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NEISP is organising sixth Jayashree Roy Memorial Lecture by Prof. Rana P. Behal

NEISP is organising sixth Jayashree Roy Memorial Lecture by Prof. Rana P. Behal

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North East India Studies Programme

School of Social Sciences

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

 

invites you to the SIXTH Jayashree Roy Memorial Lecture by

 

Prof. Rana P. Behal

Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi

 

on

 

Indentured/Adivasi Labour of Assam Tea Plantations

 

Time:                   3.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Date:          17 November, 2017

Venue:        Committee Room, School of Social Sciences I, JNU

 

PROGRAMME

 

Programme Schedule

3.00 pm – 3.05 pm:       Welcome Address by Dr. Manjeet Baruah, NEISP, JNU

3.05 pm – 3.10 pm:    Release of Fifth Jayashree Roy Memorial Lecture Publication

3.10 pm – 4.30 pm:       Memorial Lecture by Prof. Rana P. Behal, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi

4.30 pm – 4.40 pm:       Address by Chair Dr. Rakhee Bhattacharjee, NEISP, JNU

4.40 pm – 4.45 pm:    Vote of Thanks

4.45 pm:                     High Tea

 

About NEISP : North East India Studies Programme (NEISP) was set up to promote teaching and research on North East India on an interdisciplinary framework. The main thrust of NEISP is to undertake teaching and critical research, and build up a body of scholarly works on the region and its neighboring areas. Apart from offering BA Optional and MA Optional courses, NEISP offers MPhil/PhD and Direct PhD programme(s).

 

Brief Biography of late Dr. Jayashree Roy : Dr. Jayashree Roy was a senior faculty member of the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi. She received her education in India and universities abroad. She was a resource person for different organisations, such as USEFI, UNESCO, Commonwealth Secretariat, NCERT, MHRD, NMML and state governments. North East India remained an important area of research interest for her.

 

About the Speaker : Rana P. Behal taught History at Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi. He has also held teaching assignments at Cornell University, Syracuse University and Oberlin College, USA. He has been a fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi; Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge University; Humboldt University, Berlin and Centre for Development Studies, Free University, Berlin. He is also the author of, One Hundred Years of Servitude: Political Economy of Tea Plantations in Colonial Assam (2014).

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.