Rahul Ranjan is an aspiring writer and currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the “Riverine Rights” project funded by the Research Council of Norway based at the Department of International Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University. His forthcoming book on Birsa Munda, Memory and Politics in India, is due from the Cambridge University Press this fall. He has recently also edited a volume, “At the crossroads of Rights”, published by the Routledge Press.