• Agency, accommodation and negotiations: The dialectics of non-assimilation for economic relations between Tibetan refugee and Indian hosts 

  Coelho, J.P.; Nilofer, N. (Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers. NYP; 2025; NYP.)

  This paper examined the economic implications of non-assimilation for Tibetan refugees and Indian hosts. Combining Arendt's perspective on the non-assimilation of refugees with Granovetter's thesis on the embeddedness of ...
• A marginalized community's claim to progress and collective identity in colonial Goa: History of Gomantak Maratha Samaj 

  Prabhu, P. (Social Action. 74(2); 2024; 181-194.)

  The Gomantak Maratha Samaj is a community formed in early 20th-century colonial Goa, India. This paper examines the process of empowerment and identity construction within 14 GMS community. The paper is based on a comprehensive ...
• The rise of subaltern gurus in western India: Caste, identity and religion 

  Parobo, P.D. (Indian Economic and Social History Review. 62(1); 2025; 5-31.)

  Portuguese colonialism and the ramifications of state-sponsored Catholicism occupy centre stage in much of the scholarly writing on Goa. This preoccupation has meant that important parallel developments in Hindu society ...
• Tourism and fishing: Exploring the gendered dynamics in Sangodd festival of South Goa 

  Mendes, N.; Somayaji, G. (Journal of People's History and Culture. 10(2); 2024; 36-49.)

  Located on India's west coast, Goa is a well-established tourism destination with beach as its primary product. Prior to tourism, Goa's economy was sustained by primary occupations like agriculture, fishing, and extracting ...
• Reconstructing religious capital in exile: The Tibetan influence on Monastic Education of Buddhists from Ladakh, India 

  Coelho, J.P. (Journal of Asian and African Studies. NYP; 2025; NYP.)

  This paper explores the Tibetan influence in monastic education of Ladakhi Buddhists in India. The reconstructed Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in India post the Tibetan exodus in 1959 serve as training grounds for thousands ...
• Where Have All the Songs and Rituals Gone? 

  Fernandes, Mozinha (Hanv Konn?: Re-searching the self. 2019; 97-110.)
• Religion, social capital and exile: Social transformations and the dynamics of Tibetan Buddhist practices in India 

  Coelho, J.P. (Society and Culture in South Asia. 11(1); 2025; 115-134.)

  Ever since the diasporic dispersal of Tibetans due to the annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China in 1959 and their semi-permanent settlement in India, Tibetan Buddhist practices have been undergoing several ...
• The Plural Social Sphere: Insights from Contemporary Indian Society 

  Somayaji, S.; Somayaji, G.; Coelho, J.P. (Routledge India. 2024; 288pp.)

  This book reiterates pluralism as the basic feature of the Indian social sphere. It highlights challenges to the continuity of the plural fabric of India's society and culture. Acknowledging that socio-political concerns ...
• The Indian Social Sphere: Institutions and Social Transformations 

  Somayaji, S.; Somayaji, G.; Coelho, J.P. (Routledge India. 2024; 212pp.)

  This book studies the social formation of India through the lens of religion, state, ethnicity, and governance. It provides a nuanced understanding of the structural as well as the processual aspects of the Indian social ...
• State, Refugees and Fuzzy Borders: Dialectics of Reciprocal Integration among Tibetan Refugees and Indian Hosts in Ladakh (Chapter 20) 

  Coelho, J.P. (Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations, Edi. by Ajaya K. Sahoo. 2024; 262-271.)

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