Raile Rocky Ziipao is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. His published works include Infrastructure of Injustice: State and Politics in Manipur, Northeast India published by Routledge (2020) and Land, Words and Resilient Cultures: The Ontological Basis of Tribal Identity published by the Tribal Intellectual Collective India in 2019, co-edited with S. R. Bodhi.