Awadhesh C. Sinha

Awadhesh Coomar Sinha, an anthropologist and soci?ologist by training, started his teaching and research career at Gujarat Vidyapeeth, Ahmedabad, from where he moved on to the IIT Kanpur, and then to IIT Delhi, before finally joining North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, where he taught sociology for about three decades, and was Dean of the School of Social Sciences. He had been a visiting professor in various Indian and foreign universities, and is one of the pioneers in the field of Eastern Himalayan research. He is also the author of several research articles. Among his highly acclaimed books on the region include Nepalese in Globalized Era (216), Dawn of Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Kingdoms (219) and Federation of the Himalayan Kingdoms and a Greater Nepal (223).