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CWS organises a seminar by Moushumi Basu

CWS organises a seminar by Moushumi Basu

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CENTRE FOR WOMEN’S STUDIES, JNU

 

Invites you to a Seminar on

 

The Making of Modern India: ‘Development’ and the Invisibility of ‘Loss’

 

by

Moushumi Basu
(Associate Professor, CIPOD, School of International Studies, JNU)

 
Abstract: Development like any other sphere of public life is open to diverse interpretations and contestations. As a project that lays claims to unleashing individual choices and freedom, discourses on development are intrinsically political, embedded in the power relations that exist in each society. Complexities of social relations (class, caste, race, gender) influence the way production relations are structured, giving rise to different expectations regarding development. The presentation being made focusses on the different types of “loss”, both personal and collective, that go relatively unacknowledged in the development narratives that seek to tell the story of the making of modern India. It explicitly focuses on the story of three villages associated with landmark “moments of national pride”, made invisible in the narratives that celebrate such developments.

 

Date: 13th November 2018, Tuesday, Time: 3 PM to 5 PM
Venue: CWS, Committee Room No.324, Third Floor, SSS-1

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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.