Mumbai Campus, Centre for Social Justice and Governance, School of Social Work - Mumbai Campus
PhD(IEE-RUB,Germany)
M.A (TISS, Mumbai)
B.A (Loyola College, University of Madras)
biswaranjan.tripura[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in
Mumbai | India
Tel: 91-22-2552 5419
Biswaranjan Tripura is a faculty member in Indigenous and Tribal Studies at the Centre for Social Justice and Governance, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India. He holds BA in Economics from Loyola College,Chennai, University of Madras, an MA in Social Work with a specialization in Tribal Studies from TISS, Mumbai and a PhD in International Development Studies (passed with magna cum laude/with great distinction) from the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy (IEE), Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
Dr. Tripura was awarded the Brot für die Welt Development Scholarship to pursue his doctoral research at Germany. At TISS, currently, he teaches Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) and MA students focusing on tribal studies and supervises PhD research projects.
His research interests encompass social policy and social inequalities, the anthropology of state and development, Indigenous studies, decolonial studies, governance, Indigenous education, political economy, Tiprasa Studies, and Northeast India studies. His scholarly work has been published in several notable journals, including the Journal of Asian and African Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Indian Journal of Social Work, Social Action, Frontiers in Political Science, Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Policy and Practice, Social Work with Groups, Journal of Tribal Intellectual Collective India, and Indian Journal of Dalit and Tribal Social Work.
He is the author of "Educational Experiences of Indigenous Peoples" (2014, Mittal Publication, New Delhi) and his latest single authored book is "Everyday State and Development in Northeast India" (2025, Routledge, London/New York). He is also the editor of the volume title 'Social Work Research: Methodologies in Fields of Practice' (2025, Springer Nature, Singapore).
Dr. Tripura is also an editorical board memeber of "Journal of Tribal Intellectual Collective India", an active member of several academic and advocacy organizations, including Tribal Intellectual Collective India, LAYA Resource Center for Adivasis, United Tiprasa Forum, and the British Association for South Asian Studies.
ORCiD id:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2406-7213
Social Policy, Social Work and Social Inequalities, Anthropology of State and Development, Political Economy, Land and Governance, Indigenous Education, International social work, Tribal Social Work, Indigenous/Tribal Studies, Tiprasa Studies, Northeast India, decolonizing methhodologies
Books
2025. Social Work Research: Methodologies in Fields of Practice. Singapore: Springer Nature. https://link.springer.com/book/9789819671243?srsltid=AfmBOor6FYx-CWo74E019uri0qztDAQWPVktjUfIOQpbXT2CT01IFU8L
2025. Everyday State and Development in Northeast India, London, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003501480/everyday-state-development-northeast-india-biswaranjan-tripura
2014. Educational Experiences of Indigenous Peoples, New Delhi, Mittal Publication. https://mittalbooks.com/products/educational-experiences-of-indigenous-peoples
Peer-Reviewed Articles/Chapters
2025. Introduction: The Frame of Reference. In Akhup, A, Tripura, B and Jojo, B 'Social Work Research: Methodologies in Fields of Practice'. Singapore: Springer Nature.https://link.springer.com/book/9789819671243?srsltid=AfmBOor6FYx-CWo74E019uri0qztDAQWPVktjUfIOQpbXT2CT01IFU8L
2025. Reading ‘Methodologies’ in Tribes and Community Development Practice: Insights from the Peripheral/Endangered Tribe of Tripura, Northeast India. In Akhup, A, Tripura, B and Jojo, B 'Social Work Research: Methodologies in Fields of Practice'. Singapore: Springer Nature.https://link.springer.com/book/9789819671243?srsltid=AfmBOor6FYx-CWo74E019uri0qztDAQWPVktjUfIOQpbXT2CT01IFU8L
2025. Trends and Scope of Social Work Research: The Indian Experience. In Akhup, A, Tripura, B and Jojo, B 'Social Work Research: Methodologies in Fields of Practice'. Singapore: Springer Nature.https://link.springer.com/book/9789819671243?srsltid=AfmBOor6FYx-CWo74E019uri0qztDAQWPVktjUfIOQpbXT2CT01IFU8L
2023. Decolonizing Ethnography and Tribes in India: Toward an Alternative Methodology.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2023.1047276/full (Scopus/WoS/UGC CARE)
2022. Negotiating the Everyday State in Contemporary Tripura, Northeast India. Journal of Asian and African Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00219096221113580 (Scopus/WoS/UGC CARE)
