Author Archives: Gurudas Das

About Gurudas Das

GURUDAS DAS is a Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam. Earlier he had been associated with the Centre for Himalayan Studies, NBU, Siliguri; St Anthony’s College, Shillong; OKD Institute of Social Change and Development, Guwahati and North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. He specializes in the domain of security and development, cross-border trade and development cooperation, and geoeconomics and geopolitics of regional growth and development. He has authored Security and Development in India’s North East (2012: OUP), and co-authored and co-edited BCIM Economic Cooperation: Interplay of Geoeconomics and Geo-politics (Routledge, 2018), Look East to Act East Policy: Implications for India’s Northeast (2015: Routledge), Voices from the Border: Response to Chinese Claim over Arunachal Pradesh (2015: Pentagon Press), India-China: Trade and Strategy for Frontier Development (2010: Bookwell), Indo-Bangladesh Border Trade: Benefiting from Neighbourhood (2008: Akansha), Indo-Myanmar Border Trade: Status, Problems and Potentials (2005:Akansha), and Border Trade: North East and Neighbouring Countries (2000: Akansha). He has also authored and co-authored research articles published in Strategic Analysis, Journal of Global Marketing, Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science, South Asian Survey, International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences, Review of Market Integration, International Journal on World peace and International Journal of Public Administration.

Book Chapters: co-authored

2019: “Introduction “, in BCIM Economic Cooperation: Interplay of Geo-economics and Geo-politics, (eds), Gurudas Das and C Joshua Thomas, ISBN: 9780367733476, pp: 1–20, Routledge, London and New York 2019: “BCIM: What should be the basis for sub-regional cooperation?”,  in BCIM Economic Cooperation: Interplay of Geo-economics and Geo-politics, (eds), Gurudas Das and C Joshua Thomas, ISBN: 9780367733476, pp: 23-43, Routledge, London and New York 2019: “Is BCIM-EC beneficial for India?”, in BCIM Economic Cooperation: Interplay of Geo-economics and Geo-politics, (eds), Gurudas Das and C Joshua Thomas, ISBN: 9780367733476, pp: 125-134, Routledge, London and New York 2017: “India-Myanmar-Thailand (IMT)Trilateral Highway and its likely impact on the Continue reading →

Book Chapters: authored

2021: “Cross-border trade and development in India’s Northeast”, in World Trade and India: Multilateralism, Progress and Policy Response, (eds), Ajitava Raychaudhuri, Prabir De and Suranjan Gupta,  ISBN: 9789353886103, pp: 103-18, Sage Publications, New Delhi 2019: “Development of India’s North East: Cross-border Market, Trade and  Sub-regional Cooperation”, in Developmentalism as Strategy: Interrogating Post-colonial Narratives on India’s North East, (ed), Rakhee Bhattacharya, ISBN: 9789353283186, pp: 214-30, Sage Publications, New Delhi 2019: “OBOR architecture and BCIM-EC: An interplay of geo-economics and geo-politics”, in BCIM Economic Cooperation: Interplay of Geo-economics and Geo-politics, (eds), Gurudas Das and C Joshua Thomas, ISBN:9780367733476, pp: Continue reading →

National Journal: co-authored

2013: “Tribal Land: Does Protection Matter?”, Journal of Frontier Studies, Vol 1, No 1, ISSN: 2319-5096, pp: 62-68 2009: “Insurgency and Nationalism in Manipur”, Man and Society, Vol VI, (annual), ISSN: 2229-4058, pp: 51-82  

National Journal: authored

2017: ” ‘They’ live in/guard ‘our’ border: Borderland vs Homeland perspectives in India’s North East”, Man and Society, Vol XIV, (annual), ISSN: 2229-4058, pp: 26-43 2014: “Politics of Boundary Maintenance: Who is an Assamese in Assam?”, Man and Society, Vol XI, (annual), ISSN: 2229-4058, pp: 7-33 2011: “Security and Development: The Economic Costs of Insurgency”, The Social Scanner. Vol 2&3, (annual), ISSN: 0975-9751, pp: 1-27 2009: “Indo-Bangladesh Relations: Issues in Trade, Transit and Security”, Himalayan and Central Asian Studies, Vol 13, (annual), ISSN: 0971-9318, pp: 5-34 2003: “Cooperative Movement in Meghalaya: Its Growth, Performance Continue reading →

International Journal: co-authored

2022: “Livelihood Diversification of Farm Households under Rainfed Agriculture: A Case of Barak Valley of Assam, India “, International Journal of Economics and Business Research, Vol 23, No 3, ISSN: 1756-9850, pp.314 – 336, DOI: 10.1504/IJEBR.2022.122060 [ Scopus, SJR: 0.19, IF: 0.79] 2021: “Causality between Insurgency and Economic Development: A Case Study on Tripura, India”, International Journal on World Peace, Vol XXXVIII, No 4,   pp: 39-68, ISSN: 0742-3640, [Scopus] 2021: “Small growers’ direct participation in the market and its impact on farm income”, Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, Vol 11, No 3, Continue reading →