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1

Legal Pluralism in Assam
Funding Agency : ICSSR-IMPRESS
Principal Investigator: SAWMYA RAY
Co-investigator: NA
Duration/Starting Year: 21-03-2019
Status: Ongoing

2

Speaker centric documentation of Phalee to understand generational language change and loss
Funding Agency : IIT Indore
Principal Investigator: Shakuntala Mahanta
Co-investigator: Debapriya Basu
Duration/Starting Year: 2024-08-01
Status: Ongoing

3

Determining normative nasalance and acoustic characteristics in low-resourced North-Eastern languages with applications to language technology and speech therapy
Funding Agency : SERB
Principal Investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Co-investigator: Rohit Sinha, Neeraj Sharma
Duration/Starting Year: 2024-07-18
Status: Ongoing

4

Bilingual experience in Heritage Language speakers and its impact on cognitive control
Funding Agency : DST
Principal Investigator: Bidisha Som
Co-investigator: None
Duration/Starting Year: 2023-09-25
Status: Ongoing

5

Integrated Track in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Funding Agency : European Union
Principal Investigator: Bidisha Som
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2023-05-01
Status: Ongoing

6

TransPath
Funding Agency : DUPC, The Netherlands
Principal Investigator: Anamika Barua
Co-investigator: Leon Herman
Duration/Starting Year: 2022-12-01
Status: Ongoing

7

Speech technology for North East Indian Languages
Funding Agency : MeITy
Principal Investigator: Rohit Sinha
Co-investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Duration/Starting Year: 2022-04-01
Status: Ongoing

8

Writing Histories of Pictorialism in India
Funding Agency : Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art
Principal Investigator: Ranu Roychoudhuri
Co-investigator: NA
Duration/Starting Year: 2021-03-01
Status: Ongoing

9

Waste-Work, Caste Stigma and Urban Precarity: Empirical evidences from Guwahati and Mumbai in India
Funding Agency : ICSSR-IMPRESS
Principal Investigator: Rahul Sakpal
Co-investigator: Prasad Khanolkar and Daksha Parmar
Duration/Starting Year: 2019-05-01
Status: Ongoing

10

A Survey of Morbidity and Mortality among Tea Garden Workers of Assam
Funding Agency : Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Government of Assam
Principal Investigator: Prof. Rajshree Bedamatta
Co-investigator: Dr Daksha Parmar
Duration/Starting Year: 2019-01-01
Status: Ongoing

11

Scientific Analysis of Pottery of some selected archaeological sites of West Bengal
Funding Agency : Centre for Archaeological Research and Training Eastern India
Principal Investigator: Sukanya Sharma
Co-investigator: None
Duration/Starting Year: 01-07-2017
Status: Ongoing

12

Pottery Making and its Prospects for Rural Employment: Kumar and Hira Communities
Funding Agency : Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR
Principal Investigator: Sukanya Sharma
Co-investigator: None
Duration/Starting Year: 01-03-2014
Status: Ongoing

13

The Examinations of Anne Askew Online (https://anne-askew.humanities.uva.nl/)
Funding Agency : IIT Guwahati
Principal Investigator: Debapriya Basu
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-02-2017
Status: Ongoing

14

Legal Responses to Domestic Violence: A Study in Assam
Funding Agency : Ministry of Law and Justice, GoI
Principal Investigator: SAWMYA RAY
Co-investigator: NA
Duration/Starting Year: 01-01-2019
Status: Ongoing

15

Creating Digital Learning Environment for Design in India : E-Kalpa
Funding Agency : MHRD
Principal Investigator: Ravi Mokashi-Punekar
Co-investigator: Rohini Mokashi- Punekar
Duration/Starting Year: 0000-00-00
Status: Ongoing

16

Introduction to Western Political Thought
Funding Agency : NPTEL
Principal Investigator: Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 0000-00-00
Status: Ongoing

17

India Election Studies (IES) Project, 2019
Funding Agency : Emory University Research Council, US
Principal Investigator: Co-PI
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 0000-00-00
Status: Ongoing

18

Mathematics for Economics - I
Funding Agency : NPTEL
Principal Investigator: Debarshi Das
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year:
Status: Ongoing

19

Indo-Korean joint project on Centre for depression diagnosis and medication adherence
Funding Agency : DBT
Principal Investigator: Dr. Hanumant Singh Shekhawat, IITG
Co-investigator: Dilwar Hussain, IITG; Dr. Gaurav Trivedi, IITG
Duration/Starting Year:
Status: Ongoing

