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Mithilesh Kumar Jha 

Mithilesh Kumar Jha 

Assistant Professor 
Education: PhD
Political Science
jhamk21@iitg.ac.in
+91 361 2582581
Room No: 104

Research Interests: Political thought, theory, and Indian politics

Journal Publications

1. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "(Mis)Trust in Representative Institutions and the Role and Limits of Protest Politics: Three Protest Movements in Contemporary India", Peace Review A Journal of Social Justice, Taylor & Francis [2025],

2. Ritika Khatri and Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "United Front, Divided Lives: Caste, Land, and Labour Contestations in Rural Punjab", Sikh Formations, Taylor & Francis [2025],

3. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Gandhian Conception of Swaraj and its Post-Independence (Re)Interpretations by Jayaprakash Narayan and Rammanohar Lohia", Araucaria, vol.27, Issue no.28, pp.439-462, ISBN.1575-6823 [2025],

4. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Maithili in the Digital Space", Seminar, vol.June 742, Issue no.742, pp.53-57 [2021],

5. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Feature Essay: Language Movement and Democracy in India", The London School of Economics and Political Science Review of Books, LSE [2018],

6. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Ethnic Identity, Regional Aspirations and Democratic Participation: A Comparative Analysis of Assam and Manipur", Rabindra Bharati Journal of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University, vol.XI, pp.84-95, ISBN.2398-8218 [2016]

7. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Hindi Varchasva Banam Maithili Asmita", Pratiman, CSDS and Vani Prakashan, Delhi, vol.I, Issue no.I, pp.303-320, ISBN.9352298411/9789352298419 [2013]

Book Chapter

1. Meenakshi Gogoi, Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Indian Parliament: Changing Contours and Challenging Future" , Indian Politics and Political Processes: Ideas, Institutions and Practices , Rouledge, London ISBN.9781003434443, pp.156-173 [2023]

2. Hemant Dogra, Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Federal Polity in the Multiparty Coalition Era and Beyond" , Indian Politics and Political Processes: Ideas, Institutions and Practices , Rouledge, London ISBN.9781003434443, pp.174-196 [2023]

3. Sumit Kumar Sarma, Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Elections and Voting Behaviour: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Trends" , Indian Politics and Political Processes: Ideas, Institutions and Practices , Rouledge, London ISBN.9781003434443, pp.221-236 [2023]

4. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, Kamal Nayan Choubey, "Introduction" , Indian Politics and Political Processes: Ideas, Institutions and Practices , Rouledge, London ISBN.9781003434443, pp.1-32 [2023]

5. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Bharatiya Janata Party: Electoral Dominance or Ideological Hegemony?" , Indian Politics and Political Processes: Ideas, Institutions and Practices , Rouledge, London ISBN.9781003434443, pp.259-274 [2023]

6. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Language Politics in Bihar A Case Study of Maithili Language and the Movement" , People Linguistic Survey of India The Languages of Bihar, Volume - VI, Part - II, ed., Vibha S Chauhan , Orient Blackswan ISBN.9789354422041, [2022]

7. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Bharat Dharma Mahamandal" , Hinduism and Tribal Religions, Encyclopedia of Indian Religions , Springer ISBN.9789402411874, pp.228-232 [2022]

8. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Theosophical Society" , Hinduism and Tribal Religions, Encyclopedia of Indian Religions , Springer ISBN.9789402411874, pp.1624-1628 [2022]

9. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Hindu Mahasabha" , Hinduism and Tribal Religions, Encyclopedia of Indian Religions , Springer ISBN.9789402411874, pp.610-613 [2022]

10. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Prarthana Samaj" , Hinduism and Tribal Religions, Encyclopedia of Indian Religions , Springer ISBN.9789402411874, pp.1165-1168 [2022]

11. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "The Nation and Its Margins: Rethinking Community eds. by Aditi Chandra and Vinita Chandra" , Historical Narratives and the Imaginary of Community Identity: Mithila in Some Key Historical Texts , Cambridge Scholar Publishers ISBN.9781527540187, pp.33-46-46, [2019]

12. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Daya Krishna" , Modern South Asian Thinkers , Sage Publications ISBN.9789352806775, pp.99-103 [2018]

13. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Bimal Krishna Matilal" , Modern South Asian Thinkers , Sage Publications ISBN.9789352806775, pp.72-76 [2018]

14. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, "Bihar Mei Bhashai Rajaniti: Maithili Bhasha Aur Andolan" , Bharatiya Bhasha Loka Sarvekshan: Bihar Kee Bhashayen, Volume - 6, Part - 1 , Orient Blackswan ISBN.978-93-86689-04-7, [2017]

Books

1. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, Kamal Nayan Choubey (Eds.), Indian Politics and Political Processes: Ideas, Institutions and Practices, Rouledge, London, ISBN.9781003434443/9781032768779 [2023],

2. Mithilesh Kumar Jha, Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India: Making of the Maithili Movement, Oxford University Press, ISBN.9780199479344 [2018],

1

Introduction to Western Political Thought
Funding Agency : NPTEL
Principal Investigator: Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 0000-00-00 to 0000-00-00
Status: Ongoing
2

Social and Political Imaginaries in the Vernacular: Notions of Desha and Samaj in Early Twentieth Century Mithila (1905-1940)
Funding Agency : IITG
Principal Investigator: Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-05-2016 to 01-06-2018
Status: Completed
3

Introduction to Modern Indian Political Thought
Funding Agency : NPTEL
Principal Investigator: Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 0000-00-00 to 0000-00-00
Status: Completed
4

Introduction to Political Theory
Funding Agency : NPTEL
Principal Investigator: Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 0000-00-00 to 0000-00-00
Status: Completed
5

Political Parties and Party System in India
Funding Agency : IITK/MHRD GOI DTH Channel - 16
Principal Investigator: Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 0000-00-00 to 0000-00-00
Status: Completed
6

Prime Minister Awaas Yojana (PMAY) in Assam: A Study of its Reach and Impact
Funding Agency : Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi
Principal Investigator: Dr B Sengupta
Co-investigator: Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Duration/Starting Year: 2024-10-08 to 2024-03-31
Status: Completed
Sl.No Name Thesis Title PhD Status
1 Shubhalikha Boruah Language, Politics and the Making of Modern Assamese Identity Completed
2 Tulika Kumar Social Capital, Place Attachment and Flood Risk Perception: A Study of Kosi River Basin in Bihar Completed
3 Sumit Kumar Sarma Encountering State: A Study of State-Society Interface in the Tea-Garden Community of the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam Completed
4 Hemant Dogra Ideas, Institutions and Constitutional Asymmetry in India: A Case Study of Jammu and Kashmir APR1
5 Yogesh Mishra
6 Varsha Upadhyay The Imagination of State and Constitution from Indo-Gangetic Plains: A Gendered Intellectual History 1920-1970 SOAS
7 Ritika Khatri Electoral Behaviour of Farmers: A Case Study of Punjab and Haryana APR4
8 Prarthana Dutta Law, State, and Mothering: Maternity Benefits in India APR4
Sl.No Name Year Dissertation Title
1 Satyam prakash 2024 SAAT NISCHAY YOJANA: YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND CLEAN DRINKING WATER, SANITATION
2 Sandeep Ramavath 2024 MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN GUWAHATI, ASSAM
3 Rohit kumar 2024 JEEVIKA SCHEMES AND ITS IMPACT ON WOMEN SOCIO ECONOMIC CONDITION AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: A STUDY OF PATNA DISTRICT
4 Alok Das 2024 RECENT DELIMITATION EXERCISED BY THE ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIAN IN THE STATE OF ASSAM,2022-2023
5 K Vnkata Krishna Shourie 2023 Freebies' Discourse in India and its Fiscal implications - A Study in the Contect of Andhra Pradesh
6 Nandu P R 2023 JUDICIAL CAPACITY, CONSTRAINTS AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE : A STUDY ON THE FUNCTIONING OF LOWER JUDICIARY IN KERALA
7 Eswary Gopan 2023 Fixing Accountability at the Local Level Governance: A Study of Social Auditing in Telangana and Kerala in the Context of MGNREGA
8 Swaraj Manohar 2022 Changing Nature of Electoral Campaigns in Local Elections in Bihar: A Historical Study
9 ANKIT PAL 2020 Voter Education and Electoral Participation: A Case Study of SVEEP Programme
10 Vaishnav Mishra 2020 Electoral Campaign of the BJP and the INC in General Election 2014 and 2019: A Study in Varanasi Constituency
11 Dedchung narzy 2019 Rise of BJP in Assam: A case study of BJP-AGP-BPF Alliance
12 Sajal 2019 Land and Politics of Development : A Case study of santhal Pargana division(Jharkhand)
13 Siddharth Kumar 2018 General Election 2014:A Study of ?Fake? News and ?Paid? News Syndrome in India
14 Supriya Bawlari 2018 Local Self Government and political empowerment of women: A case study of tribal (Sonowal- Kachari) women in Tinsukia and Dibrugarh district in Assam

