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Contemporary India Research
|MPhil/PhD, option of joint PhD with NUS
|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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