- Visiting Fellow, Cambridge University, 2017-18
- New India Foundation Fellowship, 2017-18.
- Member, Scientific Steering Committee, IHOPE [ihopenet.org]
- Associate Editor, Conservation and Society
- Visiting Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, July, 2015.
- Srikant Dutta Award, NMML, New Delhi, 2015 for A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics of Assam since 1900 (Routledge, 2014)
- Suryya Kumar Bhuyan Endowment Chair, HSS Department, IITG (2014-2019).
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Agrarian Studies Programme, Yale University, 2011-2012.
- Visiting Fellow, Department of History, University of Calcutta, December, 2008.
- Visiting Fellow, Centre for Inter-disciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, ISEC, Bangalore, India (2007-2008).
- Charles Wallace India Visiting Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, 2006.
- Charles Wallace Research Grant for Ph.D programme, UK, 2000.
- Research Fellowship, Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development (ICSSR) 1997-98.