Bulletin of Information

2012-13

Masters in Economics English History Sociology

Table of Contents
The University AUD Campuses ........................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Hostel Facility .............................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Research @ AUD ........................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Centres @ AUD .......................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Extra-Curricular Activities (ECA) .......................................................................................................................................... 6 The School of Liberal Studies Programmes .................................................................................................................................................................................. 7 Programme Descriptions MA Economics..................................................................................................................................................................... 8 MA English ......................................................................................................................................................................... 11 MA History......................................................................................................................................................................... 18 MA Sociology ..................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Assessment and Evaluation .................................................................................................................................................... 31\ General Rules and Procedures Eligibility ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Medium of Instruction ............................................................................................................................................................. 32 Application Procedure .............................................................................................................................................................. 32 Selection Procedure MA Economics................................................................................................................................................................... 33 MA English ......................................................................................................................................................................... 33 MA History......................................................................................................................................................................... 33 MA Sociology..................................................................................................................................................................... 33 Seats .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 33 Reservation of Seats ................................................................................................................................................................... 34 Fees................................................................................................................................................................................................ 35 Fee Waivers and Scholarships .................................................................................................................................................. 35 Cancellation of Admission ...................................................................................................................................................... 35 University Policy on Refund of Fees...................................................................................................................................... 35 Admission to Foreign Students............................................................................................................................................... 35 Anti-Ragging Regulations............................................................................................................................................................. 36 Creating Gender-Sensitive Campus Spaces ............................................................................................................................. 37 Application Procedure ................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes ...................................................................................................................... 39 Faculty List ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 41

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The University
The Bharat Ratna Dr B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi or AUD was established by the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi through an Act of Legislature in 2007 and was notified in July 2008. Mandated to focus on research and teaching in the social sciences and humanities and guided by Dr Ambedkars vision of bridging equality and social justice with excellence, AUD considers it to be its mission to create sustainable and effective linkages between access to and success in higher education. AUD is committed to creating an institutional culture characterised by humanism, non-hierarchical and collegial functioning, teamwork and nurturance of creativity. The University is broadly structured into Schools and Centres, most of which are now functional. It focuses on areas of knowledge and professional specialisations which are relevant to our context yet are not being given enough emphasis by other universities in this part of the country. AUD functions through its various Schools and Centres and has so far set up the School of Development Studies, the School of Human Ecology, the School of Human Studies, the School of Law, Governance and Citizenship, the School of Business, Public Policy and Social Entrepreneurship, the School of Educational Studies, the School of Liberal Studies, the School of Culture and Creative Expressions and the School of Design. These Schools will offer doctoral and masters programmes. The School of Undergraduate Studies is responsible for the undergraduate programmes in the social sciences, humanities, mathematical sciences and liberal studies.

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AUD Campuses
AUD functions from two campuses. One campus is located at Dwarka and the other at Kashmere Gate. The Dwarka Campus is located in the Integrated Institute of Technology, Sector 9, Dwarka, New Delhi. The Kashmere Gate Campus is located at Lothian Road, Delhi. Both campuses are within a 10-minute walk from the metro stations nearest to them. The Schools of Undergraduate Studies; Liberal Studies; Human Studies; Development Studies; Human Ecology; Culture and Creative Expressions; and Design are located at the Kashmere Gate Campus. The Dwarka Campus houses the Schools of Educational Studies; Business, Public Policy and Social Entrepreneurship; and Law, Governance and Citizenship. AUD hopes to move into its permanent campus at Dheerpur in the next three to four years.

Hostel Facility
AUD has hostel facilities for men and women at its Dwarka Campus. There may also be hostel facilities available for women at the Kashmere Gate Campus. Students can apply for hostel accommodation once they have secured admission. The application form and brochure for hostel accommodation will be available at the University Offices and on the AUD website at the time of admission.

Research @ AUD
At AUD, MPhil and PhD degrees are granted at all the schools of the University, other than the School of Undergraduate Studies. Admissions to the MPhil programmes occur once a year in July-August. Admissions to the PhD programmes generally happen twice a year, in July-August and January-February. The number of seats available in each school for research may vary year to year. Cutting-edge, unconventional and interdisciplinary research in new and established fields is welcome and encouraged at AUD.

