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Parimala V Rao

Parimala V Rao

Parimala V Rao
Parimala V Rao
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
203
Off. Phone
011-26706762
Email
parimalavrao@mail.jnu.ac.in ; parimalavrao@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

Ph.D from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2001
MPhil in History from Bangalore University- 1989 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

History of Education, Indigenous Education, History of Schools, History of Curriculum and Text Books, Educational Policies and Debates of Colonial India, National Education, Historical Method and Historiography

Experience

Assistant Professor 2008-till date
Senior Research Associate Centre for Women’s Development Studies 2006-2008
Project Co-ordinator Vikas Adhyayana Kendra, Mumbai 2005
Project Co-ordinator for the University of Manitoba 2001-2005
Lecturer in History Mangalore University 1994-1995 

Awards & Honours

Visiting Fellow, Institute of Education, London 2011 and 2014
Junior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 2013 – 2015
Member, Editorial Board, History of Education, U.K.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Co-Editor with Gary McCulloch, Institute of Education, London and Shinichi Suzuki Waseda University Tokyo - Encyclopaedia of Asian Educators, Routledge UK
Co-Editor Shinichi Suzuki, Waseda University Tokyo special Issue on Asian Education- Espacio, Tympo y Educacion
Collaborative research on Missionary Education in India with Prof. Idesbald Goddeeris  Katholieke University, Leuven, Belgium

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

‘Revisiting the Ideology of the Marxist –anti-colonial leader in Maharashtra’, Journal of Social Inclusion Studies, 2018.

‘Class, Identity and Empire: Scotsmen and Indian Education in the Nineteenth Century,’ Social Scientist, October 2016, Nos. 520-21.

‘Modern Education and the Revolt of 1857 in India,’ Paedagogica Historica, No 52, 1-2, 2016.

‘Trends in the Historiography of Indian Education: A Critical Review,’ Jahrbuch fur Historische Bildungsforschung, No. 21, 2015.

‘Promiscuous Crowd of English Smatterers’: ‘Poor’ in the Colonial and Nationalist Discourse on Education in India 1835-1935, Contemporary Education Dialogue, No 10, No 2, 2013, pp. 223-248.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

‘Imperial Roots of Nationalist Education Model in India 1885-1947’ in Marcelo Caruso, and Daniel Roger Maul, Decolonisation(s) and Education: New Politics, New Men, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2018.

(Ed) New Perspectives in the History of Indian Education, Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi, 2014, paperback 2016.

Foundations of Tilak’s Nationalism: Discrimination, Education, and Hindutva, Orient BlackSwan, New Delhi, 2010, paperback 2011. 

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.