Monirul Hussain obtained his graduation from Cotton College, Guwahati and MA from AMU, Aligarh. He did his M.Phil and doctoral research at the School of Social Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and the post doctoral research at the University of Oxford. He was recipient of Commonwealth Fellowship in 1999 and South Asia Regional Fellowship (Senior) from the Social Science Research Council (New York) in 2004. He has written extensively on the society and politics in North East India. His book THE ASSAM MOVEMENT: Class, Ideology and Identity (1993) is regarded as an indispensable source for understanding Assam’s colonial and postcolonial society and politics. He co-edited two volumes Religious Minorities in South Asia: Selected Essays on Postcolonial Situation (2001). His latest edited volume is entitled Coming Out of Violence: Essays on Ethnicity, Conflict Resolution and Peace Process in North East India (2005). His book Interrogating Development:State, Displacement and Popular Resistance in North East India is being published by SAGE Publications (2007).

Prof. Hussain has been a Visiting Fellow at the Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. At present he is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Gauhati University. Currently he is engaged in a research project on human security in South Asia.

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