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Centres @ AUD
The University is in the process of setting up a number of Centres to facilitate research and dissemination of knowledge in lesser known or neglected areas. As of now, the Centre for Early Childhood Education and Development (for professional and multi-disciplinary academic support in this area), the Centre for Community Knowledge (to document, study and disseminate the praxis of community knowledge) and the Centre for Social Science Research Methods (to design and offer innovative programmes in social science research methods for students and faculty) are functional. There are plans to set up a Centre for Leadership and Change, a Centre for Equality and Social Justice, a Centre for Engaged Spiritualities and Peace Building, a Centre for the Social Applications of Mathematics and a Centre for Publishing. A North-East Forum has also been established which is successfully working towards collecting and digitally archiving material and doing research on the Northeastern region of India.

Extra-Curricular Activities (ECA)

AUD has also established a series of cultural societies to galvanise the intellectual and extracurricular life of students in the campus. There is a thriving Theatre Society, Eco-club, Sports Committee, Debating Society and Literary Society. The Economics Society and the Society for Visual Culture have also been activated. There are regular talks, lectures, screenings and performances in the campus and students are encouraged to participate in and organise events around them.

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School of Liberal Studies

The School of Liberal Studies in the academic session 2012-2013, is offering MA Programmes in History, Economics, English and Sociology. The existing and the planned activities of the School of Liberal Studies are geared towards the long-term objectives of preparing a new generation of young social scientists, who will be both cognitively and methodologically trained and socially sensitive. India since the last two or three decades has been going through an unprecedented social transformation. This Indian experience is in great need of being codified and its intricacies have to be unraveled. We need a large number of trained social scientists to make sense of this transformation and make it intelligible. The School represents an interdisciplinary vision that would nonetheless be rooted in specific disciplines. The School envisions the practice of social sciences in a manner in which specific disciplines constitute pillars that support the edifice of interdisciplinarity. The School plans to train researchers who would be interdisciplinary in their orientation but otherwise rooted and trained in specific disciplines. The School of Liberal Studies hopes to take social sciences out of the intellectual ivory towers of excellence and make it socially relevant and accountable. Social Scientists have to be oriented towards the larger social world within which they operate and to carry together both the major values of intellectual freedom and social accountability. The University has a mandate for maintaining an interface with civil society, and the School of Liberal Studies views itself as an active and major partner in this endeavour.

Programmes
The School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi announces admissions for 2012-13 to the following MA Programmes:

Programmes
MA Economics MA English MA History MA Sociology

Duration
2 Years 2 Years 2 Years 2 Years

Credits
64 64 64 64

Seats
42 42 42 42

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Programme Descriptions
MA Economics
Duration: 2 Years (4 Semesters) Medium of Instruction: English Total Credits: 64 Number of Seats: 42

Eligibility: Bachelors degree with 45% marks (or an equivalent grade) from a recognised University. There will be a relaxation of 5% for candidates belonging to SC, ST and PD categories. Reservation of seats: In accordance with the Government of NCT of Delhi rules. The Masters Programme in Economics will attempt to provide students with a rigorous and in-depth advanced training in economic analysis, with a particular emphasis on equipping them with the ability to comprehend and think about contemporary economic issues including the challenges confronting developing countries like India. It will equip students for careers in government agencies, the corporate and financial sectors, development organisations, the media, and also in academia (including further studies). The programme will draw on different theoretical perspectives and traditions within the discipline, bring in perspectives from outside the discipline on contemporary social phenomenon, and use creative pedagogical approaches to offer a well-rounded training that would enable students to achieve a variety of objectives simultaneously: in keeping with the Universitys vision, develop a socio-political and historical perspective on the economy and the discipline which analyses it; master the quantitative techniques which are used extensively in economic analysis; understand and learn to analyse contemporary economic issues at the global and national levels; and acquire skills for absorbing and communicating economic ideas on the social. The first two semesters will focus on the core courses - which provide a mix of economic theory, quantitative techniques, economic history, and analysis of concrete development problems with a component focused specifically on India. To lay the disciplinary foundation of the MA, core discipline based courses in the first semester will be followed in the second semester by a broadening towards a mix of disciplinary grounding and interdisciplinary components of economics. In the third and the fourth semesters, the mix of core and elective courses will build on these foundations to complement interdisciplinary perspectives and enable students to develop an element of specialisation in their preferred areas.

