Area of Interest/Specialization:

Modern India, Partition of India, Displacement/Migration, Citizenship in North-East India.

Experience: 15 years 9 months.

Ph.D Awarded/ Supervised:  3 (Three) Awarded.

Academic Affiliations:

• Life Member of North East India History Association, Shillong.
• Life Member of Institute of North East India Studies, Kolkata.
• Life Member of Folk-lore Society of Assam, Guwahati.
• Life Member of Assam Research Society, Guwahati.
• Member of Bangiya Sahitya Parishad, Shillong.

Research Projects

1. a part of the UGC-SAP-DSA II  project of the Department of History where his project is entitled ‘ From Partition to Partition: A study of politics and impact of Partition on North-East India ( 1947-71).
2. Borders, Identities and the Predicament of Citizenship in Post Colonial Assam (1947-2005) –sanctioned by OKDISCD, Guwahati as part of a broad study on Transformation of the Region: From Colonialism to the Contemporary Phase.

Publications

Books- Single Authored/Co-Authored

1. Madhuri Choudhury’s Rani Laxmipriya Devi aruBeltolarItihas: Engendering a Family and social  History of Beltola Raj ( Tranlation) DVS Publishers, Guwahati, 2017 ISBN -93-978-86839-14-6
2. History of Judiciary in Assam: Law, Law Courts and Lawyers, DVS Publishers, Guwahati, 2013 ISBN-978-81-86307-76-2
3. Religion in Politics: Eastern India 1905-1947, Pilgrims Publishing, Varanasi: Delhi, 2009, ISBN – 978-81-7769-828-2
4. Dutta, (2020), Recovering the ‘Other Side of Silence’: Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 and the refugee versus immigrant discourse of post-colonial Assam, AsConMonograph 005, Shillong,  ISBN-978-81-946517-0-3.

Articles in Journals (Single Authored)

1. ‘ChauriChaura: Violence vs Gandhian Non-Violence’, Gandhi Marg, Vol. 31,No. 3, Oct-Dec 2009 pp.532-539, ISSN: 0016-4437
2. ‘From History to Lore: An interesting Anecdote from the Sylhet Referendum 1947’, Janakristi: Annual Research Journal of Folklore Society of Assam, Vol. 3 ,No. 1-3,  2009- 10,  pp. 78-86  ISSN: 0974-6188
3. ‘Forgotten Land, Forsaken People: Sylheti Women’s Tales and the partition of colonial North-East India’, The IUP Journal of History and Culture: Special issue on Partition of India, Vol.IV No.3 July 2010, pp 64-77, ISSN: 0973-8517
4. ‘The Last Battle for Pakistan: Islamic Mobilization and Partition Movement in Colonial Assam, 1947’, Assam University Journal: Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol.VI No.1 January 2011, pp 63-72, ISSN: 0973-4821
5. ‘Oral Narratives: Expanding the Horizons of Historical Studies in North-East India’, Janakristi: Annual Research Journal of Folklore Society of Assam, Vol. 2 ,No. 5-6,  2011- 12,  pp. 63-69  ISSN: 0974-6188
6. ‘Recovering Sylhet: The Loss and the recovery of the history of Sylhet and a close look at partition historiography in contemporary India’, Himal Southasian, Kathmandu, 22nd November, 2012, ISSN: 1012-9804.
7. ‘Violent Parting: Recovering the History of Violence in Sylhet on partition and After (1947-1950)’, Aitihya: The Heritage, Vol. IV ,No. 1,  2013,  pp. 20-36,  ISSN: 2229-5399
