Background
Sanjib Baruah was born in 1951 in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Sanjib Baruah's father worked as a provincial government officer, so Sanjib had to move with him very often during his childhood.
Ground floor, College Hostel Road Dutta Baruah Bhawan, Guwahati, Assam 781001, India
Sanjib Baruah studied at Cotton College in Gauhati, India.
Benito Juarez Marg, South Campus, South Moti Bagh, New Delhi, Delhi 110021, India
Then Sanjib Baruah studied at the University of Delhi and he got a master's degree.
5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Sanjib studied at the University of Chicago. As a result, he earned a doctor of philosophy.
(Baruah offers a bold and lucid interpretation of the poli...)
Baruah offers a bold and lucid interpretation of the political and economic history of Assam from the time it became a part of British India and a leading tea-producing region in the nineteenth century. He traces the history of tensions between pan-Indianism and Assamese sub-nationalism since the early days of Indian nationalism. The region's insurgencies, human rights abuses by government security forces and insurgents, ethnic violence, and a steady slide toward illiberal democracy, he argues, are largely due to India's formally federal, but actually centralized governmental structure. Baruah argues that in multiethnic polities, loose federations not only make better democracies, in the era of globalization they make more economic sense as well.
https://www.amazon.com/India-Against-Itself-Nationality-Histories/dp/081223491X/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(These essays on the politics of insurgency-ridden northea...)
These essays on the politics of insurgency-ridden northeast India show how counter-insurgency operations have virtually led to the establishment of a de facto authoritarian military rule.
https://www.amazon.com/Durable-Disorder-Understanding-Politics-Northeast/dp/0195669819/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(A number of armed conflicts smolder in India's Northeaste...)
A number of armed conflicts smolder in India's Northeastern border region. For instance, the Naga rebellion, which began in the 1950s, is one of the world's oldest unresolved armed conflicts. With its controversial human rights record and sluggish economic growth, Northeast India is a counterpoint to India's new image as a mature democracy, dynamic economy, and emerging major power. The World Bank describes conditions in the region as a low-level equilibrium of poverty, nondevelopment, civil conflict, and lack of faith in political leadership. Northeast India's history as a frontier and the inattention of policymakers to contradictions rooted in this context explain the deficits of democracy, development, and peace.
https://www.amazon.com/Postfrontier-Blues-Toward-Framework-Northeast/dp/1932728600/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(In recent years there has been a significant reorientatio...)
In recent years there has been a significant reorientation in India's policy towards its Northeast region. Yet, Indian policy thinking has been insulated from the virtual intellectual revolution in the last decade to study armed civil conflicts and ways to manage, resolve, and transform them. This volume lays emphasis on the term 'rethinking' and offers new ways of understanding the conflicts, and of ways to resolve them. The chapters discuss wide-ranging issues which include the multilayered nature of the conflict in the Northeast, and how democratic politics and the world of armed rebellions intersect in complex ways in this region. An analysis of the Naga war and its nation-building project is discussed. How the Northeast figures in postcolonial India's national imagination, how Assamese society engages with the term 'terrorist', and how state-society conflicts are muted in Mizoram have been argued. The role of ideas in conflict transformation and an alternative vision of development in Mizoram have been argued. The role of ideas in conflict transformation and an alternative vision of development in Arunachal Pradesh have also been discussed.
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Counter-Insurgency-Breaking-Impasse-Northeast/dp/0195698762/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(India's democracy that co-exists with - and is energized ...)
India's democracy that co-exists with - and is energized by - the country's exceptional ethnonational diversity has long been a puzzle to students of comparative politics. This reader, the fourth in the Critical Issues in Indian Politics series, is an anthology of key theoretical essays and analytical writings on ethnonational movements and conflicts that frame major debates. One of the first of its kind, Ethonationalism in India brings together important writings in the study of ethnonationalism in India in its various forms - separatism, secessionism, sub-nationalism, and regionalism. With contributions from eminent scholars in the field, the volume focuses on issues including the virtues and drawbacks of India's 'demos-enabling' federalism, 'consociationalism' in Indian politics, and whether India is an 'ethnic democracy'.
https://www.amazon.com/Ethnonationalism-India-Reader-Critical-Politics/dp/0198060432/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(Liquefaction potential of Tezpur University has been asse...)
Liquefaction potential of Tezpur University has been assessed under hypothetical earthquake events using simplified method. The anticipated earthquake magnitude and its peak ground acceleration are assumed based on geophysical hazard study of the region. Seismic hazard analysis parameters are evaluated in terms of cyclic stress ratio (CSR) and cyclic resistance ratio (CRR). An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 with peak ground accelerations of 0.2g and 0.3g are considered in this analysis. Under the assumed earthquake event, the severity index of the site is found to be low to high as per susceptibility index of liquefaction hazard. Some mitigation measures are also recommended and to be practiced prior to construction.
https://www.amazon.com/Liquefaction-Potential-Assessment-Site-Using/dp/3659357634/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(This book has been especially meant for the students, res...)
