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Mollica Dastider

Mollica Dastider

Mollica Dastider
Mollica Dastider
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Comparative Politics & Political Theory,
School of International Studies
Off. Phone
011-26704798
Residence
9312889958
Email
mollica@mail.jnu.ac.in, mollica.dastider@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

Ph.D.

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Political Ecology; Modernity and Marginality; Comparative Political Thought; Ecological Sites of Indigenous Knowledge Practices

Experience

1. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi (2010-2014)
2. Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. (2008-2010)
3. Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti Bhawan, New Delhi (2001- 2006)
4. DAAD Visiting Fellow in Germany (2005 –2006) 
5. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Post -Doctoral Fellow at University of Dortmund, Germany, for the year 2000.  

Awards & Honours

1. Member, Editorial Board of the NMML Journal, Contemporary India (2001-2006)
2. Represented India in the international delegation that visited European Parliament and European Commission in 2007.
3. Was awarded TOPS Diploma by the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2005. 

International Collaboration/Consultancy

1. Minority Cultures and Alternate Discourses in East Himalayas was funded by the Ford Foundation’s project on New Cultural Histories of the East, in CSSS, Calcutta between 2008-10
2. Minority Identity and Majoritarian Discourses in India and the West. Funded by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bonn, Germany, 2000.
3. Dialogues with Islam in European and South Asian Perspectives--A joint Project of DAAD,New Delhi, and University of Erfurt, Germany(2005-6) partially supported my research on Western Liberal Democracies’ Dilemma with Cultural Difference.
4. Academic consultancy for the Sigma Research Institute, Mannheim, Germany for their Social Milieu Research Project: India. Presentations made in Mannheim in 2007.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Book monograph
1. Understanding Nepal: Muslims in a Plural Society, Har Anand, New Delhi, 2007. [Reprint in 2010. Also available in Paperback version.] ISBN-10: 8124112711

2. Liberal Dilemma with Difference: Muslims in a Western Democracy, New O.P. Series of the Centre for Studies in Social Science,Calcutta. May, 2010. (35 pages) http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/3213

3. “Refusing to Choose: The Muslim Madhesis and the Coexistence of Religious and Regional in Nepal's Tarai” Mahendra Lawoti and Susan Hangen edited Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, Routledge, London, 2013. [ISBN: 1136308725]

4. ”Minority Identity, Majoritarianism and the Poltical Response in India and the West” in Tapan Basu edited India in the Age of Globalisation: Discourses and Texts, NMML, New Delhi, 2003. [ISBN: 81-876-12-9]

5. “Muslim Mobilization and the Hindu State in Nepal, 1951-95”, European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (SOAS, London), Vol.18, Spring 2000. pp.20-35 [ISSN 0943-8254]

6. NMML Monograph, No.10, Minority Identity and Religious Majoritarianism in South Asia: The Resurgence in India and Bangladesh, NMML, New Delhi, December 2004 (47 pages) [ISBN no: 81-87614-28-5] 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

(Papers in Scopus/ Scimago rated Journals)
1.    “Practices as Political: Tribal Citizens and Indigenous Knowledge Practices in East Himalayas”,  (Peer reviewed Special Article), Economic and Political Weekly of India, Vol. 55, Issue No. 46, November 21, 2020, pp:49-56  Bombay, Sameeksha Trust.  ISSN (Print) - 0012-9976

2.    “Marginalized as Minority: Tribal Citizens and Border Thinking in India”,  Special Article  (Peer  reviewed Special Article),  Economic and Political Weekly of India, Vol. LI  No. 25  June 18, 2016, pp: 48-54. Bombay: Sameeksha Trust  ISSN  - 0012-9976


(BOOK CHAPTER)
3.    “Regions Resist  Hill Hindu Nationalism  in Nepal”  in Lok Raj Baral (Edited)  Politics of Geo Politics: Continuity and Change in India and Nepal  Adarsh Books, New Delhi,  2018.

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.