1. Indian Knowledge Systems with Special Focus on Indigenous Tribal Peoples Knowledge System and the Sramanic Buddhist Knowledge Framework
2. The Practice of 'Engaged Observation' and 'Dialogical Historiography' in Research
3. Decoloniality, Decolonial Social Work, International Social Work and Diversity-Dialogue Practice
4. Post-Xaxa Tribal Studies
5. Indigenous Tribal Peoples Well-Being with special focus on the concept of Cosmic Diversity and Cosmovision
6. Land Systems, Land Holdings and the Politics of Land in Scheduled Tribal Areas
7. Khasi Studies: History, Epistemology, Politics, and Change
8. Buddhism and Science, Buddhist Sanghalogy, Ambedkar and Buddhism and the Navayana Buddhist Tradition, Buddhist Social Work

Published Books & Journal Special Issues

1. Social Work: Lectures on Curriculum and Pedagogy. Second Edition. Published by New Vehicle Publication, Nagpur, 2024. [ISBN 978-81-970142-0-8] Link to Book 
2. Lectures on Tribal Studies in India Pre and Post Xaxa: A Decolonial-Historical Approach. Published by the Tribal Intellectual Collective India and New Vehicle Publications, Nagpur, 2024. [ISBN 978-81-970142-4-6] Link to Book
3. Dialogues on Basics in Buddhism: A Navayana (New Vehicle) Approach. Published by New Vehicle Publications. Nagpur, 2023. [ISBN 978-81-948224-5-5] Link to Book
4. The Khasi States: A Brief Historical Timeline from 1771 to 2017.Published by Tribal Intellectual Collective India, 2022. Link to Book
5. Navayana Buddhism: Context, Debates, and Theories. Published by The Shared Mirror & Buddhist Intellectual Collective India, 2022. [ISBN 978-81-929930-5-8] Link to Book
6. A Part Apart. Published by  Photography Promotion Trust for the Tata Affirmative Action Program, 2021.
7. Epistemology of the Peripheralized: A Decolonial-Historical Approach. Methodologies in Social Research Series of the Tribal Intellectual Collective India. Published by New Vehicle Publications, 2020. [ISBN: 978-81-948224-4-8] Link to Book 
8. Land, Words and Resilient Cultures: The Ontological Basis of Tribal Identity. (Edited) Published by Tribal Intellectual Collective India, 2019. [ISBN: 978-81-942059-0-6] Link to Book 
9. 'Social Work- Lectures on Curriculum and Pedagogy. Published by The New Vehicle, 2019. [ISBN: 978-81-942059-2-0] Link to Book 
10. The Problematics of Tribal Integration- Voices from India's Alternative Centers. (Edited) Published by The Shared Mirror & Tribal Intellectual Collective India, 2019. [ISBN: 978-81-929930-3-4] Link to Book 
11. Ambedkar, Buddhism and Social Transformation. Social Action. Special Issue (2022). Guest Editor. [ISSN 0037-7627]
12. The Federation of Khasi States: History, Epistemology and Politics. Published by Tribal Intellectual Collective India, 2019. [ISBN: 978-81-942059-1-3] Link to Book
13. Tribal and Adivasi Studies, Vol.3- Social Work in India. (Edited) Published by Adivaani & Tribal Intellectual Collective India, 2016. [ISBN: 978-93-84465-04-9] Link to Book
14. Migrant Workers in Leh-Ladakh: Politics and Process. Tribal Intellectual Collective India. Link to book
15. Tribal Culture, Political Systems and Social Movements. Social Action, Special Issue (2021). Guest Editor. [ISSN 0037-7627]. 

