Manjeet Baruah

Books:

Monographs

1. (2024). Hunter, Peasant, Rebel: Colonialism and the British Assam Frontier. Routledge: London and New York.

2. (2012). Frontier Cultures: A Social History of Assamese Literature. Routledge: New Delhi.) Paperback edition: 2016.

Edited Books

1. (2025) At the Margins of Empire: Frontiers and Boundaries in British India (co-edited with Lipokmar Dzuvichu). Routledge: London and New York.

2. (2019). Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia: Between the Mekong and the Indus (co-edited with Lipokmar Dzuvichu). Routledge: New Delhi.

3. (2018). Modern Practices in North East India: History, Culture, Representation (co-edited with Lipokmar Dzuvichu): Routledge: New Delhi

Translation Books

1. (2016). Remains of Spring: A Naga Village in the No Man’s Land (English translation, along with critical introduction, of the Assamese novel Aolingar Zui). Oxford University Press: New Delhi.

Articles in Research Journals/Book Chapters:

1. "Peasant Ballads of an Imperial Frontier: Structure, Formulaic Pattern and Representation in British Assam", South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol.48, Issue 6, 2025, pp. 1415-1431. 

2. “Introduction: At the imperial edges: Producing frontiers, making boundaries” (co-authored with Lipokmar Dzuvichu), in At the Margins of Empire: Frontiers and Boundaries in British India (co-edited with Lipokmar Dzuvichu). Routledge: New Delhi, pp. 1-23. 

3. “Historicising the Oral Text: Colonialism and Oralities of British Assam”, Drishti: The Sight, Volume XIII, Issue: 2, pp. 63-68. November, 2024. 

4. “Orality, Identity, and the Sense of the Past in the India-Burma Borderlands: A Review of Recent Studies”, Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies, Vol.9, Issue 1, July 2024, pp. 107-118.

5. “On Humanistic Theory: A View from the Frontier”, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. LIX, No. 20, May 18 2024, pp.66-68.

6. “Temsula Ao’s Literary Representation of the Nagas: Motifs, Text and Representation”, Indian Literature, No. 336, July-August 2023, pp.163-169. 

7. “Writing the Imperial Experience of Hunting: Assam Planter and the Sensory World of a British Tea Frontier,” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 44, Issue 5, 2021, pp. 913-925.

8. “The ‘Bourgeois View’: Space in Assamese Literature, 1910s-1950s”, Economic & Political Weekly, August 28, 2021, Vol LVI, No 35, pp. 54-60.

9. “Yaruingam (1960): Revisiting the Assamese Literary Classic and its Idea of People’s Rule”, Economic & Political Weekly, 01 February 2020, Vol. 55, Issue No. 5.

10. “Objects of Frontiers” (Introduction, along with Lipokmar Dzuvichu), in Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia: Between the Mekong and the Indus (co-edited with Lipokmar Dzuvichu), Routledge: New Delhi, 2019, pp. 1-17.

11. “Empire and the Making of a Narrative: The Ballad of the General and its history as historical source in colonial Assam”, in Modern Practices in North East India: History, Culture, Representation (co-edited with Lipokmar Dzuvichu): Routledge: New Delhi, 2018, pp. 195-221.

12. “Frames of region and people: practices of knowledge and representation”, (Introduction, along with Lipokmar Dzuvichu), in Modern Practices in North East India: History, Culture, Representation (co-edited with Lipokmar Dzuvichu): Routledge: New Delhi, 2018, pp. 1-20.  

13. “At the Frontier of Imperial History: revisiting Edward Gait`s A History of Assam”, Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 18, Issue 4 (2017), pp. 452-469.

14. “Villages and Maps: Space, Text and People”, (Introduction), Remains of Spring: A Naga Village in the No Man’s Land, Oxford University Press: New Delhi, 2016, pp. xxii-li.

15. “Assamese Language, Narrative and the Making of the North East Frontier of India: Beyond Regional Indian Literary Studies”, Modern Asian Studies, Volume 47 / Issue 02 / March 2013, pp 652-681.

16. “Space and Community between the Local and the Global: Two Examples from the Brahmaputra Valley”. Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 14, No 3, June 2013.

17. “Mapping Literature: Culture and Region Formation in the Brahmaputra Valley”. NMML Occasional Paper, New Delhi: New Series 11. NMML, 2013.

18. “An Emerging Genre of 'Political' Literature in India's Frontier”, in Zama, Margaret Ch Zama (ed.), Emerging Literatures from Northeast India. SAGE: Delhi, 2013. pp 28-36.

Book Review Articles in Journals:

1. “Review of The Routledge Companion to Northeast India”, European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 61/2023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ebhr.1921.

2. “Articulating Relations” (Review of book: Achla Pritam Tandon, Gopi Devdutt and Rashi Bhargava (ed.), 2021. Social Scientist in South Asia: Personal Narratives, Social Forces and Negotiations, Routledge) in The Book Review, Vol. XLVI, No. 1, January 2022, pp. 32-33.

3. “Locating ‘Subjectivities’ in the Making of 19th Century Assam” (Review of book: Madhumita Sengupta, 2016. Becoming Assamese: Colonialism and New Subjectivities in Northeast India, Routledge), in The Book Review, Vol. XLI, No. 5, May 2017, pp. 11-12.  

4. Review of the book: Anubha Bhosle, 2016. Mother, Where’s My Country? Looking for Light in the Darkness of Manipur, in The Book Review, Vol. XL, No. 5, May 2016, pp. 17-18.

5. “Of People, Politics and Religion” (Review of book: John Thomas, 2016. Evangelising the Nation: Religion and the Formation of Naga Political Identity, Routledge), in The Book Review, Vol. XL, No. 5, May 2016, pp. 16-17.

6. Review of the book: Joy L.K. Pachuau, 2014. Being Mizo: Identity and Belonging in Northeast India, Oxford University Press, in Asian Ethnicity, Vol.17, Issue 2, 2016, pp. 315-318.

7. “Intersecting Narratives” (Review of book: Mamang Dai, 2014. The Black Hill: The Tale of Kajinsha, Gimur and Nicolas Krick, Aleph), in The Book Review, Vol. XXXIX, No. 6, June 2015, pp. 33-34.

8. “From Colonial to Contemporary Times” (Review of the book: Joy L.K. Pachuau and Willem van Schendel, 2015. The Camera as Witness: A Social History of Mizoram, Northeast India, Cambridge University Press), in The Book Review, Vol. XXXIX, No. 5, May 2015, pp. 25-26.

9. “Production Relations and Social Classes in History” (Review of the book: Amalendu Guha, 2014 (1991). Medieval and Early Colonial Assam: Society, Polity, Economy, Anwesha), in The Book Review, Vol. XXXIX, No. 4, 2015.

10. Review of the book: Philippe Ramirez, 2014. People of the Margins: Across Ethnic Boundaries in Northeast India, Spectrum, in Asian Ethnicity, Vol.16, Issue 1, 2015, pp. 119-122.

11. Review of the book: Tiplut Nongbri, 2014. Development, Masculinity and Christianity: Essays and Verses from India’s Northeast, IIAS, in Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol.21, Issue 3, October 2014, pp. 485-489.

12. Review of the book: Makiko Kimura, 2013. The Nellie Massacre of 1983: agency of rioters, SAGE, in Asian Ethnicity, Vol.15, Issue 2, 2014, pp. 256-258.