Prof. G.P. Deshpande (b. 1939) is an Honorary Fellow of the ICS and retired as Professor of Chinese Studies at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru Univesity where he has taught since 1968. He is a founder-member of the China Study Group and Member, Editorial Board, China Report. His research area is China's International Relations on which he has published extensively. He studied Chinese in Delhi and Hong Kong. As Humbolt Fellow in Germany he wo
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He is the coeditor together with Alka Acharya of Fifty Years of India and China: A Comparative Perspective. A wellknown playwright in Marathi he has won many awards for his plays.
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Dr. Sabaree Mitra |
Dr. Sabaree Mitra (b. 1962) is an Honorary Fellow of the ICS and Associate Professor at the Centre for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU, since 1990. She has been trained in Chinese Language and Literature in the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU. Dr. Mitra went to China in 1988 on Bilateral Cultural Exchange Programme and studied in the History Department of Beijing University, specializing in Modern History of China. She visited China again in 1997 as a Fellow of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and then again in the summer of 2002 under the Chinese Government sponsored programme for Foreign Teachers of Chinese language.
Dr. Mitra's research interest includes Contemporary Chinese Literature and Literary Criticism, Cultural Discourse in Post-Mao China, Gender Issues in Contemporary China and Modern Chinese Political History. Apart from research articles, she has recently published a book of translations of select contemporary Chinese poetry into Bengali. Dr. Mitra also had the privilege of translating PM Atal Bihari Vajpeyi's poems into Chinese, published by the CII before the PM visited the PR of China in 2003.
In the year 2005, Dr. Mitra released her latest book, entitled Literature and Politics in 20 th century China: Issues and Themes (New Delhi, Book Plus, 2005).
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Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty |
Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty (b. 1942) is a Political Scientist, China scholar and an activist of the Peace and Human Rights movement. He has been involved in building up institutions and programmes for research and teaching of China and Developing Countries and for promoting cooperation among Asian and Third World countries.
Prof Mohanty is an Honorary Fellow, Co-chairperson and a former Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development, Delhi. He was Director of the Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi from 1993 till 2004 when he retired as Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, where he taught Comparative politics and Chinese Politics since 1969.
With a B A (Hons.) from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, M A from Delhi and Ph D the University of California, Berkeley, he has researched on theoretical and empirical aspects of the development experiences of India and China, Social Movements in the Third World and Poverty in Orissa. He has been a Visiting Professor at many institutions in India and abroad including University of California, Berkeley, Oxford University and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
A founder-member of the China Study Group, he is a Member of the Editorial Board of China Report and China Quarterly. He is Emeritus Chairperson of the Indian Congress of Asian and Pacific Studies. He is the Founder-President of Orissa Gabeshana Chakra – a research forum devoted to development issues .A founder member of the People's Union for Democratic Rights he is Vice-President of the Pakistan-India People's forum for Peace and Democracy.
His publications include: Revolutionary Violence ( 1977), The Political Philosophy of Mao Tse-tung (1978), Chinese Revolution: Comparative Perspectives (ed. 1992), Why is Orissa Poor ? ( In Oriya, coauthor, 1993), People's Rights (Coed.1998) and Contemporary Indian Political Theory (2000) : Class, Caste, Power ( ed.2004). Science and Security in China and India: Selected writings of Giri Deshingkar ( Coed, 2005) Right to Participate: Local Governance and Grassroots Democracy in India and China ( forthcoming ), Rural Reforms in Wuxi ( forthcoming )
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Amb. C.V. Ranganathan |
Amb. C.V. Ranganathan (b. 1935) is an Honorary Fellow of the ICS. As a member of the Indian Foreign Service he served as India's Ambassador to China 1987-91 during which time Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's landmark visit took place. His diplomatic assignments also included ambassadorship to France. He was Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow 1998-2000. He is a frequent contributor to the national and international media.
He has published a number of papers and is the co-author with V.C. Khanna of the recent book, India and China - The Way Ahead.
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Dr. Arvinder Singh |
Dr. Arvinder Singh (b. 1961) is a Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi and an Honorary Fellow of the ICS. He heads the ICS's Economic Research Unit which is engaged in researching contemporary issues in the Chinese economy and Sino-Indian comparative issues including bilateral economic relations between the two countries.
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Dr. Brij Tankha |
Dr. Brij Tankha (b. 1947) is an Honorary Fellow and Former Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies. He has also been directing the East Asia Programme in the institute. He is a Reader in Modern Japanese History at the Department of East Asian Studies University of Delhi. Educated at St. Stephen's College, Delhi University and School of International Studies, JNU, he has also been at Hitotsubashi University and Tokyo University as Visiting Fellow. His work has been on the intellectual and social history of modern Japan. He has published in various scholarly journals and is currently working on a project on Japan and Asia.
