Meeta   Deka  Ph.D.

Designation: Professor and Former  Head, Department of History, Gauhati University 

 Nationality:       Indian 

Mailing Address: 

Office:                                       Department of History, Gauhati University,

                                                   Gopinath Bordoloi Nagar, Jalukbari,

                                                   Guwahati 781 014, Assam, India

 Residence:                               House # 15,   KC Patowary  Road,

                                                   Ulubari,  Guwahati   781007,

                                                   Assam, India.

Cell:                  94351 92499 

 E-mail:             meeta@gauhati.ac.in

                           meetadeka@gmail.com

 Ph.D. North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) , Shillong, Meghalaya, India,  1992

M.Phil, NEHU, 1987

M.A., NEHU , 1978

• Under Graduate:                       12 years

         St.Anthony's College, Shillong, Meghalaya   (1985-97)

• Post Graduate Level :                          23 years 8 months 

         Gauhati University, Assam             ( 1997- Till date 10.04.2021)

  (a) Modern Indian History

   (b) North East Indian History

•  Social/ Student Movements
• Tribal/ Peasant Struggles
• Gender Studies
• Environmental History
• Ethnohistory
• Borderlands and Border Communities
• Oral History

 Post Graduate:

• Peasants and Workers Resistance in Modern India
• Colonialism, Imperialism and Resistance in  India( 1757-1857)

PhD & M Phil:  

• Gender History
• Literature Review
• Research Methodology
• Oral History Methodology
• Thesis/ Dissertation Writing
• Public History 

Research Guidance as on 10.04.2021

PhD Degree Awarded:       15

Currently Working:              06

M.Phil Degree Awarded:   03

Currently Working :             05

PhD Degree awarded: 15

• Mitali Kalita:                   The Swadeshi Movement in  Assam, Department of History, GU, 2020.
• Pintu Roy:                       Bengal Peasantry and India's Partition ( 1937-47) Department of History, GU, 2020.
• Madhulina Choudhury:  Critiquing the Male Perspective in the Works of  Mahesh Dattani and Vijay Tendulkar, Department of Women's Studies, GU, 2019.
• Dhanmoni Kalita:           Peasant Struggles of Post-Colonial Assam, Department of History, GU,2018.
• Bhaswati Medhi:            Crimes Against Women in Kamrup Metropolitan District of Assam, Department of Women's Studies, Gauhati University, 2018.
• Bobby Kupar Wahlang:  Iron Industry  and Limestone  Trade in Nineteenth and Twentieth  Century Meghalaya, Department of History, GU.  2017.
• Binod Sharma:               Women in the Tea Gardens of Sonitpur in the Twentieth Century , Department of History, GU.  2016.
• Barnali Kakati:               Social Demography in Colonial  Assam , Department of History, GU,  2016.
• Shabnam Bormon:         Bodo Women in Tribal Society and Economy of Colonial Assam , Department of History, GU,   2013.
• Gargee Sarmah:             Cult of Mother Goddess  in Assam and Bengal: A Comparative Study ( upto 13^th Century AD) , Department of History, GU, 2013.
• Dulendra   Nath:            Society and Economy under Darrangi Rajas  (1616-1826 AD), Department of History, GU,    2012.
• Himangsu Sarmah:       Toponymy of  Nagaon District, Departent of History, GU, 2012.
• Indrajit Bezbarua:         The Dimasa Nationality Question , Department of History, GU,  2011.
• Pradyumna Sarma:         Traditional Games of Assam, Department of History, GU, 2011.
• Diganta Baroowa:         Social Change in Nineteenth Century Goalpara , Department of History, Gauhati University .   2010.

