Publications

Becoming Assamese | Colonialism and New Subjectivities in Northeast InThis book explores the making of colonial Northeast India and offers a new perspective to the study of the Assamese identity in the nineteenth century as a

Books and Monographs

2016. Madhumita Sengupta, Becoming Assamese: Colonialism and New Subjectivities in Northeast India, Routledge, New York, London, India

(https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315560274/becoming-assamese-madhumita-sengupta)

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560274

2014. Madhumita Sengupta, ‘Of Alienations: State, Temples and the Elite in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth -century Assam’, Occasional Paper 186, Centre For Studies in Social Sciences (CSSSC), Calcutta, 2014.

https://www.cssscal.org/pdf/publication/op_list_2.pdf

Papers in Edited Volumes

2017. Madhumita Sengupta, 2017. ‘Representing Kamrupi: Ideologies of Grammar and the Question of Linguistic Boundaries’ in Rita Kothari ed. A Multilingual Nation: Translation in the Indian Context, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-multilingual-nation-9780199478774?cc=in&lang=en
2017. Madhumita Sengupta, 2017. ‘Beyond Language: Envisioning Alternative Nationalities in Nineteenth-century Assam’ in Blending Region and Nation: Essays in Honour of Prof Amalendu Guha, (eds.) Sajal Nag and Ishrat Alam, Primus, New Delhi. http://primusbooks.com/blending-nation-region/
2023. Madhumita Sengupta, 'The Assam-Bengal Railways and Socio-Spatial Changes in Indian Himalayan Region', Handbook of the Himalayas: Environments, Developments and Wellbeings (Routledge), Edited by Ben Campbell, Mary Cameron, and Tanka B. Subba.

Popular pieces

Madhumita Sengupta, Gujarat 2022: contestation or reconciliation? Date of publication: 2022/12/9

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Journal Articles

Madhumita Sengupta, "The Historical Trajectory of Modern Assam": A Review of The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942–2000 by Arupjyoti Saikia, New Delhi: Penguin, 2023; pp 852, `1,299, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 58, Issue 45-46, 2023 (November 11, 2023) https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/45-46

https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/45-46/book-reviews/historical-trajectory-modern-assam.html

2023. Madhumita Sengupta, 'Scaling the Everest: Radhanath Sikdar and his Contributions to mathematical Computing', Bhavna, The mathematics magazine, Vol. 7, Issue 1.
2022. Madhumita Sengupta and Shreya Sen, 'Commercialization of Bengali Food: Insights into Caste, Class and Commensality in Colonial Bengal, Social History (Taylor and Francis), Vol 47, Issue 2,

https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2022.2044212

2021. Madhumita Sengupta and Jahnu Bharadwaj, 'Empire Remembered: The Intimate Economy of Tea in Assam and the Making of "Chameli Memsaab", Postcolonial Studies (Taylor and Francis) , Vol. 26, Issue 2, 2023

https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2021.1989816

2020-21. Madhumita Sengupta, 'Becoming Hindu: The cultural politics of writing religion in colonial Assam', Contributions to Indian Sociology (Sage) 55, 1 (2021): 59–88
https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966720971723
2019-2020. Madhumita Sengupta & Jahnu Bharadwaj , ‘Caste census and the impact of colonial sociology in British Assam’, Asian Ethnicity (Taylor and Francis), 22, 4 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2019.1709802
2012. Madhumita Sengupta, ‘War of Words: Language and Policies in Nineteenth-Century Assam’, Indian Historical Review (Sage), 39, 2 (2012): 293-315.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0376983612461420

2012. Madhumita Sengupta, ‘Orienting Progress? Some Aspects of Education in Nineteenth - Century Assam’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol XLVII No 29, July 21, 2012

https://www.epw.in/journal/2012/29/special-articles/orienting-progress.html

2006. Madhumita Sengupta, ‘The Historiography on the Formation of Assamese Identity: A Review’, Journal of Peace and Democracy in South Asia, vol. 2, Nos. 1&2, 2006, pp. 121-134; available at http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/pdsa and https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/229189/pdsa_02_01_07.pdf?sequence=2.

Reprinted in The NEHU Journal, vol.IV, Nos. 1& 2, 2006, pp. 13-24.

2006. Madhumita Sengupta, Book Review of ‘The Transformation of Assamese Identity: A Historical Survey’ by Udayon Misra, H.K. Barpujari Endowment Lecture (4), The North East India History Association, Shillong, 2001, Published The Calcutta Historical Journal, Vol. 26, No.1, January-June, 2006, pp. 91-95.