MIZINKSA DAIMARI (PhD)

Development Studies

Curriculum Vitae

Current Address: Noida, 201313
Email: mizinksa@gmail.com / mizinksa@aud.ac.in / mdaimari@amity.edu

EMPLOYMENT

Sept. 2024 onwards: Assistant Professor, Development Studies, Amity University Noida
Oct. 2023 to Aug. 2024: Guest Faculty, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi
June. 2023 to Feb. 2024: Research Associate, Jamia Millia Islamia University Delhi
April. 2023 to Feb. 2024: Application Advisor, INTO University Partnerships
Dec. 2022 to Jan. 2023: Research Associate, Jamia Millia Islamia University Delhi
Nov. 2021 to Dec. 2022: Consultant, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
April–July, 2011 & Aug. –Dec. 2013: Assistant Teacher, Diamond English School, Harisinga

EDUCATION

July, 2021: Doctor of Philosophy in Development Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Thesis Title: Land and Credit Market in a Bodo Village of Assam, Thesis Submission: 07/11/2020, Ph.D. Viva: 21/05/ 2021, Degree Awarded: 16/07/2021
June, 2013: Master of Arts in Development Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Dissertation title: Alternative Knowledge Systems: Culture as Development of the Bodo Community
July, 2011: Bachelor of Arts (English Literature), North Eastern Hill University

RESEARCH

Publications

Daimari, M. and R. Bedamatta. (2021). “The State of Bodo Peasantry in Modern-Day Assam: Evidence from Majrabari Village in the Bodoland Territorial Area Districts”. Indian Journal of Labour Economics. ISSN: 0019-5308 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41027-021-00328-8

Project Report

Co-authored an International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center funded project report titled “Determining Constraints in Bihar’s Wheat Seed Value-Chain: Strengthening Women and Underserved Groups’ Access to Improved Seeds”.

Work in progress

Daimari, M. and R. Bedamatta. (Paper communicated). “Threads of Change: Dahwna Ruathi and Saori in the Evolving Labour Landscape of a Bodo Village in Assam”. Ecnomic and Political Weekly.
Daimari, M. and R. Bedamatta. (Blind Paper review comments received & addressed). “Continuity And Hybridity In Changing Labour Forms: Prevailing Casualization And Saori As Labour Forms And Demise Of Dahwna-Ruathi System In A Bodo Village Of Assam”. Journal of North East India Studies – JNEIS.
Daimari, M., Bedamatta, R. (Working Paper). “Credit Practices in a Bodo village of Assam: A Case Study in BTAD”.
Daimari, Mizinksa. (Working Paper). “Regimes of Dispossession: Sixth Schedule and the Emerging Trend of Land Grabs in India‘s northeast: A Note”.
Daimari, M., Bedamatta, R. (Working Paper). “Proletarianization and Agrarian Distress in a Bodo Village. (Working Paper)”

CONFERENCE

Paper presented:

Mizinksa Daimari & Rajshree Bedamatta (2023). “Continuity And Hybridity In Changing Labour Forms: Prevailing Casualization And Saori As Labour Forms And Demise Of Dahwna-Ruathi System In A Bodo Village Of Assam”, The 63rd Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics held at Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, March 1-3, 2023.
Mizinksa Daimari & Rajshree Bedamatta (2022). “Transformation in Labour forms—attached labour to wage labour and the persistence of Saori—a form of compulsory labour exchange in a Bodo Village of Assam”, The 62nd Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics held at IIT Roorkee, April 10-13, 2022.
Mizinksa Daimari (2021). “Sixth Schedule and the Emerging Trend of Primitive Accumulation in India’s northeast: A Note”, The 5th India Land and Development Conference (ILDC) 2021 organized by Center for Land Governance; virtual conference, November 21-25, 2021.
Mizinksa Daimari & Rajshree Bedamatta (2019). “Land Market in a Bodo Village in Assam”, The 61st Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics held in Patiala, December 7-9, 2019.
Mizinksa Daimari & Rajshree Bedamatta (2017). “Understanding the nature of tenancy and tenurial rights in a tribal village”, Doctoral Scholars’ Meet Jointly Organised By OKDISCD, Guwahati & Department of History, Dibrugarh University, December 8-9, 2017.

Paper selected for presentation:

Mizinksa Daimari & Rajshree Bedamatta (2023). “Interlinked Land, Labour and Credit Relationships in a Bodo Village of Assam”, 7th India Land and Development Conference—Land - People Relations: Diversity and Transitions at FLAME University, Pune, Maharashtra, November 1-3, 2023.
Mizinksa Daimari & Rajshree Bedamatta (2022). “Continuity and hybridity in changing labour forms: Prevailing casualization and saori as labour forms and demise of dahwna-ruathi system in a Bodo village of Assam”, 12th Annual Conference in Political Economy sponsored by International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE), in collaboration with CiMET (Italy’s National University Centre for Applied Economic Studies) and University of Bologna, September 7-9, 2022.

Workshop attended:

Workshop on Writing Policy Briefs org. by Azim Premji University, December 14-15, 2024.
Impact Evaluation of Development Programmes, org. by Indian Institute for Human Development and Campbell South Asia, October 22-24, 2024.
Qualitative Methods in Labour Research (For Research Scholars and Young University Teachers in Social Sciences), V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida, March 11-15, 2024.
Young Scholars’ Workshop on "Contemporary Issues in Rural India" organised by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies at Chennai, March 1-2, 2019.
Young Researchers’ Workshop organised by Indian Sociological Society at Tezpur University, December 26-27, 2016.
ICSSR-sponsored Ten-Day Research Methodology Programme for Ph.D. Students in Social Sciences (RM 2016) organised by IIT Guwahati, March 14-23, 2016.

INVITED LECTURE

Mizinksa Daimari (2025). “Agrarian Change and the Northeast”, Invited Lecture at the Central Institute Of Himalayan Culture Studies, Dahung, West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, 20th March, 2025.

SEMINAR PRESENTATION

Mizinksa Daimari (2021). “Agrarian Relations in a Bodo Village in Assam” 8/03/2021: The Economic Analysis Unit (EAU), Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore, 8th March, 2021.

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

“Augmenting Today’s Educators for Digital Natives”, being conducted under the UGC Mandate Gurudakshta – Faculty Induction Programme, June 30th-July 5th, 2025 organized by Amity University, Uttar Pradesh.
"Trends, Transformative Learning and Applied Research in the Field of Social Science and Humanities", June 2-9, 2025, organized by Amity University, Uttar Pradesh.

MEMBERSHIP & CERTIFICATIONS

Life Membership for Faculty (LMF): Sociological Association of North Eastern India, Membership No. LMF-57
December 2013: University Grants Commission of India’s National Eligibility Test (NET) and Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), Human Rights and Duties
July 2013: University Grants Commission of India’s National Eligibility Test (NET) and Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), Folk Literature
December 2012: University Grants Commission of India’s National Eligibility Test (NET), Human Rights and Duties

ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Member of the Editorial Team (role as a rapporteur of proceedings): 61st Annual ISLE Conference: A Report {published by The Indian Journal of Labour Economics (2020) 63:525–559 https://doi.org/10.1007/s41027-020-00230-9}
Member of the 58th Indian Society of Labour Economics Annual Conference Organizing Committee, 2016, (Cultural Committee); Organised and Managed the Cultural Event of above 300 guests and 80+ artistes (November 24-26, 2016)

REFERENCE

Languages Known: English, Bodo, Assamese, Hindi.

I have been a student member of Indian Society of Labour Economics. (2019)

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