Sanjib Baruah was an External Associate at PRIO until 2020.
Sanjib Baruah
PRIO Global Fellow
Additional positions:
Professor of political studies, Bard College, New York
Email: baruah@bard.edu
Sanjib Baruah is professor of political studies at Bard College, New York and honorary research professor at Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi. He is the author of a number of books and many articles. His books include Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India and India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality. Dr. Baruah was born in Shillong (Meghalaya, India) and educated at Cotton College, Guwahati (Assam, India), the University of Delhi and the University of Chicago. In 2016 he was appointed a PRIO Global Fellow.
He is currently a member of the reference group for the PRIO research project 'Imagined Sovereignties: Frontiers of Statehood and Globalization', funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN).
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PRIO Global Fellow Sanjib Baruah discusses India’s National Register of Citizens
Even in the context of contentious debates on immigration in Europe and the United States, people rarely question the capacity of their governments to identify their citizens and distinguish them from non-citizens living in the country. But not all governments today have a centralised database of all its citizens.
Professor Sanjib Baruah Visits PRIO
Professor Sanjib Baruah is a guest researcher at PRIO in July. He is a PRIO Global Fellow and professor of political studies at Bard College, New York and honorary research professor at Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi.
Articles by Sanjib Baruah, advisor on the case of Northeast India, published in The Indian Express
"Dividing Line" (posted 3 October 2014) and "Upstream Superpowers" (posted 5 December 2014)
Whose River Is It Anyway?
Sanjib Baruah is Professor of Political Studies at Bard College, New York and Visiting Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. His publications include India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality (University of Pennsylvania Press and Oxford University Press 1999), Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India (Oxford University Press, 2005) and the edited volumes Beyond Counterinsurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Ethnonationalism in India: A Reader (Oxford University Press, 2010).
South Asia seminar on India’s Great Leap Forward in Hydropower and the Specter of Maoism in the Eastern Himalayas
Seminar at PRIO with Sanjib Baruah, Professor of Political Studies, Bard College (New York) Monday 7 May at 14:00 - 16:00
