Sajal Nag is Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Distinguished Chair Professor in Social Sciences at

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. He specialises in the history of modern

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. He has published extensively on different aspects of India's North-East He was a professor of history at

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. Earlier, and was associated with the

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, and the Centre for Social Studies, Surat. In 2008 Prof. Sajal Nag was Charles Wallace Fellow at the

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(UK). He was a Commonwealth Fellow to

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during 2004–2005 and a visiting senior research fellow at

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. He was senior fellow at

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for two years 2013–2014. With several published books and research articles, his book ''India and North East India: Mind, Politics and the Process of Integration 1946-1950'' (Regency, Delhi, 1998) was nominated for Srikant Dutt Memorial Award for the Best Book on North East India in 2002 and, more recently, the book ''Contesting Marginality: Ethnicity, Insurgency and Sub nationalism in North East India'' (Manohar, New Delhi, 2002) was short listed for the New India Foundation Awards for the Best Book in Non-Fiction Category. He is also the member of the Govt. of India's NCERT Curriculum Revision Committee in Contemporary Indian Politics. He has been the

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Consultant for North East Indian Affairs and a part of its India Disaster Report and Violence Mitigation and Amelioration Project and a contributor to its India Disaster Report. Currently, he is an executive member of the International South Asian Environmental Historians. and Indian History Congress.

Publications

Books

* Roots of Ethnic Conflict: Nationality Question in North East India, Manohar, New Delhi, 1990. * India and North East India: Mind, Politics and the Process of Integration 1946–1950, Regency, New Delhi, 1998. * Nationalism, Separatism and Secessionism, Rawat, New Delhi, 1999. * Contesting Marginality: Ethnicity, Insurgency and Sub nationalism in North East India, Manohar, New Delhi, 2002. * Pied Pipers in North East India: Bamboo Flowers, Rat Famine and the Politics of Environment in North East India, Manohar, New Delhi, 2008. * The Uprising: Colonial State, Christian Missionary and Anti-Slavery Movement in North East India 1908–1954. Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2016 * Bridging State and Nation: Politics of Peace in Nagaland and Mizoram, with Rita Manchanda and Tapan Bose, Sage, 2015, (HB) * The Beleaguered Nation: Ethnicity, Conflict and Nationality Question in Assam, Manohar, Delhi 2016

Edited

* Making of the Union: Merger of Princely States and Excluded Areas with India, New Delhi, Akansha, 2007 * Bridging Region and Nation: Essays in Honour of Prof Amalendu Guha: Professor Amalendu Guha Commemoration Volume, Primus, Delhi, 2016 * Playing With Nature: Essays on Environmental History and Politics with special Reference to North East India, 2 vols. Manohar, Delhi, 2016

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nag, Sajal 20th-century Indian historians Historians of Northeast India Living people Academic staff of Presidency University, Kolkata Academic staff of Assam University 1958 births