8. ‘No Immigrant Must Be Allowed to Settle’: Mymensinghi Immigration and the Making of Assam Land and Revenue Regulation (Ammendment ) Act of 1947’, Social Change and Development, Vol.X, No.1,January 2013, pp.60-71, ISSN 0975-4016
9. ‘The Assam Code: Locating Law as the Instrumentality of Governance in Colonial Assam’, Man and Society: A Journal of North-East Studies, Vol.X, Winter.2013pp.63-78, ISSN 2229-4058
10. ‘Pakistan Movement in the Colonial Frontier: Muslim League Conspiracy and mobilization in colonial Assam’,The Journal of Social Science and Humanity Research: An Interdisciplinary Referred International Journal, Vol.II, No. 1, Jan-June, 2014, pp. 53-69, ISSN-2321-8908
11. ‘The Past as Present: Partition in Assam politics during independence and beyond,’ Dialogue: Quarterly Vol.16. No.1, July –September, 2014, pp. 160-72, ISSN-0973-0095
12. ‘Event, Memory and Lore: Anecdotal History of Partition in Assam’, The NEHU Journal, Vol.XII, No.2, July-Dec.2014,pp.61-76,  ISSN- 0972-8406
13. ‘The ‘Stout fanatical Muhammadan’and Mullan;s burden: The History of Bengali Immigration in Colonial Assam (1871-1931)’ , Man and Society: A Journal of North-East Studies, Vol.XI, Winter.2014, pp.70- 85, ISSN 2229-4058
14. ‘Invented Tradition and Partition Mobilization in colonial Assam’, Journal of History and Culture, Vol.II, 2015, pp. 102-112, ISSN-2348-3830.
15. ‘All for Neighbour’s Sake: Cachar, Partition of India and Politics of Refugee Rehabilitation 1947-1953’, Northeast Researches, Vol.VII, March 2016, pp. 74-88, ISSN- 2249-4456
16. ‘Pakistan Movement and communalization of the Peasants in Colonial Assam’, Vidyasagar University Journal of History, Vol.V. 2016-2017, pp107-118, ISSN- 2321-0834
17. ‘The Forgotten Partitions of Northeast India and its lingering legacies’ (co-author) Cafe Dissensus, New York, Issue 38, 2017, ISSN: 2373-177X
18. ‘A Legacy of Divided Nations’: Partitions and the Making of North-Eastern India from Colonial to Post-Colonial Times,’ Summerhill, Vol. XXIV, No.1(Summer 2018), Shimla, ISSN: 0972-1452
19. ‘Muted Voices and Gendered Memories: Some Notes on violent uprooting from partitioned Assam’, Cafe Dissensus, New York, Issue 44, 2018, ISSN: 2373-177X
20. ‘Partition and the Citizenship Imbroglio in North- East India’, Asian Journal of Development Matters, Vol.12, No1(1) Special Issue, June 2018, pp229-240, ISSN 0973-9629
21. ‘The Illusive Indian: The predicament of determining citizens between politics and the Law in Assam’, EastWind, Vol.15,No 1, Nov2018-Jan.2019, pp16-27
22. ‘Understanding North-Eastern India Partitions in light of the Look-East/Act- East Policy’ Man and Society: A Journal of North-East Studies, Vol.XVI, Winter.2019, ISSN 2229-4058
23. ‘The Long Shadow of Partition and the Predicament of Citizenship in Post-Colonial Assam,’ Dialogue: Quarterly Vol.21. No.1, July –September, 2019, pp. 45-55, ISSN-0973-0095
24. ‘Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019: Redeeming the Promise of Partition in Assam,’ Dialogue: Quarterly Vol.22. No.2, October-December, 2020, pp. 40-47, ISSN-0973-0095

