New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- Growing up near the frontier in Kashmir, the author and sociologist Suheel Rasool Mir says his surroundings were his first teacher.
"Though I live in a town close to the borderline, the distinct culture and lifestyle of the tribal communities and their life circumstances shaped my writing instincts and worldview," he reflected, highlighting how geography and lived realities influenced his academic direction.
Over the past 12 years, Dr. Mir has immersed himself in ethnographic fieldwork across the tribal belts of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, carving a niche at the intersection of tribes, borderlands and the sociology of ethnicity.
His body of work includes significant ethnographic contributions such as Voices Across...