Bikash Sarma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3432813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bikash Sarma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bikash |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarma |
| SIGNATURE | SARMA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4624-6482 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Subjects of Coercion and Persuasion: Patient-Bodies and Kala Azar Preventive Operations in British Assam, 1897–1930
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as the British empire was consolidating itself in the resource-rich North-east frontier of colonial India, it had to grapple with the kala azar epidemics, a disease dreaded for its fatal and contagious character. The complete aetiology of kala azar: its distinction from malaria, the causative organisms and mode of transmission remained a mystery in colonial medicine until the 1940s, and a viable anti…
A tropical ‘monster: Formation and transgression of racial and ethnic categories at the Brahmaputra waterscape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Medicalizing the Body and the Locale: Kala Azar and Disease Thinking in Assam, 1824–1900
The article examines two seemingly unconnected occurrences at the nineteenth-century north east frontier of British India. The first is the production of a pathological space via moral, social, and cultural codes enacted by medical topographies on the region since the first Anglo-Burmese war (1824–1826) and the subsequent rise of disease thinking. The second is the ambivalence in disease thinking that is brought to fore through the mysterious mal…
Tropicality’ and wildness: Experiential travel writing and ‘making up’ of land and people in nineteenth century Assam
The paper attempts to understand the genealogy of certain ‘spatial’ and conceptual dichotomies and categories pertaining to India’s North East. Representation of the geography, climate and simultaneously the dwellers of this space since middle of nineteenth century still reverberates in contemporary knowledge production about the region. These discursive practices for more than two and a half century had been (re)organizing and inscribing space, …
Space and Territoriality: Borderscapes and Borderlanders of the Chars
Territorial modernity signifies the transformation of the space of fluidity into territories or geometric grids of permanence. Border in International Relations with its constructed disciplinary gaze performs the role of a spatial unit and a decidable between a set of mutually reinforcing dualisms. In mainstream IR theory encrusted within the Western hegemonic discourse, transformations that exemplify the process of territorialization supplements…
Tropicality’ and wildness: Experiential travel writing and ‘making up’ of land and people in nineteenth century Assam
The paper attempts to understand the genealogy of certain ‘spatial’ and conceptual dichotomies and categories pertaining to India’s North East. Representation of the geography, climate and simultaneously the dwellers of this space since middle of nineteenth century still reverberates in contemporary knowledge production about the region. These discursive practices for more than two and a half century had been (re)organizing and inscribing space, …
Space and Territoriality: Borderscapes and Borderlanders of the Chars
Territorial modernity signifies the transformation of the space of fluidity into territories or geometric grids of permanence. Border in International Relations with its constructed disciplinary gaze performs the role of a spatial unit and a decidable between a set of mutually reinforcing dualisms. In mainstream IR theory encrusted within the Western hegemonic discourse, transformations that exemplify the process of territorialization supplements…
Medicalizing the Body and the Locale: Kala Azar and Disease Thinking in Assam, 1824–1900
The article examines two seemingly unconnected occurrences at the nineteenth-century north east frontier of British India. The first is the production of a pathological space via moral, social, and cultural codes enacted by medical topographies on the region since the first Anglo-Burmese war (1824–1826) and the subsequent rise of disease thinking. The second is the ambivalence in disease thinking that is brought to fore through the mysterious mal…
Space and Territoriality: Borderscapes and Borderlanders of the Chars
Territorial modernity signifies the transformation of the space of fluidity into territories or geometric grids of permanence. Border in International Relations with its constructed disciplinary gaze performs the role of a spatial unit and a decidable between a set of mutually reinforcing dualisms. In mainstream IR theory encrusted within the Western hegemonic discourse, transformations that exemplify the process of territorialization supplements…
Tropicality’ and wildness: Experiential travel writing and ‘making up’ of land and people in nineteenth century Assam
The paper attempts to understand the genealogy of certain ‘spatial’ and conceptual dichotomies and categories pertaining to India’s North East. Representation of the geography, climate and simultaneously the dwellers of this space since middle of nineteenth century still reverberates in contemporary knowledge production about the region. These discursive practices for more than two and a half century had been (re)organizing and inscribing space, …
Medicalizing the Body and the Locale: Kala Azar and Disease Thinking in Assam, 1824–1900
The article examines two seemingly unconnected occurrences at the nineteenth-century north east frontier of British India. The first is the production of a pathological space via moral, social, and cultural codes enacted by medical topographies on the region since the first Anglo-Burmese war (1824–1826) and the subsequent rise of disease thinking. The second is the ambivalence in disease thinking that is brought to fore through the mysterious mal…
A tropical ‘monster: Formation and transgression of racial and ethnic categories at the Brahmaputra waterscape in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Subjects of Coercion and Persuasion: Patient-Bodies and Kala Azar Preventive Operations in British Assam, 1897–1930
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as the British empire was consolidating itself in the resource-rich North-east frontier of colonial India, it had to grapple with the kala azar epidemics, a disease dreaded for its fatal and contagious character. The complete aetiology of kala azar: its distinction from malaria, the causative organisms and mode of transmission remained a mystery in colonial medicine until the 1940s, and a viable anti…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Ambivalence (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (1 works)