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From: Madhavi Latha <madhavi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 9:28 AM
Subject: Talk and discussion: "The Unquiet River: A Biography of the
Brahmaputra" by Arupjyoti Saikia on December 27, 2019 (Friday) at 03:45pm
To: Madhavi Latha <madhavi@xxxxxxxxx>
*Talk and discussion*
"*The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra" *
by
*Arupjyoti Saikia*
Historian Arupjyoti Saikia will be speaking on his latest book "*The
Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra*" followed by a discussion to
be moderated by Rajkamal Goswami.
Date & Time: December 27, 2019 at 03:45 pm
Venue: ATREE Auditorium
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*Summary of the book: *
'The Unquiet River' reimagines the layered history of Assam with the
unquiet river at the centre. It combines a range of disciplinary
scholarship to unravel the geological forces as well as a human endeavour
which have shaped the river into what it is today. Wonderfully illuminated
with archival detail and interwoven with narratives and striking
connections, the book will be interesting for anyone trying to understand
the past and the present of a river confronted by the twenty-first
century’s ambitious infrastructural designs to further re-engineer the
river and its landscape.
*Review blurbs from the book:*
"Arupjyoti Saikia is already known to be the leading historian of Assam.
With this magnificent biography of the Brahmaputra, he has also established
himself as India's pre-eminent environmental historian. This book
beautifully and seamlessly transcends conventional binaries of hill and
plain, land and water, economy and culture, social science and natural
science. Using a dazzling array of primary sources, Saikia constructs a
compelling narrative of the river's journey from geological time to the
present, evoking the Brahmaputra's many moods, the forms of human
livelihood it enables and constrains, the forms of non-human life it
sustains and enhances. This is a total history in the best, and fullest,
sense of the term." (*-Ramachandra Guha*)
'Lucky Brahmaputra, lucky Assam! If a river could get to choose, for its
biographer, the most learned, comprehensive, scrupulous and yet sensitive
scholar available, the Brahmaputra could not possibly have done better.
Saikia's superb study is a model of interdisciplinary learning,
hydrological knowledge and historical depth. The Yangzi and Indus must be
green with envy.' (*-James C. Scott*)
*Profile: *
Arupjyoti Saikia teaches history in the Indian Institute of Technology
Guwahati. He is also the author of Forests and Ecological History of
Assam, 1826-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2011) and and* A Century of
Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam since 1900 *(Routledge, 2014).
https://www.iitg.ac.in/hss/fac_profile.php?id=YXJ1cGp5b3Rp
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*Tea/coffee will be served downstairs at 03:30pm*
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Madhavi Latha G
The Academy for Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),
Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur PO
Bangalore 560064, India
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Madhavi Latha G
The Academy for Conservation Science and Sustainability Studies
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE),
Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur PO
Bangalore 560064, India
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Phone: +91-80-23635555 Extn: 121
Fax: +91-80-23530070
E-mail: madhavi@xxxxxxxxx
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