D Biswas
Biographic Data
| ID | 58062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Biswas |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Biswas |
| SIGNATURE | BISWAS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bodoland University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5041-8171 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The insider-outsider narrative: Manufacturing political xenophobia in Assam
Environmental Humanities in India
This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ‘EH’, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and approaches of various disciplines - from anthropology, art, communications, cultural studies, philosophy and ecology to history, literature, media, music, performance, politics, soci…
Borderland as a necrospace: Identity, ethno-territoriality and narcotrade in Manipur
The origin of militancy in Manipur can be traced back to the secessionist movement in 1964 due to the nation-state’s failure to address the people’s grievances. This study investigates how the construction and reconstruction of ethnic identities, coupled with economic and geopolitical factors, sustain Militancy in a contested borderland like Manipur. By foregrounding the research questions: how have ethnonational movements, state policies, and il…
Post-Memory and Dispossession: The Expendables of Northeast India in Siddhartha Deb’s The Point of Return
Anglophone literature from Northeast India delineates the experiences of marginalisation and violence that have marred the region for decades. Most of these stories relate to the lives of the “indigenous” people who have suffered due to the conflict between state and sub-nationalist forces. Quite recently, a few writers have succeeded in bringing within this discourse the plight of the communities, who are often constructed as “outsiders,” “forei…
Forest, Folk, and Fiction: Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man as a Site for Ecoculture among the Nagas
Forests are one of the most commonly recurring settings of folktales and oratures. In the popular imagination, forests are often seen as the site of the unknown, the non-human, enchanting and, mystifying, however, in the northeastern cultures of India, especially in Naga folklore, the forest provides a liminal space to the human and non-human through the confluence of spirits inhabiting all forms of body. Easterine Kire’s collection of short stor…
Miya Poetry and identity politics: Poetics of resistance in North East India
Language, Identity and Conflict: Comprehending Everyday Co-existence in Assam
Assam has long experienced intercommunal tensions stemming from faulty colonial-era administrative policies, which have continued post-independence. Key instances of violence include the Language Movement (1960), the Medium of Instruction Movement (1972), and the Assam Movement (1979-1985). These conflicts, particularly over language, have intensified tensions between Bengali and Assamese-speaking communities. Despite efforts to protect Assam’s e…
Beyond good and evil: Imagined nation in Hindi films
The influence of Indian films on popular culture and the influence of dominant political ideology on Indian films are interspersed with dialectical variations. Although a binary representation of these subtleties remains elusive, while promoting ideological superstructures in society, 'the relatively mixed, confused, incomplete, or inarticulate consciousness' is replaced with a 'generalised system'. In practice, the tendencies governing public em…
Women, environment and armed conflicts in Assam: Literature as Witness
Women, especially in the Indigenous and ethnic communities of Assam and Northeast India, have shared an intricate relationship with nature. This relationship was disrupted by the human-made conflicts that ravaged the region for decades. Not only did these conflicts – ethno-nationalist in nature, for the most part – victimize women directly by subjecting them to violence and taking away their agency, but they also indirectly impacted them by adver…
Rehearsals for Living within the Unbearable: Tracking Possibilities of Love and Solidarity in Black Art and Literature
Ethnicity, cultural hybridity & Felanee: Women question in India’s Northeast
Women and children have often been affected by conflicts taking place in India's Northeast. Although human rights abuse by armed forces and militias has been addressed in academia time and again, the weaponisation of 'rape' has not declined in the region as evinced by the recent incident in Manipur. As such this essay argues that solidarity among women can not only prevent such heinous crimes but can also dismantle the patriarchal structures that…
Mapping a Contested Space: Northeast India Through the Ages
Northeast India, home to diverse ethnic communities, has often been described as the cauldron of ethnic violence and insurgencies. The ongoing crisis in Manipur (in the form of a fratricidal war between the Meiteis and Kukis) and the State’s failure to contain it calls for deeper scrutiny of the geopolitics of the region. Whereas the region was once a crossroad that facilitated the movement of these ethnic groups, its transformation into a fronti…
