Joy L. Pachuau is an author and professor based in New Delhi, India and is currently a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Center for Historical Studies. Her research interests include Portuguese settlement on the West Coast of India in the 16th and 17th centuries, Christianity in India, and the social history of Mizoram. She received the Fulbright Nehru Academic Excellence Fellowship at University of Yale and was awarded the “Sneh Mahajan Prize for Best Book in Modern Indian History for 2012-14” in 2015 by the Indian History Congress for her publication “Being Mizo: Identity and Belonging in Northeast India”. Ms. Pachuau holds bachelor’s degree from Fergusson College in Pune, a D.Phil. in social and cultural anthropology from Oxford University and an MA and Ph.D. in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Additionally, she holds the title of Honorary Research Fellow, at the University of Liverpool.