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Jayashree Roy Memorial Lectures

Jayashree Roy Memorial Lectures

  1. Professor Jeta Sankritayana, 'The Granularity of Regional Growth- Abstracting the Integration of Development in North-East India', SCSNEI, March, 07, 2024.

  2. Prof. H.S Shiva Prakash, 'Theatres of North East: Problems and Prospects.' SCSNEI, May 04, 2023.

  3. Prof. Swatahsiddha Sarkar, 'Epistemic Concerns of Himalaya and the Questions of Environment and Livelihood,' SCSNEI, March 22nd, 2022.

  4. Dr. Kiran Hazarika, 'National Education Policy 2020: Issues and Challenges of North East India', SCSNEI, December 24th 2020.

  5. Ch. Priyoranjan Singh, theme 'Development Dream, The Act East Policy Context in the North East' NEISP, 6th December, 2019.

  6. Tiplut Nongbri, 'Heritage, Conservation and Tourism in the Age of Globalization', NEISP, November 02, 2018.

  7. Rana P. Behal, 'Indentures/Adivasi Labour of Assam Valley Tea Plantations', 2018 (Lecture booklet of the Sixth Jayashree Memorial Lecture, held in 2017).

  8. T. B. Subba, 'Migration, Inner Line Permit and Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Northeast India: A Ring Side View', NEISP, JNU, New Delhi, 2017.

  9. Gunnel Cedelof, 'Corridors, Networks, and Pathways in India’s Colonial Northeast', NEISP, New Delhi, 2015.

  10. Felix Padel, 'Identity and Ecosystems in Northeast India: Challenges from Rapid Changes', NEISP, New Delhi, 2014.

  11. P.D. Rai, 'Consolidating Peace Through Development', NEISP, JNU, New Delhi, 2013.

  12. David R. Syiemlieh, 'Colonialism and Christian Missions in North East India', NEISP, JNU, New Delhi, 2013.

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.