1.      Date of Joining - 01.07.2005

2.      Administrative Responsibilities –

·        Head of the Department, PG Department of History, Nirmala College

·        Member of Academic Committee ,Nirmala Committee

·        Member of Sports and Games Committee, Nirmala College

·        Member of Discipline Committee ,Nirmala College

·        Anti- Ragging Squad, Nirmala College

·        Treasurer of Staff Council (2terms)

3.      Awards and Memberships-

·        Member, Special Invitee, Board of Studies to frame syllabus for Undergraduate Courses on CBCS basis, Ranchi University, Ranchi,18.05.2016.

·        Member– Course Committee, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi, Regional Centre- Ranchi, Post Graduate Diploma Course in Tribal studies, August 2017.

·        Special Member, Board of Studies to revise syllabus for Undergraduate Courses and Post Graduate course in History on CBCS basis, Ranchi University, Ranchi, 09.04.2022.

·        Member, Think Tank of Ram Dayal Munda Tribal Welfare and Research Institute, Ranchi.

·        Associate Editor and Executive Committee member, Journal of Adivasi and Indigenous Studies (JAIS),ISSN (online) 2394-5524.

4.      Area of Specialisation– Modern and Contemporary Indian History

5.      Major Research Area

·        Regional language of Bihar and Jharkhand, Politics, Adivasi studies, Identity Assertion, and ecological History.

6.      Research Experience

·        18 years

7.      Ph.D. – Awarded in the year 2009 from Patna University, Bihar, on the topic Language, Politics and Culture in Contemporary Bihar

8.      Research Projects –Category(Major)

·        UGC-Scheme For Trans-disciplinary Research for India’s Developing Economy (STRIDE) Component1(Research Capacity Building and Human Resource Development), “Understanding the Impact of Hinduism and Christianity on Tribal Language and Culture in Jharkhand: With Special Reference to Mundas and Oraons”.  (Project Period- 01.03.2020-01.03.2023)

9.      Ph.D. Guidance –Registered candidates

·        Research Scholar – Mahesh Thakur, Year of Registration – 2021

·        Topic– “Chotanagpur Mein Bhu-Bandobasti Evam Samajik-Aarthik Parivartana : Ek Aitihasik Adyayana (1765-1908 C.E)”

·        Research Scholar – Binod Kumar, Year of Registration – 2022

·        Topic– “Jharkhandi Sanskriti Ke Nirmaan mein Adivasiyon Evam Sadanon ke Arthik, Samajik Evam Dharmik Sambandhon ka yogdan: Ek Itihasik Adhyayan(1765- 2000 C.E)

10.  Top 10 Publications-

·        “State, forest and Adivasis at crossroads: Netarhat Field Firing Range and Contestation over Rights” in Rahul Ranjan eds. At the Crossroads of Rights: Forest Struggles and Human Rights in Postcolonial India, London, Routledge,2022, ISBN 9781032216607

·        “Collective Identities, Sanskriti sation and State Formation in Jharkhand”, in Amrita Sengupta and Swati Sengupta Chatterjee eds. Various Aspects of Indian History:  An Anthology of Essays in the Memory of Prof. Kalyan Kumar Sengupta, New Delhi, Kunal Books, 2021,ISBN: 978-93-89224-38-2.

·        Anjana Singh (2020): “State, forest and Adivasis atcrossroads: Netarhat field firing range and contestations over rights”, The International Journal of Human Rights, Routledge, London, DOI:10.1080/13642987.2020.1810023

·        To link to this article:https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2020.1810023

·        “Pathalgadi movement and conflicting ideologies of tribal village governance”, in Varsha Ganguly -Bhagat and Sujit Kumar eds. India’s Scheduled Areas: Untangling Governance, Law and Politics, London and New York, Routledge, 2020, ISBN: 978-1-138-58372-6 (hbk), ISBN:978-0-429-28541-7 (ebk)

·        “Many Faces of the Pathal gadi Movement in Jharkhand”, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. LIV, No.11, March 16 2019, pp. 28-33.

·        “Women Stereotypes in the Naxal Movement in India”, in Rekha Pande eds. Gender and History, Jaipur, Rawat publications, 2018, ISBN 978-81-316-0941-5, pp 226-236.

·        “Linguistic Politics and Kurukh Language Movement of the Oraons in Jharkhand”, Journal of Adivasi and Indigenous Studies (JAIS),Vol. VIII, No.2, August 2018: 37-50, 2018 JAIS, ISSN(online) 2394-5524

·        “Pan-Islamic ideas of Nationalist Maulana Azad” in Ajoy kumar Chattoraj eds., Rethinking the Contributions of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, New Delhi, Concept Publication, 2017. ISBN -13:978-93-5125- 260-3.

·        Epg pathshala women studies

·        Subject Name- Women’s Studies, Paper Name- Women and History, Module Name/ Title – “Movement for Women’s Rights including Right to Franchise”, Module ID Paper-3, Module-23, MHRD project, uploaded in the year 2017.

·        “Pains of the Tribals of Jharkhand in the Alternative Sources of Nineteenth Century”, Indian History Congress Proceedings,72nd Session, Patiala, Delhi, 2012, pp. 753-758.