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Biosketch
Appointments
July 2024 - Present : Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, Kerala.
May 2023 - Jun 2024 : Postdoctoral Fellow, Moturi Satyanaranaya Centre, Krea University, Sri City, A.P.
Mar 2023 - May 2023 : Archives Project Associate, Archives of Contemporary India, Ashoka University, Haryana.
Education
PhD (History) (2016 - 2022) : Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati.
MA (Development) (2012- 2014) : Azim Premji University, Bangalore.
BSc (Mathematics) (2003 - 2006) : University of Delhi, New Delhi.
Fellowships/Grants
Charles Wallace India Trust Short Term Travel Grant, 2022.
Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellowship, 2019-2020.
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Additional Information
TitlePublicationsDescription
Journal Articles
Sarmah, Biswajit. 2024. ‘Empire, Nature and Agrarian World: A History of Rhino Preservation in the Kaziranga Game Reserve (1902–1938)’, Environment and History 30 (3): 371–394 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.3197/096734023X16702350656960
Sarmah, Biswajit. 2023. ‘Reinventing Nature in Kaziranga National Park: A History of Rhinoceros Conservation in Assam, 1948–1974’, Conservation and Society 21 (2): 133–143, | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4103/cs.cs_143_21
Book Review
Jonathan Saha, Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), Seminar, Vol. 760, December 2022.
Opinion Piece
Sarmah, Biswajit. 20 March 2023. ‘How India’s First Conservation Success Came to Be?’, The India Forum | https://www.theindiaforum.in/environment/how-indias-first-conservation-success-came-be