The site of Anthropocene and colonial entanglement: Reviewing The Nutmeg’s Curse
Resistance and Ungendering: Poetry of Mona Zote and Monalisa Changkija
While the academic world talks of different waves of feminism that have emerged in Europe and the US in the past few centuries, the feminists from the third world countries have reservations on the use of a western framework of feminism in investigating the challenges faced by the women from third world countries. The structural discrimination that permeates the gender divide in India is so variegated that a homogenous reprisal will be inadequate…
Can citizen science be the new people’s movement in India: Reading first steps
A case of Holy cow: Religion, politics and culture in assamese feature film Goru
The bovine has been the cause of conflict in the Indian sub-continent for the past few centuries owing to religious and cultural sentiments associated with it. This apparent irreconcilable conflict is localised in the binary of religious mannerism espoused by the religious groups in northern India, which is known as India’s cow belt. Such contradictions have caused bitter riots and conflicts resulting in social unrest in mainland India with spira…
Stigma and fear during Covid-19: Essentializing religion in an Indian context
A cursory inquest into the effects of SARS-CoV-2 exposes how easily the ramification of the pandemic has moved over from the physio-social to the psychosocial state of humans all over the world. Derogatory nomenclatures such as ‘Chinese-virus’ or ‘Corona-jihad’ can be seen as a part of a disjunctive politics of ‘representation’ as opposed to ‘representing’ with a metonymic effect. Such politics violates the protocol on naming new human infectious…
Postcolonial exigency: Interrogating the Manichean model of coloniality through a polycolonial lens
Polycoloniality offers an alternate historiography that focuses on Bengal’s ‘polycolonial’ past. At a time when postcolonial studies in India hinges on a monocolonial narrative and focuses mainly o
Language, Identity and Conflict: Comprehending Everyday Co-existence in Assam
Assam has long experienced intercommunal tensions stemming from faulty colonial-era administrative policies, which have continued post-independence. Key instances of violence include the Language Movement (1960), the Medium of Instruction Movement (1972), and the Assam Movement (1979-1985). These conflicts, particularly over language, have intensified tensions between Bengali and Assamese-speaking communities. Despite efforts to protect Assam’s e…
Mapping a Contested Space: Northeast India Through the Ages
Northeast India, home to diverse ethnic communities, has often been described as the cauldron of ethnic violence and insurgencies. The ongoing crisis in Manipur (in the form of a fratricidal war between the Meiteis and Kukis) and the State’s failure to contain it calls for deeper scrutiny of the geopolitics of the region. Whereas the region was once a crossroad that facilitated the movement of these ethnic groups, its transformation into a fronti…
A case of Holy cow: Religion, politics and culture in assamese feature film Goru
The bovine has been the cause of conflict in the Indian sub-continent for the past few centuries owing to religious and cultural sentiments associated with it. This apparent irreconcilable conflict is localised in the binary of religious mannerism espoused by the religious groups in northern India, which is known as India’s cow belt. Such contradictions have caused bitter riots and conflicts resulting in social unrest in mainland India with spira…
Stigma and fear during Covid-19: Essentializing religion in an Indian context
A cursory inquest into the effects of SARS-CoV-2 exposes how easily the ramification of the pandemic has moved over from the physio-social to the psychosocial state of humans all over the world. Derogatory nomenclatures such as ‘Chinese-virus’ or ‘Corona-jihad’ can be seen as a part of a disjunctive politics of ‘representation’ as opposed to ‘representing’ with a metonymic effect. Such politics violates the protocol on naming new human infectious…
Postcolonial exigency: Interrogating the Manichean model of coloniality through a polycolonial lens
Polycoloniality offers an alternate historiography that focuses on Bengal’s ‘polycolonial’ past. At a time when postcolonial studies in India hinges on a monocolonial narrative and focuses mainly o
The site of Anthropocene and colonial entanglement: Reviewing The Nutmeg’s Curse
Resistance and Ungendering: Poetry of Mona Zote and Monalisa Changkija
While the academic world talks of different waves of feminism that have emerged in Europe and the US in the past few centuries, the feminists from the third world countries have reservations on the use of a western framework of feminism in investigating the challenges faced by the women from third world countries. The structural discrimination that permeates the gender divide in India is so variegated that a homogenous reprisal will be inadequate…
Can citizen science be the new people’s movement in India: Reading first steps
A case of Holy cow: Religion, politics and culture in assamese feature film Goru
