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Nationality
  
Indian

Occupation
  
Teacher, academic

Name
  
David Zou


Alma mater
  
St. Anthony's College, Shillong Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland

Education
  
St. Anthony's College, Shillong, Queen's University Belfast, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

David Vumlallian Zou (born January 25, 1977) is an historian of modern South Asia with special interest in north-east India. His research interests reflect an interdisciplinary orientation that includes colonial history, book history, gender history, ethno-history, indigenous identities and historical geography.

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Education

David V. Zou graduated in English literature (Major) from St. Anthony's College, Shillong, under North Eastern Hill University. He completed his MA and M.Phil from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He completed his M.Phil dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Majid H. Siddiqi.

A fully funded PhD scholarship by the Academic Planning Grant (Northern Ireland) enabled him to pursue his PhD at Queen's University Belfast where he worked under M. Satish Kumar and David N. Livingstone on print culture and identity formation in colonial north-east India. (Abstract of the PhD thesis is available at British Library Beta EThOS)

Academic career

Dr. David V Zou has joined the faculty of History Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, where he teaches a paper on rise of capitalism and approaches to global history along with some aspects of labor history to postgraduate students. He is currently a member of the Departmental Research Committee (DRC) since February 2010,. and Board of Research Studies (BRS) Social Sciences at Delhi University since February 2011.

Current Project

Dr. Zou is currently completing a monograph titled, Print, Identity and Gender in colonial Mizoram, to be published by Sage Publications as a part of SAGE Studies of India's North East.

Research Publications

  • Zou, David Vumlallian (2016) "Peoples, Power, and Belief in North-east India", in Meena Radhakrishna (ed.) Citizens First: Studies on Adivasis, Tribals, and Indigenous Peoples in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Zou, David Vumlallian (2016) "Environment, Social Identity and Individual Freedom in the Current Historiography of Northeast India", Studies in History, Vol. 32 (1) : 117-129, doi:10.1177/0257643015616020.
  • Zou, David Vumlallian & M. Satish Kumar (2011) "Mapping a colonial Borderland: Objectifying the geo-body of India's Northeast" The Journal of Asian Studies Vol.70, No.1 (February),pp. 141 – 170. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8139369&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0021911810002986

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  • Zou, David Vumlallian (2010) "A Historical Study of the 'Zo' Struggle" (Special Article) Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), Vol. 45, No. 14, April 3, 2010, pp. 56 – 63. http://epw.in/epw/user/result.jsp
  • Zou, David Vumlallian (2009) "The Pasts of a Fringe Community: Ethno-history and Fluid Identity of Zou in Manipur" Indian Historical Review, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 209 – 235. http://ihr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/2/209
  • Zou, David Vumlallian (2005) "Raiding the dreaded past: Representations of Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in Northeast India" Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 75 – 105. http://cis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/39/1/75
  • Zou, David Vumlallian (2003) "Colonial Discourse and Evangelical Imagining" Religion and Society, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 57 – 93.

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