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Papia Sen Gupta

Papia Sen Gupta

Papia Sen Gupta
Papia Sen Gupta
Assistant Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Political Studies,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
116, SSS-II
Off. Phone
011-26734438
Residence
09811267576
Email
papiasg@mail.jnu.ac.in , papiasg@jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage
Webpage
Personal files
Current CV 2022
Qualifications

MA in Political Studies, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, JNU

M.Phil in Multiculturalism and Political Theory , CPS, JNU

Ph.D in Political Theory and Indian Politics, CPS/JNU

Postgraduate Diploma in Federalism, Decentralisation and Conflict Resolution. Institute of Federalism. University of Fribourg Switzerland.

Courses

Reading Text in Political Philosophy (MA Compulsory)

Approaches, Concepts and Methods in Political Analysis (PhD Compulsory)

Theories of Social Stratification (MA Optional)

State Politics in India (MA Optional)

Comparative Federalism (MA Optional)

Politics and Mass Communication (PhD Optional)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Language and Culture in India, South Asia, Gender and Rights, Indian Politics, Political Theory, Minority Studies and Linguistic Diversity, Multicultural Politics 

Experience

20 years 

Awards & Honours
* Papia Sen Gupta (2018) Visiting faculty to Rhodes University, South Africa April-May 2018 under the ICSSR-NIHSS Joint project on Higher Education in India and South Africa: Issues of Inclusion.
* Papia Sen Gupta (2016) International Advanced Studies in Humanities- School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh Visiting Research fellowship.
* Papia Sen Gupta (2015) Selected for fellowship of the School of Critical Theory, Cornell University.
* Papia Sen Gupta (2015) Brown International Advanced Research Institute Fellowship Program at the Brown University, Providence, Rhode Islands, USA.
* Papia Sen Gupta (2013) Fellowship by the International Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
* Papia Sen Gupta (2013) Associate award by the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India. (declined as did not get leave)
* Papia Sen Gupta (2012) Visiting Scholar in the Center for South Asia, University of Edinburgh.
* Papia Sen Gupta (2012) University of Delhi Travel Grant for paper presentation in Glasgow.
* Papia Sen Gupta (2012) International Institute for Social History, Netherlands, support grant for paper presentation in the Ninth European Social Science and History Conference.
* University Grants Commission Travel grant for paper presentation in International Conference Latvia 2009 
* Shastri Indo-Canadian Faculty Research Fellowship, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Queens University, Kingston, Canada 2007 
* Kanwal Nanda First rank holder Scholarship for overall securing third position in Delhi University
* Founder Members Award for Significant Contribution to College Life, Kamala Nehru College, Delhi University  
International Collaboration/Consultancy
 
International Collaboration:
(2020-2022) Awarded the British Academy Tackling Global Challenges Award on Covid-19 in South Asia. Co-Applicant. 
(2016-18) ICSSR-NIHSS International Joint Project on Higher Education in India and South Africa:Issues of Inclusion with South African partner Prof. Louise Vincent, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA.
(2018) Collaborative research on Territoriality and Language Politics in India  with Dr. Wilfried Swenden, University of Edinburgh.
(2015-17) Undergoing collaborative project on “Rape Myths in India” with Prof. Ravinder Barn, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom.

 
Best Peer Reviewed Publications
Papia Sengupta (2022) Language, communication and the Covid-19 pandemic: Criticality of multilingual education. International Journal of Multilingualism. http://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2021.2021918
Papia Sengupta (2021) Open access publication: Academic colonialism or knowledge philanthropy? Geoforum Vol. 118:203-206. 
Papia Sengupta (2021) Can Ideas be Deleted? Curriculum in Perspective. Economic and Political Weekly. Volume. 56:18
Papia Sengupta (2021) NEP 2020 and the Language-in-education policy in India: A Critical Assessment. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 56. No. 43.
Papia Sengupta (2021) Making (ab)sense of women's agency in citizenship debates in India. Volume 51. No. 4, pp 523-537.
Papia Sengupta (2019) Plurilingual  Education: Steps towards multicultural citizenry in India and Canada in Education, Culture and the Nation: Comparative Perspective from India and Canada (eds.) K. Gayathri, B. Hariharan and Suchorita Chattopadyay. Singapore: Springer.
Papia Sen Gupta (2018) Language as Identity in Colonial India: Policies and Politics, Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9789811068430
 
 
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

 

Papia Sengupta (2022) Critical Sites of Inclusion in India's Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan: Netherlands. ISSN 978981168256-8

Papia Sengupta (2022) Satyagraha, ethical journalism and communication: Gandhi in the time of fake news, in Nutan Kapoor Mahawar & Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee eds. Gandhi and the World. Indian Council for World Affairs.

Papia Sengupta (2022) Mahatma Gandhi's Thoughts on Common Language for India, in Ranu Uniyal, Nazeen Khan and Raj Gaurav Verma eds. Reading Gandhi: Perspectives from 21st Century. Pencraft: Delhi.

Papia Sengupta (2022) You are a danger to the society, in Jo Shaw, Ben Fletcher-Watson, & Abrisham Ahmadzadeh eds.  Dangerous Women. Unbound: United Kingdom.

 

 

 

Patents (if any)

Awards

Papia Sengupta awarded the Solidarity Award 2021 by the International Association for Applied Linguistics. Netherlands.

Papia Sen Gupta awarded Distinguished Teacher of Delhi University 2009 by Former President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

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.