Dr. Sneha Manger is an academic in the field of International Relations with interests in identity politics, nationalism, postcolonial state formation, minority studies, and questions of culture, citizenship, and belonging in contemporary South Asia. Her work engages with themes of identity negotiation, marginalisation, state-community relations, and the political dimensions of representation, with particular attention to the Indian Nepali community and issues emerging at the intersections of ethnicity, nationhood, and postcoloniality.
She completed her Ph.D. in International Relations from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her doctoral research, A Study of the Indian Nepali Community: Identity and the State, explored questions of identity formation, state structures, and belonging within the Indian context. She holds an M.Phil. from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (CSSS), Kolkata, and completed both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in International Relations from Jadavpur University. She qualified the West Bengal State Eligibility Test (WBSET) in 2025.
Dr. Manger is currently Assistant Professor at St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata. Earlier, she taught at Salesian College, Sonada, where she served in multiple academic and administrative capacities, including Head of Department, Deputy Head of Department, Faculty Coordinator for Model United Nations, and member of institutional bodies such as the Research Cell, Women’s Cell, and NAAC committees. She has also supervised undergraduate research and contributed to academic administration and evaluation.
Her research spans questions of identity assertion, displacement, literary representations, feminism, and contemporary social and political transformations. She has presented papers at national and international academic forums and published work examining Indian Nepali identity and literary discourse. Her academic engagement remains centred on critical inquiry, interdisciplinary perspectives, and socially grounded scholarship.