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Rakesh Batabyal

Rakesh Batabyal

Rakesh Batabyal
Rakesh Batabyal
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Media Studies, School of Media Studies
School of Social Sciences
Room No
007
Off. Phone
011- 26738904
Email
batabyal@mail.jnu.ac.in , rakeshbatabyal@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/Batabyal
Qualifications

 

 

Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Nivas Shimla, 1996-1999

Doctor of Philosophy, Communalism in Bengal: From Famine to Noakhali, (1943-47), Modern History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1996 
Master of Philosophy, Modern History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1993
Master of Arts, Modern History, First Class, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1991
 

Areas of Interest/Specialization
Specialization:  History and theories of Media. Nationalism and Communalism, Media Ethics and Moral questions, Violence
Interests:         Rhetoric and Propaganda, Museum and Archives, International Media ( East and Central European Media), Food, dress and Home, famine
Experience
 
Resident Researcher, University of Vienna, Austria, June- October, 2022
Visting Foreign Scholar, Department of Media, ( Sociology), Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, 2019
India Chair, Graduate School of Information Studies, Tokyo University, Tokyo, 2010
Associate Professor, Centre for Media Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2014-
Associate Professor/ Deputy Director, Academic Staff College, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2008-2015
Assistant Director/ Assistant Professor Academic Staff College, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2000-2008
Post Doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Rashtrapati Nivas, Shimla, 1996-99

Hon. Fellow, National Institute of Panjab Studies, New Delhi, 2004 
Awards & Honours
 
 
Awarded,     Grant by Indian Council for World Affairs (ICWA) FOR " Idea of Order in East and Central Europe', 2021-23
Invited,       Editorial Board, Indian International Centre Quarterly, IIC, New Delhi, 2021-2023
Invited,       Visiting International Fellow, Media Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, 2019
Elected,       Founding Fellow, Virtual Teaching Society of India, New Delhi, 2018
Invited,       Editor of Asian Review of Humanities, Published by CASSA, Nepal
Selected,     Member Executive Committee, Indian History Congress, 2015-2017
Selected.     Organiser of the Global Minding Animal Conference by the Minidng Animals, 2015
Invited,       Member, Executive Council, Bhai Veer Singh Sahitya Sadan, Bhai Veer Singh Marg, New Delhi-1, 2016
Invited,       Member of the Think Tank, Archival Management, Ministry of Culture, GOI, 2015-
Invited,       Institute of Remembrance ( IPN), Warsaw, Poland, to attend the International conference on Solidarity Movement, Krakow, Poland, 2010
Selected,     Inaugural Chair Professor, Graduate School of Information Studies, Tokyo University, Tokyo,  Japan, 2010
Awarded,     Romanian Government Scholarship to Study in University of Bucharest, 2008
Awarded,     SUN fellowships for the Central European University, Budapest, 2008
Fellow,        (Hon.) National Institute of Panjab Studies, New Delhi, 2009-
Selected,     Post Doctoral Fellowships, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, 1996-1999
Awarded,     JRF/SRF University Grants Commission, 1991-1996 
 
International Collaboration/Consultancy

Invited as International Visiting Scholar, Media Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kansai Unversity, Osaka, Japan, 2019

Invited as Hon. Visiting fellow, Centre for Advanced Study on South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Member Scientific Advisory Board, Symbolon, Scientific Journal of Arts University of Tirgu Mores, Romania,

 

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Building Free India: Speeches that shaped Modern India, ( Edited and Introduced ), Speaking Tiger, Delhi 2022

2. The Modern School ( 1920-2020) A Century of Schooling in India, Westland, Amazon, New Delhi, 2020

3. JNU The Making of a University, HarperCollins, Delhi, New York, 2014

4. The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Speeches Edited, with an Introduction, Penguin Publishers, Delhi, London, New York, July,2007

5. Communalism in Bengal: From Famine to Noakhali (1943-47), Sage Publication, Delhi, Thousand Oaks and London, April, 2005 

6. Countering Hegemony: The Polish Solidarity Movement in the Memory of Indians’ Government of Poland, Institute of National remembrance, Warsaw, 2011, pp. 566-576,
 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
'Camera e Dhorechen Manusher Swadhinata' ( Bangla) in Sukhen Biswas ( Ed.) Aparajito Satyajit, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kalyani University, 2021, pp. 295-298
 
Review of 'When Nehru Looked East: Origins of India-Us Suspicion and India-China Rivalry' by Francine Frankel, Studies of People's History, vol. 7, No. 2, 2020, pp.216-220
 
'The Soviet Cosmopolis', Proceedings of Indian History Congress, Jadavpur, 2017

The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947–1967, Review Article, Studies in History, Sage Publishers, Vol 30, Issue 2, 2014, pp.201-210

The Imperial embers and the Invocation to Cold War : Colombo Conference 1950, Proceeding of the Indian History Congress, 2013 
Patents (if any)

NA

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.