Sanjib Baruah
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanjib Baruah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanjib |
| FAMILY NAME | Baruah |
| SIGNATURE | BARUAH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Uantitative approach to the ethnomedicinal study of the ethnic communities of Rangia subdivision, Assam, North East India
Background: In developing nations, using plants and plant resources for various ethnobotanical purposes is a prevalent practice. Assam is part of the Indo-Myanmar biodiversity hot spot, one of the 25 mega-diverse regions on planet Earth. Assam is unparalleled, as nature has been uniquely generous in endowing it with varied ethnic groups. This study conducted an ethnobotanical survey of plant diversity at Rangia subdivision of Kamrup District, Ass…
The politics of hope
This article is part of a Book Forum review of Sanjib Baruah’s book In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast (2020). The Book Forum consists of individual commentaries on this text by five interested scholars, followed by a response by the author. The article may be read individually or alongside the other contributions to the Forum, which together constitute a comprehensive discussion of the themes and arguments in the book
Diversity and Ethnobotany of genus Garcinia L. (Clusiaceae) in Assam, Eastern Himalaya
The genus Garcinia is an important component of the flora of Assam and is well known for being used traditionally in many different ways. To preserve this knowledge, this study recorded the ethnobotanical importance of the genus Garcinia in this region. The study revealed that there are 12 species and one variety of the genus indigenous to Assam.Methods: This study was conducted in different parts of Assam, Northeast India based on extensive fiel…
In the Name of the Nation
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…
Ending India's Naga Conflict
For quite some time now, there has been an effort to settle India's Naga conflict. Instead of ordering the developments in the conventional teleological narrative of a peace process, this article looks at certain facts on the ground created by the two-decades-old cease-fire and the negotiations that have gone on for almost as long. Dismantling these transitional structures will not be easy. This existing regime of “shared sovereignty”—to use a ke…
Burden of History
"Burden of History: Assam and the Partition—Unresolved Issues." History: Reviews of New Books, 47(1), p. 16
Separatist Militants and Contentious Politics in Assam, India
Insurgency-related violence continues in the northeast Indian state of Assam. Even though the fortunes of the United Liberation Front of Assam have declined significantly, a political settlement remains elusive. Unresolved tensions between regional patriotism and pan-Indianism explain the insurgent organization's resilience and the continuing appeal of its political ideology
The Partition's long shadow
Citizenship practices in the Indian state of Assam have a serious fault line. The government appears uninterested in policing borders and enforcing the citizen/alien distinction. This has drawn the ire of even the Indian Supreme Court. Certain ambiguities about citizenship in post-Partition India explain these practices. Pragmatic politicians have adapted to the reality of a post-Partition space that does not conform to the idealized notion of a …
Nationalizing Space
Until recently Arunachal Pradesh on India's Northeast frontier was relatively insulated from the processes associated with development. State institutions were barely present during the colonial era. In 1962, however, India and China fought a border war in this area: this war, along with signs of unrest among indigenous peoples in the neighbourhood, exposed India's vulnerabilities in the region. Since then, nationalizing this frontier space by ex…
Confronting Constructionism
One of the world's oldest continuing armed conflicts is also one of the least known: the conflict between the government of India and the Nagas. Since 1997, there has been a ceasefire between the Indian government and Naga militants, and there have been intermittent talks to end the conflict. Naga leaders appear to be willing to make concessions on their main demand of independence. But the peace process has stumbled on an unexpected hurdle: the …
Clash of resource use regimes in Colonial Assam
In the nineteenth-century the British colonial government in Assam tried to change the land titles of Assamese peasants from annual leases to decennial leases. But Assamese peasants mostly abandoned their claim to their land after a single harvest. The peasants' behaviour gives a clue to the impact of the colonial land settlement project whose major effect was to eliminate the access of shifting cultivators and hunter-gatherers of the Brahmaputra…
The State and Separatist Militancy in Assam
Research Article| October 01 1994 The State and Separatist Militancy in Assam: Winning a Battle and Losing the War? Sanjib Baruah Sanjib Baruah Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1994) 34 (10): 863–877. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644966 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permission…
Ethnic' Conflict as Stat-Society Struggle