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Dr. Madhavi Thampi |
Madhavi Thampi is an Honorary Fellow at ICS. She was educated at Delhi University, Brown University and Yale University, and has been teaching Chinese History at Delhi University's Department of East Asian Studies since 1979. She is the author of Indians in China, 1800-1949 and (with Brij Tankha) Narratives of Asia from India, Japan and China . She is also the editor of India and China in the Colonial World . Her research interests include intra-Asian trade and cultural interaction, India-China relations, the Indian diaspora and the social history of the South China coast. She is currently working on a project entitled China and the making of Bombay with Shalini Saksena.
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Prof. Patricia Uberoi |
Dr. Patricia Uberoi (b.1942) is an Honorary Fellow and present Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies. She is a Professor in Social Change and Development at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. She completed her B.A (Hons) degree in Oriental Studies from the Australian National University, Canberra, and her M.A. degree from the same institution with a dissertation on modern Chinese literature, "Wen I-to: His life and poetry". Her Ph.D. thesis (Department of Sociology, University of Delhi) was entitled: "A cognitive study of revolutionary discourse: New Youth and the Chinese New Culture Movement".
Prof. Uberoi has held teaching and research positions in the Australian National University (Canberra), the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (Shimla), the Department of Sociology (Delhi School of Economics) and the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), and since 1992 has been Co-Editor of the sociology journal, Contributions to Indian Sociology. She has edited Family, Kinship and Marriage in India (Delhi: OUP, 1993), Social Reform, Sexuality and the State (Delhi: Sage, 1995), and Tradition, Pluralism and Identity (Delhi: Sage, 1999), and has published widely on family, kinship, gender relations and popular culture in reference to both India and China.
In the year 2006, Prof. Patricia Uberoi published her latest book, entitled, Freedom and destiny: Gender, Family and Popular Culture in India (New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2006).
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Emeritus Fellows
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Prof. Mira Sinha Bhattacharjea |
Prof. Mira Sinha Bhattacharjea (b. 1930) is an Emeritus Fellow and a former Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies. She retired from the University of Delhi's Department of East Asian Studies. where she taught Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy since 1968.She was educated at the London School of Economics and Columbia University.
As a member of the Indian Foreign Service she served in Beijing in the 1950's.
A founder-member of the China Study Group, she is a member of the Editorial Board of China Report. She has researched on India-China Relations and China's Foreign Policy and written extensively on the subject.
She has conducted major research projects on the India-China Border, China's World View, and India and Gandhi and Mao. She is the Director of the ICS project on China Into the 21st Century and author of China, World and India.
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Prof. Tan Chung |
Prof. Tan Chung (b.1929) is an Emeritus Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Studies. He stepped into the shoes of his illustrious father, Prof. Tan Yun-shan (1898-1983) of Santiniketan who was a pioneer of Chinese studies in India and Sino-Indian studies, and contributed to the building up of the Chinese studies programmes in Delhi Universtiy and Jawaharlal Nehru University from 1964 up till 1994 when he finally retired from JNU as Professor of Chinese. He has been a Consultant of IGNCA from 1989 onwards to help develop its East Asian Programme.
He has authored many books, among which China and the Brave New World and Triton and Dragon (a Gyan publication) are textbooks for history courses in Indian and foreign universities. His Dunhuang Art Through Eyes of Duan Wenjie is a reference book for art courses on the US and other English language campuses. His latest works are Across the Himalayan Gap and In the Footsteps of Xuanzang -IGNCA and Gyan Publication. His latest publication, Co-authored with Prof. Geng Yinzeng, is India and China: Twenty Centuries of Civilizational Interaction and Vibration (December 2004)
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Amb. Vinod C. Khanna |
Amb. Vinod C. Khanna (b. 1938) is an Emeritus Fellow and a former Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies. As a member of the Indian Foreign Service he served as India's Ambassador to Cuba, Indonesia and Bhutan besides diplomatic assignments in China. He was educated at Bombay and Oxford, and has been associated with Harvard University as a
Fellow and Delhi University as a Visiting Ambassador.
A founder-member of the China Study Group, he is a member of the Editorial Board of China Report. His special areas of research are China's Foreign Policy and traditional cultural interaction between India and Southeast Asia. He has co-authored Ramayana in Indonesia and India and China - The Way Ahead.
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Prof. Huang I-shu |
Prof. Huang I-shu (b. 1932) is an Emeritus Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Studies. A founder member of the China Study Group, she is a member of the Editorial Board of China Report. She retired from the Department of Chinese and Japanese Studies, University of Delhi in 1997 as Reader in Chinese Language and Literature where she had taught from its inception in 1964. She was not only instrumental in building up a solid foundation for the Chinese Language programme in Delhi University, but had also been an active researcher on Chinese Literature and Gender Studies.
She has published extensively on these issues and has also translated a number of key texts and documents which have been an invaluable aid to the academic community.