1

Building Capacities in Eastern India
Funding Agency : IIT Guwahati
Principal Investigator: Pahi Saikia
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 31-12-2011
Status: Completed

2

Change and Continuity of Traditional Governance: A Study of Kuki Chieftainship in Manipur
Funding Agency : Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG), Start Up Grant
Principal Investigator: N. Kipgen
Co-investigator: -
Duration/Starting Year: 29-09-2014
Status: Completed

3

Climate change and Manipur: Input to State Action Plan on Climate Change
Funding Agency : Govt. of Manipur
Principal Investigator: Anamika Barua
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 27-02-2019
Status: Completed

4

Online Video Course on Ecology and Society
Funding Agency : MHRD (under CSS-MOOCs)
Principal Investigator: N. Kipgen
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 24-07-2017
Status: Completed

5

Brahmaputra Dialogue Phase III
Funding Agency : The World Bank
Principal Investigator: Anamika Barua
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 22-06-2018
Status: Completed

6

Acoustic and Tonal Features based Analysis of Mizo
Funding Agency : DeITy
Principal Investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Co-investigator: P K Das
Duration/Starting Year: 21-03-2013
Status: Completed

7

Prime Minister Awaas Yojana (PMAY) in Assam: A Study of its Reach and Impact
Funding Agency : Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi
Principal Investigator: Dr B Sengupta
Co-investigator: Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Duration/Starting Year: 2024-10-08
Status: Completed

8

Annotated Atlas of the Heritage Sites of Assam
Funding Agency : State Innovation and Transformation Agency (SITA)
Principal Investigator: Prof. Sukanya Sharma
Co-investigator: Heritage Conservation Society of Assam (HECSA)
Duration/Starting Year: 2023-03-01
Status: Completed

9

Political Economy of Land and Development in Assam
Funding Agency : ICSSR
Principal Investigator: Dr. Vasundhara Jairath
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2022-04-01
Status: Completed

10

Support for Transboundary hydro diplomacy course
Funding Agency : The Asia Foundation
Principal Investigator: Anamika Barua
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2021-09-09
Status: Completed

11

Online Video Course on Environment and Development
Funding Agency : MHRD (under CSS-MOOCs)
Principal Investigator: N. Kipgen
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2021-07-26
Status: Completed

12

Examining nature-society relations through urban infrastructure (Project-NATURE)
Funding Agency : KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator: Anamika Barua
Co-investigator: Dr. Timos Karpouzoglou
Duration/Starting Year: 2021-06-01
Status: Completed

13

Open Water Lab Diplomacy
Funding Agency : DUPC, IHE Delft, The Netherlands
Principal Investigator: Anamika Barua
Co-investigator: Dr. Emanuele Fantini
Duration/Starting Year: 2020-03-03
Status: Completed

14

Development of Speech Interface for Form-filling application (SiFA) in Five Indian languages
Funding Agency : MeITy & MHRD
Principal Investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Co-investigator: Abhishek Shrivastava, S R M Prasanna
Duration/Starting Year: 2017-08-21
Status: Completed

15

Local Language Interface and Pronunciation Dictionary for Hindi and English (LLIPD) System
Funding Agency : Speechwarenet Pvt Ltd
Principal Investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2015-03-12
Status: Completed

16

Emotional Cues and Prospective Memory: Evaulationg the role of Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
Funding Agency : DST
Principal Investigator: Naveen Kashyap
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2014-09-15
Status: Completed

17

An ethnolinguistic account of sensory perception among the Bodos in North East India.
Funding Agency : ICSSR-NWO
Principal Investigator: Bidisha Som
Co-investigator: Prof. Asifa Majid, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Duration/Starting Year: 2013-00-00
Status: Completed

18

Scheme for the Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages: sherdukpen
Funding Agency : CIIL
Principal Investigator: Bidisha Som
Co-investigator: None
Duration/Starting Year: 2013-00-00
Status: Completed

19

Linnaeus Palme International Exchange Programme (Planning grant)
Funding Agency : SASNET – Swedish South Asian Studies Network
Principal Investigator: Anamika Barua
Co-investigator: Dr. Pernille Gooch, University of Lund, Sweden
Duration/Starting Year: 2013-00-00
Status: Completed

20

A phonological and sociolinguistic study of variation in Deori: An endangered language
Funding Agency : ICSSR
Principal Investigator: Shakuntala Mahanta
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2012-07-15
Status: Completed

21

The cognitive schemas and motion verbs: A comparative study of two North-Eastern languages of India
Funding Agency : IITG
Principal Investigator: Bidisha Som
Co-investigator: None
Duration/Starting Year: 2008-00-00
Status: Completed

