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Toxic Urbanism: Air, Politics and Learning in Delhi
Anomaly Detection in Big Data
Integrable Representations of Toroidal Lie Algebras
Immigration in Assam during 1951-2011?
Migrants and Human Security: Contemporary Theories, Abiding Questions
Language Rights in a Divided Society: Some Reflections
The Centre for English Studies, SLL&CS, JNU
'Explaining the Persistence of Nehruvianism in Indian Strategic Culture'
The Novel and the City Modernity and Modernism in North India
'The Meaning of India'
"East Asian Security"
Natural Product-Inspired Small Molecules as Probe for Protein-Protein Interactions
Democracy and Progress in the Asian Century
Democracy and Progress in the Asian Century
Political Economy of Media & Technology and Media
Machine learning in fMRI analysis methods and scientific research on Yoga
Coming of Age, But Out of Place: Conversations with Displaced Kashmiri Hindu Men
Tuberculosis, the State and International Assistance in twentieth Century India
Historical Memory and Cultural Forgetting
Sustainable Development as Environmental Justice
Omotenashi
Classical Yoga and Ayurveda
Molecular Modeling and Structure-Spectrum Correlations of Aqueous Proton Vibrational Response
The Making and 'Unmaking' of a National Language The Story of Hindi
'The Sustainable Development Quagmire'
State of Japanese Literature in Indian Translations: Reception and Appreciation & Recitation of Selected Literary Works in Original and Translations
"Higher Education and Indian Society"
Westphalia and the many lives of states in Asia
Rethinking Radical Traditions and Dalit Women's Movement
Whose Manipur? : Interrogating Communities and Contestations

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.