2022. Tribal Identity and Governance in Northeast India: The Case of Tripura Tribal Areas. Indian Journal of Social Work. https://journals.tiss.edu/ijsw/index.php/ijsw/article/view/847 (Scopus/UGC CARE)
2022. Forming an alumni association relief group to address the needs of Indigenous peoples in Tripura, India during the COVID-19 pandemic, Social Work with Groups, 45:1, 74-80, 2022, DOI: 10.1080/01609513.2020.1840191, Routledge Publications. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01609513.2020.1840191 (Scopus/WoS/UGC CARE)
2021. “We have become microscopic in our ancestral land”: The negotiation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 by the Indigenous peoples of Tripura. Social Action, 71(3), 297–310,2021. http://isidelhi.org.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/File%2010/SA%20JULY-SEPT%202021%20(FOR%20WEB).pdf (UGC CARE)
2021. COVID-19 and the Everyday Challenges of Indigenous Peoples of Tripura, Economic and Political Weekly, November, 20, Vol LVI No 47. https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/47/insight/covid-19-and-everyday-challenges-indigenous.html (Scopus/UGC CARE)
2021. Necropolitics and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Indigenous Peoples of Tripura, Northeast India, Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Polity, and Practice, Vol.9, No.1,2021. https://intersectionalities.mun.ca/index.php/IJ/article/view/2252 (WoS/UGC CARE)
2019. Revisiting the Method of Social Welfare Administration in Social Work Education, Indian Journal of Dalit and Tribal Studies and Action, Vol.4, Issue 1, No.5 pp.63-75, 2019.
2015. Indigenous peoples question in Tripura: Dialogue between its past and present. In Alex Akhup 'Identities and their Struggles in North-East’. Kolkata-Adivaani Publishers, pp.151-179.
2015. “Tribe Centric Education and Pedagogy-From the Lived Experiences of Tribes within a multicultural society” in Vulli Dhanaraju “Debating Tribal Identity: Past and Present”, pp.309-321, Dominant Publishers, New Delhi.
2015. Structure, Consciousness and Social Transformation-The Adivasis in Thane District, Maharashtra, by Denzil Saldanha,2015, New Delhi: Aakar Books, pp 593, Price: 1695/- in Indian Journal of Social Work. Vol.76 (3),481-484, July,2015
2013. "International Social Work-An Indian Experience" in Indian Journal of Dalit and Tribal Social Work Vol.1, Issue 3 No.1 pp.1 to 24, October (ISSN 2320-2130).
2013. “Tribal Question in Tripura: Dialogue between its Past and Present”, in Journal of Tribal Intellectual Collective India, Vol.1, Issue 2, No.3 pp. 41 to 65, December (ISSN 2321-5437).
2012. Educational Experiences of Indigenous People with Special Reference to Tripura, North- East India, Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Volume 2 (6), 217-227, June (ISSN:2249-7315).
2013. The Uttarakhand Disaster-Impact Assessment Report”, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, August, 2013, (Contribution in a Report)
Newspaper Columns/ Magazine Articles/Academic Lectures (Select)
From Tripura Upajati Juba Samity To TIPRA Motha: The Journey Of Indigenous Politics In Tripura. https://www.outlookindia.com/national/from-tripura-upajati-juba-samity-to-tipra-motha-the-journey-of-indigenous-politics-in-tripura-news-261517
Vision 2047 of Tribes in India (Series 1-Talk 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVK073wA054&t=43s
Upcoming Writings
Politics of Accord
Indigenous Women and Work
Environment and Garbage Politics
Script Politics and Language Hegemony
Political Economy/ Extractivism (Politics)
Study of Land Record System in Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) in Northeast States (India) (Co-PI)/Since June 2025-Ongoing
Governance and Development in Tribal Areas of North-East India-A Comparative study between Manipur and Tripura, Sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, 2016 to 2018 (Co-PI)
Situating violence against women within gender system-A study among tribes of North East India(Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Meghalaya), Sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi,2013-2016 (Co-PI)
Uttarakhand Disaster Impac Social Audit Assessment Team as part of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), Sponsored by Ministry of Rural Development, India, 2013
Social Audit Assessment Team as part of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), Sponsored by the Ministry of Rural Development, India
Tribe, State, and Governance
Foundation Course: Tribal Situation in India
International Social Work and Indigenous Peoples
Adivasi and Dalit Movement: Theory and Practices
Social Welfare Administration
Rural, Rurality, Caste, and Tribe (Theory and Fieldwork Practicum)
Social Entrepreneurship Among Dalits and Tribes
Academic Writing (B A Social Work)
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