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Core

Semester 1 Semester 2 1. Microeconomics I (4) 5. Microeconomics II (4) 2. Macroeconomics I (4) 6. Macroeconomics 3. Introduction to Research Methods and II (4) Econometrics (4) 7. Capitalism, Colonialism and 4. International Trade Development (4) and Capital Flows (4) 8. Theories of Value and Distribution (4)

Semester 3 9. Development Economics (4)

Semester 4 13. Indian Economy (4)

Elective

10. Elective 1 (4) 11. Elective 2 (4) 12. Elective 3 (4)

14. Electiv e 4 (4) 15. Elective 5 (4) 16. Elective 6 (4)

Support Workshop

Quantitative Techniques and Academic Skills

Overview Macroeconomics I and II will cover the evolution of the main body of macroeconomic theories both with reference to the setting towards which they are oriented - of a developed capitalist economy - and its changing context with a focus on macroeconomics of developing countries like India along with and in conjunction with the macroeconomics of the global economy. Microeconomics I and II would cover theories of utility, production and cost, and strategies of firms under perfect and imperfect competition along with general equilibrium models and social welfare. Introduction to Research Methods and Econometrics aims to train students in application of statistical methods for data analysis. It will focus on empirical investigation of relationships drawing on different frameworks and methods. The course will equip students with quantitative skills for analysis of both primary and secondary data with an understanding of the concepts and principles underlying the methods, and how to apply them to real world data. The course will also equip students with necessary computer skills. International Trade and Capital Flows aims to examine the significant contemporary features of international economic relations placed within a broader historical and theoretical context by focussing on two pillars of international economic relations trade and finance. It shall cover different theories
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of international trade, balance of payments and capital flows, and the political economy of external sector policies. It will discuss different historical perspectives and economic theories on trade, finance and economic development that have shaped opinion, policy and outcomes in the contemporary world. Theories of Value and Distribution shall look at the divide between Classical and Neoclassical theories of value and distribution. These schools and the theories that make them up will be discussed with reference to the contexts in which they emerged and developed, the differences in their premises and the fundamental questions they are designed to answer, and the critiques advanced of them. Development Economics shall discuss the contemporary challenges facing developing countries in the age of globalisation through a comprehensive discussion of the thinking on and experience of Third World development since the mid-twentieth century, and the continuities and changes in their situations. Capitalism, Colonialism and Development is a core economic history component of the programme and shall explore the political economy of development and underdevelopment in relation to the role of colonialism in the history of capitalism. A part of the course will be devoted to the study of British and Indian economic histories during the period of colonialism in a unified framework. Indian Economy shall discuss the historical evolution and contemporary situation of a variety of issues arising in the process of the attempted transformation of Indias low-income agriculture-dominated economy after independence. Problems of industrial development and the role of services, the agrarian situation, employment, poverty and inequality, etc. shall be discussed with reference to the changing economic policy context. Elective courses: These would be offered from amongst a large set of possible courses which can be broadly classified into three groups: 1. Specialisation within the discipline of Economics 2. Specialisation across more than one discipline 3. Courses which would be intersecting the boundaries of 1 and 2. Many of these courses would be of interest and accessible to students in other MA programmes at

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AUD. These courses would be spread across many areas advanced quantitative techniques; advanced economic theory and general equilibrium analysis; monetary economics, public finance; economics of the financial sector; industrial organisation; agricultural economics, growth and dynamics; development and the Indian economy; economic history, history of economic thought and political economy; energy, natural resources and environmental economics; labour economics; economics of gender, economics of institutions, economics of marginalisation and discrimination, research methods, etc. The elective courses would also include courses offered within the School of Liberal Studies (including those that may be offered by programmes other than Economics, like Mathematics, History, Sociology, Psychology, Literature, etc.) as well as courses offered by or in collaboration with other schools such as the School of Development Studies or the School of Human Ecology. The details of the Elective Courses will be finalised shortly. Support Modules in Quantitative Analysis and Research Skills Development: These would be noncredit based modules delivered through workshops over the course of the MA programme to equip students with academic skills for developing quantitative analytical capability, writing skills and effective use of library and computing resources. For queries contact Dr Arindam Banerjee at arindam@aud.ac.in

MA English
Duration: 2 years (4 semesters) Medium of Instruction: English Total Credits: 64 Number of Seats: 42