This paper is an attempt to understand one case of 'ethnic' conflict in India-Assam. By looking closely at this one case I hope we will understand better the phenomenon of India's persistent dilemma of micro-nationalist politics that from time to time seems to be fundamentally at odds with India's macro-nationalist project. To be sure, despite the seriousness of some of these conflicts-say Punjab and Kashmir at present, or Assam until recently-th…
The End of the Road in Land Reform? Limits to Redistribution in West Bengal
The hypothesis that failures of land reform programmes are due to the political power of dominant classes is problematic where land is scarce, ownership not highly concentrated and politics not especially exclusionary. Since the late 1960s, land reform in West Bengal has been initiated by radical rural political mobilization-with significant participation by the agrarian underclass. The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-the largest radical party…
Defending a Discredited Vision
Research Article| May 01 1989 Defending a Discredited Vision: The CPM and the Soviet Reforms Sanjib Baruah Sanjib Baruah Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (1): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-9-1-1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools …
Turmoil on the left
It is probably not easy for a foreign reader to understand many of our difficulties. It is only natural. Each people and each country have a life of their own, their own laws, their own hopes and misconceptions, and their own ideals. Such diversity is wonderful; it needs to be developed rather than stifled. I, for one, am sick of the attempts of some politicians to teach others how to live and what policy to conduct.—Mikhail Gorbachev.’1 The repo…
Protest in Democratic India
The concept of Westview Special Studies is a response to the continuing crisis in academic and informational publishing. Library budgets are being diverted from the purchase of books and used for data banks, computers, micromedia, and other methods of information retrieval. Interlibrary loan structures further reduce the edition sizes required to satisfy the needs of the scholarly community. Economic pressures on university presses and the few pr…
Immigration, Ethnic Conflict, and Political Turmoil--Assam, 1979-1985
The Assam accord signed on August 15 1985 between Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and leaders of the movement that demanded the expulsion of illegal aliens marked the end of 6 years of ethnic conflict and political instability in Indias state of Assam. This article analyzes this period of political turmoil in which ethnic conflict was a central theme. Movement leaders demanded that the goverment identify disenfranchise and deport those illegal aliens…
Confronting Constructionism
One of the world's oldest continuing armed conflicts is also one of the least known: the conflict between the government of India and the Nagas. Since 1997, there has been a ceasefire between the Indian government and Naga militants, and there have been intermittent talks to end the conflict. Naga leaders appear to be willing to make concessions on their main demand of independence. But the peace process has stumbled on an unexpected hurdle: the …
The Partition's long shadow
Citizenship practices in the Indian state of Assam have a serious fault line. The government appears uninterested in policing borders and enforcing the citizen/alien distinction. This has drawn the ire of even the Indian Supreme Court. Certain ambiguities about citizenship in post-Partition India explain these practices. Pragmatic politicians have adapted to the reality of a post-Partition space that does not conform to the idealized notion of a …
Nationalizing Space
Until recently Arunachal Pradesh on India's Northeast frontier was relatively insulated from the processes associated with development. State institutions were barely present during the colonial era. In 1962, however, India and China fought a border war in this area: this war, along with signs of unrest among indigenous peoples in the neighbourhood, exposed India's vulnerabilities in the region. Since then, nationalizing this frontier space by ex…
Clash of resource use regimes in Colonial Assam
In the nineteenth-century the British colonial government in Assam tried to change the land titles of Assamese peasants from annual leases to decennial leases. But Assamese peasants mostly abandoned their claim to their land after a single harvest. The peasants' behaviour gives a clue to the impact of the colonial land settlement project whose major effect was to eliminate the access of shifting cultivators and hunter-gatherers of the Brahmaputra…
Ethnic' Conflict as Stat-Society Struggle
This paper is an attempt to understand one case of 'ethnic' conflict in India-Assam. By looking closely at this one case I hope we will understand better the phenomenon of India's persistent dilemma of micro-nationalist politics that from time to time seems to be fundamentally at odds with India's macro-nationalist project. To be sure, despite the seriousness of some of these conflicts-say Punjab and Kashmir at present, or Assam until recently-th…
Immigration, Ethnic Conflict, and Political Turmoil--Assam, 1979-1985
