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Current Advances in Radiobiology, Stem Cells and Cancer Research
How Modi Won It- Notes from the 2014 Election
The SU(N) Heisenberg Model of Quantum Permutations
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria: super drugs for super bugs
Justice in Love
Recent contributions in ligand design, virtual screening and antibiotic resistance evolution
On Two Recents Breakthroughs Concerning Prime Numbers
Understanding Inequality in Brazil and India
Adivasis and Dikus in Colonial Eastern India: Chotanagpur and Santal Parganas in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
In Conversation with Qaisra Shahraz
Frontiers in Molecular Medicine
Urban Aspirations and Transcendental moorings: Ethnography of Associational Life in Mumbai's Urban Peripheries
Amendment in Interstate Migrant Workers Act (Regulation of Employment & Conditions of Service) Act 1979
Transcendental Logic and Method in the First Critique: A Phenomenological Approach
Molecular Biology techniques in Health & Medical Sciences
India's Macroeconomy
From Community to Communal: Unveiling the Minority Identity in Sports Politics.
Current Trends in Frustrated Magnetism
The Geography of Philosophy: Exploring Cultural Differences and Cultural Universals in Philosophical Intuitions & Concepts
Meat, Milk and Trees: Disciplinary and National Border-Crossing in the Materiality and Politics of Food
Comments on Flavor Mix, Energies and Fluxes of High Energy Neutrinos from Astrophysical Sources
Decolonial Pedagogy for Environment and Other Urgent Matters
Social Accounting Matrix: Concepts and Application
creative writing workshop
mini symposium
Food Politics: Media and Human Rights
EDXRF & WDXRF Techniques
Characterization of Birkhoff-James Orthogonality
Possible synthesis and characterization of magnetic semiconductors
DHARMA and GRIEF: ETHICS, SUFFERING, EMPATHY– MAHABHARATA AND RABINDRANATH TAGORE

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.