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Courses

SCSNEI offers MPhil course work during the first two semesters (out of the total of four semesters) starting from the month of July every year.

In addition, faculty also offers MA and BA optional courses to students from other Centres and Schools of the university.

 

 

Time Table

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MPhilCompulsory Courses

 

Course No.

Course Title

Credit

Course-in-charge

NE601

Understanding North East India

4

All Faculties

NE602

Research Methodology

4

All Faculties

 

MPhil Optional Courses

 

Course No.

Course Title

Credit

Course-in-charge

NE651

Religion and Society in North East India

4

Dr. Kh. Bijoykumar Singh

NE652

Government and Politics in North East India

4

D. G. Amarjit Sharma

NE653

Economic Development in North East India

4

Dr. RakheeBhattacharjee

NE654

History of Frontiers and Borderlands in North East India

4

Dr. LipokmarDzuvichu

NE655

Connected Histories of North East India

4

Dr. LipokmarDzuvichu

NE656

Tribes and Ethnicity in North East India

4

Dr. Kh. Bijoykumar Singh

NE657

Cultural Histories of North East India

4

Dr. ManjeetBaruah

NE658

Print Culture and Social Change in Colonial North East India

4

Dr. ManjeetBaruah

NE659

Politics of Resistence in North East India

4

Dr. G. Amarjit Sharma

 

MA Optional Courses

 

Course No.

Course Title

Credit

Course-in-charge

NE421

Interpreting Culture History of North East India

4

Dr. ManjeetBaruah

NE422

Politics of Resistance in North East India

4

Dr. G. Amarjit Sharma

NE423

Frontier Making in North East India

4

Dr. LipokmarDzuvichu

NE424

Tribes in North East India

4

Dr. Kh. Bijoykumar Singh

NE425

Politics of Development in North East India

4

Dr. G. Amarjit Sharma

NE426

Sociology of Religion in North East India

4

Dr. Kh. Bijoykumar Singh

 

 

BA Optional Courses

 

Course No.

Course Title

Credit

Course-in-charge

NE201

Politics in North East India

3

Dr. G. Amarjit Sharma

NE202

Sociology of North East India

3

Dr. Kh. Bijoykumar Singh

NE203

Colonialism and Culture in North East India

3

Dr. ManjeetBaruah

NE204

Colonialism and Christianity in North East India

3

Dr. LipokmarDzuvichu

NE205

Introduction to History of North East India, 1826–1947

3

Dr. LipokmarDzuvichu

NE206

Introduction to Literatures of North East India

3

Dr. ManjeetBaruah

 

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.