Manjeet Baruah
Biographic Data
| ID | 1252491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manjeet Baruah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manjeet |
| FAMILY NAME | Baruah |
| SIGNATURE | BARUAH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-1201-1876 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Peasant Ballads of an Imperial Frontier
Writing from the gap
Writing the Imperial Experience of Hunting
Hunting encompasses a range of sensory experiences such as sight, smell and taste (game as food). On the tea frontier of British Assam, such a sensory world of hunting was closely connected to the ideas and practices of empire, as well as to the production of the global commodity of tea. In this regard, A.R. Ramsden’s memoir, Assam Planter: Tea Planting and Hunting in Assam (1945), provides a rich illustration of sensory experiences in the making…
Frontier Cultures
The study of Assamese literature has so far been in terms of the history of the Assamese language. This book is a history of the narratives written in Assamese language and its relation to the process of region formation. The literature dealt with ranges from pre-colonial chronicles, ballads and drama to modern genres of fiction and critical writing in Assamese language. Taking the Brahmaputra valley and Assamese literature as case studies, the a…
Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia
At the frontier of imperial history
Edward Gait’s A History of Assam was first published in 1906, later revised in 1926. The book has remained one of the most popular ‘textbooks’ in Assam, especially as the first modern historiography on the subject. This article looks at two broad issues in this regard. First, it looks at the contradictions that Gait was faced with in terms of his imperial ideology and interpreting the historical sources of an imperial frontier. Second, it tries t…
Joy L.K. Pachuau, Being Mizo
There are few works on Northeast India which position themselves in historical anthropology. Joy L. K. Pachuau’s recent book Being Mizo: Identity and Belonging in Northeast India is a welcome contr
People of the margins
Additional informationNotes on contributorsManjeet BaruahManjeet Baruah is an assistant professor, North East India Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests include cultural history, borderland studies and northeast India studies.Author’s postal address: Room 413, 4th Floor, North East India Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences – Building I, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110068, India
The Nellie massacre of 1983
Additional informationNotes on contributorsManjeet BaruahManjeet Baruah is Assistant Professor, North East India Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Specialised in cultural history, his areas of interest include frontier society and cultural movement, biographies and literary history. Among his recent works is Frontier Cultures: A Social History of Assamese Literature (Routledge, 2012).Author’s postal address: North East In…
Space and community between the local and the global
The objective of this article is to situate the relation between the local and the global in the context of a specific region formation, namely the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam in India as a frontier. The article takes up two examples on the relation between space and community construct and how the relation forms part of the deeper relation between the local and the global in the Valley. The Brahmaputra Valley comprises the major area of the Indi…
Assamese Language, Narrative and the Making of the North East Frontier of India
This paper is divided into two broad sections. The first section deals with the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam (north east India) and its transformation into a frontier in the nineteenth century. The section also deals with how this process was closely linked to the re-interpretation of the region's relationship with Indo-Gangetic culture, and the impact on development of the modern 'Assamese' language. The second section interprets modern Assamese …
Loving My Krishna
At the frontier of imperial history
Edward Gait’s A History of Assam was first published in 1906, later revised in 1926. The book has remained one of the most popular ‘textbooks’ in Assam, especially as the first modern historiography on the subject. This article looks at two broad issues in this regard. First, it looks at the contradictions that Gait was faced with in terms of his imperial ideology and interpreting the historical sources of an imperial frontier. Second, it tries t…
Loving My Krishna
Space and community between the local and the global
The objective of this article is to situate the relation between the local and the global in the context of a specific region formation, namely the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam in India as a frontier. The article takes up two examples on the relation between space and community construct and how the relation forms part of the deeper relation between the local and the global in the Valley. The Brahmaputra Valley comprises the major area of the Indi…
Assamese Language, Narrative and the Making of the North East Frontier of India
This paper is divided into two broad sections. The first section deals with the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam (north east India) and its transformation into a frontier in the nineteenth century. The section also deals with how this process was closely linked to the re-interpretation of the region's relationship with Indo-Gangetic culture, and the impact on development of the modern 'Assamese' language. The second section interprets modern Assamese …
The Nellie massacre of 1983
Additional informationNotes on contributorsManjeet BaruahManjeet Baruah is Assistant Professor, North East India Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Specialised in cultural history, his areas of interest include frontier society and cultural movement, biographies and literary history. Among his recent works is Frontier Cultures: A Social History of Assamese Literature (Routledge, 2012).Author’s postal address: North East In…
People of the margins
Additional informationNotes on contributorsManjeet BaruahManjeet Baruah is an assistant professor, North East India Studies Programme, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research interests include cultural history, borderland studies and northeast India studies.Author’s postal address: Room 413, 4th Floor, North East India Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences – Building I, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110068, India
Joy L.K. Pachuau, Being Mizo
There are few works on Northeast India which position themselves in historical anthropology. Joy L. K. Pachuau’s recent book Being Mizo: Identity and Belonging in Northeast India is a welcome contr
At the frontier of imperial history
Edward Gait’s A History of Assam was first published in 1906, later revised in 1926. The book has remained one of the most popular ‘textbooks’ in Assam, especially as the first modern historiography on the subject. This article looks at two broad issues in this regard. First, it looks at the contradictions that Gait was faced with in terms of his imperial ideology and interpreting the historical sources of an imperial frontier. Second, it tries t…
Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia
Frontier Cultures
The study of Assamese literature has so far been in terms of the history of the Assamese language. This book is a history of the narratives written in Assamese language and its relation to the process of region formation. The literature dealt with ranges from pre-colonial chronicles, ballads and drama to modern genres of fiction and critical writing in Assamese language. Taking the Brahmaputra valley and Assamese literature as case studies, the a…
Writing the Imperial Experience of Hunting
Hunting encompasses a range of sensory experiences such as sight, smell and taste (game as food). On the tea frontier of British Assam, such a sensory world of hunting was closely connected to the ideas and practices of empire, as well as to the production of the global commodity of tea. In this regard, A.R. Ramsden’s memoir, Assam Planter: Tea Planting and Hunting in Assam (1945), provides a rich illustration of sensory experiences in the making…
Writing from the gap
Peasant Ballads of an Imperial Frontier
Archaeology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (7 works) · Frontier (6 works) · History (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)