Arupjyoti Saikia is a professor of history at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He held the Agrarian Studies Programme Fellowship at Yale University, and visiting fellow positions at Cambridge University, University of London and University of Calcutta.
His published works include Forest and Ecological History of Assam, 1826–2000 AD (OUP, 2011); A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam since 2000 (Routledge, 2014); The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra (OUP, 2019); The Quest for Modern Assam: A History: 1942–2000 (Penguin, 2023) and India’s Forests: Revisiting Nature and History (Penguin, forthcoming, coedited with Mahesh Rangarajan). The Unquiet River was short-listed for Kamala Devi Chattopadhayay Book Award in 2020 and long listed for Atta Galatta–Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize in 2020 and got ‘Honorable Mention’ for Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize in 2021 given by the Association of Asian Studies.
