Graduate Research Meet 2024
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Guwahati is a centre for research and teaching composed of academics from eleven different disciplines: Economics, English, Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, History, Archaeology, Political Science, Geography, Development Studies. With its varied range of research interests and expertise, the department promotes interdisciplinary work in humanities and social sciences, offering projects, supervision and fellowships aimed to attract students and researchers from diverse academic and cultural backgrounds. Apart from its undergraduate B.Tech taught courses which include uniquely designed content offered by members of faculty, the department offers highly interdisciplinary areas of expertise and investigation in its MA and PhD programmes.
In the Btech program the Department of HSS offers compulsory elective courses for 24 credits. Electives are offered in 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th semesters only. Each individual course is of 6 credits.
MA in Development Studies
MA in Liberal Arts
The PhD programme of the department is an area of vibrant research pursuit.
The Deptartment supports advanced scholars with the Institute Post Doctoral Fellowship (IPDF) programme...
Shilpa Krishnan and Sambit Mallick " The Forest Rights Act and Adivasi landlessness in Kerala", Journal of Asian and African Studies , [2024]
Prasenjit Barik, Rajshree Bedamatta " Crop Diversification in India (1990-2016): Implications for the Eastern and Northeastern States", Asia Pacific Journal of Rural Development , [2024]
Deepankar Basu, Debarshi Das, Subhankar Mukherjee " A Neoclassical Theory of Labor Exploitation: Some Comments", Review of Radical Political Economics , [2024]
Anshul Kumar, Agnirup Sarkar and Bodhisattwa Sengupta " Monetary and Fiscal Policy Impacts on the Indian Sovereign Bond Market: A VAR Approach", South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance , [2024]
Anshul Kumar, Agnirup Sarkar, Bodhisattva Sengupta " Monetary and Fiscal Policy Impacts on the Indian Sovereign Bond Market: A VAR Approac", South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance , [2024]
R. Ghatak and N. Kipgen " Agriculture, Livelihood and Vulnerability: A Case Study of the Char Dwellers in Bankura District, West Bengal", Indian Journal of Human Development , [2024]
Jitendra Kumar1 * , Sukanya Sharma2 *, Rajveer Sharma3 and Sundeep Chopra3 1 Dept. of Ancient History, Culture & Archaeology, Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, Bihar 803111, India, 2 Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam 781039, India and 3 Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi 110067, India " AMS 14C Dating of the Sites of Digaru-Kolong River Valley, Assam-Meghalaya Foothills, India", Radiocarbon , [2024]
Bayan, Baban and Mrinal Kanti Dutta " Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Dairy Farms in Rural Assam: A Double Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis Approach", International Journal of Rural Management , [2024]
Kechu, Opangienla, Som, Bidisha, Benites, Luis and Maehara, Rocío " CAN CULTURAL DISTANCE BE A FACTOR IN BILINGUAL PROCESSING? REPORT FROM PRIMED TRANSLATION RECOGNITION TASK OF RONGMEI-MEITEI BILINGUALS", Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics , [2024]
Rupam Bhaduri, Buri Vinodhkumar, Anamika Barua, K. Koteswara Rao, Sudhir Sabade and Arup Kumar Sarma " Unveiling Tomorrow’s Deluge: Investigating Precipitation Extremes in the Brahmaputra River Basin Using NEX‐GDDP Datasets", Water Conservation Science and Engineering , [2024]
Prasenjit Barik, Rajshree Bedamatta, Surjit Vikraman " Smallholders in contract farming value chain: Challenges and opportunities, empirical evidence from West Bengal, India", Journal of International Food and Agribusiness Marketing , [2024]
Surbhi Vyas, Anamika Barua, C. Mallikarjuna and Triambak Baghel " An integrated approach for managing drought risks in the eastern himalayan region of India", International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction , [2024]
Parismita Gogoi, Priyankoo Sarmah, SRM Prasanna " Cross-linguistic rhythm analysis of Mising and Assamese", ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing , [2024]
Vasundhara Jairath " Special Issue on Dispossession and Resistance in India and Mexico: Introduction", Journal of Developing Societies , [2024]
Deepen Naorem, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah " Embarking on a Preliminary Exploration: Cross-Lingual Embedding in English-Manipuri", International Journal of Asian Language Processing , [2024]
Prasenjit Barik, Rajshree Bedamatta " Is Contract Farming a Fair Practice for Smallholder Farmers? A Case Study of Potato Contract Farming from West Bengal, India", Journal of Contemporary Asia , [2024]
