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Deepak K. Mishra

Deepak K. Mishra

Deepak K. Mishra
Deepak K. Mishra
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for the Study of Regional Development,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
107, SSS-III
Off. Phone
011-26704578
Email
deepakmishra@mail.jnu.ac.in deepakmishra.jnu@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

MA, MPhil, PhD 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Political Economy of Agrarian Change, Economic Transformation of Mountain Economies, Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Institutions, Migration, and Human Development

Experience

Professor, CSRD, JNU (2010 onwards)
Associate Professor, CSRD, JNU (2004-2010) 
Lecturer-in-Economics, Rajiv Gandhi University (1999-2004) 

Awards & Honours

* ICCR Chair Professor, International Centre for South Asian Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russian Federation, Feb-June 2012.
* Commonwealth Visiting Fellow, Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK , Oct 2008-April 2009.
* South Asian Visiting Fellow, Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Dec 2006-February 2007.
* Sanjay Thakur Young Labour Economist Award for the Year 2002 by the Indian Society of Labour Economics, New Delhi. 

International Collaboration/Consultancy

* Team Member, Oxford University Project on Resource, Greenhouse gases, Technology and Jobs in India's Informal Economy: The Case of Rice. 
* Research Collaboration Geographically Uneven Development in India: Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Research Grant 2014-15; SSHRC, Insight Grant, 2016-20 in collaboration with York University, Toronto.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. (2009) `Institutional Diversity and Capitalist Transition: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in Arunachal Pradesh, India’, Journal of Agrarian Change, 9(4):512-547. (with Barbara Harriss-White and V Upadhyay).

  2. (2011) `Environmental Resource Consumption Pattern in Rural Arunachal Pradesh’, Forest Policy and Economics, 13(3):166-170 (with A Mitra).

  3. (2013) 'Developing the Border: The State and the Political Economy of Development in Arunachal Pradesh' in David N. Gellner (edited) Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia, Duke University Press, Durham, pp.141-162.

  4. (2015) ‘Mapping Regions of Agrarian Capitalism in India’ in Elisabetta Basile, Barbara Harriss-White and Christine Lutringer (edited) Mapping India’s Capitalism: Old and New Regions, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp.9-41. (with Barbara Harriss-White).

  5. (2015) ‘Agrarian Relations and Institutional Diversity in Arunachal Pradesh’ in Barbara Harriss-White and Judith Heyer (edited) Indian Capitalism in Development, Routledge, London, pp. 66-83.
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  1. (2012) The Unfolding Crisis in Assam's Tea Plantations: Employment and Occupational Mobility, London and New Delhi: Routledge. (with V Upadhyay and A Sarma).

  2. (2016) Edited. Internal Migration in Contemporary India, New Delhi: Sage.

  3. (2017) Edited. Rethinking Economic Development in Northeast India: The Changing Dynamics, London: Routledge. (with V Upadhyay).
Patents (if any)

NA

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.