22

Climate Change Vulnerability mapping in the Indian Himalayan States
Funding Agency : Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC)
Principal Investigator: Anamika Barua
Co-investigator: Dr. Shayamasree Dasgupta, IIT Mandi
Duration/Starting Year: 17-01-2018
Status: Completed

23

Dispossession and Resistance in India and Mexico
Funding Agency : Ritimo, France
Principal Investigator: Vasundhara Jairath
Co-investigator: Angela Ixkic Bastian Duarte
Duration/Starting Year: 16-12-2016
Status: Completed

24

Livelihood Study in the KBK Region of Orissa: Identification of the Gap and Providing a Statistical Database for Development Planners of the State
Funding Agency : Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi
Principal Investigator: Rajshree Bedamatta
Co-investigator: Dr. Prasun Kumar Das
Duration/Starting Year: 15-03-2010
Status: Completed

25

A typological map of the language-cognition interface in the domain of conceptual metaphor
Funding Agency : DST
Principal Investigator: Bidisha Som
Co-investigator: none
Duration/Starting Year: 12-12-2013
Status: Completed

26

Water and livelihood – assessing climate vulnerability and potential adaptive strategies for eastern himalayan region of India
Funding Agency : Swedish Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
Principal Investigator: Anamika Barua
Co-investigator: Dr. Pernille Gooch, University of Lund, Sweden
Duration/Starting Year: 12-09-2011
Status: Completed

27

In Search of Gender Justice: Violence against Women and Law in Assam
Funding Agency : ICSSR
Principal Investigator: SAWMYA RAY
Co-investigator: NA
Duration/Starting Year: 10-10-2015
Status: Completed

28

Ecosystems for Life
Funding Agency : International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Principal Investigator: Anamika Barua
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 02-02-2010
Status: Completed

29

Handloom as a Sustainable Socio-Technological System: A Study of Textile Industry in North-East India
Funding Agency : ICSSR, New Delhi
Principal Investigator: Sambit Mallick
Co-investigator: None
Duration/Starting Year: 01-12-2014
Status: Completed

30

Ecotourism and Sustainable Livelihoods: A Prospective Look in the Rural Areas of Manipur
Funding Agency : Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi
Principal Investigator: N. Kipgen
Co-investigator: -
Duration/Starting Year: 01-12-2014
Status: Completed

31

Effects of sleep on the strategies of route learning in virtual town environment in humans
Funding Agency : DST
Principal Investigator: Naveen Kashyap
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-12-2010
Status: Completed

32

Online video course on game theory and economics.
Funding Agency : MHRD (NPTEL)
Principal Investigator: Debarshi Das
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-12-2009
Status: Completed

33

A Survey of Morbidity and Mortality among Tea Garden Workers of Assam
Funding Agency : Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Government of Assam
Principal Investigator: Rajshree Bedamatta
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-11-2019
Status: Completed

34

Brahmaputra Dialogue Phase II
Funding Agency : The World Bank
Principal Investigator: Anamika Barua
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-10-2016
Status: Completed

35

Source Book of Archaeology of the Himalayan Region: Arunachal Pradesh
Funding Agency : Centre for Archaeological Research and Training Eastern India
Principal Investigator: Sukanya Sharma
Co-investigator: None
Duration/Starting Year: 01-07-2009
Status: Completed

36

A Survey of Nutritional Status among Children of Assam
Funding Agency : Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Government of Assam
Principal Investigator: Rajshree Bedamatta
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-06-2019
Status: Completed

37

Sociolinguistic Study of Phonetic Variations among the Clans and Khels of Two Southern Angami Villages
Funding Agency : ICSSR
Principal Investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-06-2017
Status: Completed

38

Social and Political Imaginaries in the Vernacular: Notions of Desha and Samaj in Early Twentieth Century Mithila (1905-1940)
Funding Agency : IITG
Principal Investigator: Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-05-2016
Status: Completed

39

Seduction, Sale and Slavery: Trafficking of Women and Children in North East India
Funding Agency : ICSSR
Principal Investigator: SAWMYA RAY
Co-investigator: NA
Duration/Starting Year: 01-05-2011
Status: Completed

40

Combating Trafficking In Assam: Analysis of Role of Women’s Groups in Re-Integration Programmes
Funding Agency : IIT GUWAHATI START UP GRANT
Principal Investigator: SAWMYA RAY
Co-investigator: NA
Duration/Starting Year: 01-05-2010
Status: Completed

41

Megaliths in Changing times
Funding Agency : Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)
Principal Investigator: Sukanya Sharma
Co-investigator: None
Duration/Starting Year: 01-05-2009
Status: Completed

