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K.S. James

K.S. James

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K.S. James
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for the Study of Regional Development,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
121, SSS-III
Off. Phone
011-26704579
Email
ksjames@mail.jnu.ac.in , ksjames@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

Ph. D 

Areas of Interest/Specialization
Formal Demography including measurement; Population and Development; Mortality and Health; Ageing; Health Economics 
Experience

21 years

Awards & Honours
* Visiting Fellowship, Population Research Centre, School of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, May, 2014.
* Visiting Fellowship, Centre for Research on Ageing, University of Southampton, UK, May 7-17, 2014.
* Panel Member on “New Challenges in Population and Development” set up by International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) for the period 2010-13.
* Visiting Fellow, International Institute for Applied System Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, May-June, 2010.
* ESRC-ICSSR visiting fellowship to London School of Economics, London during April-June, 2009.
* Visiting Fellowship, French National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), Paris, France, November- December, 2007.
* The Srinivasan Award for best substantive paper published in the journal ‘Demography India’ in the year 2001.
* Visiting Fellowship, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, May-November, 2000. 
International Collaboration/Consultancy

1. "Impacts of Demand Side Financing Instruments on the Continuum of Care for Maternal and Child Health in India and Bangladesh" in Collaboration with in University of Portsmouth, UK; University of St Andrews, UK; Sheffield Hallam University, UK and ICRRB, Bangladesh (funded by Medical Research Council, UK; DFID, UK and Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi), 20016-18.

2. "Ageing and Well-being in a Globalising World" in collaboration with University of Groningen, Netherlands and University of Southampton, UK (under the India-European Research Networking Programme: ICSSR -ANR-DFG-ESRC-NWO Joint Funding Scheme), 2013-16.

3. "Migrant’s Suitcase: Examining the Flow of Norms, Identity and Social Capital Between India and Netherlands" in collaboration with the University of Groningen, The Netherlands (funded by NWO, The Netherlands), 2013-15.

4. "Inequalities in Access to Healthcare in Brazil and India: Closing the Gap for the Poorest-poor", in collaboration with University of Southampton, UK; London School of Economics, UK and CEPED, Brazil, (funded by ESRC, UK), 2010-11.  

Best Peer Reviewed Publications
1. "The Contemporary Fertility Transition in India", International Journal of South Asian Studies, 2016 (Co-author: Annie George).

2. "Golden Cage: The stability of marriage in India" Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. L, No.13, March 28, 2015 (with K. Srinivasan).

3. "The Burden of Maternal Health Care Expenditure in India: Multilevel Analysis of National Data", Maternal and Child Health Journal, Vol. 17, No. 9, P:1622-1630, 2013 (With Tiziana Leone, and Sabu S Padmadas).

4. "Education and the Global Fertility Transition: Foreword", Vienna Year Book of Population Research, Vol. 10. No.1, P:1-8 , 2012 (Co-authors: V. Skirbekk, J. Van Bavel).

5. "India’s Demographic Change, Opportunities and Challenges", Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), July, 29, 2011. 
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
1. "Care Needs and Care Givers: Associations and Effects of Living Arrangements on Caregiving to Older Adults in India", Ageing International, 2016, (with Ugargol, Allen Prabhaker, Inge Hutter and Ajay Bailey).

2. "India’s Support System for the Elderly: Emerging Challenges", in K Gayithri and K V Raju (eds) State, Governance and Financing of India’s Development, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2016 (Co-author: T S Syamala)

3. "View from a Fast Growing Nation: What demographic change means for India?", in Katinka Barysch (ed) Our Wold and Us: How our Environment and our Societies Change, Allianz SE: Germany, 2015 (Co-author: N. Kavitha). 
Patents (if any)

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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.