Eligibility: Bachelors degree with 45% marks (or an equivalent grade) from a recognised University. Relaxation of 5% marks for candidates belonging to SC, ST and PD categories. Reservation of Seats: In accordance with the Government of NCT of Delhi rules. The Masters Programme in English proposes to dismantle the hierarchy between British Literature and other literatures in English, including literatures in translation. It seeks to bring into focus the significance of literatures belonging to lesser known languages and regions. Strengthening the overall vision of Ambedkar University, this programme hopes to orient students towards engaged and reflective scholarship. A concern with social and literary margins will consistently guide the programmes overall vision, philosophy and content. It is hoped that the programmes ethical concern with linking education to the lives and struggles of individuals and communities will enable the students to form a holistic understanding of literature. It will also help them to develop deeper psychic, social and creative sensibilities. It is further envisaged that through

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this programme the students will develop a critical sensibility towards the larger politics of culture, society and state so that they actively and artistically interrogate and intervene within the givens of the hegemonic political and cultural order. The programme integrates interdisciplinary paradigms to facilitate a greater amalgamation between various literatures, theory and practice on the one hand, and between music, dance, theatre, cinema, literature and visual arts, on the other. Students will be offered a wide range of interdisciplinary courses which will help them situate literature in the context of other disciplines. In order to enable critical thinking, intervention and praxis, the programme will encourage communityoriented research work and an engagement with lesser known literatures and cultures existing in India and elsewhere. This programme, through its research projects, hopes to document, as much as it can, the undocumented literary wealth of India. Besides creating a resource for Indian literature, this would help the students in developing a deep insight into Indian reality.

Course Design and Evaluation The Masters programme in English will comprise 16 courses of 4 credits each, amounting to a total of 64 credits. Each course will be of 16 weeks duration. In keeping with AUDs emphasis on interdisciplinary studies, students will be encouraged to opt for up to four optional courses from any other programme within the School of Liberal Studies or from any other School of the University. The programme hopes to integrate an internship component to guide the students to develop skills according to their aptitude. By the end of the programme, it will be mandatory for all students to write a dissertation. Assessment will include term papers, class presentations, class discussions, class participation, workshops, group work, tests and assignments. Students will be provided with a detailed reading list for each course. Students are expected to attend and participate in all class discussions.

Areas of Study The general Areas of Study designed by the English Faculty are based on the assumption that no literary canon or tradition can be fixed once and for all. It has to be rediscovered and recreated by each new generation of students, readers and critics in response to their own historical or cultural location. Indeed, even the definition of text or literature itself has to be debated continuously. A literary and textual culture is, therefore, part of an on-going critical dialogue in a society about those civilisational, social, political and philosophical concerns
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which matter at a particular historical juncture. It is in this belief that the wide range of Areas of Study in this programme invite students and teachers to become participants in an adventure of ideas; questors who understand that written texts, theatrical presentations, oral songs, folklores, paintings, films and music exist beside each other and are equally important components in a continuous tradition of thinking and knowledgemaking. The Areas of Study, indicating an open field of exploration, are further marked by some of the possible Courses of Study which the Faculty of English shall offer from time to time. The Courses of Study shall change from semester to semester and will depend upon the availability of faculty members, the current scholarly interests of the faculty and the changing debates around questions of literary function, critical tasks, the Self and its experiences in the surrounding world, discourses on religions and their role, peace and reconciliation in a world threatened by violence or war, crime and justice, caste and gender, notions of beauty and aesthetic pleasure, childhood and identity, genres and myths, oral narratives and written cultures, etc. The Areas and Courses of study may be reformulated by the instructor concerned and announced at the beginning of each academic year. Though the current Areas of Study are listed yet the categories are not exclusive and there may be overlaps as well as interfaces across categories. The Areas of Study for the current English programme are as follows:

Literatures of North America and the British Isles Courses in this category will deal with literatures from Britain, Scotland, Ireland and North America written in all possible genres over the ages. While some of these courses would explore works of specific writers and their influence on the times in which they lived and wrote, some other courses will approach specific ages and examine their impact on the writers and their work. Yet another category of courses would analyse the literary and historical ages and authors through the lens of themes that unite varied and yet inter-related literary, journalistic, artistic and cinematic productions. There may also be some survey courses that provide an overview of the representative literary works of a region over several centuries to understand the changes that literary styles go through with changing times. The following courses may be included in this category: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, Seventeenth Century British Poetry, Renaissance in America, Restoration Comedy, Jacobean Tragedy, The Gothic Novel, The Age of Enlightenment, The Modern Novel, Twentieth Century British Poetry and Drama, Victorian Literature, Blake and the Romantics, Nineteenth Century American Literature, Twentieth Century American Drama and Poetry, African-American Literature.

