Sanjib Baruah

Sanjib Baruah
Sanjib Baruah

Sanjib Baruah is Professor of Political Studies at Bard College, New York, and the author most recently of In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast (Stanford University Press, 2020).

Who is Indigenous in Assam? Politics in the Vernacular

Claims to Indigenity in Assam are usually treated with sympathy. The exceptions, though, tell their own story.
▶07-Feb-2023
Sanjib Baruah

The Politics of Language in Assam

Language has been at the heart of political debate in Assam since the formation of the British colonial province of Assam in 1874, then through the turbulent decades leading to Independence, the…
▶09-Jun-2021
Sanjib Baruah

Revisiting Partition Debates

Partition debates in India drew on the League of Nations’ discussions on minorities in the nation-states created after World War I. The League’s legacy persisted beyond Partition, even making a ghost…
▶08-Apr-2020
Sanjib Baruah