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Dr. Sunitaa Saikia

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Assistant Professor Department of History sunitaasaikia@svc.ac.in


Educational Qualifications

  • Ph.D
  • MPhil

Areas of Specialization

  • Cultural History (emphasis on oral narratives), Social History, Migration Studies, Modern and Contemporary Indian History

Administrative roles/ responsibilities

Courses Taught

  • History of India – I (Earliest times to 300 BCE), History of India – IV (c. 1206 – 1550), History of India – VI (c. 1605 – 1750), History of India – VIII (c. 1857 – 1950), Historical Tourism in North East India, Oral Culture and Oral History

i. Contestation of Identities in a Globalizing World, in Vulli Dhanaraju ed. Caste, Tribe and Gender: Politics of Self and the Other, ISBN 978-81-316-0829-6, Rawat Publications, Jaipur, 2017, pp. 59 – 71


ii. Ideal Devotee or Obstacle to Devotion? A Paradoxical Gender Situation in Nirguɳ Bhakti, in Abhibyakti, Peer-Reviewed Bi-Annual Research Journal of Women’s Cell, Assam College Teachers’ Association, ISSN 2450-0546, Vol. VIII, No. 1, 2022


iii. ABHIBYAKTI” (ISSN 2450-0546), the Women Cell Journal of ACTA


  • Award