Contemporary India Research

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MPhil/PhD, option of joint PhD with NUS

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Part Time, Full Time

RESEARCH PROFILE
  • Current number of academic staff: 5 (with 15 affiliates in other departments).
  • Recent publications:
    • The Idea of India;
    • Nehru’s Judgement;
    • Social Movements,
    • Political Parties and the Creation of New States in India;
    • The Measure of a Tribe:
    • The Cultural Politics of Constitutional Reclassification in North India;
    • Towards Fusion: Atoms for Peace and Physics in India.
  • Current research projects:
    • Democracy in India;
    • Jawaharlal Nehru;
    • Legal understandings of culture in India;
    • Subnational Political Regimes and Poverty: Small Farmers and the State;
    • The sociology of science in 20th-century India.
  • Partner organisations: The Institute is closely involved in the College’s key partnership with Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, with a programme of research exchanges for postgraduate students; it also receives visiting fellows from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Sunil Khilnani, Director, King's India Institute
Awarding institution
King's College London/King's and NUS for joint programme
Duration
Expected to be MPhil two years FT, three years PT. PhD three years FT, four-six years PT. Normal start date September but students may commence at other times by arrangement.
Location
Strand Campus.
Student destinations
While many graduates may go on to a university-based academic career, others may pursue careers in both the public and private sector.
Year of entry 2013
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