Manorama Sharma

Prof. Manorama Sharma is a prominent Indian historian and academic specialising in the social, economic, and gender history of Northeast India, having long served as a Professor in the Department of History at North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) in Shillong. Her scholarship critically examines regional historiography, middle-class hegemony, and socio-economic dynamics in Assam, alongside groundbreaking work incorporating gender perspectives into northeastern historical studies. She is widely known for seminal publications such as Social and Economic Change in Assam: Middle Class Hegemony (1990) and History and History Writing in North East India (2002), as well as editing Rethinking Gender History: Essays on Northeast India and Beyond (2017). Additionally, alongside historian Shiela Bora, she has made major contributions to primary source preservation by translating and editing key historical chronicle volumes (Buranjis), including the Jayantia Buranji, Kachari Buranji, Satsari Assam Buranji, and Tripura Buranji.