Sanjib Baruah

Baruah was born in 1951 in Shillong, which was then the capital of Assam.{{sfn|Baruah|Rebecca|2008|loc=0m}}{{efn|Shillong was the capital of undivided Assam until 21 January 1972 when it became part of the new state of Meghalaya; the redefined start of Assam forming its capital at Dispur in Guwahati.}}

Baruah obtained his Bachelor of Arts from Cotton College, Guwahati, Assam. He went on to complete his Master of Arts from the University of Delhi.{{Cite web|title=Sanjib Baruah — Professor of Political Studies|website=Bard College|url=https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=101|access-date=27 January 2022|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030103240/http://www.bard.edu:80/faculty/details/?id=101 |archive-date=2017-10-30 }} He has said the experience of New Delhi and its intellectual and political life had a profound impact on him.{{sfn|Baruah|Rebecca|2008|loc=6m}}

From 1985 to 1987 Sanjib Baruah worked as an Associate of Committee on Southern Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, the institution that awarded him his PhD. He said at interview that his research into the Northeast India topic only really began some time after he had completed his PhD.{{sfn|Baruah|Rebecca|2008|loc=4m 35s}}

Baruah has been serving as a professor at Bard College in New York state. Since 1989 Sanjib Baruah was a research associate at South Asia Center at Syracuse University.

Baruah also holds a concurrent position as Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway.{{Cite web|last=Rebecca Schiel|first=Jonathan Powell|date=9 September 2020|title=IC Conference Session 2|url=https://sciences.ucf.edu/politics/ucf_section/ic-conference-session-2/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207235053/https://sciences.ucf.edu/politics/ucf_section/ic-conference-session-2/|archive-date=7 December 2021|access-date=8 December 2021|website=University of Central Florida}}

