Sanjib Baruah

Sanjib Baruah
Born1951
Shillong, Assam
Occupation(s)Academic, writer

Sanjib Baruah is an Indian professor of Political Studies at Bard College in New York,[1] and an author and commentator specializing in the politics of Northeast India. His books include India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality, Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India, and In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast.

Early life and career

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Baruah was born in 1951 in Shillong, which was then the capital of Assam.[2][a]

Baruah obtained his Bachelor of Arts from Cotton College, Guwahati, Assam.[3] He went on to complete his Master of Arts from the University of Delhi.[3] He has said the experience of New Delhi and its intellectual and political life had a profound impact on him.[4]

From 1985 to 1987 Sanjib Baruah worked as an Associate of Committee on Southern Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, the institution that awarded him his PhD.[3] He said at interview that his research into the Northeast India topic only really began some time after he had completed his PhD.[5]

Baruah has been serving as a professor at Bard College in New York state. Since 1989 Sanjib Baruah was a research associate at South Asia Center at Syracuse University.[3]

Baruah also holds a concurrent position as Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway.[6]

Selected works

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Books

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  • India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1999. ISBN 9780812234916.[7][8][9][10][11]
  • Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012 [2005]. OCLC 1120638444.[12][13][14][15][16][17]
  • Postfrontier blues: toward a new policy framework for Northeast India. Policy studies. East-West Center Washington. 2007. ISBN 9781932728606.
  • Beyond Counterinsurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India. New York; New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2009 [2009]. ISBN 9780198078975. OCLC 775416874.[18][19]
  • Ethnonationalism in India: A Reader. Critical issues in Indian politics. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2012. OCLC 930806555.[20]
  • In the Name of the Nation. Stanford University Press. 2020. ISBN 9781503611290.

Journals

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Interviews and commentaries

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Baruah has been sought for commentaries and interviews over a wide range of publications including: Time Magazine;[21] The New York Times;[22] Times of India;[23] The Statesman (India);[24] TRT World;[25] The Indian Express;[26] Scroll.in;[27][28] The Wire (India);[29] and Al Jazeera English.[30]

Awards and honors

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  • 2021 ICAS Book Prize, Most Accessible and Captivating Work for the Non-Specialist Reader Accolade, from the International Convention of Asia Scholars[31]

Notes

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  1. ^ Shillong was the capital of undivided Assam until 21 January 1972 when it became part of the new state of Meghalaya; the redefined start of Assam forming its capital at Dispur in Guwahati.

