About The Book

The book is an outcome of the International Conference titled "Political, Economic and Cultural Pivots in the Past, Present and Future of South and South-East Asia" held at Girijananda Chowdhury University in January, 2025. The various chapters in the book address pressing issues related to global transformations and challenges, decolonisation, the rise of populism, economic inequality and cultural erosion. The book offers new insights into the realms of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, politics, economics, ethnicity, climate change and the influence of countries like Russia on the language and culture of different regions of Asia.

About Author

Dr. Anisha Bordoloi is currently the Head of the Department of History,
Girijananda Chowdhury University, Assam. She specializes in Modern
Indian History and her areas of research interest cover the domains of global
economic history; global plantation history; history of migration; family
history; history of criminality, law and violence and the history of Northeast
India. Within the span of a five-year long research career, she has published
articles under Routledge, Assam Publication Board and the renowned
journals Social Scientist and Social Change and Development. She has
contributed to the research of the volume titled Political History of Assam
(1947-1971), Volume I which was published under the aegis of the
Government of Assam in 2024. Her upcoming publications include articles
in edited volumes under Routledge and Springer Nature, Singapore.

Dr. Bhaswati Sarmah is currently working as an Assistant Professor and
Head of the Department of Political Science, Girijananda Chowdhury
University, Guwahati, Assam. She has completed her graduation and post
graduation from Cotton College (presently Cotton University) and M.Phil
and PhD from Sikkim University, Gangtok. Her areas of interests include
international relations, India’s foreign policy, soft power, diaspora and indian
political thought. She has published research articles in different journals
and books. She served as a reviewer of Sage Journal of Human Values. Her
upcoming publications include article in an edited volume under
Bloomsbury Academic, Singapore.

Dr. Bondita Baruah is Assistant Professor of English literature at the
Department of English and Foreign Languages in Girijanada Chowdhury
University, Guwahati, Assam. Her research focuses on Post-Colonial
literature, Resistance Literature, Environmental Humanities, Gender,
Liminal Spaces and Marginalities, Migration, Ethnicity and Identity, and
Indigeneity. Her academic writings have appeared in reputed journals and
books, including Routledge. She has previous teaching experience of almost
seven years in Dispur College. As a freelance writer working on
humanitarian and environmental/climatic issues, her works have appeared
in The New York Times, The Third Pole, Mongabay, The Wire, Scottish
Centre for Global History (University of Dundee), Assam Tribune, Stories
Asia, among others. As a translator she has worked for regional writers
and international agencies. Her translated poem “Champawati” is published
in Riverside Stories: Writings from Assam (Zubaan, 2024). Her translated

booklet of poems Her Spoken Words (2023) and co-edited handbook
Building Resilient Futures: Gender and Climate Change in North East
India (2025) published by North East Network cover issues of violence
and gendered vulnerabilities in the North East.