symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Sanjib Baruah, Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, New York

• CONNECTED HISTORIES
  Yasmin Saikia, Professor of History, Arizona State University, Tempe

• 'returns' to the past: violence, counter-memory and ethics
  Amit R. Baishya, Assistant Professor of English, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana

• ASSAMESE FOOD AND THE POLITICS OF TASTE
  Zilkia Janer, Associate Professor of Global Studies and Geography, Hofstra University, New York

• DEMOCRACY, DISSENT, DIVIDES
  Subir Bhaumik, former BBC correspondent and author, Guwahati

• THE BODOLAND VIOLENCE AND THE POLITICS OF EXPLANATION 
  Banajit Hussain, researcher and Fellow, Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA), Delhi

• WHAT'S UP WITH THE TERRITORIAL COUNCIL? 
  Åshild Kolås, Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway

• ASSAM'S LANGUAGE WARRIORS 
  Nabanipa Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi

• CIVIL SOCIETY POLITICS 
  Nandana Dutta, Professor of English, Gauhati University, Guwahati

• CHANGING TRENDS OF ELECTORAL POLITICS 
  Sandhya Goswami, Professor of Political Science, Gauhati University

• AFTER COUNTER-INSURGENCY: POLICING DISSENT IN ASSAM
  Sanjay Barbora, Associate Professor, TISS North Eastern Regional Centre, Guwahati

• OF ENDS AND BEGINNINGS: WAR, PEACE AND THE INTERREGNUM
  Rakhee Kalita, Associate Professor of English, Cotton College, Guwahati

• THE FICTION OF ASSAMESE AUGUSTS
  Aruni Kashyap, MFA candidate, Minnesota State University, Mankato

• the persistence of the rural
  Amiya Sharma, Executive Director, Rashtriya Gramin Vikas NIdhi, Guwahati

• HYDROPOWER, MEGA DAMS, AND THE POLITICS OF RISK 
  Sanjib Baruah, Professor of Political Studies, Bard College, New York

• FURTHER READING 
  A select and relevant bibliography compiled by Uddipan Dutta, Research Associate, Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati

• BOOKS 
  Reviewed by S. Mitra Kalita, Abikal Borah, Uddipan Dutta, Gunnel Cederläf, Erik de Maaker, Sanjib Baruah and Mitra Phukan

• COMMENT 
  Received from Kallol Bhattacherjee, 'The Week', Delhi

• COMMUNICATION 
  Received from Aditya Nigam, CSDS, Delhi

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