Publications:

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Sabhapandit, Trisha and Baruah, Padmini, “Untrustworthy and Unbelievable: Women And The Quest For Citizenship In Assam,” The Statelessness and Citizenship Review 3, no. 1 (2021): 236–58. (Both authors contributed equally)

• Baruah, Padmini, “The Right to Have Rights: Assam and the Legal Politics of Citizenship,” Socio-Legal Review 16, no. 2 (2020)

 

REPORTS

• “Paralegal Volunteers in Assam: Assessing Their Work, Capacities and Needs” (Development and Justice Initiative, July 2023)

• “Marginalised and Impoverished in Assam” (Assam: Right to Nationality and Citizenship Network, January 2021), https://www.right2nationality.in/index.php/publications/.

• “You and I Are Not Friends: The Challenges of Ethnographic Study in the Migration Field,” The Journeys Project, ed. Kimberley Wilson (Medford: The Leir Institute, 2019) https://sites.tufts.edu/journeysproject/you-and-i-are-not-friends-the- challenges-of-ethnographic-study-in-the-migration-field/

• “Our Destiny Is Written on Our Foreheads,” in The Journeys Project, ed. Kimberley Wilson (Medford: The Lair Institute, 2019), https://sites.tufts.edu/journeysproject/financial-biographies-volume-1/.

• Baruah, Padmini et al., “Paths to Justice: Surveying Judicial and Non-Judicial Dispute Resolution in India” in Approaches to Justice in India (Bangalore: DAKSH, 2018) (All authors contributed equally)

• Purushothama, Amulya and Baruah, Padmini, “Diversification and Efficiency: A Case Study of the Karnataka Appellate Tribunal” in Approaches to Justice in India (Bangalore: DAKSH, 2018) (Both authors contributed equally)

 

MEDIA/LONGFORM

• Baruah, Padmini, and Angshuman Choudhury. ‘Forgetting Nellie: Forty Two Years and Counting’. The Leaflet, 18 February 2025. https://theleaflet.in/opinion/forgetting-nellie-forty-two-years-and-counting.

• Baruah, Padmini, and Douglas McDonald-Norman. ‘Entirely Transparent: Policy and Prose in the Supreme Court’s 6A Judgment’. The Leaflet, 26 November 2024. https://theleaflet.in/leaflet-specials/constitution-day-special-2024/entirely-transparent-policy-and-prose-in-the-supreme-courts-6a-judgment.

• ‘Speaking the Same Language: How Ethnonationalism and Hindutva Seep into the Adjudication of Citizenship in Assam – The Polis Project’, accessed 13 June 2024, https://www.thepolisproject.com/read/speaking-the-same-language-how-ethnonationalism-and-hindutva-seep-into-the-adjudication-of-citizenship-in-assam/

• Baruah, Padmini, ‘Double Standards and Contradictions: The CAA Rules Are Rife with Discrimination’, Scroll.in, 5 April 2024, https://scroll.in/article/1066035/double-standards-and-contradictions-the-caa-rules-are-rife-with-discrimination

• Baruah, Padmini, “The Violent Video from a Recent Eviction Drive Should Be a Moment of Reckoning for Assamese Society,”, Scroll.in, September 30, 2021, https://scroll.in/article/1006564/the-violent-video-from-a-recent-eviction-drive- should-be-a-moment-of-reckoning-for-assamese-society.

• Baruah, Padmini and Wadud, Aman, “Government Needs to Act Urgently to Conclude NRC Process in Assam,” The Indian Express, September 1, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/assam-nrc-covid-19-lockdown- national-register-of-citizens-india-citizenship-6577974/. (Both authors contributed equally)

• Baruah, Padmini, “A Paper Trail to Nowhere: Proving Status in Assam and the Crisis of Citizenship,” The Polis Project, Inc, August 26, 2020, https://www.thepolisproject.com/a-paper-trail-to-nowhere-proving-status-in- assam-and-the-crisis-of-citizenship/.

• Baruah, Padmini, “Assam: Supreme Court Must Do Much More to Save Prisoners in Detention Centres from Covid-19,” Scroll.in, April 18, 2020, https://scroll.in/article/959511/supreme-court-must-do-much-more-to-save- prisoners-in-assams-detention-centres-from-covid-19.

• Baruah, Padmini and Sukhtankar, Sandip, “Opinion | Ensuring That #MeToo Doesn’t Fizzle out,” Mint, November 1, 2018, https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/vFjfjuRyirSGyL1es2wEJO/Opinion--Ensuring- that-MeToo-doesnt-fizzle-out.html. (Both authors contributed equally)