Dr. Partha Pratim Bora

Teaching Experience:

Working as Associate Professor and Head In-Charge, Department of Sociology, Birangana Sati Sadhani Rajyik Vishwavidyalaya from 01/08/2023 to date.
Worked as Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Dibrugarh University from 22-03-2013 to 31/07/2023. (Presently on lien)
Worked as Guest faculty for teaching in UGC-Net Coaching in the Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, organised by AAEO Cell, for the period of 1 month from 1 October 2010 to 31 October 2010.
Worked as Guest faculty for teaching in UGC-Net Coaching in the Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, organised by AAEO Cell, for the period of 1 month from 1 November 2012 to 30 November 2012.

Research Experience

Worked as a Research Assistant in the project entitled ‘Sociology of Health and Medicine’ funded by UGC-CAS (University Grant Commission-Centre for Advanced Studies Programme) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, for a period of 8 months from 01-08-2011 to 31-03-2012. (8 Months)

2024. ‘Living with the Aadhaar: India’s Changing Contours of Identity and Governance. Indian Journal of Public Administration. Vol 70, No 3, pp 615-620. https://doi.org/10.1177/00195561241257460 (Sage Publication, UGC Care Listed)
2024. ‘Regionalism’ and its contestations: changing political discourse in contemporary Assam, India Review, Vol 23, Issue 3, pp. 197-222. (Taylor and Francis, Scopus and Web of Science Indexed)
2023. ‘Local Self-governance in Sixth Scheduled Areas of Assam: Constitutional and Political Challenges’, Indian Journal of Public Administration, Vol 69, Issue 3, pp 692-697. (Sage Publication, UGC Care Listed)
2022. ‘Understanding Political Shift in Bodoland: Peace Accord, Fractured Identity and the Rising Tide of Saffron’ in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol LVII, No 33, pp 26-29. (Scopus Indexed)
2022. “Ethnicity and Fragmented Identity: Diverse forms of identity formation among the Misings of Assam,” Asian Ethnicity, Vol 23, No 1, pp 66-89. DOI:10.1080/14631369.2020.1757403. (Taylor and Francis, Scopus Indexed)

Book Chapters (Selected)

2022. ‘Ethnic Identity and Language: Articulation and Contestations of Ethnic Identity among the Misings of Assam’, in K.Kokho, Athikho Kaisu and Daili Neli (eds.) Tribes of Northeast India: Orality, Migration and Epistemology. Jaipur and New Delhi: Rawat Publications.
2022. ‘Contextualising Democratic Governance in Bodoland: Changes and Challenges’, in M. Amarjeet Singh (ed.) Autonomy and Democratic Governance in Northeast India. London and New York: Routledge, pp 69-90. (Scopus Indexed)
2020. Development and Land: Processes of Adverse Inclusion of Tribe in Assam, in Borthakur, B.N. and Hriday Ranjan Kalita (eds.) Social Exclusion and Challenges of Inclusion in India. Guwahati:: Delhi: DVS Publishers.
2019. Accommodating Diversity and Asymmetrical Federalism: Discourses of Federal Governance from the Northeast India in Tyagi, Ruchi, Sunita Mangla and Nivedita Giri (Eds.), Glocalisation and Federal Governance in India: Understanding the Emerging Issues, New Delhi: Bloomsbury.
2018. Sociology of Northeast India: Empirical Reality and Disciplinary Practice (Introduction) in Jyoti Prasad Saikia and Partha Pratim Borah (Ed.); 2018; Sociology of Northeast India: Empirical Reality and Disciplinary Practice; Guwahati: DVS Publisher..
2018. Northeast India: Historical Evolution and Diverse Conceptualisations of a Region in Jyoti Prasad Saikia and Partha Pratim Borah (Eds.); Sociology of Northeast India: Empirical Reality and Disciplinary Practice; Guwahati: DVS Publisher.

E-Content Publications:

The following essays are included in the Module ‘Contemporary Social Theory’ under the course on Sociology under E-PG Pathshala, an online MHRD project under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT)
Introductory Overview of the Frankfurt School
Neo-Marxist Perspectives: Louis Althusser
Class, Culture and Power: Pierre Bourdieu I
Class, Culture and Power: Pierre Bourdieu II
Class, Culture and Power: Slavoj Zizek

Co-Edited

Jyoti Prasad Saikia and Partha Pratim Borah (Edited.); 2018; Sociology of Northeast India: Empirical Reality and Disciplinary Practice; Guwahati: DVS Publisher.
Edited Sociology Text Book, Class XI, Assam Higher Secondary Education Council.

Miranda Chetia was awarded M.Phil. on ‘Gender and Marginalisation: Feminisation of Work in Tea Plantation of Assam with Special Reference to Lengrai Tea Estate of Dibrugarh District of Assam’ at the Department of Sociology, Dibrugarh University, 2022.

Awarded UGC-JRF in December, 2009.
Qualified in ICMR-JRF in 2011
Awarded Gold Medal for securing Highest CGPA in the M.A. Sociology in Tezpur University, 2010.
First Class First with Distinction and declared Best Arts Graduate of Dibrugarh University, 2008, for securing the highest marks among all the candidates of B.A. (Arts) of Dibrugarh University.
Awarded “UGC-Post Graduate Merit Scholarship for Rank Holders, 2008-2010”.
Awarded a Citation and a medal by North-east India Geographical Society for securing the Highest marks in Geography (major) in the B.A./B.Sc Exam in 2008 among all the candidates of all the universities of Assam.

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