Articles in Edited Books

1. ‘Trends in Indian Nationalism: Regionalism an obvious derivative’, N. Malla (ed) Nationalism Regionalism and the Philosophy of National Integration, Regency Publications, New Delhi, 1998. Pp. 196-213. ISBN 81-86030-74-3
2. ‘Presentation I’, J. B. Bhattacharjee,(ed) Roots of Insurgency in North-East India, Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi, 2007. Pp. 31-36. ISBN 978-81-8370-138-9
3. ‘Disempowered Gender: Status of Women in North-East India’, S.Sengupta, S.Nessa and S.Dasgupta (ed) Dynamics of Gender Disparity: North East Lens, EBH Publishers, Guwahati, 2015, pp. 23-30, ISBN 978-93-83252-47-3
4. ‘Fictionalizing History, Historicizing Pain: Bengal Partition 1947 in Verse and Rituparno’s Sab Charitro Kalponik-2008’,  AmitavaChatterjee (ed)People at Large: Popular Culture in Modern Bengal,SetuPrakashani, Kolkata, 2012, pp. 56-66, ISBN 978-93-80677-34-7
5. ‘Constructing Colonial Masculinity through Everyday Life: Narrating the practice of game as sports among European Officers of North-East India’, Amitava Chatterjee, People at Play: Sports, Culture and Nationalism, Setu Prakashani, Kolkata/Delhi, 2013, pp.150-160, ISBN 978-93-80677-46-0
6. ‘Creation of Sacred Spaces: Communal Mobilization and Map making in Colonial  North-East India’, A.K. Baruah and Susmita Sen Gupta (ed) Social Forces and Politics in North-East India, DVS Publishers, Guwahati, 2013, pp. 177-190, ISBN 978-81- 86307-68-7
7. ‘Forgotten Lands, Forsaken Men: Provincialism, Partition and Sylheti ’GovernmentServnts’ in post-partition Assam’, Amitava Chatterjee, (ed) Gender and Modernity, Setu Prakashani, Kolkata/Delhi, 2015,pp. 31-48, ISBN- 978-93-80677-74-3
8. ‘Under the Shadow of Violence: Ethnicity, Communalism and Displacement in East Pakistan’, Saji Varghese(ed) Globalization and Cultural Pluralism: Challenges and Possibilities, Akansha Publishing House, Delhi/Guwahati, 2016, pp,62-78, ISBN-978-81-8370-471-7
9. ‘Of People, Land and Laws: Colonialism, Immigration and the History of Land Laws in Assam’, H. Srikanth and Rooplekha Borgohain (ed) Ethnicity and Political Economy in NorthEast India, DVS Publishers, Guwahati, 2016, pp. 121-145, ISBN- 978-81-86307-91-5
10. ‘Images of the Home and the World in Conflict and Beyond: A View through a Gendered Lens’, Manorama Sharma (ed) Rethinking Gender History: Essays on Northeast India and Beyond, DVS Publisher, Guwahati/ New Delhi, 2017, pp. 239-260, ISBN-978-93-85839-18-4
11. ‘Challenging Times, Challenged Body: Decolonization, Displacement and Disease among East Pakistani Refugees in South Assam, 1947-1954’, Sajal Nag (ed) Playing With Nature: History and Politics of Environment in North-east India, Manohar, New Delhi, 2017, pp. 255-272, ISBN-978-93-5098-135-1
12. ‘Collapse of a Colonial Cosmopolity’, Preeti Gill and Samrat (ed) Insider-Outsider: Belonging and Unbelonging in Northeast India, Amaryllis, New Delhi, 2018,pp. 47-63, ISBN-978-93-88241-35-9
13. ‘The Story of the Stout Fanatical Mahomedan: Bengali Peasant Immigration and ‘Wastelands’ in colonial Assam’, Sajal Nag and IshratAlam (ed) Blending Nation and Region: Essays in Honour of Late Professor AmalenduGuha, Primus Books, Delhi, 2018, pp 426-439, ISBN- 978-93-86552-73-0
14. ‘Recovering a Forgotten Partition: Decolonization, displacement and memories of Home and uprooting in post-colonial Assam’, Amit Ranjan (ed) Partition of India: Postcolonial Legacies, Routledge India, London/New York, 2019, pp. 91-104, ISBN-978-0-367-24731-7
15. ‘Sylhet Gonovote: Muslim League –JamiyatSanghat o PakistanerSeshJudhho’, Prasun Burman, Deshbhag- Deshtyag: Prosongo Uttor Purbo Bharat, VickyPublishers,Guwahati, 2013 pp. 75-87, ISBN-978-93-82250-75-3 ( In Bengali)

Seminars and Conferences Attended with Papers: 

Attended as Resource Person (Online) Since April. 2020:

1. UGC-HRDC-NEHU 2nd Faculty Induction Programme 16th October, 2020
2. UGC-HRDC-NEHU 4th Faculty Induction Programme 24th March, 2021
3. Refresher Course Lectures, Department of History, NEHU, 5th to 18th October, 2020.
4. Five Day Faculty Development Programme organized by the Department of History & Institute of Distance Education, Rajiv Gandhi University on ‘New Perspectives in the history of North-East India,’ 3rd to 7th August, 2020.
5. Department of Bengali, Cotton University, Guwahati, Invited Lecture – ‘Partition and North-East India: Reflections in Bengali Literature’, 22nd August, 2020.
6. Department of History and Research Club of English Online Interdisciplinary Lecture Series Talk 4 by KAHMU Women’s College, Manjeri, Mallappuram, Kerala entitled ‘Indian Partition: A Perspective from the North-East’, 3rd October, 2020.
7. North-East Society, I.P. College for Women, Delhi University Webinar on ‘Traditional World View of North-East India and the contemporary world’, 24th November, 2020.
8. Atheneum Panel Discussion on ‘Contesting Narratives: Rethinking the Idea of India’s North-East’, 23rd January, 2021
9. Shantipur College, Department of History & Paschim Banga Itihas Samsad National webinar on ‘Partition of India: Refugee Problem of West Bengal and Beyond’. 16th September, 2020.
10. Department of Political Science  and IQAC National Webinar on ‘ Migration in North-East India: Contests and Implications, 15th September, 2020.
11. MAJHA HOUSE, Amritsar Webinar on ‘Partition in the East: Some Forgotten Stories’ 29th August, 2020.
12. College Students Welfare Committee, Guwahati Debate Series- CSWC Debates National Education Policy, 2020: Salience, Takeaway and Practicality, 8th August, 2020.