PhD Final Registration: 

• Arnab Kashyap:  Water Navigation System in Colonial Assam
• Viva Mushahary: Assam-Bhutan Borderlands: Livelihood, Communities and Flows

PhD Provisional Registration:

• Nafisa Younis: Second World War and Assam: Technology, Medicine and Institutions
• Rumjhum Duarah: The Tea Crisis of Assam (c.1830s-60s)
• Suman Das:  Disruptive Economy,Borderlands  and Communities during the India- Pakistan War of 1971
• Munmi Sen: Situating the Hindu Code Bill: Property Rights and Conjugal Equation and Women in Northeast India

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MPhil Degree awarded: 03

• Madhulina Choudhury: Reading Mahesh Dattan through Feminist Lens:A Critique, Women Studies Research Centre, Gauhati University, 2011.
• Nafisa Yasin: Science and Technology in Assam during the Second World War, Department of History, GU, 2019.
•  Suman Das: India-Pakistan War Of 1971: Socio-Economic Impact On Assam, Department of History, GU, 2019.

M.Phil Registered:

• Lonee Deori: History of the Deori Community of Assam, Department of History, GU
• Priskili Nampuii: Biate Women of Dima Hasao, Department of History, GU.
• Bishakha Pandey: Women in Bhojpuri Folksongs, Department of History, GU.
• Ruth Lalneichawng: Women in Pineapple Cultivation of Cachar District, Assam, Department of History, GU.
• Nipon Bharali:  Understanding Clause 6 of Assam Accord: Implementation and Challenges, GUINIES, GU.

(A)  Books :

Urbanisms in South Asia :Northeast India Outside-In, 2020,  Primus Books, New Delhi,ISBN: 978-93-90022-33-5, 340 pages

·        Women’s Agency and Social Change:  Assam and Beyond, 2013.  SAGE Publications India Pvt. ltd, New Delhi, ISBN:978-81-321-1138-2 (HB), 240 pages

·         Student Movements in Assam, 1996. Vikas Publishing House Private Ltd. ,New Delhi ISBN 0-7069-  9882-0, 284 pages

(B)   Research Project:

Ecological Crisis and Marginalization of Tradsitiuonal Livelihood vis-a vis Women in Tribal Societies of Assam , 2013-14. Sponsored by University Grants Commission , New Delhi.

(C) Chapters  in Books:

•         'Colonial strategic Needs and Birth of an Urban Instition in Assam' (2020) , in    Urbanisms in South Asia: Northeast India Outside-In, Meeta Deka (Ed.), Primus               Books, New Delhi, pp. 126-144.
•         'Theorizing the Changing Terrain of Popular Culture of NE India' (2020) in  Overview North East India, Sikhamoni Konwar  (Ed.), EBH Publishers, Guwahati, Assam.       pp.36-42.
•        ‘Adivasi Identity Question in Assam: A Historical Perspective’ ( 2015) in Troubled Diversity:The Political Process in Northeast India, Sandhya Goswami (Ed). Oxford                University Press New Delhi,pp. 63-78. 
•        ‘Legal Awareness and the Women Legal Aid Cell in Assam’ ( 2015) in Dynamics of Gender Disparity: Northeast Lens, Sutapa Sengupta .et.al. (Eds), EBH Publishers ,                  Guwahati, Assam,  pp. 101-11.
•        ‘Diverse Democracy, Organic Intellectuals and Praxis in Assam’, ( 2014)  Democracy and Diversity in North East India , in  Alaka Sarmah (Ed), DVS Publishers,           Assam,    pp. 63-73.
•         ‘Tribal Resistance to British Colonialism: The Eden Expedition (1854 -55)’, (2011) Freedom Struggle in North East India, B. Datta Ray B. Datta Ray , Bimal J. Deb          and  Siddheswar Sarma.  et.al. (Eds.), Omsons Publications, New Delhi,  pp. 34-38.
•         ‘Social Relevance of History’, ( 2011) in Study of History in the Twenty-First Century: Perspectives and Prospects, Sagar Boruah et al.  (Ed),  Pankaj Offset press,   Nagaon,  Assam,  pp.65-73.
•          ‘Development and Environment: Hydro-Electric Projects in Northeast India’ ( 2011) , Agenda for Assam and the Northeast: Issues and Trends,  Vol. 1, Jogendra Kumar Das          (Ed), EBH Publishers (India), Assam,  pp. 238-251.
•           ‘Nalinibala Devi (1898-1976)  as a  Woman Writer of Colonial Assam’,(2010) Proceedings Volume of UGC-ICHR sponsored National Seminar on Status of Women in         Colonial Assam,(29-30 Sep,2008)  Department of History, Pandu College, Guwahati, Assam, pp. 57-69.
•            ‘Women in Village Economy of Assam (1900-1947): A Preliminary Survey’ (2008), Society and Economy in NE India, Volume 3 David R. Syiemlieh, Manorama Sharma   (eds),et.al. , Regency Publications, New Delhi, pp. 284-94.
•            ‘Development and Environment: Hydroelectric Projects in Northeast India’ (2007), in Priyam Goswami (ed), Changing Patterns of Economy and Society, 19^th and 20^th Century North East India, Department of History,  Guwahati, Assam, 2007, pp.209-23.
•             ‘The Stilwell Road and the China Syndrome’ (2005), in Perspective of Security and Development in North East India, SK Agnihotri et.al.(ed), Concept Publishing Co., New Delhi, pp.61-75.
•          ‘Left Student Movements in Assam, 1905-47’ ( 2002), in Student  Power in NE  India,   AK Baruah (ed) , Regency Publns,New      Delhi,  pp.95-115.
•        ‘Student Movement in Assam: The Polyglot’ (1998), in Social Movements in NE India,  MN Karna (ed),Indus Publishing. Co.,1998, New Delhi, pp.107-11.

