society of India & Jadavpur University from 12-14 November 2025.
• Ananya Chatterjee presented a paper titled "Race and Vulnerability in Literary Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic" at a conference titled "Vulnerable Bodies in Literature and Culture" organized by Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad from 28 February-1 March 2025.
• Gunjan Joshi presented a paper titled "The Effect of Emotional Valence on Memory Distortion: An Experimental Study" at a conference titled "Memory Narrative Designs and Strategies of Preservation" organized by Centre for Outreach and Digital Education Indian Institute of Technology Madras from 27-29 October 2025.
• Preetha Mukherjee presented a paper titled "Digital Storytelling in India" at SELLL PG Conference organized by Newcastle University on 5 June 2025 .
• Preetha Mukherjee presented a paper titled "Storyloom: South Asian Digital Storytelling" at Digital Humanities Australasia 2025 organized by Australian National University from 2-5 December 2025.
• Monika received the award titled "International Travel Grant to attend Annual Conference of ISCSC at Seoul Korea" organized by International Society of Comparative Study of Civilization USA from 10-15 September 2025.
• Monika received the award titled "Travel Grant ICSSR to attend conference Australian Political Science Association Melbourne Australia" organized by Indian Council of Social Science Research Delhi on 24 November 2025 .
• Dibya Prakash Panda received the award titled "Prof. Colin P. Masica Award 2025 for the Best Paper on India as a Linguistic Area and Pedagogical Linguistics" organized by International School of Dravidian Linguistics on 2025-06-21 .
• Gunjan Joshi received the award titled "Best Research Paper Award" organized by Centre for Outreach and Digital Education Indian Institute of Technology Madras from 27th-29th October 2025.
• Gunjan Joshi received the award titled "International Travel Grant to attend 1st EBRAINS Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research" organized by EBRAINS Education Team Medical University Innsbruck from 11-13 March 2026.
• Preetha Mukherjee received the award titled "Short-term Collaborative Research Grant at Newcastle University United Kingdom" organized by IIT Indore from March 2025-June 2025.
• Preetha Mukherjee received the award titled "Best Paper for DH Short Publication" organized by DH Awards 2024 in 2025 .
• Priyanka Sinha attended a 5 days workshop titled "Religious Belonging and Digital Media" organized by Erfurt University from 22 to 26 September 2025 .
• Sayali Suradkar attended a 2 days workshop titled "Authoritarianism Law and the Remaking of Society" organized by SOAS University of London UK (Fully Funded) on 19-20 June 2025 .
• Sayali Suradkar attended a 6 days workshop titled "Democracy School 2025" organized by Centre for Dalit Studies Hyderabad and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung South Asia (Fully Funded) on 7-12 December 2025 .
• Dibya Prakash Panda attended a 1 day workshop titled "National Workshop on Corpus Linguistics" organized by Department of Linguistics MSU Baroda on 2025-08-12 .
• Gunjan Joshi attended a 3 day workshop titled "Tools and Methods for Non-Invasive Electrophysiology (EEG)" organized by IIT Mandi iHub and HCI Foundation on 24-26 July 2025 .
• Tanisha Rathore attended a 3 day workshop titled "Tools and Methods for Non-Invasive Electrophysiology (EEG)" organized by IIT Mandi iHub and HCI Foundation on 24-26 July 2025 .
• Prachi Verma attended a 3 day workshop titled "Tools and Methods for Non-Invasive Electrophysiology (EEG)" organized by IIT Mandi iHub and HCI Foundation on 24-26 July 2025 .

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6TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

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 MA Admission Notification 2026!

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PhD Notification March 2026!

PhD Notification March 2026!

The application deadline is March 05, 2026, shortlisted candidates will be intimated on March 10, 2026, and the written examination and interview will be conducted on March 23.

MA English Admission Notification 2026!

MA English Admission Notification 2026!

6TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

6TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

The deadline for abstract submission is 28 February 2026, followed by the notification of accepted abstracts on 15 March 2026. Authors are required to submit the full paper by 30 April 2026, and the conference will be held on 11 and 12 September 2026.