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Sanjib Baruah

The writer is professor of political studies, Bard College, New York

CAA-led narrative on religious persecution ignores political specificity, nuance in neighbourhood
Wed, Jan 22, 2020

India’s new official narrative is, at complete variance with the understanding that has informed Indian foreign policy so far. If Hindus were equally persecuted in East Pakistan/Bangladesh both before and after it broke away from Pakistan, why did India even bother to intervene in the war of liberation?

Protesters’ fears about CAA founded on history, accumulated experience
Tue, Dec 17, 2019

This is not the first time that a major country has adopted an ideology-driven refugee policy. There are lessons to be drawn from the experience of countries that had adopted similar policies before.

Defining thousands as non-citizens will create a new form of precarious citizenship — people with fewer rights, entitlements
Sat, Aug 31, 2019

India is unlikely to deport to Bangladesh people who fail NRC test. But the millions who will become non-citizens will have fewer rights

The fire in Assam
Tue, Jan 15, 2019

Many view the citizenship amendment bill as a betrayal of BJP’s poll promise

Winning the neighbourhood
Fri, Nov 02, 2018

India has displayed an ample supply of national self-confidence and pride in recent years. But the self-confidence has not translated into good public policy.

The missing 4,007,707
Thu, Aug 02, 2018

Can a democracy permit so many to be in a state of liminal legality? NRC poses a political and moral question

A lesson from Arunachal Pradesh
Fri, Jul 20, 2018

Debate over the state’s anti-conversion law points to the need to give more attention to religious change from the perspective of the ‘converted’.

Citizens, non-citizens, minorities
Thu, Jun 28, 2018

Updating of the National Register of Citizens in Assam and the Citizenship Amendment Bill could lead to a redrawing of the demographic map of South Asia, give new life to the discredited two-nation theory.

Stateless in Assam
Fri, Jan 19, 2018

Thousands could be declared non-citizens when the National Register of Citizens is finalised. Since their deportation is an almost impossible option, the focus will be on the detention policy.

How we define Assam’s flood problem
Sat, Aug 26, 2017

... is crucial to any attempts towards addressing it. It will require a careful consideration of the history of the state’s complex encounter with floods

Who can become an Indian citizen?
Mon, Nov 28, 2016

Partition’s long shadow is evident on the Citizenship Amendment Bill, which seeks to introduce a religious distinction in the law. It must be debated

A battle lost, a war to be won
Sat, Aug 20, 2016

Her supporters in Manipur and elsewhere should thank Irom Sharmila for her extraordinary sacrifice and move on with their campaign against AFSPA without her iconic presence.

In the Northeast, an uneasy new alliance
Thu, Jul 14, 2016

Launch of NEDA notwithstanding, BJP remains prone to ideological grandstanding in the region.

BJP’s win in Assam resulted from a consolidation, across faultlines, on the issue of citizenship
Thu, Jun 02, 2016

The keyword in BJP’s election campaign in Assam was khilonjia — a non-Sanskritic word that means original inhabitant, indigenous or autochthonous.

The Great Game in the East
Sat, Apr 23, 2016

How geopolitics and geography shaped the idea of the Northeast.

New election, old scars
Wed, Mar 23, 2016

Veterans of the Assam Movement now fight polls. But the bitterness — and the issues — linger on.

A pseudo peace
Tue, Aug 11, 2015

Has the Naga insurgency, India’s oldest, really ended? It is too soon to say.

The Nagas of India and Myanmar
Thu, May 14, 2015

Delhi will not succeed in dealing with Khaplang if it fails to understand Naypyidaw’s new priorities.

Reimagining Dimapur
Wed, Mar 18, 2015

Lynching episode underlines the need to bring in a politics based not just on memories of shared ethnic pasts, but the vision of a common future.

Upstream superpowers
Fri, Dec 05, 2014

Chinese and Indian policies on river systems are more alike than different

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