• {{Cite book|last=Baruah|first=Sanjib|year=1999|title=India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=9780812234916 |author-mask=0|ref=none}}{{cite web |last1=Shaikh |first1=Nermeen |title=Interview with Sanjib Baruah |url=https://asiasociety.org/interview-sanjib-baruah |website=Asia Society |access-date=26 January 2022}}{{cite news |last1=Hauser |first1=Walter |title=Future Imperfect |url=https://asianstudies.github.io/area-studies/SouthAsia/Misc/Sss/whfuture99.html |access-date=26 January 2022 |work=The Telegraph |date=October 29, 1999}}{{cite news |last1=Hazarika |first1=Sanjoy |title=Book review: Sanjib Baruah's 'India Against Itself' |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/books/story/19990913-book-review-of-india-against-itself-by-sanjib-baruah-824260-1999-09-13 |access-date=26 January 2022 |work=India Today |date=September 13, 1999}}{{cite journal |last1=Chadda |first1=Maya |title=Reviewed Work: India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality by Sanjib Baruah |journal=Political Science Quarterly |date=Summer 2000 |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=320–322 |doi=10.2307/2657927 |jstor=2657927 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2657927 |access-date=27 January 2022}}{{cite journal |last1=Banerjee |first1=Sikata |title=Reviewed Works: India against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality by Sanjib Baruah; Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism, and Development in Contemporary India by Niraja Gopal Jayal; Development and Democracy in India by Shalendra D. Sharma |journal=The American Political Science Review |date=September 2000 |volume=94 |issue=3 |pages=732–734 |doi=10.2307/2585874 |jstor=2585874 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2585874 |access-date=27 January 2022}}
• {{cite book|last=Baruah|first=Sanjib|date=2012|title=Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India |orig-year=2005|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|oclc=1120638444 |author-mask=0|ref=none}}{{cite journal |last1=Wright Jr. |first1=Theodore P. |title=Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India. By Sanjib Baruah. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. |journal=Perspectives on Politics |date=18 August 2008 |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=616–617 |doi=10.1017/S1537592708081577 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/durable-disorder-understanding-the-politics-of-northeast-india-by-sanjib-baruah-new-york-oxford-university-press-2005-286p-3500-cloth-2495-paper/C350C85FE9468ED576554929EFB379CF |access-date=26 January 2022 |publisher=American Political Science Association|s2cid=145323279 }}{{cite journal |last1=Cameron |first1=John |title=Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah. |journal=Development and Change |date=January 1, 2007 |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=576–578|doi=10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00423_16.x }} - via EBSCOhost{{cite journal |last1=Saikia |first1=Yasmin |title=Reviewed Work: Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |date=August 2006 |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=636–638 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25076105 |access-date=26 January 2022 |publisher=Association for Asian Studies|doi=10.1017/S0021911806001379 |jstor=25076105 |s2cid=153861644 }}{{cite journal |last1=Corbridge |first1=Stuart |title=Reviewed Work: Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah |journal=Political Science Quarterly |date=Winter 2005 |volume=120 |issue=4 |pages=726–727 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20202639 |access-date=26 January 2022 |publisher=The Academy of Political Science|doi=10.1002/j.1538-165X.2005.tb01456.x |jstor=20202639 }}{{cite journal |last1=Chandra |first1=Sudhir |title=Understanding the Problem of Northeast India. |journal=India Review |date=March 2007 |volume=6 |issue=1|pages=46–56 |doi=10.1080/14736480601172683 |s2cid=154050009 }} - via EBSCOhost{{Cite journal|last=Phanjoubam|first=Pradip|title=Review of Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of North-East India, by S. Baruah|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/4416301|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=40|pages=941–943|jstor=4416301}}
• {{Cite book|last=Baruah|first=Sanjib|year=2007|title=Postfrontier blues: toward a new policy framework for Northeast India |series=Policy studies|publisher=East-West Center Washington|isbn=9781932728606|author-mask=0|ref=none}}
• {{Cite book|last=Baruah|first=Sanjib|year=2009|title=Beyond Counterinsurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India |orig-year=2009|oclc=775416874|location=New York; New Delhi|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780198078975 |author-mask=0|ref=none}}{{cite journal |last1=McDuie-Ra |first1=Duncan |title=Reviewed Work: Beyond Counter-Insurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |date=August 2011 |volume=70 |issue=3 |pages=861–863 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41302433 |access-date=26 January 2022 |publisher=Association for Asian Studies|doi=10.1017/S002191181100132X |jstor=41302433 |s2cid=162798780 }}{{cite journal |last1=Sirnate |first1=Vasundhara |title=Reviewed Work: Beyond Counter-Insurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India by Sanjib Baruah |journal=Journal of Peace Research |date=September 2009 |volume=46 |issue=5 |page=719 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25654467 |access-date=26 January 2022 |publisher=Sage Publications, Inc.|jstor=25654467 }}
• {{Cite book|last=Baruah|first=Sanjib|year=2012|title=Ethnonationalism in India: A Reader |location=New Delhi|publisher=Oxford University Press|series=Critical issues in Indian politics|oclc=930806555|author-mask=0|ref=none}}{{cite journal |last1=Viplav |title=Reviewed Work: Ethnonationalism in lndia: A Reader by Sanjib Baruah |journal=The Indian Journal of Political Science |date=April 2010 |volume=71 |issue=2 |pages=689–691 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42753729 |access-date=26 January 2022 |publisher=Indian Political Science Association|jstor=42753729 }}
• {{Cite book|last=Baruah|first=Sanjib|year=2020|title=In the Name of the Nation |publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=9781503611290|author-mask=0|ref=none}}

• {{cite journal|last=Baruah|first=Sanjib|date=1 November 2003|title=Nationalizing Space: Cosmetic Federalism and the Politics of Development in Northeast India|journal=Development and Change|volume=34|issue=5|pages=915–939|publisher=Estados Unidos : Institute of Social Studies|doi=10.1111/j.1467-7660.2003.00334.x|oclc=926308153|ref=none|doi-access=free}}

