# David Vumlallian Zou

David Vumlallian Zou (born 25 January 1977) is a historian of modern South Asia with special interest in north-east India. His research interests reflect an interdisciplinary orientation that includes colonial history, book history, gender history, ethno-history, indigenous identities and historical geography.

## Education

David V. Zou graduated in English literature (Major) from St. Anthony's College, Shillong, under North Eastern Hill University. He completed his MA and MPhil from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He completed his MPhil dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Majid H. Siddiqi.
A fully funded PhD scholarship by the Academic Planning Grant (Northern Ireland) enabled him to pursue his PhD at Queen's University Belfast where he worked under M. Satish Kumar and David N. Livingstone on print culture and identity formation in colonial north-east India.

## Career and research

Zou joined the faculty of History Department in 2009, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi, where he teaches a paper on rise of capitalism and approaches to global history along with some aspects of labor history to postgraduate students. He is currently a member of the Departmental Research Committee (DRC) since February 2010,. and Board of Research Studies (BRS) Social Sciences at Delhi University since February 2011.
Zou is currently completing a monograph titled, Print, Identity and Gender in colonial Mizoram, to be published by SAGE Publications as a part of SAGE Studies of India's North East.

### Publications

* Zou, David Vumlallian (2018a). "Embracing new gods: The process of religious change in northeast India". In Nag, Sajal; Alam, Ishrat (eds.). Blending Nation And Region: Essays in Honour of Late Professor Amalendu Guha. New Delhi: Primus Books. pp. 325–343.
* Zou, David Vumlallian (2018b). Dzuvichu, Lipokmar; Baruah, Manjeet (eds.). Modern Practices in North East India. Routledge. pp. 119–143.
* Zou, David Vumlallian (2016a). "Environment, Social Identity and Individual Freedom in the Current Historiography of Northeast India". Studies in History. 32 (1): 117–129. doi:10.1177/0257643015616020. ISSN 0257-6430. S2CID 156744406.
* Zou, David Vumlallian (2016b). "Raiding the dreaded past". Contributions to Indian Sociology. 39 (1): 75–105. doi:10.1177/006996670503900103. ISSN 0069-9667. S2CID 143561560.
* Zou, David Vumlallian (2016c). "Peoples, Power, and Belief in North-east India". In Radhakrishna, Meena (ed.). Citizens First: Studies on Adivasis, Tribals, and Indigenous Peoples in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
* Zou, David Vumlallian; Kumar, M. Satish (2011). "Mapping a Colonial Borderland: Objectifying the Geo-Body of India's Northeast". The Journal of Asian Studies. 70 (1): 141–170. doi:10.1017/S0021911810002986. ISSN 0021-9118. S2CID 162598035.
* Zou, David Vumlallian (3 April 2010). "A Historical Study of the 'Zo' Struggle". Economic and Political Weekly. 45 (14): 56–63.
* Zou, David Vumlallian (1 December 2009). "The Pasts of a Fringe Community: Ethno-history and Fluid Identity of the Zou in Manipur". Indian Historical Review. 36 (2): 209–235. doi:10.1177/037698360903600202. S2CID 145785464.
* Zou, David Vumlallian (2003). "Colonial Discourse and Evangelical Imagining". Religion and Society. 48 (2): 57–93.