Dr. Prakash Khundrakpam joined the Department of Political Science, as an Assistant Professor on 18th August 2025. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Gauhati University. His doctoral work was funded by the UGC NET-JRF fellowship. He also holds MA and BA (Hons) degrees in Political Science from Indira Gandhi National University, New Delhi (A Central University) and University of Delhi, respectively.
Dr. Khundrakpam’s research interests include political theory, gender, Indian government and politics. and policy analysis. At present, he is working on the areas of epistemic injustice and indigenous political thought. His works have appeared in several reputed international and national journals such as Qualitative Research Journal (Emerald, Q1), Social Change (SAGE, Q3) Social Sciences and Humanities Open (Elsevier, Q1), Women Studies International Forum (Elsevier, Q1), Indian Journal of Public Administration (SAGE Publications) and Indian Journal of Political Science. He has a total of 13 publications, of which 6 are in SCOPUS-indexed journals and 7 in UGC-CARE I listed journals. He is also the recipient of the “Letter of Appreciation” awarded by the Honourable Vice-Chancellor of Gauhati University on 26th January 2025 in recognition of publishing in good quality journals.
Dr. Khundrakpam has been invited as a resource person or speaker at various conferences and programmes at several institutions such as Russian State University for Humanities, Department of Philosophy at Gauhati University and Nagaland University. In addition, he has presented several papers in national and international conferences/seminars.
Dr. Khundrakpam is also a life member of the Indian Political Science Association.
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