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CIPOD organises a talk by Dibyesh Anand

CIPOD organises a talk by Dibyesh Anand

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School of International Studies

Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament

 

Cordially invites you to

A Talk on

 

Politics of Nationalism and Postcoloniality in China and India

 

 

Dibyesh Anand

(Head, School of Social Sciences, University of Westminster, London, UK)

 

Wednesday, 23 January 2019

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Room No. 349, School of International Studies (SIS – II)

 

Abstract

China and India, the two Emerging powers, pride themselves in their history of anti-colonial struggles and anti-imperialist politics. The lecture will analyse various contestations over spaces, peoples, and narratives in China and India, with special focus on Xinjiang, Tibet and Kashmir, and argue for a more complex understanding of politics of nationalism and postcoloniality. 

 

Professor Dibyesh Anand is the Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster in London. Until July 2018, he led the Department of Politics and International Relations. He is the author of monographs “Geopolitical Exotica: Tibet in Western Imagination” and “Hindu Nationalism in India and the Politics of Fear” and has spoken about and published on varied topics including Tibet, China-India border dispute, Hindu nationalism and Islamophobia in India, and the colonial practices of postcolonial states. He is an avid facebooker and available at www.facebook.com/dibyesh.

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.