The Assam accord signed on August 15 1985 between Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and leaders of the movement that demanded the expulsion of illegal aliens marked the end of 6 years of ethnic conflict and political instability in Indias state of Assam. This article analyzes this period of political turmoil in which ethnic conflict was a central theme. Movement leaders demanded that the goverment identify disenfranchise and deport those illegal aliens…
Separatist Militants and Contentious Politics in Assam, India
Insurgency-related violence continues in the northeast Indian state of Assam. Even though the fortunes of the United Liberation Front of Assam have declined significantly, a political settlement remains elusive. Unresolved tensions between regional patriotism and pan-Indianism explain the insurgent organization's resilience and the continuing appeal of its political ideology
The State and Separatist Militancy in Assam
Research Article| October 01 1994 The State and Separatist Militancy in Assam: Winning a Battle and Losing the War? Sanjib Baruah Sanjib Baruah Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1994) 34 (10): 863–877. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644966 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permission…
Protest in Democratic India
The concept of Westview Special Studies is a response to the continuing crisis in academic and informational publishing. Library budgets are being diverted from the purchase of books and used for data banks, computers, micromedia, and other methods of information retrieval. Interlibrary loan structures further reduce the edition sizes required to satisfy the needs of the scholarly community. Economic pressures on university presses and the few pr…
Ending India's Naga Conflict
For quite some time now, there has been an effort to settle India's Naga conflict. Instead of ordering the developments in the conventional teleological narrative of a peace process, this article looks at certain facts on the ground created by the two-decades-old cease-fire and the negotiations that have gone on for almost as long. Dismantling these transitional structures will not be easy. This existing regime of “shared sovereignty”—to use a ke…
The End of the Road in Land Reform? Limits to Redistribution in West Bengal
The hypothesis that failures of land reform programmes are due to the political power of dominant classes is problematic where land is scarce, ownership not highly concentrated and politics not especially exclusionary. Since the late 1960s, land reform in West Bengal has been initiated by radical rural political mobilization-with significant participation by the agrarian underclass. The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-the largest radical party…
Protest in Democratic India
The concept of Westview Special Studies is a response to the continuing crisis in academic and informational publishing. Library budgets are being diverted from the purchase of books and used for data banks, computers, micromedia, and other methods of information retrieval. Interlibrary loan structures further reduce the edition sizes required to satisfy the needs of the scholarly community. Economic pressures on university presses and the few pr…
Immigration, Ethnic Conflict, and Political Turmoil--Assam, 1979-1985
The Assam accord signed on August 15 1985 between Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and leaders of the movement that demanded the expulsion of illegal aliens marked the end of 6 years of ethnic conflict and political instability in Indias state of Assam. This article analyzes this period of political turmoil in which ethnic conflict was a central theme. Movement leaders demanded that the goverment identify disenfranchise and deport those illegal aliens…
Defending a Discredited Vision
Research Article| May 01 1989 Defending a Discredited Vision: The CPM and the Soviet Reforms Sanjib Baruah Sanjib Baruah Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (1): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-9-1-1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools …
Turmoil on the left
It is probably not easy for a foreign reader to understand many of our difficulties. It is only natural. Each people and each country have a life of their own, their own laws, their own hopes and misconceptions, and their own ideals. Such diversity is wonderful; it needs to be developed rather than stifled. I, for one, am sick of the attempts of some politicians to teach others how to live and what policy to conduct.—Mikhail Gorbachev.’1 The repo…
The End of the Road in Land Reform? Limits to Redistribution in West Bengal
The hypothesis that failures of land reform programmes are due to the political power of dominant classes is problematic where land is scarce, ownership not highly concentrated and politics not especially exclusionary. Since the late 1960s, land reform in West Bengal has been initiated by radical rural political mobilization-with significant participation by the agrarian underclass. The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-the largest radical party…
The State and Separatist Militancy in Assam
Research Article| October 01 1994 The State and Separatist Militancy in Assam: Winning a Battle and Losing the War? Sanjib Baruah Sanjib Baruah Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1994) 34 (10): 863–877. https://doi.org/10.2307/2644966 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permission…
