Playing with Nature

Sajal Nag teaches Modern History at Assam Central University. Earlier he was associated with the North-Eastern Hill University and the Centre for Social Studies, Surat.

1. India’s North-east: An Enigmatic Absence in History and Cartography 2. Marsh, Rice and Faith: Aspects of Environmental and Religious Changes in the Early Medieval Surma-Barak Valley 3. Man, Nature and State in Pre-Colonial Kachar 4. Environment and War: Small Wars in North-east India, 1845-1913 5. The Coming of British Forestry in Assam in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: Initiatives and Problems 6. The Ecological and Social Watershed: Colonial Intervention and Forest Use in Assam 7. Forests, Fields and Pasture: Environmental and Revenue Debates of Land Usage in Colonial Assam in 1910-1920 8. Colonialism and Deforestation in Naga Hills 9. State Science, Hegemony and Shifting the Cultivator: Contesting the ‘Anti-modernity’ Discourse on Shifting Cultivation in South Asia 10. Land Use/Land Cover Change and its Impact on Climate in the Barak Valley, Assam 11. Rain, Rain, Come Again: History of Rainfall, Deforestation and Water Scarcity in Cherrapunji, the Rainiest Spot in the Globe 12. Challenging Times, Challenged Body: Decolonization, Displacement and Disease among East Pakistani Refugees in South Assam, 1947-1954 13. The Empire as a World of Sport: Aspects of Hunting in Colonial Assam, c. 1850-1900 14. Colonizing the Wild: British Policies towards Wildlife in Assam, 1874-1947 15. Encountering Floods: Colonial State and the Flood of 1916 in the Surma-Barak Valley of Assam 16. Environmental Impact of the Great Earthquakes of 1897 and 1950 on North East India 17. Mythology as a Protest Narrative: A Lepcha Tale