Books:
Chapters in Books:
Selected Journal Publications
- The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000 (Penguin Allen Lane, 2023)
- The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra, (Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2019)
- A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam since 1900, (Routledge, Delhi, 2014).
- Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826-2000, (Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2011).
- Jungles, Reserves, Wildlife: A History of Forests in Assam, (Wildlife Area Development Trust, Guwahati, 2005).
- Orunodoi 1854-1868, (Krantikal Prakasan, Nagaon, 2002, Compiled and Edited with an introduction, in Assamese)
Chapters in Books:
- "Geographical Exploration and Historical Investigation: John Peter Wade in Assam" in Neeladri Bhattacharya and J.L. Pachau ed. Landscape, Culture, and Belonging: Writing the History of Northeast India. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- "Vernacular for the Nation: Hemchandra Goswami’s Typical Selections from Assamese Literature" in Ishita Banerjee Dube and Sarvani Gooptu ed. On Modern Indian Sensibilities, Routledge, 2018)
- “Coal in Colonial Assam: the Dynamics of Exploration, Trade and Environmental Consequences” in K. Lahiri Dutta ed. The Coal Nation: Histories, Cultures and Ecologies of Coal in India, Ashgate, London, 2014.
- “Making Room Inside Forests: Grazing and Agrarian Conflicts in the Brahmaputra valley of Colonial Assam” in M. Rangarajan and K. Shivaramakrishnan ed. Shifting Ground: People, Animals, and Mobility in India's Environmental History, Oxford University Press, Delhi , 2014.
- “Territories, Wars, Nation: Chronicling Ahom-Mughal Confrontation” in R. Aquil and K. Roy, eds, Warfare, Religion, and Society in Indian History, ICHR Monograph Series, Manohar, Delhi, 2012.
- “From Jungle to Forests: Early Scientific Conservation in Assam 1870-1900” U. Dasgupta (ed) History of Science in Pre-independent India, Pearson, Delhi, 2010.
- “Gait’s Way Writing History in Early-Twentieth-Century Assam” in Partha Chatterjee and R. Aquil ed. History in Vernacular, Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2008.
- “Literary History, Orality and Discourses of Madness: a note on the social history of Assam” in M.D. Muthukumaraswamy ed. Folklore as Discourse, National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai, 2006.
Selected Journal Publications
- ‘Borders, Commodities and Citizens across Mud and River: Assam, 1947–50s’, Studies in History, February 2016, 32: 72-96,
- “Assam, Nehru and Creation of India’s Eastern Frontier, 1946–1950s”, NMML Occasional Paper, 2015.
- “Amalendu Guha (1924–2015): Distinguished Historian, Public Intellectual”, EPW, 2015
- "Jute in the Brahmaputra valley: The making of flood control in 20th century Assam" Modern Asian Studies, 2015.
- "Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Malnutrition: An Environmental History of the Tea Plantations in Assam", Münster, Ursula, Shiho Satsuka, and Gunnel Cederlöf, "Asian Environments: Connections across Borders, Landscapes, and Times," RCC Perspectives 2014, no.3
- “Ecology, Flood and the Political Economy of Hydro-Power: The river Brahmaputra in the 20th century' Occasional Paper Series, NMML, New Delhi, 2014.
- “The Historical Geography of the Assam Violence” Economic and Political Weekly, 2012.
- “Oral tradition, nationalism and Assamese social history: Remembering a peasant uprising” Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2012.
- “Imperialism, Geology and Petroleum: History of Oil in Colonial Assam” Economic and Political Weekly, 2011.
- “Kaziranga National Park: History, Landscape and Conservation Practices” Economic and Political Weekly, 2011.
- “Genius of Bhupen Hazarika” Economic & Political Weekly, 2011.
- “Early Twentieth Century Agrarian Assam: A Brief and Preliminary Overview” D Das & A Saikia, Economic & Political Weekly, 2011.
- “Landlords, Tenants and Agrarian Relations Revisiting a Peasant Uprising in Colonial Assam”, Studies in History, 2010.
- "The Moneylenders and Indebtedness: Understanding the Peasant Economy of colonial Assam, 1900-1950” Indian Historical Review, 2010.
- "History, Buranjis and Nation: Suryya Kumar Bhuyan’s Histories in 20th century Assam” Indian Economic and Social History Review, 2009.
- “The Kaziranga National Park: Dynamics of Social and Political History’, Conservation and Society, 2009.
- “Peasants and Land Reclamation: Predicament of Forest Conservation in Assam State, 1850s-1980s”, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol.45, no.1, 2008.
- “Forest Land and Peasant Struggles in Assam, 2002–2007”, Journal of Peasant Studies, 2008.