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Forms in Literature Varied forms of literature that developed through the ages also reflect on the specific social and political perspective of a particular period. Courses under this broad area would thus look into the many associations, responses, specificities, challenges, experimentation and evolution with regard to a particular literary form. The courses will examine literary and oral forms such as Epic, Novel, Lyric, Drama, Comedy, Tragedy, Satire, Poetry, Realism and Magic Realism, Romance, Folklore. Some of the courses under this category will be related to the Indian Novel, Shakespeares Tragedies, Indigenous Narrative Traditions and Cultures, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Autobiography, etc.

Literature and the Other Arts The convergences, parallels and overlaps between literature and cinema, visual and performing arts will be explored through various courses in this category. These courses will study the written word in relation to other creative forms. Courses in this category may include Understanding Cinema, Fiction into Film, Problems of Identity in Modern European Cinema and Literature, Drama: Text and Performance, Literature and Architecture, Literature and the Visual Arts, Science Fiction and Cinema, Literature and Music, Cinema as Visual History.

Themes in Literature The courses under this category will analyse ways in which literature has been shaped and in return shapes political, psychoanalytical, sexual, social and cultural movements and ideas; how a correspondence between literature and other forms of meaning-making enables literature to become a discourse, a willing and productive participant in the history of ideas. The courses would concern literatures syncretic and complex engagement with marginality, dissent, war and resistance, race, gender, sexuality, class and caste imperatives, adventures and exiles, ecology and the environment, memory and the psyche, modernity and post-coloniality, etc. The courses offered under this category may be Literature of the Marginalised, Slave Narratives, Literature of Dissent, Womens Writings, History and Literature, Debates around Caste in India, Literature and the Human Psyche, Literatures of Resistance, Adventure Literature, Environment and Literature, Modernity and its Discontents, Literature of Conflict and Reconciliation, Literature and the Holocaust, The (Post)-Colonial City, Literature and the Political, Exile and Literature, Literatures of Childhood, Interrogating Morality in Literature.

Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures This category will focus on literatures emerging from colonial and postcolonial contexts either in English or in translation. The courses will address themes like empire, language, hybridity and mimicry, indigeneity,

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race, gender, caste, ethnicity, subalternity, cultural identity and diaspora, globalisation, representation and resistance. Texts for study may be drawn from literatures written in Latin America, the Caribbean Islands, Australia and New Zealand, Africa and Asia.

World Literature in Translation This category will study literature in translation from the dawn of the European and non-European intellectual traditions to the many complex and discursive practices in literature and the arts in the contemporary period. Courses in this category will centre around translations of significant literary texts from across the globe. Students may study the canonical greats of Western European Literature like Homer, Virgil, Dante Cervantes and Goethe or may study ancient Indian literature in translation as well as literature from across various continents. Courses under this category may include European Modernist Poetry, African Literature, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fiction across Continents, Literature of the Americas, Literature and the Holocaust, Contemporary World Poetry, Literatures of the Indian Sub-continent, the European Novel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century, Australian Aborigine Literature, World Drama, Modern South Asian Literature, Modern South East Asian Literature.

Literary and Cultural Theory This category is designed with the understanding that theory helps in questioning easy assumptions and problematises accepted categories. This category of courses comprising literary, cultural and aesthetic theories also assumes that theory enriches and deepens our understanding of the world in which we live. It aims to introduce students to various strategies of reading, comprehending and engaging with literary and cultural texts. Courses in this category may include: Literary Criticism, Contemporary Literary and Cultural theory, Theories of Translation, Theories from the Global South, Theories of Marginalities and Culture, Theories of Popular and Counter Culture.

English Language Education A comprehensive understanding of English Language Education will equip students with skills in English language teaching, technical writing, content writing, instructional designing and soft skills training. These components will make students aware of research in language teaching and get a hands-on experience in using this knowledge in the classroom. It will also allow students to understand the differences between teaching literature and language. Courses in English Language Education (ELE) will focus on the following areas: Introduction to ELE, Approaches and Theories of Language Learning, English as a Second Language, Second Language Acquisition, Bi/Multilingualism, English for Specific Purposes, Pedagogic Practices, Developments

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in Language Teaching, Material Development, Educational Technology, Classroom based Assessment and methods of Evaluation. Each student is required to complete 4 courses per semester. The following courses will be offered in the Monsoon Semester for both the present and incoming MA English students.