 (C.i) Journals :

•          Chief Editor,  Journal of History and Culture (JHC), Volume III 2016  Department of History, Gauhati University, Assam, Gauhati University Press ; ISSN: 2348-3830                            (Annual, Peer reviewed & International)
•              --------      Journal of History and Culture (JHC), Volume II 2015  Department of History, Gauhati University, Assam, Gauhati University Press ; ISSN: 2348-3830                              (Annual, Peer reviewed & International)
•                -------     Journal of History and Culture (JHC), Volume I  2014  Department of History, Gauhati University, Assam, Gauhati University Press ; ISSN: 2348-3830                               (Annual, Peer reviewed &  National)

(C.ii) Member Editorial/ Advisory Board:

•   Journal of History and Culture , Department of History, GU
•       Journal of Northeast Indian Cultures (Bi-annual, peer-reviewed & International) Assam Don Bosco University; ISSN 2322-0988
•     Prag Consilience (Multi-lingual Annual Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Commerce,  Pragjyotish College Research Council,          Pragjyoyish College, Assam, ISSN 2456-6861

(C.iii )  Articles in Journals :

• '"from holes under the rocks": Khasi Resistance to British Colonialism (c. 17702-1830s), (2019) GUINIES Journal Vol VI, Gauhati Institute of North East India Studies,     GU Press,pp. 41-60. 
• 'Historical Matrix of Nagamese as a communilect in Northeast India' (2017), Proceedings of North East India History Association,38th Session, Shillong Meghalaya,  pp. 152-63.
•      ‘Inner Line Permit: A Historical Perspective’ (2016) GUINEIS Journal  Vol III,   Institute of North East India Studies, Gauhati University Press,pp. 1-18, ISSN 2347-    2669
•          ‘Mega Dams, Environment and History  in Northeast India’ ( 2012) , Dialogue,  Quarterly, Apr-Jun , A Journal Of Astha Bharati, BB Kumar (Ed.)New Delhi, Vol. 13          No.4, Apr-Jun 2012, pp.180-96, ISSN: 0973-0095
•      ‘Ecological Crisis, Survival Issues  and Ethnic Women of Dima Hasao’ (2012), Quest, Theme: Women in Northeast India: Issues and Challenges, Vol.V No.2, Jan ,              pp.115-127,  ISSN:0976-0040
•      ‘Organic   Intellectuals:   Praxis  and  Ideas  of  Twentieth Century Assam’ (2012), Northeast Researches, Institute of Northeast India Studies, Kolkata, Issue No. 3,         Vol.III, March  ,pp.51-69, ISSN: 2249-4456
•   ‘Gender in Bose’s ideology: Rani of Jhansi Regiment (1943-45) and Northeast India’ (2011), in  Lt. Gen. RP Agarwal, Shiela Bora et.al. (Eds) First Azad Hind              Haqoomat Day Commemorative Souvenir, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, INA Trust, New Delhi October,pp. 54-59.
•       ‘Folklore as a Source for Northeast Indian History’ (2011), Sociology Mind, November Issue,  Volume 1 No:4,  Scientific Research Publishing, USA, pp.199-202, ISSN:      2160-083X (Print) 2160-0848 (Online)