The bovine has been the cause of conflict in the Indian sub-continent for the past few centuries owing to religious and cultural sentiments associated with it. This apparent irreconcilable conflict is localised in the binary of religious mannerism espoused by the religious groups in northern India, which is known as India’s cow belt. Such contradictions have caused bitter riots and conflicts resulting in social unrest in mainland India with spira…
Ethnicity, cultural hybridity & Felanee: Women question in India’s Northeast
Women and children have often been affected by conflicts taking place in India's Northeast. Although human rights abuse by armed forces and militias has been addressed in academia time and again, the weaponisation of 'rape' has not declined in the region as evinced by the recent incident in Manipur. As such this essay argues that solidarity among women can not only prevent such heinous crimes but can also dismantle the patriarchal structures that…
Mapping a Contested Space: Northeast India Through the Ages
Northeast India, home to diverse ethnic communities, has often been described as the cauldron of ethnic violence and insurgencies. The ongoing crisis in Manipur (in the form of a fratricidal war between the Meiteis and Kukis) and the State’s failure to contain it calls for deeper scrutiny of the geopolitics of the region. Whereas the region was once a crossroad that facilitated the movement of these ethnic groups, its transformation into a fronti…
Language, Identity and Conflict: Comprehending Everyday Co-existence in Assam
Assam has long experienced intercommunal tensions stemming from faulty colonial-era administrative policies, which have continued post-independence. Key instances of violence include the Language Movement (1960), the Medium of Instruction Movement (1972), and the Assam Movement (1979-1985). These conflicts, particularly over language, have intensified tensions between Bengali and Assamese-speaking communities. Despite efforts to protect Assam’s e…
Beyond good and evil: Imagined nation in Hindi films
The influence of Indian films on popular culture and the influence of dominant political ideology on Indian films are interspersed with dialectical variations. Although a binary representation of these subtleties remains elusive, while promoting ideological superstructures in society, 'the relatively mixed, confused, incomplete, or inarticulate consciousness' is replaced with a 'generalised system'. In practice, the tendencies governing public em…
Women, environment and armed conflicts in Assam: Literature as Witness
Women, especially in the Indigenous and ethnic communities of Assam and Northeast India, have shared an intricate relationship with nature. This relationship was disrupted by the human-made conflicts that ravaged the region for decades. Not only did these conflicts – ethno-nationalist in nature, for the most part – victimize women directly by subjecting them to violence and taking away their agency, but they also indirectly impacted them by adver…
Rehearsals for Living within the Unbearable: Tracking Possibilities of Love and Solidarity in Black Art and Literature
Environmental Humanities in India
This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ‘EH’, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and approaches of various disciplines - from anthropology, art, communications, cultural studies, philosophy and ecology to history, literature, media, music, performance, politics, soci…
Borderland as a necrospace: Identity, ethno-territoriality and narcotrade in Manipur
The origin of militancy in Manipur can be traced back to the secessionist movement in 1964 due to the nation-state’s failure to address the people’s grievances. This study investigates how the construction and reconstruction of ethnic identities, coupled with economic and geopolitical factors, sustain Militancy in a contested borderland like Manipur. By foregrounding the research questions: how have ethnonational movements, state policies, and il…
Post-Memory and Dispossession: The Expendables of Northeast India in Siddhartha Deb’s The Point of Return
Anglophone literature from Northeast India delineates the experiences of marginalisation and violence that have marred the region for decades. Most of these stories relate to the lives of the “indigenous” people who have suffered due to the conflict between state and sub-nationalist forces. Quite recently, a few writers have succeeded in bringing within this discourse the plight of the communities, who are often constructed as “outsiders,” “forei…
Forest, Folk, and Fiction: Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man as a Site for Ecoculture among the Nagas
Forests are one of the most commonly recurring settings of folktales and oratures. In the popular imagination, forests are often seen as the site of the unknown, the non-human, enchanting and, mystifying, however, in the northeastern cultures of India, especially in Naga folklore, the forest provides a liminal space to the human and non-human through the confluence of spirits inhabiting all forms of body. Easterine Kire’s collection of short stor…
Miya Poetry and identity politics: Poetics of resistance in North East India
The insider-outsider narrative: Manufacturing political xenophobia in Assam
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (6 works)