Ph.D., Chinese Studies, Thesis: Rural Reforms and Their Implications for Women in China, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi (2005)
M.Phil, Chinese studies, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi (1997)
M.A. Political Science, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (1995)
Chinese Politics, Rural Political Economy, Provinces and China’s Economic Development, New Urban Property Regimes
Associate Professor, Chinese Studies, Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, JNU, since July 2008
Lecturer (Chinese Studies) (ad-hoc) in the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi , November 2007- April 2008
Research Associate, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, November 2002 to July 2006. Assignments include regular M.Phil course lectures on Contemporary Chinese Politics
Research Assistance, Project on China in the 21st Century, Institute of Chinese Studies, CSDS, Delhi 1996-1997
UGC Certificate for Eligibility of Lectureship in Political Science 1997
Chinese Government Scholarship to learn Chinese Language 1997-1998
Nehru Memorial Fellowship for Field Work in China 2002
Institute of Chinese Studies / Ford Foundation Grant for Conference and Field Work in China 2005
Awarded One Month Fellowship to Visit China under ICSSR-CASS India- China Cultural Exchange Programme in year 2007
Research Projects
Dawn Research Project : ‘Gender Impact of China’s Global Engagement in the Global South’, Govind Kelkar( Lead Researcher) and Ritu Agarwal( Co-Author), November- June, 2023
Project Coordinator, ICSSR Project, Asian Connections and Trans-Border Linkages in Yunnan Province, China, 2016-18
Visiting Scholar
Visiting Professor, Foreign Languages and South Asia and Southeast Asia Research Institute, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming , May-June, 2025
Visiting Professor, School of International Studies, Yunnan University, Kunming, May-June, 2018
Visiting Professor, South Asian Languages and Yoga Centre, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming, May-June, 2017
Visiting Scholar, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012
Visiting Fellow, Jinan university, Guangzhou, China , May-June 2010
Visiting Scholar, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, Kunming China , 2002
Visiting scholar, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, December 2007
Agarwal, Ritu (co-authored with Govind Kelkar) ‘Power Through Culture: The Gender Paradigm in China’s Soft Power Engagement in the Global South, Advances in Politics and Economics, Vol 6, No.4, 2023 ISSN 2576-1382 (Print) ISSN 2576-1390 (Online http://www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/ape/article/view/34548
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22158/ape.v6n4p8
Agarwal, Ritu, Gender equality in China: An Unfinished Political Agenda, December 28, 2023 https://orcasia.org/article/541/gender-equality-in-china
Agarwal Ritu and Govind Kelkar, ‘Gender Impact of China’s Engagement in the Global South’ by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era ( DAWN), 2023-24, FEBRUARY 2024 ISSN 2413-1512 https://www.dawnfeminist.org/projects/gender-impact-of-chinas-engagement-in-the-global-south
Published and translated in English, Spanish, and Chinese languages
Gender Impact of China’s Engagement in the Global South ( Spanish Version) Impacto de Genero del Involucramiento de China en el Sur Global January 16, 2025
Gender Impact of China’s Engagement in the Global South (Chinese Version) 中国的国际发展合作在全球南方的性别影响, June 5, 2025
Gendered Impacts of China's Development Initiatives in the Global South, Cai Yiping (ed.) Forthcoming, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026
Agarwal, Ritu, Globalization Through Economic Gateways: Opening up of Yunnan Towards Asian Neighbours, US-China Foreign Language, July 2024, Vol. 22, No. 7, 385-394 doi:10.17265/1539-8080/2024.07.002 ISSN: 1539-8080(Print) 1935-9667(Online)
Agarwal, Ritu, with Govind Kelkar. Inequalities Persist: Policies and Social Constructs in Women’s Land Rights in Challenges for Chinese Women in the Early Twenty-First Century, ed. Gordana Malesevic (World Scientific Press, 2025)
Agarwal, Ritu, Rural Urbanization and County Government in China: Between Merger and Autonomy, The Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 60, No.14, April 5, 2025, https://doi.org/10.71279/epw.v60i14.42512
Agarwal Ritu, 印度与中国：亚洲伙伴关系迈向新的区域安全合作与可持续发展, (India and China: The Asian Partnership towards New Regional Security Cooperation and Sustainable Development) 丽都 • 阿格瓦尔著 郭穗彦译, 南亚东南亚研究 2025年第4期, ISSN- 674-6392
Agarwal, Ritu ‘Back to the Countryside? New Trends in the Rural Revitalization’ in ‘Unpacking the 2025 National People’s Congress: Innovation, Rural Trends, Women’s Roles, and Market Trust’, ICS Analysis, Issue No. 156, July 2025
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