Thematic Centre
Centre for Himalayan Studies
Borderlands, ecology, and geopolitics across the Eastern and Western Himalaya, where strategic competition meets questions of indigenous rights and environmental precarity.
Research Focus
The Centre for Himalayan Studies examines the Himalayan region as a zone of strategic, ecological, and civilisational significance.
Borderlands & geopolitics: the contested frontiers of the Eastern Himalaya, regional cooperation, and the strategic affairs of the mountain states.
Rights of Nature & ecology: legal personhood for natural entities, decoloniality, and indigenous epistemologies in fragile mountain ecosystems.
Society & development: the lived entanglements of tradition, modernity, and ecological vulnerability across Himalayan communities.