Farooq, R. & Tripathi, N. " The influence of business analytics on business performance: The role of dynamic capabilities", International Journal of Business Performance Management. , [2024]
Priyankoo Sarmah, Wendy Lalhminghlui " Acoustic Characteristics of Voiced and Voiceless Nasals in Mizo", Journal of Asian and African Studies, Supplement , [2024]
Viyazonuo Terhiija, Priyankoo Sarmah " Acoustics of Voiceless Nasals in Angami", Journal of Asian and African Studies, Supplement , [2024]
Ng Mawonthing and Debapriya Basu " "Animals are Killed by Their Spoor and Men by Their Words“: The Rhetoric of Speech and Silence in Phalee Proverbs", Proverbium , [2024]
Rituparna Patgiri " Contractualisation of Academic Labour", Economic and Political Weekly , [2024]
Rajshree Bedamatta, Mridusmita Bordoloi " India’s Missing Female Youth Labour Force: Size, Characteristics and Policy Concern", Indian Journal of Labour Economics , [2024]
Prabhu Venkataraman, Kago Kevin " JivanMukthi, Egoism and Passive Altruism", OMEGA-Indian Journal of Science and Religion , [2024]
Farooq, R., Lathabhavan, R. and Tripathi, N. " Guest editorial: Learning in hybrid workplace: past, present and future", The Learning Organization , [2024]
Sarthak Kumar Das and Sambit Mallick " Repossession through community participation: A study of Vrihi community seed bank in Odisha", Social Change , [2024]
Jnana Ranjan Prusty and Sambit Mallick " Powerloom in textile industry: A study of Siminoi powerloom cluster of Dhenkanal District in Odisha", Journal of Asian and African Studies , [2024]
Viyazonuo Terhiija, Priyankoo Sarmah " Voice onset time in Angami", Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area , [2024]
Deka, Chayasmita; Mrinal Kanti Dutta; Masoud Yazdanpanah and Nadejda Komendantova " When ‘Fear Factors’ Motivate People to Adopt Electric Vehicles in India: An Empirical Investigation of the Protection Motivation Theory", Cleaner and Responsible Consumption , [2024]
Sukanya Sharma " CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGERS: AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE", Legal News and Views , [2024]
Deepen Naorem, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah " Improving linear orthogonal mapping based cross-lingual representation using ridge regression and graph centrality", Computer Speech & Language , [2024]
Sumit Vij, Jeroen Warner, PhD; Anusha Mehta; Anamika Barua " Status quo in transboundary waters: unpacking non-decision making and non-action", Global Environmental Change , [2024]
Priyankoo Sarmah, Caroline R Wiltshire " Acoustic properties of the monophthongs of Assamese Indian English speakers", World Englishes , [2024]
Debapriya Basu " “Here doth Shee Mourne:” Epitaphic Compulsion in Isabella Whitney’s Lament upon William Gruffith’s Death", Women's Writing , [2024]
Hemanta Baruah, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah " Transliteration Characteristics in Romanized Assamese Language Social Media Text and Machine Transliteration", ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing , [2024]
Prabhu Venkataraman, Upamita Mukherjee " Re-evaluating the Alignment of Omnivorous Choice and Animal Farming with Sustainable Development: Insights from Care Ethics", Problems of Sustainable Development , [2024]
Rohit, Sukanya Sharma " Identifying anthropogenic and palaeoenvironmental markers of Holocene prehistoric assemblages of Northeast India: A case study of Khasi Hills (Meghalaya)", Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , [2024]
Bikash Das, Mihir Adhikary, Smriti Rekha Singha, Daksha Parmar " Who is Anaemic in India? Intersections of class, caste, and gender", Journal of Biosocial Science , [2024]
Viyazonuo Terhiija and Priyankoo Sarmah " Voice onset time in Angami", Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area , [2024]
Prasenjit Barik " Book review: Ashok Gulati, Ranjana Roy and Shweta Saini. Revitalising Indian Agriculture and Boosting Farmer Incomes", Indian Journal of Human Development , [2024]
Prasenjit Barik " Debates on Contract Farming Policy in India", Economic and Political Weekly , [2024]
Viyazonuo Terhiija and Priyankoo Sarmah " Acoustics of Voiceless Nasals in Angami", Journal of Asian and African Studies, Supplement , [2024]
Prasenjit Barik, Rajshree Bedamatta and Surjit Vikraman " Smallholders in contract farming value chain: Challenges and opportunities, empirical evidence from West Bengal, India", Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing , [2024]
Kago, Kevin, Venkataraman, Prabhu " Jivanmukti, Egoism, and Passive Altruism", Omega: Indian Journal of Science and Religion , [2024]
Prasenjit Barik and Rajshree Bedamatta " Crop Diversification in India (1990–2016): Implications for the Eastern and Northeastern States", Asia Pacific Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development , [2024]
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