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JSL09

JSL09

Contents

From the Editor's Desk 
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1. "Healing in the Words": 
Shashi Deshpande's Contract with the Dead in Small Remedies 

Nancy E. Batty 
7

2. Indian Writing in English: 
Some Language Issues and Translation Problems

Christopher Rollason 
20

3. Imperial Frontier to National Border: 
Narration, History and Identity in Ghosh's The Glass Palace

Rohini Mokashi-Punekar and Abhigyan Prasad 
40

4. Saguna:
The Fashioning of the 'New Woman'

Parinitha 
52

5. Embedded Hierarchies and Subjugated Differences: 
A Study of Tamil Dalit Women

K.A. Geetha 
67

6. Memories to Remember: Laxmibai Tilak's Smritichitre:
Religion as Emancipatory Praxis in Colonial Maharashtra 

Rajendra Dengle 
75

7. Looking Beyond Home: 
Lu Xun and Ideas from the West

Manik Bhattacharya 
86

8. From 'Popularisation of Culture' to 'Popular Culture'
Discourse and Praxis in China

Sabaree Mitra
103

9. Chaotic foundations:
Nietzsche and Mikhail Bakhtin's Model of Popular Culture

Yelena Mazour-Matusevich
116

10. Eros: 
The Ultimate Resort in Toni Morrison's Love

Meenakshi F. Paul
97

11. Reviews
142

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.