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Prof Arupjyoti Saikia

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Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

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  • History

Publications

Total Articles 53
Books 0
Proceedings 0

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Citations 240
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Citations 178
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Professional Recognition

2014

Suryya Kumar Bhuyan Endowment Chair

Suryya Kumar Bhuyan Memorial Trust
2017

New India Foundation

New India Foundation
2011

Agrarian Studies Fellowship

Yale University
2006

Visiting Fellowship, School of Oriental and African Studies

Charles Wallace Trust
2007

Visiting Fellow

Centre for Inter-disciplinary Studies in Environment and Development, ISEC, Bangalore, India (2007-2
2015

Visiting Fellow

Visiting Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla
2020

Short Listed for Kamala Devi Chattopadhaya best book in non-fiction Category for The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra

New India Foundation
2017

Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge

Charles Wallace India Trust
2014

Srikant Dutta Book Award for best book for non-fiction on north east India for A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Asia

Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi
2020

'The Unquiet River' in Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize longlist

Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival
2021

Honorable Mention, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize

Association of Asian Studies

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Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE)

2017
Member

Bio

Environmental, Economic and Political History of Modern Assam

Personal Details

  • Male
  • Professor , Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
  • Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Post Doc
Other Institute 2012
Ph.D
University of Delhi 2002
M.PHIL
Other Institute 1996
MA
Jamia Millia Islamia 1994
BA
Gauhati University 1991
Professor Jul 2015 – Present
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati | Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Associate Professor Jul 2006 – Jul 2009
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

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History of Intoxication: Opium in Assam, 1800-1959

University Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Year 2012

Polity and Petroleum Making of an Oil Industry in Assam, 1825-1980

University Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
Year 2014

Lakshminath Bezbaroa and His Times: Language. Literature and Modernity in Colonial Assam

University IIT Guwahati
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Brewing Trouble or Transforming Nature? Making of Tea Plantations’ Environments in Assam, 1830s-1930s

University Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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Citizenship, Nationality and Assam: A Political History Since 1947

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‘Park, People and Politics: An Environmental History of the Kaziranga National Park (KNP)

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Scholarly Publications

Earthquakes and the environmental transformation of a floodplain landscape: The Brahmaputra Valley and the earthquakes of 1897 and 1950

Open Access
Article

Flood Mitigation, Climate Change Adaptation and Technological Lock-In in Assam

Open Access
article
Authors: Robert Wasson ., Arupjyoti Saikia ., Priya Bansal ., Chuah Chong Joon .,

RHINOCEROS IN KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK: Nature and politics in modern Assam

Open Access
book chapter
Authors: Arupjyoti Saikia

Flood Mitigation, Climate Change Adaptation, and Technological Lock-in in Assam

Open Access
Article
Authors: Wasson R.;Saikia A.;Bansal P.;Chuah C.J.

On time, history and the river

Open Access
other
Authors: Arupjyoti Saikia

The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra

Open Access
book

Geographical Exploration and Historical Investigation: John Peter Wade in Assam

Open Access
Book Chapter

Nature and Assam's Present

Open Access
article