Journal Publications
1. Arupjyoti Saikia, "Earthquakes and the environmental transformation of a floodplain landscape: The Brahmaputra Valley and the earthquakes of 1897 and 1950", Environment and History, vol.26, Issue no.1, pp.51-77 [2020], 10.3197/096734019X15755402985550
2. Arupjyoti Saikia, "Nature and Assam's present", Seminar, vol.690, pp.20-24 [2017]
3. Arupjyoti Saikia, "Borders, Commodities and Citizens across Mud and River: Assam, 1947-1950", Studies in History, Sage, vol.32, Issue no.1, pp.72-96 [2016]
4. Arupjyoti Saikia, "Jute in the Brahmaputra valley: The making of flood control in 20th century Assam", Modern Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press, vol.49, Issue no.5, pp.1405-1441 [2015]
Book Chapter
1. Arupjyoti Saikia, "An Ever Changing Present: Assam and Her Fluvial Landscapes" , Nature Contested: Ecology, Society, and Environment in Contemporary India , Orient BlackSwan , pp.118-144 [2026]
2. Arupjyoti Saikia, "Monsoon Geographies, Assam, and Making of an Eco-Region" , Environmental Studies from India Engaging with the Planetary Ecological Crisis , Oxford University Press , [2025]
3. Arupjyoti Saikia, "Hardwoods and the British Empire in Assam: Sal and Teak in the Age of Colonialism, 1850s–1940s" , Capital and Ecology: Developmentalism, Subjectivity and the Alternative Life-Worlds , Routledge , [2023]
4. Arupjyoti Saikia, "Assam: The Long View" , The Indians: Histories of Civilization , Aleph Book Company , [2023]
5. Arupjyoti Saikia, "The Brahmaputra" , The Routledge Companion to Northeast India , Routledge , [2022]
6. Arupjyoti Saikia, "Flows and Fairs: The Eastern Himalayas and the British Empire" , Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces: Histories of Networking and Border Crossing , Amsterdam University Press , [2022] https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463724371/flows-and-frictions-in-trans-himalayan-spaces
7. Arupjyoti Saikia, "Empire's Nature in the Garo Hills: A Micro History of India's Environmental Movements" , A Functioning Anarchy? Essays for Ramachandra Guha , Penguin Random House , [2021]
8. Arupjyoti Saikia, "Rhinoceros in Kaziranga National Park: Nature and politics in modern Assam" , Reframing the Environment Resources, Risk and Resistance in Neoliberal India , Routledge India , [2020]
9. Arupjyoti Saikia, "Landscape, Culture, and Belonging: Writing the History of Northeast India" , Geographical Exploration and Historical Investigation: John Peter Wade in Assam , Cambridge University Press , pp.110-130, [2019]
10. Arupjyoti Saikia, "Vernacular for the Nation : Hemchandra Goswami's Typical Selections from Assamese Literature" , On Modern Indian Sensibilities: Culture, Politics, History , Routledge , pp.179-197, [2018]
11. Arupjyoti Saikia, "“Making Room Inside Forests: Grazing and Agrarian Conflicts in the Brahmaputra valley of Colonial Assam”" , Shifting Ground: People, Animals, and Mobility in India's Environmental History , Oxford University Press , [2014]
12. Arupjyoti Saikia, "“Coal in Colonial Assam: the Dynamics of Exploration, Trade and Environmental Consequences”" , The Coal Nation: Histories, Cultures and Ecologies of Coal in India , Ashgate, London , [2014]
Books
1. Arupjyoti Saikia & Mahesh Rangarajan, "India's Forests: Revisiting Nature and History", Penguin Random House [2026], https://www.penguin.co.in/book/indias-forests/
2. Arupjyoti Saikia, "The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000", Penguin Random House [2023], https://www.penguin.co.in/book/the-quest-for-modern-assam-a-history/
3. Arupjyoti Saikia, "The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra", Oxford University Press [2019], https://india.oup.com/product/the-unquiet-river-9780199468119
4. Arupjyoti Saikia, A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam Since 1900, Routledge [2014], https://www.routledge.com/A-Century-of-Protests-Peasant-Politics-in-Assam-Since-1900/Saikia/p/book/9781138660274
5. Arupjyoti Saikia, "A Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826-2000", Oxford University Press [2011]
6. Arupjyoti Saikia, "Jungles, Reserves, Wildlife: A History of Forests in Assam", Wildlife Areas Development and Welfare Trust, Assam [2005]
7. Arupjyoti Saikia, "Orunodoi: collected essays between the period 1855–1968", Krantikal, Nagaon [2002]