Reep Pandi Lepcha
lecturer & researcher
Dr. Reep Pandi Lepcha teaches at the Department of English, Nar Bahadur Bhandari Government College, Sikkim. She was awarded the SYLFF doctoral fellowship at the Department of English, Jadavpur University, India 2014. In the past, Reep was engaged in carrying out archival work at Kern Institute (Leiden University), and the University of Tartu, Estonia in 2016. In August 2017, the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu offered her the Dora Plus Fellowship. In 2021 she bagged the Northeast India Audio-Visual Fellowship which involved collecting audio-visual archival materials from the state of Sikkim. Reep’s doctoral dissertation focuses on the narratives of the Mutanchis/ Lepchas who are indigenous to Sikkim, India. Reep belongs to the Mutanchi community and has focused on adapting a self – reflexive approach to her research.
Lepcha, Reep Pandi. 2022. “Unearthing the Narratives of the Róngkups of Sikkim: From Vernacular Alternatives to Institutionalised Beliefs.” In Ü. Valk, and M. Bowman (Eds.), Vernacular Knowledge. Contesting Authority, Expressing Beliefs, 140–162. Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishling.
Lepcha, Reep. Pandi. 2021. “Dabbling with Kaleidoscopic Narratives. A Pre-requisite for Comprehending the ‘Forgotten’ History of the Róngkups/Lepchas.” In C.K. Lepcha, and U. Lal (eds.), Communities, Institutions and Histories of India’s Northeast, 113–131. London: Routledge.
Lepcha, Reep Pandi. 2016. “Transversing Mediums of Environmental Discourse. Pursuance of Panacea” In V. Dhanaraju (Ed.) Regional Environmental History. Issues and Concepts in the Indian Subcontinent, 177–193. Delhi: Aakar Books.
Lepcha, Reep Pandi. 2016. Debacles in Research Theories and Methodology: Tackling the Unforeseen, Personal, and Impersonal. Fellows. JUSA Newsletter 18 (May): 6.
Lepcha, Reep Pandi. 2016. Questioning Existing Discourses: The Lepcha Quotient. JTICI 3 (2,1) (January): 1–13.
Lepcha, Reep Pandi. 2015. ‘Assessing “positive discrimination”: Evaluating the indigenous Lepchas demand for Special Status’ in Identities and their Struggles of North East: Tribal and Adivasi studies, Perspectives from Within, Vol. 2. Kolkata: Adivaani, 2015. ISBN: 978-93-84465-03-2.
Lepcha, Reep Pandi. 2015. Assessing ‘Positive Discrimination’: Evaluating The Indigenous Lepchas’ Demand For Special Status. JTICI 2 (3,1), February: 1–11.
Lepcha, Reep Pandi. 2020. ‘Listen’ and ‘What I know’ in A Rendezvous of Words, Today and Tomorrow’s Printer, 2020, ISBN 81-7019-675-5.
Co-edited: International Society of Folk Narrative Research newsletter: Indigeneity, Ecology, & Narrative, Feb 2021, Issue no. 8. Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu. ISSN: 2733-2748.