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Rajarshi Dasgupta

Rajarshi Dasgupta

Rajarshi Dasgupta
Rajarshi Dasgupta
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Political Studies,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
127
Off. Phone
011-26704438
Email
rajarshi@mail.jnu.ac.in , rajarshibabu@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/rajarshi/cv.pdf
Qualifications
D.Phil (Oxford)
M.Phil (CPS/JNU)
M.A. (CPS/JNU)
B.A. Honours (Presidency College, Calcutta University) 
Areas of Interest/Specialization
Marxism, Biopolitics, Refugee histories, Urbanization and Development 
Experience

Worked as Fellow in Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, between 2004-2008. 
Currently teaching at the Centre for Political Studies in JNU since 2008.  

Awards & Honours

Awarded Felix Scholarship to pursue D. Phil at Oxford University in 1997.
Awarded the Radhakrishnan Memorial Bequest Trust Grant in 2000.
Awarded the Frere Exhibition Prize for Indian Studies at Oxford University in 2001.
Awarded Grants by the Beit Trust, The Queen’s College and the Charles Wallace India Trust in 2002 and 2003. 

International Collaboration/Consultancy
Currently involved in a research collaboration with Prof. Shubhra Gururani, York University, on ‘Peri-urbanization in India’, focusing on West Bengal and the National Capital Region.  
Best Peer Reviewed Publications

'Ethics and Politics' in Pradip Kumar Datta and Sanjay Palshikar eds.., Indian Political Thought, Political Science Volume 3 in ICSSR Research Surveys and Explorations (General Editor Achin Vanaik), 2013, Oxford University Press, pp. 230-259.

'The CPI(M) “Machinery” in West Bengal: Two Village Narratives from Kochbihar and Malda', Economic & Political Weekly, February 28, 2009, vol xliv no 9.

'Rhyming Revolution: Marxism and Culture in Colonial Bengal' in Studies in History, Volume 21:1, Jan-June 2005, pp. 79-98. 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
'The Ascetic Modality: A Critique of Communist Self-fashioning' in Nivedita Menon, Aditya Nigam and Sanjay Palshikar eds., Critical Studies in Politics: Exploring Sites, Selves, Power, IIAS and Orient Blackswan, 2014, pp. 67-87.

'The People in People’s Art and People’s War' in Gargi Chakrabarty ed., P.C. Joshi, The People’s Warrior, P.C. Joshi Archives and Tulika, March 2014, pp. 443-456.

Introduction, co-authored with Gargi Chakrabarty in Chakrabarty ed., P.C. Joshi, The People’s Warrior, P.C. Joshi Archives and Tulika, March 2014, pp. ix-xxi. 
Patents (if any)

NA

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.