Ayushman Baruah

PhD Program

Campus

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

1. Late Imperial China
2. Modern China
3  Frontier and  Borderlands
4. Imperialisms, Colonialisms, and Nationalisms

Major and Minor Fields

Major

  • Modern China

Minor 1

Late Imperial China

Minor 2

Frontiers, Regions, Borderlands, South Asia

Working Dissertation

Title

Qing Empire and the Making of a Eastern Himalayan Borderland: Imperial Agents, Treaties, Custom Houses (1860-1912)

Supervisors

Tong Lam

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.

Awards

Education

BA, Hindu College, University of Delhi