Theories of Marginality and Culture With the gradual shift within literary theory from the text to the subject and meaning to representation, there has also been a shift of focus from the Euro-American to the Third World. With the marginalised people voicing their lived realities, the orientation of literary theory has undergone a seismic change. This course recognises this significant shift and will help the students in comprehending the dynamics of oppression, negligence and even erasure in the world they inhabit. It will therefore trace the trajectory of literary theory from the first world to the third world (Asia, Africa, Latin America and the third worlds within the first world) vis--vis the divisive categories of race, caste, class, gender and disability, and study the theories of subalternity. It will also investigate the role of the State in propagating, reinforcing and in some cases, even interrogating representation of the marginalised. The theories that may be included in this paper are Feminism, Gender and Queer theory, Post-colonial Theory, Disability Studies and theories related to Deep Ecology.

Contemporary Indian English Fiction Indian English fiction has undeniably attained a grand stature among the literatures of the world. The postSalman Rushdie era has brought in so much of commercial and critical success to Indian English fiction that it has spurred great ambition and prolific literary activities, with many Indians aspiring to write English fiction! Outside India, Indian English fiction is taken as representative writings from India, though at home the Indianness of Indian English fiction is almost always questioned. A course in contemporary Indian English fiction will briefly review the history of Indian English fiction tracing it from its colonial origins to the postcolonial times to look at the latest trends, and how they paint the larger picture of India. Themes of nation, culture, politics, identity and gender will be taken up for in-depth analysis and discussions through representative texts. The aim will also be to understand and assess the cross-cultural impact of these writings.

Drama: Text and Performance This course looks at drama through literary texts and their depiction in performance. Both the literary and the performance texts are open to the politics of interpretation. The public rendition of a play makes the dramatist, the actor, the director, the dramaturge and the spectator open to theorisation. The course will look at classical, Western as well as Indian traditions in drama and performance, move on to the folk tradition, and then span
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across various dramatic styles and movements down the ages and across cultures. The course will involve a study of the strategies, techniques and theories of writing and performance with emphasis on the elements of music, dance, language and the body in performance. Other aspects of the dramatic in performance such as ritual, spectacle, carnival, and magic will also be discussed within a cultural framework. The course will thus try to juxtapose the literary with the visual, the word with the act.

Postcolonial Theory and Practice This course takes note of the powerful postcolonial turn in literary studies and aims at studying the new and emerging literatures and theory that have emanated from the once colonised cultures across the world. The course aims to introduce students to some of the major issues and themes of postcolonial theory and also makes them examine various literary and cultural texts using these critical concepts. A range of literary, cultural and theoretical texts from the post-colonial regions will be included in addition to canonical English texts which are to be studied under the lens of postcolonial theory.

Shakespeares Many Adaptations Much of the appeal of Shakespeares seemingly inexhaustible power as a playwright lies in some of the most astonishing adaptations of his plays. The course will discuss how his plays have travelled across culture, language and medium, territories, cities and, most importantly, languages and how the inherent potency of a Shakespeare play is unlocked in cultures and languages so removed from the original. This course will look into four of the most widely read plays written by Shakespeare adapted for the screen and stage. The first module will look at Macbeth, along with its adaptations by Orson Welles, Akira Kurasawa, Roman Polanski and Vishal Bhardwaj. Module two will take up Othello and its adaptations by Orson Welles, George Cukor, Oliver Parker and Jayaraaj. Module three will study King Lear with notable adaptations by Jean-Luc Godard and Akira Kurasawa while Module four will discuss the various stage adaptations of The Tempest from the seventeenth century to the present times. It will also discuss in detail John Fowles The Collector, and Iris Murdochs The Sea, The Sea as novels that offer a postcolonial reading of the play.

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Adventure Literature This course seeks to explore the nexus between colonial enterprise, rise of the middle class readership and the corresponding clamour for narratives about the unknown and the unheard of . A trend that was set in 1719 with the publication of Robinson Crusoe gave rise to newer expectations among readers tied down to their home turfs, from writings that showed them a slice of the exotic elsewhere which seemed real due to the sprinkling of factual and scientific descriptions influenced by the new knowledge created in the Age of Reason. By the mid-nineteenth century, most of the adventure narratives were exploring newer ways of touching increasingly fantastic territories with uncanny similarities to real life colonialist endeavours. In this context, the course will critically analyse adventure writings, chiefly of the nineteenth century, by focusing on novels beginning with Robinson Crusoe (1719) and meandering through some representative nineteenth century Euro-American adventure narratives. The reading list may include writings of Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Johann David Wyss, R.M. Ballantyne, H. Rider Haggard, John Hanning Speke, Henry M. Stanley and R.L. Stevenson along with a host of secondary readings linking different ideological pegs that hold the course together.

