Yasmin Saikia (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)

Yasmin Saikia
Assistant Professor
Department of History, CB #3195
Hamilton Hall
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599  USA

phone: 919-929-7036 (residence)
       919-962-3961 (office)
email: Saikia@email.unc.edu

Description of work:

I am interested in a broad range of issues and topics in South Asian
history, particularly the politics of memory in post-colonial South Asia
and the tensions between national history and local narratives. My
research focuses on the interaction between identity and memory in
India's northeastern state of Assam. I have started preliminary
research on my second project.  The subject is Silence, and I am
exploring the story of the victims of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Liberation. 
My most recent publication was In the Meadows of Gold: Telling Tales of 
the Swargadeos in the Crossroads of Assam (Delhi, 1997)