Published Articles

1. Social Research in Tribal Studies: Reflections on Teaching Content for Bachelor's Students of Social Work Post NEP 2020. Journal of Tribal Intellectual Collective India, Issue Vol.8. No.3. pp.35 to 47, 2025 Link to Article
2. Becoming a Scheduled Tribe in India: The History, Process, and Politics of Scheduling (November 9, 2023) Contemporary Voice of Dalits. Sage. (Web of Science) Link to Article
3. Formulating and Teaching a Course in International Social Work: Some Curriculum and Pedagogical Insights from the Indian Context, 2023 Vol.66, Issue 2 pp.462-474. International Social Work, Sage Journals.https://doi.org/10.1177/00208728211026743 (Web of Science) Link to Article
4. The Ambedkarite Worldview Post 1956: Some Reflections on Its Theoretical Content, Vol.72 (03): 229-241, July-September, 2022. Social Action- A Quarterly Review of Social Trends. Indian Social Institute, New Delhi. (UGC Care) Link to Article
5. Tribal Studies in India: Pre and Post-Xaxa,(2022). Journal of Tribal Intellectual Collective India, Vol.6. Issue 1. TN 5, pp.74-91. Link to Article
6. The Decolonial-Historical Approach in Social Research: Its Methodological Contours, (2022) Journal of Tribal Intellectual Collective India, Vol.6. Issue 1. TN 1, pp.1-12. Link to Article
7. The Dalit Curriculum from Two Perspectives. (July 2022, Vol 52. Issue 3, pp.302-313) Curriculum Inquiry, Taylor & Francis. (Web of Science) Link to Article
8. Historicising Tribal Struggles for Epistemological Integration in India. Vol. 71(03): 221-233, July-September 2021. Social Action- A Quarterly Review of Social Trends, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi. (UGC Care) Link to Article
9. Tribes and State Policy in India: Revisiting Governing Principles from a Decolonial Social Work Perspective.Vol.50 (8): 2372-2388, December 2020. The British Journal of Social Work. Oxford Academic. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa186 (Web of Science) Link to Article
10. Locating Migrant Workers in the History of Leh Ladakh: Reflections from a Tribal Episteme. Jharkhand Journal of Development and Management Studies, Xavier Institute of Social Service Issue 40: Migration and Social Development. (Vol. 10, No. 3, July - September 2012) (UGC Care)
11. Critical Reflections on Approaches to Methods in Indian Social Work Education.Jharkhand Journal of Development and Management Studies, Xavier Institute of Social Service Issue 37: Social Work: Concerns and Issues. (Vol. 9, No. 4, October-December 2011) (UGC Care) 

Chapters in Book

1. 'Khasi Political Reality and the Struggle for Statehood: History, Context and Political Process'. Handbook of Tribal Politics in India [eds] Ambagudia, J & Xaxa, V. January 2021. Sage India Publishing. [ISBN: 978-93-5388-458-1] Link to Book Media Page
2. 'International Social Work: Theoretical Decolonizing from a Tribal Gaze', DOI:10.4324/9781003211969-3 Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work,: New Perspectives and Agenda (November, 2022), Edited by Stephen A. Webb.  [ISBN 9781003211969] Link to book Preview

Other Writings and Notes

1. Editorial on "Tribal Culture, Political Systems and Social Movements", in Social Action- A Quarterly Review of Social Trends, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi. Link to Editorial
2. Prefatory Introduction to the Book 'Thinking the Navayana Way' by Mangesh Dahiwale (2019). The New Vehicle, Maharashtra Link to Book
3. 'Professional Social Work Education In India: A Critical View from the Periphery'. Indian Journal of Social Work. TISS. VOL 72 (2), 2011. Link to Discussion Note
4. Foreword to Tribal and Adivasi Studies, Vol.2- 'Identities and Their Struggles in North East' Edited by Alex Akhup (2015) Adivaani and Tribal Intellectual Collective India: Kolkata. Link to Foreword

Upcoming Articles and Books

1. State Policy Concerning the Scheduling of Communities as Tribes in India: A Politico-Historical Perspective
2. Ambedkarite Pedagogy: Reflections from Doing, Teaching, and Practicing Navayana Buddhism
3. Indic Social Work: A Sramanic Perspective

Academic Lectures

1. Public Lecture organized by the Tribal Intellectual Collective India on "Becoming a Scheduled Tribe in India: History and Process." Link to Video Lecture

Ongoing Project

1. Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, Study on 'Historical Perspectives of the Land Governance and Administration System in ADC Areas of the North-Eastern States'

Community-Based Action Research Projects:

1. The Navayana Education Project: activities related to knowledge production in the domain of Buddhist Studies
2. Arramat Project on Biodiversity Conservation and its Interface with Language, Culture, and Wellbeing of Indigenous Tribal Peoples
3. The Indigenous Tribal Proples Knowledge System Project: related to knowledge production among Tribes in India

Lectures Delivered (2025)

