Gohain
Biographic Data
| ID | 38260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gohain |
| FAMILY NAME | Gohain |
| SIGNATURE | GOHAIN |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ashoka University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3155-1046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Monastic Visibility
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
Disentangling Multispecies Landscapes in Arunachal Pradesh
This article considers the dilemma between advocating for a religion-based environmentalism in the Himalayas and recognising that the different cultural traditions in the region make a uniform religious environmentalism difficult to uphold. Conservationists often attempt to mobilise local communities for environmental protection by building on their religious and cultural beliefs. Yet, such forms of mobilisation tend to homogenise plural traditio…
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…
Black-necked crane as border object
Legacies of imperial frontier-making, ongoing border conflicts between nuclear armed nations, changing livelihoods, and the impact of anthropogenic climate change have created complicated claims on Himalayan borderland areas in the name of conservation, security, ethnic identity and development. Combining historical research with ethnography, this article traces the role of the Black-necked crane (grus nigricollis) in the formation of mid-ninetee…
The Buddhist epistemic complex
Redrawing boundaries of belonging among Indian Himalayan Buddhists
As the world speculates about a post-Dalai Lama scenario, what is the response among India’s borderland Buddhists? In this paper, I show that there is a growing need among Tibetan Buddhist people of the Indian Himalayan borderlands to forge a cultural unity that is Buddhist but removed from Tibet. With the decline of Tibet as a spiritual and cultural centre for Tibetan Buddhism, Himalayan Buddhist communities of India are strategically cohering a…
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…
Selective access
What makes a place remote? Is remoteness a factor of geography and topography, is it a construct of connectivity, or is it an outcome of politics and history? For the Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh in North East India, inhabiting the Indo‐Tibetan borderlands, remote denotes multiple aspects: lack of material infrastructure and transport, improper communication and geographical isolation. Living an enclave existence far away from centres of commerce,…
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…
Black-necked crane as border object
Legacies of imperial frontier-making, ongoing border conflicts between nuclear armed nations, changing livelihoods, and the impact of anthropogenic climate change have created complicated claims on Himalayan borderland areas in the name of conservation, security, ethnic identity and development. Combining historical research with ethnography, this article traces the role of the Black-necked crane (grus nigricollis) in the formation of mid-ninetee…
Moving borders in South Asia
The Buddhist epistemic complex
Redrawing boundaries of belonging among Indian Himalayan Buddhists
As the world speculates about a post-Dalai Lama scenario, what is the response among India’s borderland Buddhists? In this paper, I show that there is a growing need among Tibetan Buddhist people of the Indian Himalayan borderlands to forge a cultural unity that is Buddhist but removed from Tibet. With the decline of Tibet as a spiritual and cultural centre for Tibetan Buddhism, Himalayan Buddhist communities of India are strategically cohering a…
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…
Selective access
What makes a place remote? Is remoteness a factor of geography and topography, is it a construct of connectivity, or is it an outcome of politics and history? For the Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh in North East India, inhabiting the Indo‐Tibetan borderlands, remote denotes multiple aspects: lack of material infrastructure and transport, improper communication and geographical isolation. Living an enclave existence far away from centres of commerce,…
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…
Pandemic of Inequality and the State
Redrawing boundaries of belonging among Indian Himalayan Buddhists
As the world speculates about a post-Dalai Lama scenario, what is the response among India’s borderland Buddhists? In this paper, I show that there is a growing need among Tibetan Buddhist people of the Indian Himalayan borderlands to forge a cultural unity that is Buddhist but removed from Tibet. With the decline of Tibet as a spiritual and cultural centre for Tibetan Buddhism, Himalayan Buddhist communities of India are strategically cohering a…
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…
Black-necked crane as border object
Legacies of imperial frontier-making, ongoing border conflicts between nuclear armed nations, changing livelihoods, and the impact of anthropogenic climate change have created complicated claims on Himalayan borderland areas in the name of conservation, security, ethnic identity and development. Combining historical research with ethnography, this article traces the role of the Black-necked crane (grus nigricollis) in the formation of mid-ninetee…
The Buddhist epistemic complex
Monastic Visibility
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
Disentangling Multispecies Landscapes in Arunachal Pradesh
This article considers the dilemma between advocating for a religion-based environmentalism in the Himalayas and recognising that the different cultural traditions in the region make a uniform religious environmentalism difficult to uphold. Conservationists often attempt to mobilise local communities for environmental protection by building on their religious and cultural beliefs. Yet, such forms of mobilisation tend to homogenise plural traditio…
Geography (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (6 works) · Buddhism (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works)