G. Amarjit SharmaG. Amarjit Sharma is an Assistant Professor at the Special Centre for the Study of North East India (SCSNEI), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, India. He has previously taught political studies at Nambol L. Sanoi College, Bisnupur District, Manipur (2009–2013). He has been associated with a summer institute on Critical Global Humanities at the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI), Brown University, USA (2011). He was associated with the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway, and collaborated on a project titled ‘Making Women Count for Peace’. He has published papers in the journals such as Economic & Political Weekly, The Eastern Anthropologist, The Oriental Anthropologist and Man in India. He has also contributed chapters in edited volumes on critical studies in politics, modernity and ethnic processes, cultural practices, identity politics and other subjects. He is primarily interested in the political economy of development, tribal and ethnic studies and anthropology of state and society.