Prof. Tana Showren teaches Historical Methods, Oral Traditions and Ancient Societies. He specialises in Oral Traditions, Indigenous Religion, & Knowledge Systems in the Department of History, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Arunachal Pradesh, India. He has made innumerable contributions in the fields of academic, social, political, corporate life and overall institutional development and served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Head of the Department of History, the Registrar(Acting) and Executive Council & Academic Council Members of several Universities. His publications include The Problems of Internally Displaced Persons & Refugees in North East India (2005), The Nyishi of Arunachal Pradesh: Brief Ethnographic Outline (2007), The Nyishi of Arunachal Pradesh: An Ethnohistorical Study (2009), Nyetam of the Aanv Donyi (2012) and Belief, Memory and Institutions: The Culture Construction of Oral Traditions(2022) and numbers of research articles and essays. His research interests and activities have recently focused on regional history, documentation of tangible and intangible material traditions, ethnohistorical studies and oral traditions of pre-literate societies. In the context of the emergence of indigenous institutions, ideology and cultural consciousness amongst the native communities, he has published several national and international articles. His recent studies also focus on comprehending the contemporary techniques and methods of constructing oral traditions and offer a critique of earlier colonial ethnographers’ constructions of institutions and applications of rationality to the social and economic matrix of the regional history of First Nation people through oral traditions in transdisciplinary approaches. He was awarded the prestigious Baden-Wurttemberg Fellowship at the South Asia Institute (SAI) of Heidelberg University, Germany 2014. He is one of the pioneering founder members of the Nyedar Namlo (Indigenous Religious Institution), the Nyishi Nyidung Mwngjwng Rallung, and the Indigenous Faith & Cultural Society of Arunachal Pradesh (IFCSAP). He travelled across the globe for academic pursuit and excellence and is the standing nominated Member of the North East Regional Institute of Education(NERIE), a Constituent Unit of the National Council of Educational Research & Training(NCERT), and served as Member of National Council of Teacher Education(NER-NCTE); & the Member of the Indian Council of Historical Research(ICHR), the Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters), New Delhi, Member, the Arunachal Pradesh Indigenous Affairs Council(APIAC) and Honorary Chairperson, the Council for Nyishi Language Research and Training, the Indigenous Tribal Research & Studies Centre (ITRSC), Rono (Doimukh) and the President, Nyishi Elite Society, Arunachal Pradesh, India. He is among the leading think-thank intellectuals on the indigenous tribal faith & cultural consciousness practices in pre-literate societies of Arunachal Pradesh. Life Member of the North East India History Association and the South & Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and Religion (SSEEASR), a Regional Constituent of the International Association for the History of Religion(IAHR) under UNESCO and a Member of the National Content Tribal Museum of Unsung Freedom Fighters of India. Website link: www.rgu.ac.in Email address: tana.showren@rgu.ac.in /tanashowren@rediffmail.com