•      ‘Use of Archival Sources   : A Postmodernist Perspective’ (2011) , Quest, Theme: Dimensions of India’s Freedom Movement, Volume V No.1,  July , pp. 139-151,               ISSN:0976-0040
•      ‘Experiential Wisdom of Impermanence’ ( 2011) Prajna, Journal of Gauhati University Teachers’ Association, Vol XX, 2010-11, Gauhati University Press, June 2011,           pp.63-68, ISSN-0976-9072
•     ‘Coal Mines and Transboundary  Environmental Issues in NE India’ (2011) , Journal of North-East India Council for Social Science Research, NEICSSR, Shillong,      Vol.35:2, October ,pp.10-18, ISSN:0970-7913
•      ‘The ‘Text’ on the Skin: Tattoos in Northeast India’ (2011), Prajna, Journal of Gauhati University Teachers’ Association, Vol XX1, 2011-12, Gauhati University Press, June 2011 pp. 76-81, ISSN-0976-9072
•      ‘Gender Disparity and Legal Awareness in Assam’ (2008),  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Sept- Dec , Vol 15, No. 3, Sage Publications , New Delhi,  pp. 519-32.        ISSN:0971-5215, Online ISSN:0973-0672
•      ‘Impact of Technology on Tribal Societies in Northeast India’ (2008), International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society,  Volume 4, Issue 3  , 2008,Common     Ground Publishers (CGP)(Annual), pp. 11-18, ISSN: 1832-3669
•      ‘The German Salvatorian Missionaries in Northeast India (1890-1915)’ (2007), The Journal of The Assam Research Society, vol. xxxix, Nos 1&2, 2004-2006, Kamrup Anusandhana Samiti, (Assam Research Society),Assam.
•       ‘Folklore and the Question of its Protection’ (2007), The Journal of The Assam Research Society, vol. Xxxviii, Nos 1&2, 2001-2003, Kamrup Anusandhana Samiti,    (Assam Research Society),Assam.
•       ‘Intellectual Property Rights and the Writing of History’ (2006), The Journal of Arts, Gauhati University, Vol XL, 2004-05, Guwahati Assam.
•      ‘The Origins of Revolutionary Terrorism in Assam (1900-10)’ (2005), The Journal of The Assam Research Society, Professor HK Barpujari Commemoration Volume, Vol xxxvii, Nos. 1&2, 1998-2000, Kamarupa Anusandhana Samiti (Assam Research Society) , Guwahati, Assam.
•      ‘Ethno-History: The Shertukpen’ (2004), Proceedings of NEIHA, Silver Jubilee Volume,  Shillong, Meghalaya.ISSN 2349-753X
•        ‘Gender in North East India Studies’(2003), Proceedings of NEIHA,  ISSN 2349-753X
• ‘Genesis of Historical Amnesia’ (2003), Insight, Priyam Goswami(ed), Department of History, GU Press.
•       ‘SC Bose and the  Destiny of Assam’ (2002), in Proceedings of NEIHA, Shillong, Meghalaya. ISSN 2349-753X
•       ‘Subhas Chandra Bose:His Visit to the Northeast’ (1997), in Netaji Pathagar, Golden Jubilee Commemorative Volume , Shillong, 1997  
•       ‘Assam Official Language Bill of 1960  and the Barak  Valley’(1995), in Proceedings of NEIHA, Meghalaya. ISSN 2349-753X
