Department of English

Dr. Manash Pratim Borah

Associate Professor (HOD)

MA(TU), PhD(AU)
Phone: 7628930306
Email: drmanashptborah@bssrv.ac.in/
manashpratim100@gmail.com
Areas of Interest::

• Indian Writing in English, Writings from Northeast India, Non-Fictional Prose, South Asian Fiction, Critical Theory, Poetry

Publications:

Book Chapters:

1. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Subaltern Mentality and Literary Engagements”. Literatures from Northeast India: Beyond the Centre-Periphery Debate. Ed. Prof. Baharul Ishlam, Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group: London and New York, 2022.
2. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Narratives of Violence and Northeastern Terror Lore: A Reading of Select Fictional Writings from North-East India.” Indian Fiction in English: Mapping the Contemporary Literary Landscape. Eds. Sajal Kumar Bhattacharya, Arnab Kumar Sinha and Himadri Lahiri, Creative Books, New Delhi, 2014, pp. 339- 350.
3. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Identity, Dislodgement and Memory Politics: A Reading of Context-sensitivity/Context-free, Reflexive/Self-Reflexive in Select Non-Fictional Prose of A. K. Ramanujan.” Discourse on Marginality: Identity, Diaspora and Other Issues. Eds. Manash Pratim Borah and Dr. Deepak Nanaware, Wizcraft Publications & Distribution PVT LTD, 2013, pp. 9-26.
4. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Narratives of Violence and North-Eastern Socio-Political Experiences: A Reading of Select Fictional Writings from North-East India.” Socio- Economic Development in North-East India: A Comprehensive Approach. Ed. Dr. Jayanta Baruah, Krantikaal Publication, 2012, pp. 1-22.
5. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Cosmological Arguments in Bezbaruah’s Tattva-Katha: A Critical Assessment.” Lakshminath Bezbaruah: a critical spectrum. Ed. Dipak Jyoti Baruah, Sri Ganesh Printers and Publication, 2014, pp. 99-108.
6. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Whose discourses are these...?- The Gender Genealogy and Women Issues in Northeast India: Questions of Tradition and Cultural Identity. Ed. Dr. Jayanta Baruah, APPOCCUS, Cotton College, 2015, pp. 1-10.
7. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Identity, Identity Politics and Diaspora: towards a theory mediated paradigm.” Identity: Critical Perspectives. Ed. Nizara Kazarika, Olympia Prakashan, 2016, pp. 48-66.
8. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Reimagining Northeast: Encountering Ethnicity and Geopolitical Ordering.” The New Renaissance: Poetics and Politics of Resistance in Contemporary Literature, Culture and Society. Eds. Pranjal Dutta and Himadri Gogoi, Unika Prakashan, 2017, pp. 1-36.

Journals:

1. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Assamese Biography: Historical Transformation and Socio- cultural Transactions.” JLLC, Vol. II, May, 2019.
2. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Poet as Striders: The Diasporic Sensibilities in A.K. Ramanujan’s Early Poetry.” JLCMS, Vol. IV, 7 & 8, Jan-Dec., 2012, pp. 205-217.
3. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Major Themes in Early Poetry of Dom Moraes: A Study of Collected Poem 1954-2004.” RS: JASC, Vol.- III, Issue 2 (4), April 2012, pp. 71-78.
4. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Influence and Individuality in Indian Poetry in English: Postcolonial Reading of Selected poems of Kamala Das, K.N. Daruwalla, R. Parthasarathy and A.K. Ramanujan.” ELT Voices, Volume 2 Issue 2, April 2012, pp.- 12-27.
5. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Is a Uniform Curriculum Possible: The Clash Between Needs- based and Means-based Curriculums and Ideal Language Courses.” ELT Weekly, Vol.4 Issue 15, April 9, 2012.
6. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Representation of Memory and Orality in Writings about the Karbis of Assam: A Comparative Reading of Rongbong Terrang’s “Smiling Village” and Maushumi Kandali’s “Crossroads of Mukindon.” CRI, Vol. 2, Issue 2: June, 2012, pp. 1-10.
7. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Modern Indian English Poetry and Tradition.” The Criterion, Vol. III Issue. II, June 2012.
8. Borah, Manash Pratim. “...amnesia is a curse: Ramanujan Notions of Identity and Memory: A reading of Dialectic Between Reflexivity/Self-Reflexivity, Context- sensitivity/Context-free in Select Non-Fictional Prose of A.K. Ramanujan.” RS: JASC, Vol.- III, Issue 3 (1), July 2012, pp. 34-40.
9. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Voices of Violence and North Eastern Terror Lore: A Reading of Selected Poems from North-East India.” RS: JASC, Vol. 3, Issue 2, August, 2012, pp. 6-11.
10. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Queer Ethnicity and the Birth of Intercultural Ethnoscapes: A Reading of Identity Politics in Select Fictional Narratives from Northeast India.” CRI, Vol. 2, Issue 3: September, 2012, pp. 13-19.
11. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Where Have the Two Sights Gone?: The Deceptive Simplicity of Ramanujan’s Early Poetry and the Notion of Transcendent Identity.” WJLL. Vol. I, Issue-I, September, 2012, pp. 126-132.
12. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Narratives of Marginality and Border Aesthetics: A Reading of the Dialectics of Politics of Identity and Postpositivist Realism in Select Poetic Voices from Northeast India”, WJLL. Vol. I, Issue-II, December, 2012, pp. 1-9.
13. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Cultural Alienation and the Search for Roots: Reading Positioning/Positionality, Identification/Identity in Select Poetic Voices from Northeast India.” CRI, Vol. 2, Issue 4: December, 2012, pp. 166-175.
14. Borah, Manash Pratim. “Ethnic Boundary and the Birth of Intercultural Ethnoscapes: Discourse of Assamese Identity and the Minority/Mainstream Dichotomy.” WHC, Vol. II, Issue II, March, 2015, pp. 21-26.

Books:

1. Borah, Manash Pratim. Ethnicity, Identity and Literature: Reading Literatures from North East India. DVS Publishers, 2013. ISBN 978-81-86307-69-4
2. Borah, Manash Pratim. Kuri Goraki Engraj Kobi. Sandra Prakash: Guwahati, 2008. ISBN 13978-81-244-0009-8
3. (with Mrinal Kumar Baruah) Borah, Dr. Manash Pratim. Baktrita-Kala. Srimanta Saknaradeva Sangha, 2023. ISBN 978-93-93505-85-9

Books (Edited):

1. (with Dr. Deepak Nanaware) Borah, Manash Pratim. Discourse on Marginality: Identity, Diaspora and Other Issues. Wizcraft Publications & Distribution PVT LTD: Mumbai, 2013. ISBN 978-93-83183-07-4
2. (with Dr. Deepak Nanaware) Manash Pratim Borah. Narrativizing the Margin: Border and Beyond. Wizcraft Publications & Distribution PVT LTD: Mumbai, 2013. ISBN 978-93-83183-00-5
3. Borah, Manash Pratim. Chief Editor. Eds. Dr. Bhuboneswar Deka, Bhagawati Sankaradevor Sahitya: Adhyan aru Anusandhan. Srimanta Sankaradeva Sangha. 2022. ISBN: 978-93-93505-37-8
4. (with Mrinal Kumar Baruah) Borah, Manash Pratim. Editor. Mukheswar Saikia: Byaktittwa Aru Kreetitya. Srimanta Sankaradeva Sangha. 2022. ISBN: 978-93-93505- 62-0
5. Borah, Manash Pratim, Chief Editor. Eds. Dr. Bhuboneswar Deka, Dr. Akhil Kumar Gogoi, Priyanka Bhagawati. Sankaradevar Sahitya aru Setonat Bigyan Manaskata. Srimanta Sankaradeva Sangha. 2023. ISBN: 978-93-93505-82-8

Awards, Fellowships and Achievements:

1. Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellowship 2018, supported by the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India.
2. Associateship of the U. G. C. Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences (IUC) for the Year 2018, functioning at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla.
3. SLET
4. Literary Excellence Award (Sahitya Utkarsha Bota), Trilingual Literary Forum.