Seminars/Workshops Seminars and Workshops will be conducted throughout the programme.

Research Project Each student will take up a research project at the end of the second semester. This research project will lead to a dissertation which will be submitted at the end of the fourth semester. For queries contact Dr Diamond Oberoi Vahali at diamond@aud.ac.in

MA History
Duration: 2 years (4 semesters) Medium of Instruction: English Total Credits: 64 Number of Seats: 42

Eligibility: Bachelors degree with 45% marks (or an equivalent grade) from a recognised University. Relaxation of 5% marks for candidates belonging to SC/ST and PD categories. Reservation of Seats: In accordance with the Government of NCT of Delhi rules. The Masters Programme in History seeks to impart knowledge of historical phenomena and processes as well as to transmit skills of historical analysis and encourage historical imagination. Students are expected
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to learn the historians craft, to acquire competence in independently formulating ideas and judgments on the basis of historical data and through logical procedures of enquiry. The programme also teaches students to think about historical issues in an interdisciplinary manner and seeks to encourage a spirit of critical thinking about contemporary social questions. The tools of historical scholarship combined with a spirit of critical engagement shall serve programme graduates well in such careers as academics, research, journalism, publishing, educational administration, museology, archival management, heritage management, government service, and many others.

Programme Structure
Core Semester 1 MHC01: The State in Indian History (4)

(Credits in Parenthesis)
Elective

Core Elective Elective MHC04: Elective (4) Elective (4) Problems of Historical Knowledge (4) Semester 2 MHC02: Making Elective (4) Elective (4) of the Modern World (4) Semester 3 MHC03: Power, Elective (4) Elective (4) Culture and Marginality in India (4) Semester 4 Elective (4) Research Paper (6)

Elective (4)

Elective (4)

Research Paper (6)

The programme requires students to complete courses amounting to at least 64 credits over four semesters. Most courses are 4-credit courses; each of these entails nominally 56 to 64 hours of classroom teaching per semester. All courses are the length of a semester, 14 to 16 weeks. A few 2 or 6-credit courses may also be offered. 16 credits are devoted to 4 core courses, which are compulsory and common for all students. The remaining courses are elective in nature. MA History students may complete between 4 and 8 credits of courses offered through other MA programmes of the University, whether in the School of Liberal Studies or in other Schools of the University. Students must complete at least 28 credits of elective courses in one major specialisation area. Students must complete at least 12 credits of elective courses in another minor specialisation area.

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There are presently two specialisation areas, The History of South Asia and Comparative History. Students must identify, by the commencement of the third programme semester, one of these areas as their major specialisation area and the other as their minor specialisation area. They may opt for courses in both of these areas until declaring their major and minor areas, and they may enrol in courses in any specialisation area in any programme semester. The South Asian History specialisation area is unified with respect to its geographical dimension. The Comparative History specialisation area is not defined by any particular geographical area, period or set of historical issues. The courses in this area are thematic and represent a variety of national, regional, global and generic histories and historical methods. They are designed to acquaint students with the eclectic nature of historical research while encouraging them to reflect upon connections between Indian history and other fields of history. The credit requirements of the programme are given below. A students normal credit load in each semester is 16 credits. However, given options available, student may enrol for additional courses in one or more semesters for a total of 66 or 68 programme credits. Compulsory common Core courses (16 credits) (28 - 36 credits) (12 - 24 credits) (4 or 8 credits)

Elective Major specialisation area courses Elective Minor specialisation area courses Elective Courses from other areas of study

1. In the case of Major specialisation area courses at least 24 of these credits must be earned through regularly taught courses. 2. In the case of Minor specialisation area courses at least 8 of these credits must be earned through regularly taught courses.

Course Descriptions Core Courses The following four core courses are offered and students must (normally) complete them in the sequence in which they are offered.