References

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  1. ^ "Sanjib Baruah". 7 November 2021. Archived from the original on 27 March 2021. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  2. ^ Baruah & Rebecca 2008, 0m.
  3. ^ a b c d "Sanjib Baruah — Professor of Political Studies". Bard College. Archived from the original on 2017-10-30. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  4. ^ Baruah & Rebecca 2008, 6m.
  5. ^ Baruah & Rebecca 2008, 4m 35s.
  6. ^ Rebecca Schiel, Jonathan Powell (9 September 2020). "IC Conference Session 2". University of Central Florida. Archived from the original on 7 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
  7. ^ Shaikh, Nermeen. "Interview with Sanjib Baruah". Asia Society. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  8. ^ Hauser, Walter (October 29, 1999). "Future Imperfect". The Telegraph. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  9. ^ Hazarika, Sanjoy (September 13, 1999). "Book review: Sanjib Baruah's 'India Against Itself'". India Today. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  10. ^ Chadda, Maya (Summer 2000). "Reviewed Work: India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality by Sanjib Baruah". Political Science Quarterly. 15 (2): 320–322. doi:10.2307/2657927. JSTOR 2657927. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  11. ^ Banerjee, Sikata (September 2000). "Reviewed Works: India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality by Sanjib Baruah; Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism, and Development in Contemporary India by Niraja Gopal Jayal; Development and Democracy in India by Shalendra D. Sharma". The American Political Science Review. 94 (3): 732–734. doi:10.2307/2585874. JSTOR 2585874. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  12. ^ Wright Jr., Theodore P. (18 August 2008). "Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India. By Sanjib Baruah. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005". Perspectives on Politics. 6 (3). American Political Science Association: 616–617. doi:10.1017/S1537592708081577. S2CID 145323279. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  13. ^ Cameron, John (January 1, 2007). "Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah". Development and Change. 38 (3): 576–578. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00423_16.x. - via EBSCOhost
  14. ^ Saikia, Yasmin (August 2006). "Reviewed Work: Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah". The Journal of Asian Studies. 65 (3). Association for Asian Studies: 636–638. doi:10.1017/S0021911806001379. JSTOR 25076105. S2CID 153861644. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  15. ^ Corbridge, Stuart (Winter 2005). "Reviewed Work: Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah". Political Science Quarterly. 120 (4). The Academy of Political Science: 726–727. doi:10.1002/j.1538-165X.2005.tb01456.x. JSTOR 20202639. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  16. ^ Chandra, Sudhir (March 2007). "Understanding the Problem of Northeast India". India Review. 6 (1): 46–56. doi:10.1080/14736480601172683. S2CID 154050009. - via EBSCOhost
  17. ^ Phanjoubam, Pradip. "Review of Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of North-East India, by S. Baruah". Economic and Political Weekly. 40: 941–943. JSTOR 4416301 – via JSTOR.
  18. ^ McDuie-Ra, Duncan (August 2011). "Reviewed Work: Beyond Counter-Insurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah". The Journal of Asian Studies. 70 (3). Association for Asian Studies: 861–863. doi:10.1017/S002191181100132X. JSTOR 41302433. S2CID 162798780. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  19. ^ Sirnate, Vasundhara (September 2009). "Reviewed Work: Beyond Counter-Insurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah". Journal of Peace Research. 46 (5). Sage Publications, Inc.: 719. JSTOR 25654467. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  20. ^ Viplav (April 2010). "Reviewed Work: Ethnonationalism in lndia: A Reader by Sanjib Baruah". The Indian Journal of Political Science. 71 (2). Indian Political Science Association: 689–691. JSTOR 42753729. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  21. ^ Bagri, Neha Thirani (5 September 2021). "India's Anti-Immigrant Crackdown Has Torn Apart Families and Locked Up Hundreds. 1.9 Million People Fear They Could Be Next". Time. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  22. ^ Singh, Karan Deep; Baruah, Bondita (17 October 2021). "Amid Flames and Gunfire, They Were Evicted From Where They Called Home". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  23. ^ Choudhury, Sushmita (6 December 2021). "What is AFSPA and why is it controversial?". Times of India. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  24. ^ Chowdhury, Prasenjit (20 December 2021). "Of outrageous fortune". The Statesman. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  25. ^ Bagchi, Suvojit (11 August 2021). "Unrest in India's northeastern frontier may morph into a big problem". TRT World. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  26. ^ Agarwala, Tora (28 September 2021). "Explained: Assam's conflict over land". The Indian Express. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  27. ^ Saikia, Arunabh (15 March 202). "In Assamese heartland, those who fought BJP's citizenship law are now voting for 'development'". Scroll.in. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  28. ^ Saikia, Arunabh (27 March 2021). "Interview: Sanjib Baruah on Assam elections, identity politics and the 'cash-transfer state'". Scroll.in. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  29. ^ Bose, Tapan Kumar (27 September 2018). "The Economic Basis of Assam's Linguistic Politics and Anti-Immigrant Movements". The Wire. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  30. ^ Ameen, Furquan (25 March 2021). "'Stress on Hindu identity': BJP hate campaign in poll-bound Assam". Al Jazeera English. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  31. ^ "In the Name of the Nation". Stanford University Press. Retrieved 27 January 2022.

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