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Former Faculty

Former Faculty

The Centre for Political Studies has a  knowledge tradition of five decades. Many academicians have contributed to this tradition in numerous ways. Many of these colleagues contributed to the understanding of Indian politics and political theory even after their retirement from the Centre.

Name of the faculty

Work Tenure

Areas of Specialization

Prof. K. Seshadri

1973-1986

Indian Politics, Public Administration

Prof. Rasheeduddin Khan

     1970-1989

Federalism, Indian Politics, West Asia

Prof. Sudipta Kaviraj

1971-1991

Political Theory, Socialism, Indian Politics

Prof. C P Bhambhri

1972-1998

Indian Politics, Bureaucracy

Prof. S.N. Jha

1978-2001

Methods in Social Sciences

Prof. Imtiaz Ahmad

1972-2002

Political Sociology, Minority Politics

Prof. Kuldeep Mathur

1986-2003

Public Policy, Development Administration

Prof. A. K. Ray

1974-2003

International Relations, Foreign Policy

Prof. Kiran Saxena

1975-2004

Trade Unionism, Gender Politics

Prof. Rajeev Bhargava

1980-2005

Political Philosophy, Secularism

Dr. Bishnu Mahapatra

1994-2005

Nationalism, Politics and Culture

Prof Rakesh Gupta

Comparative Politics

Prof. Balveer Arora

1973-2010

Federalism, Political Institutions In India

Prof.  Zoya Hasan

     1975-2014

Indian Politics, Election process

Prof. Valerian Rodrigues

-2015

Indian Political Thought, Social Justice

Prof Sudha Pai

-2016

Social Movements, Dalit Politics

Prof Gopal Guru

-2018

Political Theory, Social Justice

Prof Gurpreet Mahajan

-2021

Political Philosophy, Multiculturalism

Prof Pralay Kanungo

2003-2021

Indian Politics, Political Institutions

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.