Ayushman Baruah
First Name:
Ayushman
Last Name:
Baruah
Title:
PhD Program
Education:
BA, Hindu College, University of Delhi
People Type:
Research Area:
Areas of Interest:
1. Late Imperial China
2. Modern China
3 Frontier and Borderlands
4. Imperialisms, Colonialisms, and Nationalisms
Program:
1st Major:
Modern China
1st Minor:
Late Imperial China
2nd Minor:
Frontiers, Regions, Borderlands, South Asia
Dissertation Title:
Qing Empire and the Making of a Eastern Himalayan Borderland: Imperial Agents, Treaties, Custom Houses (1860-1912)
Dissertation Supervisors:
Tong Lam
Dissertation Description:
My research examines institutions and mechanisms used by the Qing state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to create an imperial borderland in the Himalayas.