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Awards and Achievements

Award Title : Member, Global Roster of Experts, International Science Council (ISC)
Awarded By : International Science Council聽(ISC)
2024-10-01 International
Award Title : Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) August 2012 - July 2013
Awarded By : UGC, MHRD
2012-08-01 National
Award Title : Charles Wallace Scholarship, 2012
Awarded By : CWIT
2012-04-15 International
Award Title : ICSSR Scholarship for Data Collection Abroad, 2012
2012-04-15 National
Award Title : Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) Oct 2009 - July 2012
Awarded By : UGC, MHRD
2009-12-27 National
Award Title : University Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi October 07, 2009 - July 23, 2013
Awarded By : University of Delhi
2009-10-07 探花视频

Patents

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Attended

Title: Politics in the Indian Intellectual Tradition: Chandesvara鈥檚 Rajneeti-Ratnakara

Name of Conference: The 12th Creative Theory Colloquium 2025

Association for Creative Theory and Foundation for Creative Social Research in collaboration with Raza Foundation, Shanti Sahyog, International Herbert Marcuse Society, and India International Centre, New Delhi, India Sep 5, 2025 - Sep 7, 2025 International
Title: Parties, Manifestos, and Climate Change Discourse in India

Name of Conference: 28th World Congress of Political Science

International Political Science Association (IPSA) in collaboration with the Korean Political Science Association (KPSA), Coex Convention & Exhibition Center, Seoul, South Korea Jul 12, 2025 - Jul 16, 2025 International
Title: Democratic Politics, Nationalism, and Vernacular Spheres in North India

Name of Conference: 26th World Congress of Political Science

International Political Science Association, Virtual Jul 10, 2021 - Jul 15, 2021 International
Title: Mahatma Gandhi and the Idea of Swaraj

Name of Conference: Mapping the Global Legacy of the Mahatma: Reflections on Politics, Religion, and Culture

Department of Political Science, ZHDC, University of Delhi, Delhi Jan 20, 2024 - Jan 20, 2025 International
Title: Language Politics, Public Sphere and Making of Democratic India

Name of Conference: The Idea of India: Intellectual Traditions in Indian Studies

UGC-HRDC, Panjab University Chandigarh, Chandigarh Mar 18, 2018 - Mar 19, 2019 National
Title: Print and Public Sphere in North India

Name of Conference: Book History in North East India

Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University, Tezpur Feb 11, 2019 - Feb 12, 2019 National
Title: Indic Traditions of Political Thought in Medieval India: Some Methodological Challenges

Name of Conference: Ways of Seeing: Critical Questions on Indian Political Thought

Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, Delhi Mar 8, 2016 - Mar 8, 2016 National
Title: Colonial Discourse on History and Representation of the Self: Mithila in Some Key Historical Texts (

Name of Conference: Eighth Conference on East-West Intercultural Relations, Reconsidering Cultural Ideologies and Identi

University of California Merced and Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi Mar 17, 2016 - Mar 18, 2016 International
Title: British Rule and the Classifications of Indian Languages: Debates over Classical vs Vernacular and O

Name of Conference: 22nd Himalayan Language Symposium

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Centre for Linguistic Science and Technology, IIT G, Guwahati Jun 8, 2016 - Jun 10, 2016 International
Title: Language, Religion, Caste and Conceptions of 芒鈧淒esha芒鈧劉 (Nation): Re-examining the politics of Hind

Name of Conference: The 19th International Conference on Conceptual History on Key Concepts in Times of Crisis

Aarhus University, Aarhus , Denmark Sep 14, 2016 - Sep 16, 2016 International
Title: Daya Krishna

