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P. Sahadevan

P. Sahadevan

P. Sahadevan
P. Sahadevan
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for South Asian Studies
School of International Studies
Room No
128, SIS-I
Off. Phone
011-26704388
Email
sahadevan@mail.jnu.ac.in, sahajnu@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

Ph.D in South Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1992
M.Phil in Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1987
M.A in Political Science, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, 1984 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Sri Lankan and Maldivian studies, Peace and conflict studies, Ethnicity, Terrorism, Civil War, India’s foreign policy, and Diaspora studies

Experience

Professor of South Asian Studies, School of International Studies, JNU, since May 2003

Associate Professor of South Asian Studies, School of International Studies, JNU, 1995-2003

Chairperson, Centre for South Asian Studies, School of International Studies, JNU, 2022-2024.

Director, Pakistan Studies Programme, funded by the University Grants Commission (UGC), 2014-2016.

Editor-in-Chief of International Studies (Quarterly Journal of School of International Studies, JNU, published by SAGE), 2008-2013.

Book Review Editor of International Studies (Quarterly Journal of School of International Studies, Published by SAGE), 2004-2007.

Chairperson, Centre for South, Central, Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies, School of International Studies, JNU, 2007-2009.

Awards & Honours

Scholar-in-Residence, Department of International Relations, Stella Maris College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, December 2018.

DAAD Guest Professor, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany, April-September 2016.

Visiting Fellowship at Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, August 2010

Ford Foundation Visiting Fellowship at The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, Spring Semester 1998.

Kodikara Award in Strategic Studies, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1997.

Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship at Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, 1993-94.

Venugopal Rambi Ammal endowment prize for securing the University First Rank in M.A Political Science examination, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, 1984.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Process of International Negotiations (PIN) Group, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria: Project on Negotiating with Terrorists, Directed by Professor I. William Zartman of Johns Hopkins University, 2006.  

Member of the International Research Committee (IRC), Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2007-2010.

Country Coordinator, Project on Violence and Terrorism in South Asia, 1971-2004, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo, 2004-2005.

Foundation for Community Transformation (Colombo) and Berghof Foundation (Berlin): Project on Rights and Power-Sharing Issues in Sri Lanka with special focus on the Indian Origin Tamil Community, 2006.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

"The Grand Swap: Negotiating an End to the Kandahar Hostage Crisis", In Guy Olivier Faure and I. William Zartman, eds., Negotiating with Terrorists (London: Routledge, 2010), pp.163-196.

"Ending Internal Wars: The South Asian Experience", International Negotiation (The Hague: Kluwer Law International), Vol. 8, no.2, 2003, pp. 213-50.

"Ethnic Conflicts and Militarism in South Asia", International Studies (New Delhi: Sage Publications), vol. 39, no.2, April-June 2002, pp.103-38.

"Ethnic Peacemaking in Sri Lanka: The Politics of Autonomy Solution", In Rajat Ganguly, ed., Autonomy and Ethnic Conflict in South and South-East Asia (London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 46-87.

"The Rise of Islamist Extremism in South Asia", In South Asia 2011: Europa Regional Surveys of the World Series, 8th Edition (London: Routledge, 2011).

Coping with Disorder: Strategies to End Internal Wars in South Asia (Colombo: Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, 2000), pages 212.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

"The Politics of the Status Quo in Sri Lanka", Studies in Indian Politics (New Delhi: Sage Publications), vol.12, no.1, June 2024.

"Changing Contours of India-Sri Lanka Relations", In E. Sridharan, ed., Eastward Ho? India’s Relations with the Indo-Pacific (Hyderabad, India: Orient BlackSwan, 2021), pp.167-215.

"Sri Lanka’s Quest for Maritime Identity in the Post-Civil War Period", In Chulanee Attanayake, ed., Maritime Sri Lanka: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Singapore: World Scientific, 2021), pp. 201-18    

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.