Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Dr. Minakshi Buragohain

Assistant Professor
Guwahati Campus
Chairperson, Centre for Undergraduate Studies ,
Convenor, Students' Affairs

Qualification

M.A,

M.Phil,

PhD ( Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi)

Contact

minakshi.buragohain[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in

minakshi.buragohain@tiss.ac.in

Minakshi Buragohain is Assistant Professor at Centre for Undergraduate Studies (CUGS), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus since December, 2019.

Dr. Buragohain has done her Masters, M.Phil and PhD from Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her PhD thesis was titled “Democratization in South Asia: A study of Political Leadership and Party Structures since the 1970s”.

Prior to joining TISS, she taught at different colleges of University of Delhi. She has been writing, speaking at various national and international conferences and actively engaging with issues in Indian politics and gender. She has also served as Women Development Cell Advisor while teaching in Delhi University.

Citizenship, Democratization; Indian Politics; South-Asia; Gender and Politics.

1. 'Historicising Women's Reservation Bill: Contextualing the Women's Reservation Bill in India' EPW Engage, Vol. 61, Issue no.17, 25 April 2026. (https://www.epw.in/engage/article/historicising-womens-reservation-contextualizing)

2. 'Contested belonging: Citizenship, Migration and Identity Politics in Assam' South India Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.23, No.3, June 2025 ( https://journal.sijss.com/index.php/home/article/view/1785?articlesBySimilarityPage=7 )

3. "Women and Nation-Building: A Perspective from North-East India" in Compendium on Women and Development in Northeast India edited by Rajkumar Giridhari Singh, 2020,ISBN (978-81-941839-3-8) DM Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, p 66.

4. “On NRC, Are we listening?” in Indian Express- Editorial, on October 4, 2019 (page 14).

5. “Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain” in Modern South-Asian Thinkers by Sanjeev Kumar H.M and Dev Pathak, 2018, ISBN (9789352806775), Sage Publishing, p 304.

6. “Affirmative Action in India: Interplay of Caste, Class and Gender” in Political Process in India by Sanjeev and Pathak, 2016, ISBN (978-9383848-188), Pinnacle Learning, p 160.

7. “The ‘State of Exceptions’ in Laws: Sexual Violence against Women in India” Proceedings of International Conference on Knowledge and Politics, Gender and Women’s Studies, organized by Gender and Women Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2015.

Completed a project titled “What Citizenship means in a ‘periphery’ of a periphery: Women’s Narratives” supported by The Zubaan-Sasakawa Peace foundation Grants for Young Researchers from the North-East 2020-21.

https://zubaanprojects.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SPF2020-Grant-Papers-What-Citizenship-means-in-a-periphery-of-a-periphery-by-Minakshi-Buragohain.pdf

Human Rights: Perspectives and Significance (BASS) Vth Semester.

LSSP21 International Institutions and Labour (M.A) IIIrd Semester.

PaCS05 Constitution, Law and Human Rights (M.A) Ist Semester

IC2 Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (BASS) Vth Semester.

Gender and Politics (BASS ) IV semester

Modern Political Analysis (BASS) VI semester

Comparative Politics (BASS) V semester

Government and Politics in Northeast India (BASS) VII semester