Ethnic' Conflict as Stat-Society Struggle
This paper is an attempt to understand one case of 'ethnic' conflict in India-Assam. By looking closely at this one case I hope we will understand better the phenomenon of India's persistent dilemma of micro-nationalist politics that from time to time seems to be fundamentally at odds with India's macro-nationalist project. To be sure, despite the seriousness of some of these conflicts-say Punjab and Kashmir at present, or Assam until recently-th…
Clash of resource use regimes in Colonial Assam
In the nineteenth-century the British colonial government in Assam tried to change the land titles of Assamese peasants from annual leases to decennial leases. But Assamese peasants mostly abandoned their claim to their land after a single harvest. The peasants' behaviour gives a clue to the impact of the colonial land settlement project whose major effect was to eliminate the access of shifting cultivators and hunter-gatherers of the Brahmaputra…
Nationalizing Space
Until recently Arunachal Pradesh on India's Northeast frontier was relatively insulated from the processes associated with development. State institutions were barely present during the colonial era. In 1962, however, India and China fought a border war in this area: this war, along with signs of unrest among indigenous peoples in the neighbourhood, exposed India's vulnerabilities in the region. Since then, nationalizing this frontier space by ex…
Confronting Constructionism
One of the world's oldest continuing armed conflicts is also one of the least known: the conflict between the government of India and the Nagas. Since 1997, there has been a ceasefire between the Indian government and Naga militants, and there have been intermittent talks to end the conflict. Naga leaders appear to be willing to make concessions on their main demand of independence. But the peace process has stumbled on an unexpected hurdle: the …
Separatist Militants and Contentious Politics in Assam, India
Insurgency-related violence continues in the northeast Indian state of Assam. Even though the fortunes of the United Liberation Front of Assam have declined significantly, a political settlement remains elusive. Unresolved tensions between regional patriotism and pan-Indianism explain the insurgent organization's resilience and the continuing appeal of its political ideology
The Partition's long shadow
Citizenship practices in the Indian state of Assam have a serious fault line. The government appears uninterested in policing borders and enforcing the citizen/alien distinction. This has drawn the ire of even the Indian Supreme Court. Certain ambiguities about citizenship in post-Partition India explain these practices. Pragmatic politicians have adapted to the reality of a post-Partition space that does not conform to the idealized notion of a …
Burden of History
"Burden of History: Assam and the Partition—Unresolved Issues." History: Reviews of New Books, 47(1), p. 16
In the Name of the Nation
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…
Ending India's Naga Conflict
For quite some time now, there has been an effort to settle India's Naga conflict. Instead of ordering the developments in the conventional teleological narrative of a peace process, this article looks at certain facts on the ground created by the two-decades-old cease-fire and the negotiations that have gone on for almost as long. Dismantling these transitional structures will not be easy. This existing regime of “shared sovereignty”—to use a ke…
Diversity and Ethnobotany of genus Garcinia L. (Clusiaceae) in Assam, Eastern Himalaya
The genus Garcinia is an important component of the flora of Assam and is well known for being used traditionally in many different ways. To preserve this knowledge, this study recorded the ethnobotanical importance of the genus Garcinia in this region. The study revealed that there are 12 species and one variety of the genus indigenous to Assam.Methods: This study was conducted in different parts of Assam, Northeast India based on extensive fiel…
The politics of hope
This article is part of a Book Forum review of Sanjib Baruah’s book In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast (2020). The Book Forum consists of individual commentaries on this text by five interested scholars, followed by a response by the author. The article may be read individually or alongside the other contributions to the Forum, which together constitute a comprehensive discussion of the themes and arguments in the book
Uantitative approach to the ethnomedicinal study of the ethnic communities of Rangia subdivision, Assam, North East India
Background: In developing nations, using plants and plant resources for various ethnobotanical purposes is a prevalent practice. Assam is part of the Indo-Myanmar biodiversity hot spot, one of the 25 mega-diverse regions on planet Earth. Assam is unparalleled, as nature has been uniquely generous in endowing it with varied ethnic groups. This study conducted an ethnobotanical survey of plant diversity at Rangia subdivision of Kamrup District, Ass…
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