This book has been especially meant for the students, researchers and Teachers with a total of 7 chapters with 6 photo plates covering the ethnobotanical wisdom of Bodo tribe of Assam. The book blend information on botanical knowledge prevailing among the Bodo tribe. Special attention has been given to information on medicinal plants, wild edible vegetables, plants used in rituals by Bodo tribe of Assam, India. This book will give a comprehensive knowledge on plant resources used by the tribal people in day to day their life.
https://www.amazon.com/Ethnobotancal-wisdom-among-tribe-district/dp/3330029765/?tag=2022091-20
2017
(In India, the eight states that border Myanmar, Banglades...)
In India, the eight states that border Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Tibetan areas of China are often referred to as just "the Northeast." In the Name of the Nation offers a critical and historical account of the country's troubled relations with this borderland region. Its modern history is shaped by the dynamics of a "frontier" in its multiple references: migration and settlement, resource extraction, and regional geopolitics. Partly as a result of this, the political trajectory of the region has been different from the rest of the country. Ethnic militias and armed groups have flourished for decades, but they coexist comfortably with functioning electoral institutions. The region has some of India's highest voter turnout rates, but special security laws produce significant democracy deficits that are now almost as old as the Republic. That these policies have been enforced to foment national unity while multiple alternative conceptions of the "nation" animate politics in the region forces us to reflect on the very foundations of the nation form. Sanjib Baruah offers a nuanced account of this impossibly complicated story, asking how democracy can be sustained, and deepened, in these conditions.
https://www.amazon.com/Name-Nation-India-Northeast-Motion/dp/1503610705/?tag=2022091-20
2020
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Sanjib Baruah was born in 1951 in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Sanjib Baruah's father worked as a provincial government officer, so Sanjib had to move with him very often during his childhood.
Sanjib Baruah studied at high school in Assam. Then Sanjib studied at Cotton College in Gauhati, India. He got a bachelor's degree. Then Sanjib Baruah studied at the University of Delhi and he got a master's degree. After that, Sanjib studied at the University of Chicago. As a result, he earned a doctor of philosophy.
Sanjib Baruah worked at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Then since 1983, he became a professor of political studies and faculty member at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies. Sanjib also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Syracuse University. From 1985 till 1987 he worked as an associate of Committee on Southern Asian Studies at the University of Chicago. Since 1989 Sanjib Baruah was a research associate at South Asia Center at Syracuse University.
Sanjib Baruah is the author of a number of books and many articles. His books include Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India and India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality.
(Baruah offers a bold and lucid interpretation of the poli...)
1999(These essays on the politics of insurgency-ridden northea...)
2005(This book has been especially meant for the students, res...)
2017(India's democracy that co-exists with - and is energized ...)
2010(In India, the eight states that border Myanmar, Banglades...)
2020(Liquefaction potential of Tezpur University has been asse...)
2012(In recent years there has been a significant reorientatio...)
2009(A number of armed conflicts smolder in India's Northeaste...)
2007According to political scientist Sanjib Baruah, the law “implicitly distinguished” between “Hindu refugees” and “Muslim illegal aliens”. But communal riots had continued on the eastern border in the years after Partition, forcing minorities to flee from India to East Pakistan and vice versa. The Nehru-Liaquat pact, signed in April 1950, allowed such minorities freedom of movement and promised that they would get back their immovable properties provided they returned by December 31, 1950. In India, the fleeing minority had been Muslim.
"The international border between India and Bangladesh is the eastern border of the Partition that divided India and Pakistan in 1947. Communities of eastern Bengali descent - i.e. people from the region that constitutes Bangladesh today - are no strangers to Assam. They form a major element in Assam's population."
Baruah offers a bold and lucid interpretation of the political and economic history of Assam from the time it became a part of British India and a leading tea-producing region in the nineteenth century. He traces the history of tensions between pan-Indianism and Assamese sub-nationalism since the early days of Indian nationalism. The region's insurgencies, human rights abuses by government security forces and insurgents, ethnic violence, and a steady slide toward illiberal democracy, he argues, are largely due to India's formally federal, but actually centralized governmental structure. Baruah argues that in multiethnic polities, loose federations not only make better democracies, in the era of globalization they make more economic sense as well.
Sanjib Baruah was a Fellow of the Social Science Research Council. He is currently a member of the reference group for the PRIO research project "Imagined Sovereignties: Frontiers of Statehood and Globalization", funded by the Research Council of Norway.