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Author: Dr. Reshmi Banerjee

Dr. Reshmi Banerjee is a political scientist based in London with specialization in food security, agricultural policies and cross-border studies on North East India/Myanmar. She is currently a Research Fellow in the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. She was previously an academic visitor in the Asian Studies Centre (Programme on Modern Burmese Studies) in St Antony’s College, University of Oxford and a research associate in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She has been a post doctoral fellow in the department of international relations, University of Indonesia and a researcher in the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta. Reshmi has worked as a fellow in the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, has been a Visiting Professor in the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, Jamia Millia Islamia, and has taught in Delhi University and in the University of Indonesia. She has an M.Phil and Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi and has co-edited two books: Climate Change in the Eastern Himalaya: Impact on Livelihoods, Growth and Poverty (Academic Publishers, 2015) and Gender, Poverty and Livelihood in the Eastern Himalayas (Routledge, 2017).
  • Arts and Literature

Burma: Food, Family and Conflict by Bridget Anderson and Stephen Anderson, Ma Khin Markets, S.L, 2018, 256 Pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on August 25, 2020March 9, 2022

Reshmi Banerjee reviews an engrossing tale of family history, national politics and regional cuisine

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  • Book Review

Myanmar Transformed? People, Places and Politics edited by Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly and Chit Win, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 333 Pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on July 17, 2019November 4, 2019

Reshmi Banerjee reviews a new anthology on Myanmar’s political transition and governance. Myanmar’s transformation from…

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The Other Ladies of Myanmar by Jennifer Rigby, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, Pages 127.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on November 28, 2018February 3, 2019

Reshmi Banerjee reviews Jennifer Rigby’s telling of twelve remarkable Myanmar women and their life histories.…

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  • Book Review

Bagan And The World – Early Myanmar and Its Global Connections edited by Goh Geok Yian, John N. Miksic and Michael Aung-Thwin, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 230 Pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on September 10, 2018April 2, 2020

Reshmi Banerjee explores the trans-border relevance of the archaeological site of Bagan.

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Burma, Kipling and Western Music – The Riff from Mandalay by Andrew Selth, New York, Routledge, 2017, 293 Pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on May 15, 2018September 10, 2018

Reshmi Banerjee reviews Andrew Selth’s book on popular music in colonial Burma.

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  • Research Report

Familiarity across Borders

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on May 3, 2018May 18, 2018

Reshmi Banerjee explores issues which unify North East India and Myanmar.   

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Memories for a Lifetime – The Return of Indians from Burma: A Tale of Trauma and Tenacity

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on March 22, 2018April 21, 2018

Reshmi Banerjee tries to trace the difficult emotional journey of Indians from Burma.

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  • Research Report

Climate Change: A Permanent Reality for Myanmar

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on September 4, 2017November 2, 2017

Reshmi Banerjee gives an overview of climate change-related risks for Myanmar.

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Mapping Chinese Rangoon – Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese by Jayde Lin Roberts, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2016.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on August 22, 2017August 23, 2017

Reshmi Banerjee reviews Jayde Lin Roberts’ book on the Sino-Burmese in Yangon. The meaning of…

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Islam and the State in Myanmar: Muslim-Buddhist Relations and the Politics of Belonging edited by Melissa Crouch, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2016, Pages 345.   

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on July 3, 2017July 31, 2017

Reshmi Banerjee reviews Melissa Crouch’s edited volume on Muslims in Myanmar.

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Series: COVID-19 and Myanmar

ကိုဗစ်-၁၉  နှင့် မြန်မာရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ လူငယ်တို့၏  တက်ကြွ လှုပ်ရှား မှု

COVID-19 Policy Response Needs and Opportunities

Wavering at the Turning Point: Myanmar’s response to COVID-19 in March 2020

Tea Circle’s Book Reviews

The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia, Arash Khazeni, University of California Press, 2020, 264 pages.

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Introduction

Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis: Rohingya, Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear, by John Holt. Honolulu, Hawaii. University of Hawaii Press, 2019. 301pp.

Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change, edited by Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran, ISEAS, Singapore, 2019, 407 Pages.

Myanmar Transformed? People, Places and Politics edited by Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly and Chit Win, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 333 Pages.

Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone by Stephen Campbell. Cornell University Press, 2018. 206 Pages.

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