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CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND GOVERNANCE

Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

SEMINAR SERIES

 

Invitation for Book Discussion and Launch 

 

Accumulation by Segregation: Muslim Localities in Delhi (OUP)

 

By 

Ghazala Jamil

 

Panel of Speakers

Chair: Niraja Gopal Jayal, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Apoorvanand, University of Delhi

Manisha Sethi, Jamia Millia Islamia

Tripta Chandola, Indian Institute of Human Settlements

Chirashree Das Gupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Manoj K Jha, University of Delhi

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2017 AT 3:00 PM

CONFERENCE ROOM, CSLG, JNU

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ghazala Jamil is Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has earlier taught at the Department of Social Work, University of Delhi, and at School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi. Her core research interests are urbanisation, social movements, minority rights, andmateriality and spatiality of culture. She has co-translated a popular retelling of history of Delhi by Intizar Hussain from Urdu to English—Once There Was a City Named Dilli (Yoda Press, 2017).

 

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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.