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CPS celebrating 50 years

CPS celebrating 50 years

Time-Table of MA-III for Monsoon Semester 2021

List of courses for Monsoon Semester 2021

Welcome to the Centre for Political Studies. Founded in 1971 the centre has an outstanding reputation for academic excellence. In the first year of its existence, the Centre launched the M.Phil. /Ph.D. programme with 15 students. In the following academic year, the M.A. programme was launched. In keeping with the spirit of the JNU Act of 1966, the Centre for Political Studies incorporated a strong interdisciplinary emphasis in the structure and design of its syllabi. Since then, the Centre for Political Studies has become one of the largest Centres of the School of Social Sciences drawing students from all parts of the country and abroad.

The Centre offers degrees both at the Masters and the Doctorate levels. It represents major streams of Political Science discipline viz. Political Theory, Indian Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations and Public Administration. The courses at the Masters level equip the students with various ideas, concepts and approaches of the discipline. By the end of the last semester, students are in a position to choose a career based on Masters or develop an interest to pursue research in a particular stream of the discipline.

There is a blend of young, middle and senior faculty at the Centre. These faculty members have expertise in all the streams of the discipline and teach students and guide researchers in their areas of specialization using a multidisciplinary approach.

The all India and International character with diverse social, regional, cultural and economic backgrounds of the students makes them learn about each other beyond the classroom teaching.

Different kinds of fellowships are available for students coming from relatively poorer sections of the society but having passion to pursue higher studies.

CPS Alumni are requested to CLICK HERE to submit their information

**Dr Papia Sengupta Published article on "Open access publication: academic colonialism or knowledge philanthropy?" Geoforum. Volume 118. 2021. Available on https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718520300841

**Dr Papia Sengupta Published article on "Can Ideas be Deleted? Curriculum in Perspective." Economic and Political Weekly. Available on link https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/18/commentary/can-ideas-be-deleted.html

Faculty Publications

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.