Amalendu Guha

Economic and Political Weekly https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/45-46, 2023

Peasants, Students, Insurgents and Popular Movements in Contemporary Assam, 2018

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

If Indian intellectual history focussed on the nature of the colonial and post-colonial state, its interaction with everyday politics, its emerging society and operation of its economy, then how much did/ does North-East appear in this process of doing intellectual history? North-East history in general and its intellectual history in particular is an unpeopled place. In Indian social science literature, North-East history for the last seventy years has mostly revolved around separatist movements, insurgencies, borderland issue and trans-national migration. However, it seldom focussed on the intellectuals who have articulated the voice of this place and constructed an intellectual history of this region. This paper attempts to explore the intellectual history of Assam through understanding the life history of three key socio-political figures – Gopinath Bordoloi, Bishnu Prasad Rabha and Chandraprabha Saikiani. Their engagement at the turn of the twentieth century with ideas for the ...

2018

In response to Professor Sanjib Baruah's article 'Stateless in Assam' which discussed a new focus on detention camps for 'stateless citizens', Suraj Gogoi, Gorky Chakraborty and Parag Jyoti Saikia reflect on the implications of reducing people to 'bare life'.

International Journal of Advanced Research

2017

History, by nature, is the description of an event happened in the past. In this phenomenon there includes all the good and evil deeds done by people. The portrayal of the historical event also depends upon the historian. The most important task for a historian is to depict the event in a clearer, truer and a logical way. The sole aim of the author is to illustrate how an outsider is very much successful in the depictions of others' history. Though Sir Edward Gait was by birth a colonialist, he understood the social, political and economical conditions of Assam. He was the counterpart of Assamese historians like Gunabhiram Borua (Assam Buranji), Kanaklal Borua (Studies in the early history of Assam). In his masterpiece A History of Assam he very beautifully revealed from the prehistoric era to the British rule. Thus to project his interest of writing A History of Assam is prime concern in this paper.

History, by nature, is the description of an event happened in the past. In this phenomenon there includes all the good and evil deeds done by people. The portrayal of the historical event also depends upon the historian. The most important task for a historian is to depict the event in a clearer, truer and a logical way. The sole aim of the author is to illustrate how an outsider is very much successful in the depictions of others' history. Though Sir Edward Gait was by birth a colonialist, he understood the social, political and economical conditions of Assam. He was the counterpart of Assamese historians like Gunabhiram Borua (Assam Buranji), Kanaklal Borua (Studies in the early history of Assam). In his masterpiece A History of Assam he very beautifully revealed from the prehistoric era to the British rule. Thus to project his interest of writing A History of Assam is prime concern in this paper.