Sanjib Baruah
Indian political scientist (born 1951)
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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
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
Books
- 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
- Baruah, Sanjib (1 November 2003). "Nationalizing Space: Cosmetic Federalism and the Politics of Development in Northeast India". Development and Change. 34 (5). Estados Unidos : Institute of Social Studies: 915–939. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7660.2003.00334.x. OCLC 926308153.
Interviews and commentaries
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
- 2021 ICAS Book Prize, Most Accessible and Captivating Work for the Non-Specialist Reader Accolade, from the International Convention of Asia Scholars[31]