Baruah has been sought for commentaries and interviews over a wide range of publications including: Time Magazine;{{Cite magazine|last=Bagri|first=Neha Thirani|date=5 September 2021|title=India's Anti-Immigrant Crackdown Has Torn Apart Families and Locked Up Hundreds. 1.9 Million People Fear They Could Be Next|magazine=Time|url=https://time.com/6092299/india-anti-immigrant-crackdown-assam/|access-date=26 January 2022}} The New York Times;{{Cite news|last1=Singh|first1=Karan Deep|last2=Baruah|first2=Bondita|date=17 October 2021|title=Amid Flames and Gunfire, They Were Evicted From Where They Called Home|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/world/asia/india-assam-muslim-evictions.html|access-date=26 January 2022}} Times of India;{{Cite news|last=Choudhury|first=Sushmita|date=6 December 2021|title=What is AFSPA and why is it controversial?|work=Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/what-is-afspa-and-why-is-it-controversial/articleshow/88126265.cms|access-date=26 January 2022}} The Statesman (India);{{Cite news|last=Chowdhury|first=Prasenjit|date=20 December 2021|title=Of outrageous fortune|work=The Statesman|url=https://www.thestatesman.com/opinion/of-outrageous-fortune-1503031682.html|access-date=26 January 2022}} TRT World;{{Cite news|last=Bagchi|first=Suvojit|date=11 August 2021|title=Unrest in India's northeastern frontier may morph into a big problem|work=TRT World|url=https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/unrest-in-india-s-northeastern-frontier-may-morph-into-a-big-problem-49109|access-date=26 January 2022}} The Indian Express;{{Cite news|last=Agarwala|first=Tora|date=28 September 2021|title=Explained: Assam's conflict over land|work=The Indian Express|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/assam-sipajhar-eviction-drive-violence-police-civilians-protests-7536183/|access-date=26 January 2022}} Scroll.in;{{Cite news|last=Saikia|first=Arunabh|date=15 March 202|title=In Assamese heartland, those who fought BJP's citizenship law are now voting for 'development'|work=Scroll.in|url=https://scroll.in/article/989524/in-assamese-heartland-those-who-fought-bjps-citizenship-law-are-now-voting-for-development|access-date=26 January 2022}}{{Cite news|last=Saikia|first=Arunabh|date=27 March 2021|title=Interview: Sanjib Baruah on Assam elections, identity politics and the 'cash-transfer state'|work=Scroll.in|url=https://scroll.in/article/990541/interview-sanjib-baruah-on-assam-elections-identity-politics-and-the-cash-transfer-state|access-date=27 January 2022}} The Wire (India);{{Cite news|last=Bose|first=Tapan Kumar|date=27 September 2018|title=The Economic Basis of Assam's Linguistic Politics and Anti-Immigrant Movements|work=The Wire|url=https://thewire.in/politics/the-economic-basis-of-assams-linguistic-politics-and-anti-immigrant-movements|access-date=26 January 2022}} and Al Jazeera English.{{Cite news|last=Ameen|first=Furquan|date=25 March 2021|title='Stress on Hindu identity': BJP hate campaign in poll-bound Assam|work=Al Jazeera English|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/25/stress-on-hindu-identity-bjp-hate-campaign-in-poll-bound-assam|access-date=26 January 2022}}

• 2021 ICAS Book Prize, Most Accessible and Captivating Work for the Non-Specialist Reader Accolade, from the International Convention of Asia Scholars{{cite web |title=In the Name of the Nation |url=https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29094&promo=S22XAHA-FM |website=Stanford University Press |access-date=27 January 2022}}

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• {{cite AV media|last1=Baruah|first2=Sanjib|author2=Rebecca|date=27 November 2008|title=Sanjib Baruah Interview part 1

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• {{Cite web|title=Sanjib Baruah Books|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Sanjib+Baruah%22|website=Google Scholar}}
• [https://www.thehindu.com/books/the-anxiety-of-incompleteness-an-extract-from-sanjib-baruahs-in-the-name-of-the-nation-india-and-its-northeast/article30819834.ece The anxiety of incompleteness: An extract from Sanjib Baruah's In the Name of the Nation: India and Its Northeast] (The Hindu, February 15, 2020)

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