1. Knowledges in India 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 Sixth 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. Dialogues on Paticca-Sam-upadda: The Navayana (New Vehicle) Approach. Published by New Vehicle Publication, Nagpur, 2025. [ISBN 978-81-948224-8-6]
2. 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 
3. 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
4. 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
5. The Khasi States: A Brief Historical Timeline from 1771 to 2017.Published by Tribal Intellectual Collective India, 2022. Link to Book
6. 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
7. A Part Apart. Published by  Photography Promotion Trust for the Tata Affirmative Action Program, 2021.
8. Tribal Culture, Political Systems and Social Movements. Social Action, Special Issue (2021). Guest Editor. [ISSN 0037-7627]. 
9. 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 
10. 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 
11. 'Social Work- Lectures on Curriculum and Pedagogy. Published by The New Vehicle, 2019. [ISBN: 978-81-942059-2-0] Link to Book 
12. 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 
13. Ambedkar, Buddhism and Social Transformation. Social Action. Special Issue (2022). Guest Editor. [ISSN 0037-7627]
14. 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
15. 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
16. Migrant Workers in Leh-Ladakh: Politics and Process. Tribal Intellectual Collective India. Lambert Publication. 2012. [ISBN 978-3-659-16234-3] Link to book

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. Historicising Land Epistemology among Chakmas: Revisiting the Role of State and Government in Land Governance with Chakma Autonomous Council, Mizoram
4. Mara Land Tenure System: History, Politics and Process
5. Historicising Land Governance and Customary Continuity among the Lai of the Chin-Lai Borderlands

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. Department of Tribal Development, Government of Maharashtra on 'A Study of Government-aided Ashram Schools run by Voluntary Organisations under the Tribal Development Department'.
2. 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. The Indigenous Tribal Peoples Knowledge System Project: related to knowledge production among Tribes in India

Lectures Delivered (2026)

1. Invited to deliver Key Note in the India Land Development Conference Regional Meet for Northeast India on "Customary Tenure, Plural Legal Systems and State Interface in Sixth Schedule Areas of Northeast" on 3rd November 2026, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati.
2. Invited Speaker on "Buddhist Cosmogony: Its Intersection with other Cosmogonic Systems" Round Table on Listening to Intersectionality: Conversations among Indian Religious Traditions, organised by the Centre for Study of Social Inclusion, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, 3rd December 2025 
3. Special Lecture on "Philosophy of Methodology" organised by the The Academic Tea Club, Department of Sociology, North Eastern Hill University, 21st November, 2025.
4. Paper presented on "Tribes and the Ontology of Land in Sixth Schedule Areas: An Analysis from a Post Xaxa Lens" in National Seminar on Land, Development and Livelihoods in Meghalaya, Department of Political Science, North Eastern Hill University, 14th November 2025
5. Special Lectures on "The Theoretical Foundations of Indigenous Research: Towards an organic ‘Indigenous Peoples Knowledge System" and "What is the Decolonial Project and How to factor the ‘decolonial’ into Indigenous Epistemology and Methodology" in National Workshop on Indigenous Research Methodology, organised by the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, 11th November, 2025
6. Special Lectures on "Philosophical Foundations of Research Methodology" and "What is Knowledge-An Overview of Different Domains of Knowledge" delivered in the National Workshop on Indigenous Research Methodology, organised by the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, 10th November, 2025
7. Public Lecture on "Locating the Indigenous Tribal Peoples Knowledge System within a Post Xaxa Framework in Tribal Studies" organised by the Political Science Discussion Forum, Department of Political Science, North Eastern Hill University, 24th October 2025.
8. Key Note Address in National Symposium on "Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS): Sustainable Future" organised by the Department of Sociology, Captain Williamson Sangma State University, Tura, 22nd October, 2025
9. Invited Speaker on "Indian Tribal Peoples Knowledge System in the Age of Science" in Indian Knowledge Sysytems Week, TISS, 8th October, 2025
10. Invited Speaker on "Buddhist Knowledge System Post Ambedkar", Round Table on Indian Knowledge System Week, TISS, 7th October 2025.
11. Special Lecture on "Indigenous Tribal Peoples Knowledge System: Theory and Methodology within a Post Xaxa Framework" organised by the Centre for Community Organisationa nd Development Practice, TISS Guwahati, 2nd September 2025.
12. 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
13. Special Lecture on "The Importance of Buddhism in the Modern World" organised by Tiratna Jambudvipa Centre, Pune, 12th May, 2025
14. 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.
15. 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 Social Inclusion, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, 23rd January, 2025.
16. Resource Person on "Community Dialogue on Indiagenous Education", Muskaan, Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal, 13th to 15th December, 2024.
17. 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.
18. Public Online Lecture on Indigenous Tribal Peoples Knowledge System organised by the Highlanders Writing Support Group on 23rd November 2024
19. Public Online Lecture on "Indigenous Tribal Peoples Knowledge System" organised by Barefoot Philosophers and Bhasha Research  Academy on 9th November 2024 Link to Lecture
20. 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.
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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.
25. Public Lecture on 'Quality Education: Role of Society and Students Body' : Bodoland International Knowledge Festival Kokrajhar on 27th February 2023.
26. Resource Person for Workshop on 'Research Methodology and Academic Writing Skills' : in Bodoland International Knowledge Festival Kokrajhar on 27th and 28th February 2023
27. Book Talk on 'Navayana Buddhism: Context, Debates and Theory' : in Nagarjuna Training Institute, Nagpur on 13th January 2022.
28. 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
29. Public Lecture on 'Tribal Epistemology' : in Azim Premji University, Bengaluru Campus on 15th November 2022

Ph.D

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

Masters of Arts in Social Work

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

Bachelors In Social Work

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

In Preparation for new courses for PhD, MASW and BSW

1. Buddhism for Social Workers