Mahesh Ranjan Debata | Welcome to Jawaharlal Nehru University

Mahesh Ranjan Debata

Associate Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre for Inner Asian Studies

School of International Studies

Room No

336 SIS-II

Off. Phone

011-26704750

Residence

09818105957

mdebata[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/mdebata

Qualifications

MA, M.Phil & Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Xinjiang, Inner Asia, Central Asia and Eurasia

Experience

1. Assistant Professor in JNU since 31 December 2007

2. Concurrent Faculty, Special Centre for E-Learning, JNU (since 12 March 2019)

3. Director, UGC Area Studies, Centre for Inner Asian Studies, JNU (10 April 2017-9 April 2019)

Awards & Honours

1. Visiting Professor, School of International Education, Yinchuan University of Energy, Ningxia, China

2. Guest Professor at the Centre of Business Anthropology, School of Continuing Education, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Tianjin, China (from May 2015 to May 2017)

2. Distinguished Speaker award by the Advanced Forum of Applied Anthropology, Jishou University, 21-22 May 2013.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

1. Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Business Anthropology (2011-2021).

2. Associate Editor, International Journal of Business Anthropology (2021 onwards).

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

1. "China's Assimilationist Policies in Xinjiang: From Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping", International Studies (Sage), April 2022.

2. "Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): Central Asia, the Middle East and South Asia", in Mojtaba Mahdavi and Tugril Keskin (eds.) Rethinking China, Middle East and Asia in a "Multiplex World", Leiden: Brill, 2022: 80-95.

3. "Role of Big and Emerging Powers in post-Covid World Order" in Sajal Roy and Debasish Nandy (eds.), Understanding post-Covid Social and Cultural Realities, Singapore: Springer, 2022: 13-26.

4. "Twenty-Five Years of India-Central Asia Relations" in Sangit K Ragi et al (eds.) Imagining India as a Global Power: Prospects and Challenges, London & NY: Routledge, 2018: 168-182.

5."India-Xinjiang Historico-Cultural Linkages", International Studies (Sage), 54 (1-4), January-October 2017: 218-230.

6. "Xinjiang in Central Asia's Regional Security Structure", International Studies (Sage), 52 (1-4), January-October 2015: 53-65.

7. "Hizb ut-Tahrir: The Destabilizing Force in Central Asia" in K. Warikoo (ed.) Religion and Security in South and Central Asia, London/NY: Routledge, 2011, pp. 124-138.

8. "A Cultural Rights Approach vs. Nationalist Mobilization: An Applied Anthropological Case Study of Uyghur Diaspora Community", Journal of Practicing Anthropology, 33 (4), Fall 2011: 35-38

9. "Identity and Mobilization in Transnational Societies: A Case study of Uyghur Diasporic Nationalism" (co-authored with Tian Guang), China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, 8 (4), 2010, pp. 59-78.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books