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- EROTEME11 In Conversation with Prof. Sanjay Barbora (contd.)
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- EROTEME19 ck by the flowers, but weirdly critical of the rest of the wild foliage in their conservative views of a garden. Nevertheless, it was thriving amongst the rows of concrete. Lying on the moist soil with my hands under my head, I was almost content with my garden, almost because I was only wishing, stubbornly like a child my age would, for that one corner to be housed with the summer dream of a mango tree; after all, I shared history with such a tree.
- EROTEME20 devtas and asuras where there were only…things, or no-things. Though there was some sense in locating impurities caused by a bathroom near our kitchen or mandir But my parents acknowledged him immediately by estimating the cost of redoing much of our home. It would resolve our circumstances. And as long as I got to hear prospects of a room to myself, I was happy.
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EROTEME
In Conversation with Prof. Sanjay Barbora (contd.)
nature, which I guess comes with having a multi-campus university with a centralised financial reporting system. This meant an acute shortage of people to teach and do administrative work that is essential for a good academic experience for students and teachers. Hopefully, this will change.
We’d also love to know about the kind of research you are currently working on. What questions or themes have been occupying your attention lately?
ations. This edited book will include some very important authors who have worked on plantations in their lifetimes and will map the kinds of interesting areas emerging from these studies.
My fifth book project is an edited handbook on Northeast India. I am working with Sanjib Baruah and Dolly Kikon to produce a handbook that includes both new and older research on the region, in an effort to amplify the complex and diverse layers of history and politics that exist here.
It’s a busy time, to be sure.
I have a longoverdue book peacebuilding reconciliation on and that will hopefully be out for peer review at the end of this year.
For me, the governmentdriven emphasis on traditional Indian knowledge, often at the How do you see the future of social science evolving coming research in the years, especially in South Asia?
I am also consolidating on some exciting research on sovereignty in food the Eastern
Himalayan region that I was engaged in with Bengt Karlsson, Dolly Kikon, Dixita Deka, expense of the influence of Islam and Christianity and their contributions to the diversity of Indian culture, is unlikely to yield anything intellectually honest and inclusive.
It is hard to tell, especially in India.
For me, the government-driven emphasis on traditional
Indian knowledge, often at the expense of the influence of Islam and Christianity and Meenal Tula, and Joel Rodrigues. I am working on a book on pollution, pests, and people in Assam that emerged from this study, and I their contributions to the diversity of Indian culture, is unlikely to yield anything intellectually honest and inclusive.
should have a proposal out this year.
I also plan to consolidate my earlier work on territorial autonomy in Northeast India for OUP India’s Short Introduction Series.
Read More on our website There is a fourth book project with Prof Mythri Jegathesan on 21st-century plant-
In countries like Bhutan and Nepal, there is an emerging interest in more-thanhuman worlds, particularly in relation to climate change. This is an exciting new area of research that we can look forward to.
Both the Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan ac-