MPhil/PhD Academic Year 13-14

हिंदी रूपांतरण

Master of Philosophy (M.Phil)/Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Programme

Academic Year 2013-14
Courses on offer in 2013-2014 (all courses are of 4 credits)

M.Phil Semester I
Course no.	Course Name	Instruction
Compulsory Course
EP 602	Statistical and Econometric Methods	Surajit Das
Optional Courses
EP 603	Advanced Economic Theory	Subrata Guha
EP 612	Theory of Economic Growth and Technical Progress	Rohit
EP 619	Economic History	Pradipta Chaudhury
EP 621	Economics of Education and Development	Ashok

M.Phil Semester II
Course no.	Course Name	Instruction
Compulsory Course
EP 601	Methods of Economic Analysis	Sujoy Chakravarty/Rohit
Optional Courses
EP 608	Welfare Economics	Sugato Dasgupta
EP 613	Development Economics	Arun Kumar
EP 614	Public Finance	Surajit Das
EP 617	Agrarian Development	Abhijit Sen

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.