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Contemporary India Research
|MPhil/PhD
|Part Time, Full Time
RESEARCH PROFILE
- Current number of academic staff: 4 (with 14 Associates 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 twentieth century India
- Partner organisations: The Institute is closely involved in the College’s key partnership with Jawaharlal Nehru University, with a programme of research exchanges for postgraduate students.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Sunil Khilnani, Director, King's India Institute
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 2012
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