Swargajyoti Gohain
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Swargajyoti Gohain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Swargajyoti |
| FAMILY NAME | Gohain |
| SIGNATURE | GOHAIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swargajyoti Gohain is affiliated with Emory University, Atlanta, USA.. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
For Whom the Roads Toll
Roads presuppose connection and connectivity. Yet, even as roads create connections, they also bring new disconnections. In this article, I select road narratives from Northeast India, where highway construction has been going on at a furious pace since the early 2000s—roads being seen as the conduits for inter-regional and international connectivity in a region considered the borderlands between South and Southeast Asia. While road narratives ca…
Moving borders in South Asia
Arunachal as Gateway and Arunachal as Frontier
Introduction. The Himalayas from its edges
While the perspectives of sovereign nation-states have tended to dominate how the Tibeto-Himalayan region has been shaped, viewed and lived in the last century, we argue for adoption of multidisciplinary perspectives that focus on flows and interactions rather than the limited frames of state-centred exchanges. Collating empirically grounded studies from different parts of the Himalayas, this special issue highlights the cross-border networks, ne…
Highways and Hierarchies
Pandemic of Inequality and the State
Producing Monyul as Buffer
This article focuses on the Tawang and West Kameng districts of Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India, collectively known as Monyul. It was ruled by Tibet for three centuries before the 1914 McMahon Line boundary included it in India. Even after that, cross-border exchanges between Monyul and Tibet continued until the 1962 Sino-Indian war, following which border passages between the two were closed. Today, Monyul is a marginal region, geographically…
Mobilising language, imagining region
For more than a decade, the Monpas, a Tibetan Buddhist borderland community in west Arunachal Pradesh, have been demanding the status of mother tongue for Tibetan or Bhoti, as it is commonly known in the Indian Himalayas. Bhoti or Tibetan has provided the religious script as well as the language of the religious canon for Tibetan Buddhists in the trans-Himalayas, although the communities living in the Indian Himalayas and in Bhutan and Nepal spea…
Producing Monyul as Buffer
This article focuses on the Tawang and West Kameng districts of Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India, collectively known as Monyul. It was ruled by Tibet for three centuries before the 1914 McMahon Line boundary included it in India. Even after that, cross-border exchanges between Monyul and Tibet continued until the 1962 Sino-Indian war, following which border passages between the two were closed. Today, Monyul is a marginal region, geographically…
Mobilising language, imagining region
For more than a decade, the Monpas, a Tibetan Buddhist borderland community in west Arunachal Pradesh, have been demanding the status of mother tongue for Tibetan or Bhoti, as it is commonly known in the Indian Himalayas. Bhoti or Tibetan has provided the religious script as well as the language of the religious canon for Tibetan Buddhists in the trans-Himalayas, although the communities living in the Indian Himalayas and in Bhutan and Nepal spea…
Moving borders in South Asia
Mobilising language, imagining region
For more than a decade, the Monpas, a Tibetan Buddhist borderland community in west Arunachal Pradesh, have been demanding the status of mother tongue for Tibetan or Bhoti, as it is commonly known in the Indian Himalayas. Bhoti or Tibetan has provided the religious script as well as the language of the religious canon for Tibetan Buddhists in the trans-Himalayas, although the communities living in the Indian Himalayas and in Bhutan and Nepal spea…
Producing Monyul as Buffer
This article focuses on the Tawang and West Kameng districts of Arunachal Pradesh, northeast India, collectively known as Monyul. It was ruled by Tibet for three centuries before the 1914 McMahon Line boundary included it in India. Even after that, cross-border exchanges between Monyul and Tibet continued until the 1962 Sino-Indian war, following which border passages between the two were closed. Today, Monyul is a marginal region, geographically…
Highways and Hierarchies
Pandemic of Inequality and the State
Arunachal as Gateway and Arunachal as Frontier
Introduction. The Himalayas from its edges
While the perspectives of sovereign nation-states have tended to dominate how the Tibeto-Himalayan region has been shaped, viewed and lived in the last century, we argue for adoption of multidisciplinary perspectives that focus on flows and interactions rather than the limited frames of state-centred exchanges. Collating empirically grounded studies from different parts of the Himalayas, this special issue highlights the cross-border networks, ne…
For Whom the Roads Toll
Roads presuppose connection and connectivity. Yet, even as roads create connections, they also bring new disconnections. In this article, I select road narratives from Northeast India, where highway construction has been going on at a furious pace since the early 2000s—roads being seen as the conduits for inter-regional and international connectivity in a region considered the borderlands between South and Southeast Asia. While road narratives ca…
Moving borders in South Asia
Geography (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (6 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works)