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Jawaharlal Nehru University

New Delhi

8th November, 2017  

JNU has established an Odia Language Chair in the name of “Adikabi Sarala Das Chair of Odia Studies” in the Centre of Indian Languages, School of Language, Literature & Cultural Studies with the support of the Govt. of Odisa. The thrust area of study of the Chair will be teaching and research programme in Odia Language, Literature and Cultural Traditions and Social Institutions.

JNU invites applications for the post of Assistant Professor in Odia Language, named  “Adikabi Sarala Das Chair”. The minimum qualifications are as under:  

  1. Expertise in Odia Language, Literature & Cultural Studies (with Ph. D. in the relevant area);
  2. teaching/research experience of at least 05 years in Odia Language, Literature & Cultural Traditions and Social Institutions;
  3. good functional knowledge of  English/Hindi;
  4. publications of books or articles in journals
  5. experience of teaching/guiding research

The post of Assistant Professor shall be in the scale of pay of Rs. 15,600-39,100 (PB-3) +AGP of Rs. 6,000 (pre-revised) and the appointment shall be made initial period of 2 years extendable up to a maximum of 5 years.

All those who wish to be considered for the Assistant Professorship should send in their applications with detailed Bio-Data by soft copy to rector@mail.jnu.ac.in and also through hard copy to the office of Rector-I, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, latest by 08.12.2017.

 

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A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

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.