Awards & Recognitions

British Academy International Visiting Fellowship. University of Sheffield. VF/100017, for the project on the marginalisation of Muslim women in post-colonial India who faced negligence from the state and their own community. Muslim women's lives, body and clothing have increasingly become the arena of conflict between the state and the patriarchal groups who continue to suppress their identity as individual citizens capable of making their own choices. The project maps Muslim women's everyday experiences of othering, deprivation and alienation and charting out how education can make a difference.

Solidarity Award, International Association for Applied Linguistics. The Netherlands for working with linguistic minority groups in India and developing multilingual pedagogical resources.

Visiting Faculty, Department of Politics & International Relations. Rhodes University, Grahamstown. South Africa. April-May. This was part of the international joint collaboration project that I was a Primary Investigator. I taught the course on Cultural diversity and education policy in India to the undergraduate students of the university.

Fellow, School of Social &Political Science-Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. UK. My project was titled 'Violence and Ethnic Conflict in Northeast India: Need for Effective Multilevel Federal Governance-A study of Bodoland' which analyses one of the asymmetric power-sharing i.e. minority autonomy over culture, language and education in the tribal area under federal arrangements in the Indian constitution guaranteeing special rights for ethnic groups i.e. the Bodoland Territorial Council in northeast India.

Fellowship to attend the Brown Institute for Advanced International Research Institute. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. The BIARI 2015 I was part of the Governance and Development in the Age of Globalization 2015 group which focused on tackling the core problems of development, from economic growth to social provisioning and environmental sustainability, requires understanding how processes and institutions of governance operate and interact at multiple levels.

Fellowship to attend the School of Critical Theory, Cornell University, USA. (declined due to personal reasons)

Associateship award by the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India (could not accept due to non-availability of leave).

Fellowship by the Swiss International Development Agency to attend International Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. I was awarded this fellowship to attend the Summer University on Federalism, Decentralisation and Conflict Management in countries where democracy has been compromised.

Visiting Scholar in the Centre for South Asia, University of Edinburgh, April. I was a visiting scholar at the CSAS for my work on 'Educational history of India'. This was for a week.

Distinguished Teacher of Delhi University Award for excellence in teaching and mentorship. I was awarded this prestigious award in recognition of my mentorship of women and students belonging to marginalized sections of the society who voted for me as the faculty who inspired them and mentored them to pursue higher education.

Shastri Indo-Canadian Faculty Research Fellowship, May-June, Queens University, Kingston, Canada. I was awarded this fellowship and worked under Prof. Will Kymlicka on my project on 'Linguistic minorities and educational policy in India and Canada' with special focus on the office of the linguistic minority commissioners of both the countries.

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