David Vumlallian Zou Explained

David Vumlallian Zou (born 25 January 1977) is a 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.^{[1] [2]}

Education

David V. Zou graduated in English literature (Major) from St. Anthony's College, Shillong,^[3] under North Eastern Hill University. He completed his MA and MPhil from the Centre for Historical Studies,^[4] Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He completed his MPhil 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^[5] where he worked under M. Satish Kumar ^[6] and David N. Livingstone^[7] on print culture and identity formation in colonial north-east India.^[8]

Career and research

Zou joined the faculty of History Department in 2009, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi,^[9] 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,.^[10] and Board of Research Studies (BRS) Social Sciences at Delhi University since February 2011.

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.

Publications

• Book: Zou, David Vumlallian . Blending Nation And Region: Essays in Honour of Late Professor Amalendu Guha . Primus Books . 2018a . Nag . Sajal . New Delhi . 325–343 . Embracing new gods: The process of religious change in northeast India . none . Alam . Ishrat.
• Book: Zou, David Vumlallian . Modern Practices in North East India . Routledge . 2018b . Dzuvichu . Lipokmar . 119–143 . none . Baruah . Manjeet.
• Zou . David Vumlallian . 2016a . Environment, Social Identity and Individual Freedom in the Current Historiography of Northeast India . Studies in History . 32 . 1 . 117–129 . 10.1177/0257643015616020 . 0257-6430 . 156744406 . none.
• Zou . David Vumlallian . 2016b . Raiding the dreaded past . Contributions to Indian Sociology . 39 . 1 . 75–105 . 10.1177/006996670503900103 . 0069-9667 . 143561560 . none.
• Book: Zou, David Vumlallian . Citizens First: Studies on Adivasis, Tribals, and Indigenous Peoples in India . Oxford University Press . 2016c . Radhakrishna . Meena . Oxford . Peoples, Power, and Belief in North-east India . none.
• Zou . David Vumlallian . Kumar . M. Satish . 2011 . Mapping a Colonial Borderland: Objectifying the Geo-Body of India's Northeast . The Journal of Asian Studies . 70 . 1 . 141–170 . 10.1017/S0021911810002986 . 0021-9118 . 162598035 . none . free.
• Zou . David Vumlallian . 3 April 2010 . A Historical Study of the 'Zo' Struggle . . 45 . 14 . 56–63 . none. ^[11]
• Zou . David Vumlallian . 1 December 2009 . The Pasts of a Fringe Community: Ethno-history and Fluid Identity of the Zou in Manipur . Indian Historical Review . 36 . 2 . 209–235 . 10.1177/037698360903600202 . 145785464 . none.
• Zou . David Vumlallian . 2003 . Colonial Discourse and Evangelical Imagining . Religion and Society . 48 . 2 . 57–93 . none.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Home - University of Delhi. www.du.ac.in. 29 November 2017.
2. Web site: Faculty Details proforma for DU Web-site. https://web.archive.org/web/20110928122330/http://www.du.ac.in/fileadmin/DU/faculty/PDF/Dr_David_V_Zou.pdf. dead. 28 September 2011. 28 September 2011. 29 November 2017.
3. Web site: St. Anthony's College. Anthonys.ac.in. 29 November 2017.
4. Web site: Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University . www.jnu.ac.in . 14 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20030210020244/http://www.jnu.ac.in/main.asp?sendval=SchoolOfSocialSciences . 10 February 2003 . dead.
5. Web site: School of Natural and Built Environment - Queen's University Belfast. Qub.ac.uk. 29 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20110808034649/http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/. 8 August 2011. dead.
6. Web site: School of Natural and Built Environment - Queen's University Belfast. Qub.ac.uk. 29 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20101204043018/http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/DrMSatishKumar/. 4 December 2010. dead.
7. Web site: School of Natural and Built Environment - Queen's University Belfast. Qub.ac.uk. 29 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20110305041414/http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/ProfessorDavidLivingstone/. 5 March 2011. dead.
8. PhD. Queen's University Belfast. The interaction of print culture, identity and language in Northeast India. Vumlallian David. Zou. 2008. . Ethos.bl.uk.
9. Web site: Archived copy . 13 May 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160407154853/http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache%3AavMTLvthROoJ%3Aweb1.du.ac.in%2Fdu%2Fminutes%2FEC-_V_%2520October%25206%2C%25202009.pdf+david+vumlallian+zou+%2B+delhi+University&hl=en&gl=in&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjAmR3I_sNhnXw5YPyKH-2BHR4TG8B61gDVEDgX98Ut9GxhC20k9-DE4ECnBlgMvCQrtY5WJ319rQ6HKnLL-mx75HlEjtT4pFRxdJjCT7ROD_nWaOMWhC9fnmC7jXWPdwlJS4bV&sig=AHIEtbQT2Q0rmWeNlZITsZjeqzZASMlQow . 7 April 2016 . dead . dmy-all .
10. http://inventory.du.ac.in/index.php?id=270&fmember=2221&cid=437
11. Web site: EPW . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111006175903/http://epw.in/epw/user/result.jsp . 6 October 2011 . 29 June 2011.