Name of Conference: Reimagining South Asia: An Exploration into the History of Ideas

Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi Jul 20, 2018 - Jul 20, 2018 National
Title: Bimal Kumar Matilal

Name of Conference: Reimagining South Asia: An Exploration into the History of Ideas

Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Delhi Jul 20, 2018 - Jul 20, 2018 National

Invited

Title: Redrawing the Domestic Paradigm: Family Bonding, Gender Concerns & Health Issues amidst Covid-19

Name of Conference: 2 Days International Webinar

Post Graduate Govt. College, Sec-11, Chandigarh Jul 16, 2020 - Jul 17, 2020 International

Invited

Title: Language, Indian Knowledge Traditions, and the NEP 2020

Name of Invited Lecture: RUSA 2.0/PM-USHA Assam Sponsored Teachers鈥� Training Programme on Mentoring Cutting Edge Research in the Light of NEP 2020

UGC鈥揗MTTC, Gauhati University in collaboration with Kumar Bhaskar Varma Sanskrit and Ancient Studies University, Nalbari, Nalbari, Assam Oct 22, 2025 - Oct 23, 2025 National
Title: Hind Swaraj and Gandhian Ideal of Swaraj

Name of Invited Lecture:

Department of Political Science, Handique Girls College, Guwahati, Assam Oct 19, 2001 - Oct 19, 2001 National
Title: Fighting Covid19: Role of the State and Community

Name of Invited Lecture:

Department of Political Science, Bodoland University, Assam May 23, 2020 - May 23, 2020 National
Title: Political Thought and Ideology

Name of Invited Lecture:

Faculty of Law, Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat Apr 18, 2020 - Apr 18, 2020 National
Title: Maithili Movement: Historical Roots and Contemporary Challenges

Name of Invited Lecture: Madhubani Literature Festival

Madhubani Literature Festival, Rajnagar, Madhubani Dec 19, 2018 - Dec 21, 2018 National
Title: Language, Print and Public Sphere

Name of Invited Lecture:

Perspective, Indian 探花视频 of Information Technology Guwahati, Guwahati Feb 22, 2019 - Feb 22, 2019 National
Title: Ambedkar芒鈧劉s Approach to Politics and Annihilation of Caste

Name of Invited Lecture:

Intuition Study Circle, TISS Guwahati, Guwahati Dec 5, 2017 - Dec 5, 2017 National
Title: Politics: What is it and why do we need it?

Name of Invited Lecture: Discussion

Litsoc & Debsoc IIT Guwahati, New SAC, Conference Room, IIT Guwahati Aug 18, 2018 - Aug 18, 2018 National
Title: Language Politics in India and the Hindi Heartland: Making of the Maithili Movement

Name of Invited Lecture: Mapping Knowledge and Practice in Contemporary India

Centre for Political Studies, JNU, Delhi Sep 18, 2011 - Sep 18, 2011 National
Title: Qualitative research: critical perspectives

Name of Invited Lecture: Two-Week Workshop on Capacity Building Programme for Faculty Members in Social Sciences

探花视频, Guwahati Mar 18, 2012 - Mar 18, 2012 National
Title: Qualitative research: positivism and interpretive approaches

Name of Invited Lecture: Two-Week Workshop on Capacity Building Programme for Faculty Members in Social Sciences

探花视频, Guwahati Mar 18, 2022 - Mar 18, 2022 National
Title: Hermeneutics

Name of Invited Lecture: Research Method Course/SPSS/Capacity Building for PhD Scholars in Social Science

探花视频, Guwahati Mar 22, 2016 - Mar 22, 2016 National

Attended

Title: 芒鈧淢eet the Author芒鈧劉

Name of Others: Book Discussion

Rickshaw: A Students芒鈧劉 Collective, Oxford University Press and South Asian University, Delhi Sep 10, 2018 - Sep 10, 2018 National
Title: Making of the Maithili Movement

Name of Others: Book Discussion

CSDS & OUP Delhi, Delhi Mar 28, 2018 - Mar 28, 2018 National
Title: Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India

Name of Others: Book Discussion

Dept of HSS, IIT Guwahat, Guwahati Mar 16, 2018 - Mar 16, 2018 National
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