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Exploring Modern Temporality, History and Beyond: A Comparative Analysis of Giambattista Vico and Jyotiba Phule
GITIKA DE
Preventive Vigilance as a tool of Good Governance
Social Concerns in Dalit Literature
In God's Mirror A Photographic Journey of Theyyam
Democracy and the Vioce of Conscience
Between Civic and Political Engagement: Ontology of Information as a Right
Rapidly Growing Asian Economies and the Himalayan Waters
Women's Rights to Land and the Challenge of the Commons
Time Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Laser Femtosecond
Shifting Identities and Intercultural Relations in Québec
TOWARDS EVOLVING A SURVIVOR CENTRIC APPROACH
Scientifically 'Religious' and Religiously 'Scientific': Ethnography of Science and Religion
Approaching the Divine The Integration of Alvar Bhakti in Srivaiavism
PONGAMIA PINNATA IN HASSAN BIO-FUEL PARK: A QUALITATIVE STUDY
Understanding Tribal or Indigenous societies in India and their present trajectories of change
The story of an epic and its afterlife in nationalist vernacular literary cultures
Integrating Earth System Science and Public Policy Research: The Indian Perspective
A SYNTHESIS OF IDENTITY
Disability Awareness program for the students with disabilities
Questioning Economic Growth
Impossible Subjects of Drone Warfare (Rupal Oza and Madiha Tahir)
Russian Policy towards West Asia with special reference to Syria
The Tipping Point and Economic Change in India
Film, Perception and Philosophy: Intersections?
DR. APJ ABDUL KALAM MEMORIAL LECTURE (ON THE OCCASION OF HIS BIRTHDAY)
Excavating the Problem of Non-being
Christianity, Caste and the Dalits
Viability of Philosophy Festival and Reading Philosophical Texts
The Hague: At the Crossroads of Peace, Justice and Security

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.