•       ‘The Early Hurdles of the Tea Industry in Assam and Africa: A Comparative Study’ (1994), in Proceedings of NEIHA, Meghalaya. ISSN 2349-753X
•       ‘Food Crisis of 1967:The Role of the Jorhat Students’ (1993) , in Proceedings of NEIHA, Meghalaya.ISSN 2349-753X
•       ‘The Quit India Movement: A Search for an All-India Strategy with Special Reference to North East India’ (1993)  ,in  Proceedings of NEIHA, Meghalaya.ISSN 2349-        753X
•       ‘ The North-Western and Eastern Network of Guerilla Activities of the 1940s:Assam the Centre of Sabotage’ (1991), in Proceedings of NEIHA, Meghalaya. ISSN 2349-      753X
•      ‘A Historical  Perspective of the Yrs. of Student Protest in Assam(1905-72):An  Exploration of its Roots’ (1990) , in Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, Vol III           No.4, Oct- Dec  , NEHU , Meghalaya.
•      ‘The Attitude of Assamese Towards the Boys’ Scout Movement (1930s)’  (1989) , Proceedings of NEIHA, Meghalaya. ISSN 2349-753X
•      ‘Student Movements in Assam,1905-47 –III’ (1987),  in North East Quarterly,  Vol.III No.4,   Nov-Dec , Purbanchal Printers, Guwahati, Assam.pp. 29-61.     
•      ‘Student Movements in   Assam, 1905-47-II’ (1987), in North East Quarterly, Vol.II No.3,   Apr-Jun , Purbanchal Printers, Guwahati , Assam.pp.17-33. 
•      ‘ Student Movements in Assam, 1905-47-I’ (1987), in North East Quarterly   Vol.II No.2,  Jan-Mar Purbanchal Printers, Guwahati, Assam.pp.46-62. 
•      ‘ SC Bose’s Visit to Assam in Oct.1939: Its Impact on the  Students  of Assam’ (1987), in  Proceedings of NEIHA, Meghalaya. ISSN 2349-753X
•      ‘Student Movement in Assam: The Roots of  Its Continuity and Sustenance’ (1986) , in Proceedings of NEIHA, Meghalaya.  ISSN 2349-753X

(D)Articles in Encyclopaedia (Assamese) :

•        i) Nile Valley Civilization; ii) Mayan Civilization (2008), in  M.Taher (ed)Vishwakosh Prakalpa: Society and Culture:   Vol VIII, Assam Sahitya Sabha.
•     i) Stenka Razin (1630-71); ii)  Lewis Namier ;iv)Baconor Bidroho(1676); (2007) in Rajen Saikia et. al.(ed), Vishwakos, Encyclopaedia in Assamese, Vol. VII, Itihas(History), Asam Sahiya Sabha, Assam.
•       Austriar Utatardhikar Ron, 1740-1748,(2005) in Rajen Saikia et. al.(ed), Vishwakos, Encyclopaedia in Assamese, Vol. VI, Itihas(History), Asam Sahitya Sabha, Assam.

         Life Member:

                          ·       Center for Contemporary Theory, Baroda

·         Indian Association for Women’s Studies, New Delhi

·         Oral History Association of India, Bengaluru

·         North East History Association, Meghalaya

·         North East Indian Council of Social Science  Research, Meghalaya

·         Kamarupa Anusandhan Samity (Assam Research Society) , Assam

·         North East India Social Science Congress, Assam

·         Institute of North East India Studies, West Bengal