Tadu Rimi

Tadu Rimi

Post-Doctoral Fellow


Contact Information

  • 2018: Senior Fellow at Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Germany.
  • 2017: Post Doctoral fellow at The M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies (ICAS:MP), New Delhi. Project: ‘The meaning making State (nation-state): The history of State experience among the Tanii community of Arunachal Pradesh’ by Max Webber Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Germany. 
  • 2017: Doctorate from the Tata Institute of School of Social Sciences, Mumbai and the Council for Social Development, Hyderabad.
  • 2008: Master of Social Work (MSW) with specialization in Community Organization Development Practices, Social Policy and Planning from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
  • 2006: B.A. (Honors) in Political Science from Delhi University.

  • 2022- 23: Teaching in Dept. of Social Work, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills.
  • 2019-2022: District Program Coordinator, PMMVY, District ICDS Cell, Ziro.
  • 2017-2019: Teaching in Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research in Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.
  • 2009-2010: Project Officer in TISS-Gyurja LAHDC Project, Leh, Ladakh.
  • 2008-2009: Program Associate in The Hungers Project, New Delhi.

 

  • 2022-Ongoing: Co-Principal Investigator Documentation of Tangible and Intangible Culture of Apatanis for Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt. of Arunachal Pradesh, with Tanii Supung Dukung.
  • 2023- 24: Fellow for Documentation of cultural significance and traditional knowledge of Tapyo making of Apatanis, as FLICR fellow at CCLD and CoRSAL, University of Sydney, Australia
  • 2020-2021: Research Fellow at Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy, Ashoka University, New Delhi. Topic: Philanthropy and giving in tribal society: A study among the Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh. 
  • 2018-2020: Research project funded by NEC, at Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi: Conducted a research project on: Local history of 1962 Indo-China war in Arunachal Pradesh.
  • 2014: Minor research for LBSNAA, Masoorie. Topic: Woman and land relation in Arunachal Pradesh: A case study among the Apatani and Nyishi communities.
  • 2010- 2012: Minor research project at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati. Topic: An ethnographic study of women vendors in the local market of Hapoli town area

I am a trained social worker and a social scientist specializing with my area of interest in tribal studies and development in Arunachal and Northeast India, local history and oral history, women studies and tribal feminism, and decolonial methods. I have worked with various government and non-government agencies and taught in areas of community development, tribal women and tribal studies.

 

  1. (2024) The (Im)Perfect Insider: The Experiences of Women Researching in their Own Communities. JTICI Decennial Issue, Vol. 7, No. 8, Pp 67-75.  https://www.ticijournals.org/the-imperfect-insider-experiences-of-women-researching-in-their-own-community/
  2. (2021) Philanthropy and giving in tribal society: A study among the Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh. Working Paper under CSIP Research Fellowship. Ashoka University. 
  3. (2020) Mapping Power and Domination: Studying State Making in Arunachal Pradesh through Old Official Photographs. In Tiplut Nongbri and Rashi Bhargava (ed.) Materiality and Visuality in North East India: An interdisciplinary perspective. New Delhi: Springer. 
  4. (2019) The Polemics of Integration and State-Making Processes. In Bodhi s.r. and Bipin Jojo (ed.) The Problematics of Tribal Integration: Voices from India’s Alternative Centers. Hyderabad: The Shared Mirror Publishing House.
  5. (2017) The coming of Halyang: Re-visiting the first colonial contact of 1897. In Golden Jubilee Dree Celebration Souvenir. 
  6. (2017) Engendering Tribal Land Rights for Gendering the Land: A Case Study among Apatani and Nyishi Communities. In Prem Choudhry (ed.) Understanding Women’s Land Rights. New Delhi: Sage Publication. 
  7. (2017) Doing oral history among indigenous and oral communities: Dealing with rigour and ethics. Journal of Tribal Intellectual Collective of India, ISSN No. 23215437. Link: http://www.ticijournals.org/doing-oral-history-among-indigenous-and-oral-communities-dealing-with-rigors-and-ethics/
  8. (2015) The philosophers for NEFA: Revisiting ‘A philosophy for NEFA’ through the experiences of the Apatanis. In Alex Akhup (ed.) Identities and their struggles in North East. (pp105-150).  Kolkata: Adivani.
  9. (2015) Apatani Christian community: The roles of state, culture and faith in the formation of Apatani Christian community. In Alphonsus D'Souza, Lalnghakthuami and Pangernungba Kechu (Eds.) Family and Clan in North East India: Reflections by Christian Scholars. Guwahati: North East Social Research Centre.

 

(2022) Traditional Resource Management among the Apatani Community. Special lecture at Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies, RGU, Rono Hills on 23.09.2022 and 30.09.2022.

(2021) Ethnographic Conversation in Oral History: Retrieving History in North East India. Invited lecture in Webinar Lecture Series on Highlanders of North East India, organized by Dept. of History, St. John College, Dimapur on 27.10.2021 

(2020) Indigenous Women and Feminism. Invited public lecture on ‘International Day of the World’s Indigenous People 2020’ organized by Indigenous Students of TISS Tuljapur, at TISS, Tuljapur, 13th September. 

(2018) An Insider Doing Local History in Arunachal Pradesh: Dealing with Ethics among the Apatani. A guest lecture invitation at CIRDIS, University of Vienna on 15th March.

 

  1. The philosophers for NEFA: Understanding the consent through experiences of Apatani community. International seminar organized by Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Bodoland University, Kokhrajhar. 
  2. History of Injustice: Oral History and the Apatani community on OHAI international conference “Oral History in our times” on 18th and 19th Nov 2013, in Bangalore.
  3. Writing the local history of the Apatani in a national seminar on “Marginalization and Resistance” 2nd to 5th Feb 2013 at TISS, Tujapur.
  4. Land rights and customary laws: A study among Apatani and Nyishi communities of Arunachal Pradesh.  In a regional seminar on “Customary laws and tribal land rights: Challenges and possibilities” organized by the Center for Rural Studies, LBSNAA in Guwahati on March 2014.
  5. Doing oral history in ethnographic and cultural context:  Sharing experiences from Tanii oral community. A working paper presented in international conference by 9th IOHA Conference on ‘Speaking, Listening, Interpreting: Critical Engagements of Oral History’, at Bengaluru. 27 June to 1st July 2016.
  6. An Ethnographic Conversation in History: Doing Oral History in North East of India. A working paper presented in a National Seminar on "Anthropological Histories and Tribal Worlds in India" at the IIAS, Shimla from 27-29 March 2017

 

  1. Life Member and Executive Member of Oral History Association of India.
  2. Life member at North East India Sociological Association. 
  3. Founding and National Council Member in Tribal Intellectual Collective of India Journal.