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Vidhu Verma

Vidhu Verma

Vidhu Verma
Vidhu Verma
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Political Studies,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
118
Off. Phone
011-26704437
Email
vidhuverma@mail.jnu.ac.in, vidhuverma94@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in/Faculty/vidhuverma/cv.pdf
Qualifications

M.A., M.Phil, P.hd 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Political Theory, Comparative Political Thought, Affirmative Action, Law, State and Social Justice 

Experience

Teaching 29 years
Chairperson, Centre for Political Studies, SSS, JNU (August 2013- July 2015).
Chairperson, Centre for Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, SSS, JNU (2012-2013 August)
Director, Educational Records Research Unit, ERRU, SSS, JNU, (2011- 2012)
Chairperson, Gender Sensitization Committee Against Sexual Harassment, GSCASH, JNU (2004-2005).
Professor, Centre for Political Studies, SSS, JNU (26.08.2006 onwards)
Associate Professor, CPS, JNU, SSS (30.06.2003)
Reader Gargi College, Delhi University, (27.07.98)
Senior Lecturer, Gargi College, Delhi University, (11.09.94)
Permanent Lecturer, Gargi College, Delhi University, (28.8. 89)
Temporary Lecturer, Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University (1988-89).
Temporary Lecturer, Hindu College, Delhi University (1985-86) 

Awards & Honours

Inlaks Scholarship (1986-88) for study at Oxford University
Junior Research Fellowship (1984-86) University Grants Commission, Delhi
M A Merit Scholarship (1982-1984)
Awarded Gold Medal for standing First in B.A.(hons) Delhi University (1982)

Visiting Fellow, Maison Des Science de L'Homme, Paris, UGC sponsored Indo-French cultural exchange programme February-March 1994.
Fellow, Developing Countries Research Centre (DCRC), Delhi University, 1998-1999.
General Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, 2000-2002.
Visiting Fellow, Maison Des Science de L'Homme, Paris, ICSSR sponsored Indo-French cultural exchange programme (September-October 2006).
Senior Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, 2008-2010 

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Director, Political Institutions (Collaborative), UPOE, JNU, 2005-2007.
Member, Indo-European Research Networking Project ‘From Identity to Interests? Quantitative and Qualitative Explanations of Electoral Change in Rural and Urban India’ (2013-2015)
Principal Investigator, Changing conceptions of Legal Justice in India, ICSSR, 2014-2015.
Consultant, Department of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi Open University (July – December 1989). 

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

(2022) (eds) State, Law and Adivasis: Shifting Terrains of Exclusion. New Delhi: Sage. (with Antje Linkenbach).
(2018) The State in India: Ideas, Norms and Politics. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.
(2018) (eds) The Empire of Disgust: Prejudice, Discrimination and Policy in India and the US. (with Martha Nussbaum, Zoya Hasan, and A. Aziz) New Delhi: OUP.
(2015) (ed.) Unequal Worlds. Discrimination and Social Inequality in Modern India, New Delhi: OUP.
(2011) Non-discrimination and Equality. Contesting Boundaries of Social Justice in India. London: Routledge.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

(2022) “Ambedkar, Buddhism, and Post-secularism: Inner Life, Politics, and Subalternity”, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (SAMAJ)
(2021) ‘Discrimination, Colonial Injustice, and the Good Society’ in Quest for Justice. Ed. Aakash Rathore, vol. 1. New Delhi: OUP, 145-173.
(2020) ‘Modernity, Colonial Injustice and Individual Responsibility: Reading Ambedkar and Gandhi’, in Gandhi in the Contemporary World, ed. Sanjeev Kumar, New Delhi: Routledge, 113-128.
(2018). ‘State, Social Justice and Reservation Policies: Reframing the Debate’ in State in India: Ideas, Norms and Politics, ed. Vidhu Verma. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan. 256-284.
(2019). ‘A Crisis of Representation: Interests, Identities and Politics’, Journal of Social Exclusion Studies. 11 July, 2019, 1-18.

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.