Tanka B Subba

Tanka Bahadur Subba is the present and second vice chancellor of Sikkim University in India Earlier, he was Head of Anthropology Department and Dean of School of Human and Environmental Sciences, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. He was a gold medallist in MA in 1980 and his PhD, awarded in 1985 by University of North Bengal, was on "Caste, Class and Agrarian Relations in the Nepali Society of Darjeeling and Sikkim". Since then he has been researching on various aspects of the eastern Himalayas like ethnicity and development, cultural adaptation, politics of culture and identity, health and disease, and Nepali diaspora. Professor Subba has held prestigious academic positions throughout his career and has received awards like the Homi Bhabha Fellowship (Mumbai), Dr. Panchanan Mitra Lectureship (Asiatic Society, Kolkata) and DAAD Guest professorship at the Free University of Berlin and Baden-Wuerttemberg Fellowship at the South Asian Institute of Heidelberg University.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Museum of Mankind in Bhopal, India. He has authored and edited about a dozen books and over 60 articles on various issues related to the eastern Himalayas. He is the editor of an internationally refereed biannual journal called The NEHU Journal for the past nine years and is a member of the editorial advisory boards of several international journals like Contributions to Indian Sociology (Delhi) and Asian Anthropology (Chinese University of Hong Kong).