1. Plenary on "Indigenous Tribal Peoples' Knowledge System: Theory and Methodology within a Post Xaxa Framework" International Conference on 'Indigenous/Tribal Communities - Reframing Research Methodologies' organised by The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 8th August, 2025
2. Invited Online Lecture on "Tribal Studies in India: A Decolonial Historical Approach" in International Symposium on 'Indigeneity and Representation: South Asian Encounters', New York University, Abu Dhabi, 3rd May 2025.
3. Invited Speaker on "Indigenous Tribal Peoples Knowledge System" in the National Seminar on 'Locating Viksit Bharat within the Epistemology of Indian Knowledge Systems" organised by the Center for Study of Socil Inclusion, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, 23rd January, 2025.
4. Resource Person on "Community Dialogue on Indiagenous Education", Muskaan, Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal, 13th to 15th December, 2024.
5. Resource Person (Online) on "Decolonizing Research Methods: Towards a Dialogical Historiography" in National Workshop on 'From Storytelling to Archive: Oral History, Oral Tradition and Indigenous Practices' organised by Oral History Association of India, and ATIS, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh,5th to 9th November, 2024.
6. Public Online Lecture on Indigenous Tribal Peoples Knowledge System organised by the Highlanders Writing Support Group on 23rd November 2024
7. Public Online Lecture on Indigenous Tribal Peoples Knowledge System organised by Barefoot Philosophers and Bhasha Research  Academy on 9th November 2024
8. Lecture Series in 'First Buddhist Summer School' on Navayana Buddhist Methodology organised by the School of Ambedkar Studies, NBCT and the Babasaheb Ambedkar Philosophical Society, Nagarjuna Training Institute from 17th to 19th June, 2023.
9. Public Lecture on : 'The Structure of 'Meaning' and 'Purpose' in Buddhism' organised online by the Ambedkar Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Social Transformation, School of Ambedkar Studies, Navayana Buddhist Charitable Trust on May 14th, 2023. Link to Video
10. Public Lecture on : 'Babasaheb Ambedkar and His Will to Epistemological Freedom' organised online by the School of Ambedkar Studies, on 14th April 2023. Link to Video
11. Public Lecture on : 'Some Propositions on Social Work Theory for Contemporary Times' in Conference in Social Work Education on the theme- Building Solidarities through Shared Vision for Social Work Education and Practice, TISS Mumbai on 11-12 March 2023
12. Key Note Address on : 'Interdisciplinary Role of Buddhism' in Dhammasakaccha International Level Students Conference, Department of Pali and Buddhist Studies, Savitribhai Phule Pune University on 4th March 2023.
13. Public Lecture on 'Quality Education: Role of Society and Students Body' : Bodoland International Knowledge Festival Kokrajhar on 27th February 2023.
14. Resource Person for Workshop on 'Research Methodology and Academic Writing Skills' : in Bodoland International Knowledge Festival Kokrajhar on 27th and 28th February 2023
15. Book Talk on 'Navayana Buddhism: Context, Debates and Theory' : in Nagarjuna Training Institute, Nagpur on 13th January 2022.
16. Public Lecture on 'Epistemology of Knowledge Production in the Context of Caste-Priviledged Classrooms' : in Literary and Cultural Studies Department, FLAME University, Pune on 28th November 2022
17. Public Lecture on 'Tribal Epistemology' : in Azim Premji University, Bengaluru Campus on 15th November 2022
18. Public Lecture on 'Ambedkarism and Research Methodology' : in Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies, TISS, Mumbai on 10th November 2022
19. Public Lecture on 'Buddhist Worldview: An Ambedkarite Perspective' : in Nagarjuna Training Institute, Nagaloka, Nagpur on 6th October 2022
20. Resource Person on 'Social Research and the Methodologies of the Peripheralized' : Tuesday Lecture Series of the Centre for Social Justice and Governance, TISS, Mumbai on 27th Sept, 4th Oct, 11th Oct, 18th Oct, 25th Oct and  to 1st Nov 2022
21. Public Lecture on 'Jhanas in Buddhism' : in Digital Nalanda, School of Buddhist Studies, Wardha on 7th May 2022
22. Public Lecture on 'Reading Uttar Pradesh Politics- Covert Faultlines, Overt Politics' : in Centre for Ambedkar Studies, NBCT, Mumbai on 5th February 2022

Ph.D

1. Philosophical and Theoretical  Foundations of Social Science Research (Basic Course - First Semester) 
2. Advanced Methodologies in Social Science Research (Optional Course - Second Semester)

Masters of Arts in Social Work

1. Dalit and Tribal Social Work: Perspectives and Concepts (DTSA - Semester One) 
2. Political Theory for Critical Social Work (DTSA - Semester One)
3. Advanced Practice Skills in Dalit and Tribal Social Work (DTSA - Semester Three) 
4. Social Action, Advocacy and Movements (Basic Course - Semester Three) 
5. International Social Work and Indigenous Peoples (CBCS - Semester Four) 

Bachelors In Social Work

1. International Social Work and Indigenous Peoples (Semester Four) 
2. Social Research in Tribal Studies (Semester Eight) 

In Preparation for new courses for PhD, MASW and BSW

1. Buddhism for Social Workers