Ajanta Sharma
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. : Mizoram UniversityResearch Interests:
Social History of Medicine & Social History of PsychiatryDate of Joining : Aug 5, 2026
Phone: 9402166678
Email: ajanta.sharma@cottonuniversity.ac.in
Teaching
Assistant Professor since 5th August 2026
Research paper publications till 2021
Singh, K. P., & Sharma, A. (2025). Against the Flow of the Brahmaputra River: Cholera and ‘Coolies’ in the Tea Plantations of Colonial Assam. Indian Historical Review, 52(2), 243-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/03769836251385680
Sharma, A. (2022). Mental Health Services in the Northeastern Province of British India: Tezpur Lunatic Asylum, 1876–1947. South Asia Research, 42(1), 93-108. https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280211056847
Sharma, A. & Singh, K.P. (2021). Kala-Azar in the Tea Plantations of Assam. Shodh Sarita, 8(29), 193-197.
Sharma, A. & Singh, K.P. (2020). Foreign Elements & Orders in Colonial Assam: Tea Enclosure, Migrant Labour and Labour Legislation. Senhri Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 5(2), 76-82.
Sharma, A., & Zaman, F. (2019). The Great Assam Earthquake of 1950: A Historical Review. Senhri Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 4(1), 1-10.
Sharma, A. (2019). A Historical Study of Tezpur Lunatic Asylum in Colonial Assam. Contemporary Social Scientist, 11(1), 100-104.
Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented)
Sharma, A. & Gurung, M. (2020). Emergence of Labour Laws in Tea Gardens of Colonial Assam: A Boon or Bane? In: Tea Makers of North East India (Ed), South-Eastern Book Agencies
Zaman, F., Sharma, A. & Rakshit, R. (2020). Geo-historical Significance of Rih (Dil) Lake in Lushai Hills, NE India: A Conservational approach by Ethnic Hill People. In: New Frontiers in Earth Sciences: An Insight into the Indo-Burmese Ranges (Ed), South-Eastern Book Agencies
Awards
ICSSR - Full Term Centrally Administered Doctoral Fellowship (JRF) 2018