Yaruipam Muivah
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Labour history
- Global history
- Frontier history
- Everyday forms of resistance
Biography
Yaruipam is a historian of Modern South Asia with particular interest in the history of slavery and forced labour. He completed his BA, MA, and MPhil from University of Delhi. He has a PhD degree in History and Civilisation from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris). His doctoral research looks at the connection between the entry of capital and the establishment of tea plantation in Assam and how this shaped the history of slavery and forced labour in colonial Northeast India.
Prior to joining the University, he worked as a Research Associate in the Archives of Indian Labour in the joint project of the Merian Tagore ICAS, New Delhi. He also served as a Teaching Fellow at Ashoka University.
Publications
Journal articles
- Muivah, Y. (2024). Regulating Slavery: The Bawi Question in Colonial Lushai Hills. Slaveries & Post-Slaveries, 9:2024, https://doi.org/10.4000/11o9w
- Muivah, Y. & Alessandro Stanziani (2019). Forced Labour at the Frontier of Empires: Manipur and the French Congo, 1890 – 1914. Comparativ, 29(3), 41 – 64. https://doi.org/10.26014/j.comp.2019.03.03
Chapter in edited book
- Muivah, Y. (2020). Tax Evasion and Avoidance by the Hill People in the North-East Frontier of India in the Early Colonial Period, c. 1880 – 1913. In Sarah Albiez-Wieck (Ed), Taxing Difference: Empires as Spaces of Ordered Inequality (pp. 135 – 156). Röhrig Universitätsverlag