42

Decentralization in Assam
Funding Agency : ICSSR, DELHI
Principal Investigator: Pahi Saikia
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-04-2013
Status: Completed

43

Virtual Anthropology Laboratory
Funding Agency : Ministry Of Human Resource and Development
Principal Investigator: Sukanya Sharma
Co-investigator: S.R.M.PrassanaAssociate Professor Dept. Of ECE, IITG and Prof. S. Nandi, Professor, Dept. Of CSE, II
Duration/Starting Year: 01-04-2010
Status: Completed

44

Womens Participation in Wage Employment Programmes and its Contribution to Household Food Security
Funding Agency : IITG Faculty Start-up Grant
Principal Investigator: Rajshree Bedamatta
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-04-2010
Status: Completed

45

A Broad Sociolinguistic Study of Assamese Vowels
Funding Agency : ICSSR
Principal Investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-02-2014
Status: Completed

46

Gendered Consequences: Understanding Sex Trafficking in the Context of Armed Conflicts in North East India
Funding Agency : NCW
Principal Investigator: SAWMYA RAY
Co-investigator: NA
Duration/Starting Year: 01-02-2011
Status: Completed

47

Combating Trafficking of Women in Assam: Study of Anti-Trafficking Policies and Strategies
Funding Agency : NCW
Principal Investigator: SAWMYA RAY
Co-investigator: NA
Duration/Starting Year: 01-01-2016
Status: Completed

48

Anthology of abhangas from Varkari Bhakti
Funding Agency : Indian Council for Historical Research
Principal Investigator: Rohini Mokashi- Punekar
Co-investigator: NA
Duration/Starting Year: 01-01-2014
Status: Completed

49

Vowels, Tones and Rhythm in Rabha
Funding Agency : IITG Startup Grant
Principal Investigator: Priyankoo Sarmah
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 01-01-2012
Status: Completed

50

Digital preservation, analysis and technology development of the languages of Northeast India
Funding Agency : DeITy
Principal Investigator: Shakuntala Mahanta
Co-investigator: SRM Prasanna
Duration/Starting Year: 0000-00-00
Status: Completed

51

Introduction to Modern Indian Political Thought
Funding Agency : NPTEL
Principal Investigator: Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 0000-00-00
Status: Completed

52

Introduction to Political Theory
Funding Agency : NPTEL
Principal Investigator: Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 0000-00-00
Status: Completed

53

Political Parties and Party System in India
Funding Agency : IITK/MHRD GOI DTH Channel - 16
Principal Investigator: Mithilesh Kumar Jha
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 0000-00-00
Status: Completed

54

Start-up grant project Titled Adaptation to the chronic poverty and deprivation: An investigation into the dynamics of subjective well-being and life satisfaction
Funding Agency : IIT Guwahati
Principal Investigator: Dilwar Hussain
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year:
Status: Completed

55

Virtual English Lab
Funding Agency : MHRD
Principal Investigator: Liza Das
Co-investigator: Pradip Kumar Das, Department of CSE, IITG
Duration/Starting Year:
Status: Completed

56

Digital Northeast Virtual lab
Funding Agency : MHRD
Principal Investigator: Liza Das
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year:
Status: Completed

57

NPTEL II Cultural Studies (Web)
Funding Agency : MHRD
Principal Investigator: Liza Das
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year:
Status: Completed

58

NPTEL II Cultural Studies (Video)
Funding Agency : MHRD
Principal Investigator:
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year:
Status: Completed

59

NPTEL II English Language and Literature (Video)
Funding Agency : MHRD
Principal Investigator: Liza Das
Co-investigator: Prof Krishna Barua
Duration/Starting Year:
Status: Completed

60

CD Cell Project on Cultural Theory and Practice
Funding Agency : QIP, CET, IITG
Principal Investigator: Liza Das
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year:
Status: Completed

61

CD Cell Project on Critical Development Theory
Funding Agency : QIP, CET, IITG
Principal Investigator: Liza Das
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year:
Status: Completed

62

UGC Research Project on Culture and the London Novels of Doris Lessing
Funding Agency : University Grants Commission
Principal Investigator: Liza Das
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year:
Status: Completed

1

Women, local governance and livelihood strategies in conflict zones: An assessment of Karbi Anglong district of Assam
Funding Agency : Indian Council of Social Science Research Delhi
Principal Investigator: Pahi Saikia
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2023-04-01
Status: New

2

MOOCs course: Introduction to Market Structures
Funding Agency : Ministry of Education NPTEL
Principal Investigator:
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2021-07-01
Status: New

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