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Lecture by Prof. Dr. Dr. Sanjib Baruah (Bard College, New York)
Invitation to the lecture “Intertwined Histories: Bangladesh and Assam”
Speaker: Dr. Sanjib Baruah (Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, New York)
Welcome: Prof. Dr. Hans Harder (South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University)
Sanjib Baruah is Professor of Political Studies at Bard College, New York and Honorary Research Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He is the author of In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast (Stanford University Press, 2020). He serves on the editorial board of the journal Studies in Indian Politics (Sage Publications) and the book series ‘South Asia in Motion’ (Stanford University Press). He is a regular contributor to the newspaper Indian Express.
‘Eastern Bengal and Assam’ was a province of British colonial India. ‘Eastern Bengal and Assam’ existed as a province for a short time, from 1905 to 1911. But the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh was a part of the province of Assam for much longer - from 1874 to 1947. This territorial history is a reminder of the intertwined histories of this transnational space. Such a spatial frame is useful to understand the fraught politics of citizenship in Assam and the rest of Northeast India. The partition of 1947 and the civil war that led to the independence of Bangladesh in 1971 are key moments in this history because of their effects on migration flows and on the politics of belonging.
Speaker: Dr. Sanjib Baruah (Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, New York)
Date: Monday, 14th February 2022
Time: 4.00–5.45 p.m. (Central European Time) (10.00-11.45 a.m. EST/8.30-10.15 p.m. IST/9.00-10.45 p.m. Bangladesh Time)
Welcome: Prof. Dr. Hans Harder (South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University)
Moderation: Dr. Dieter Reinhardt (South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University)
Sanjib Baruah is Professor of Political Studies at Bard College, New York and Honorary Research Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He is the author of In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast (Stanford University Press, 2020). He serves on the editorial board of the journal Studies in Indian Politics (Sage Publications) and the book series ‘South Asia in Motion’ (Stanford University Press). He is a regular contributor to the newspaper Indian Express.
‘Eastern Bengal and Assam’ was a province of British colonial India. ‘Eastern Bengal and Assam’ existed as a province for a short time, from 1905 to 1911. But the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh was a part of the province of Assam for much longer - from 1874 to 1947. This territorial history is a reminder of the intertwined histories of this transnational space. Such a spatial frame is useful to understand the fraught politics of citizenship in Assam and the rest of Northeast India. The partition of 1947 and the civil war that led to the independence of Bangladesh in 1971 are key moments in this history because of their effects on migration flows and on the politics of belonging.
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Posted on 08 Feb 2022
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