MHC01: The State in Indian History This course transits the ancient, medieval, and modern periods of Indian history concentrating on the crucial political institution called the State. It examines the processes through which a variety of state systems
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have evolved in India down to the present. The different types of state formations that emerged in the Indian subcontinent are situated in the historical circumstances at various points of time in Indias past. The structures and modes of exercise of power are related to changes in the economic, social and cultural spheres located in the changing contexts of time and space. The evolution of the State in India is located in the Vedic times (c.1000 BCE) in the period of transition from pastoralism to agriculture leading to trade and urbanisation. The emergence of a more complex society was accompanied by structures and ideologies of power and authority that were evident in the early kingdoms, particularly the Mauryan state. These are examined through the religious literature of the times and texts like Kautilyas Arthashastra. The medieval polities that have been understood through concepts like Oriental Despotism, Feudalism or the Segmentary state in Southern India are subjected to critical enquiry in this course. The rise of the Sultanate states, the emergence of the Mughal Empire followed by its disintegration are sought to be understood with reference to structures and representations of kingship in the Indian context. The colonial state that superseded eighteenth century regimes brought on new forms of centralisation and ideologies of imperial rule. The anti-colonial struggles driven by varied notions of freedom and nationalism led to independence and the establishment of the nation states of India and Pakistan. A complex amalgamation of the persistence of long-term symbols of kingship and authority along with fundamental changes in modes of governance, exercise of power and hegemony have characterised the post-colonial state in India.

MHC 02: The Making of the Modern World This course surveys the major historical processes, events and actors who shaped and were shaped in the course of the formation of what we understand today as the modern world. As the title suggests there are three central concerns that will run through this course: the word making suggests its methodological concerns (Does writing world or global history make sense? If so, how do we go about such a task? Is it possible to write world history from a local perspective?); modern suggests its conceptual concerns (reason and rationality, liberalism, democracy, nation and nationalism, capitalism, technology and science, which all together constitute what we understand as constitutive of the modern) and world highlights its representational or spatial dimension. Depending on how we configure this world, does it make more sense to speak in terms of modernities and modern worlds as opposed to the modern world? Let it suffice for now to say that the period covered will be from the Haitian Revolution to the Scramble for Africa (roughly 1790 to 1912) or what Eric Hobsbawm called the long nineteenth century. Our first aim will be to consider how the movement of people in our period facilitated an exchange of ideas and things that in turn linked places and nature to create what has come to be known as the modern world.

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Sanjay Subrahmanyams emphasis on writing connected histories will guide us through our second aim which is to connect aspects of this story that remain underrepresented, such as those that bookend our period of study. And finally, since the making of the modern world was not a smooth process, the course will consider historical challenges to its making. In addition to being about the making of the modern world, this course is also aimed at developing students awareness of the tools and skills used in the practice of the historians craft. Towards this end every attempt will be made to enable the student to situate the making of the modern world both theoretically and historically. Students should end the term interested in historical themes and ideas other than the making of the modern world. Central to any history course is the place and constitution of the archive. Close attention will be paid to the materials used by scholars to develop their arguments in the texts to be read and will therefore (a) act as an introduction to the wide and always increasing array of archival materials available to study any given topic and (b) emphasise the fact that a historians task is to first and foremost define and justify her or his archive. Our hope is that this course would motivate the students to further their interest in history. In addition, students will be encouraged to develop their academic reading and writing skills as well as their capacity for critical engagement regardless of the subject.

MHC03: Power, Culture and Marginality in India This course familiarises students with the key concepts of power, culture and marginality, showing how they relate to major historical processes and structures in India. The course explores power not only as exercised through political authority structures but as dispersed through social practices and culture; it examines dynamics of marginality, inequality and hierarchy, showing how these are expressed historically in relation to caste, gender, class and ethnicity. Although the course focuses on India, it takes a comparative approach in exploring experiences across societies and in featuring examples and cases relevant to parts of the world other than India. This course would be taught through a number of modules that deal with varied manifestations of marginality and the emergence of counter cultures, drawing upon sources like literature, music, films, folk performances. It would begin by highlighting the complex process of acculturation and assimilation in geographical peripheries that leads to determining power equation between the dominant and the other. The intent is to enable students to develop critical perspectives on the ways in which cultural differentiation and ethnic formulations have been used to maintain power and justify inequalities and injustices. This course further aims to question the paradigm of Othering and dissect the politics of cultural imperialism. The themes chosen for this course involve minorities religious, linguistic, sexual, and physically disadvantaged; and deprivation and exclusion arising out of caste, class, access, ownership and location based hierarchies. The course would also explore how the process of marginalisation has been simultaneously overturned by appropriation of symbols, cult, texts
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and memories to demonstrate how the margin was once the centre. In doing so, the course would examine the manner in which community identities emerge, based on exclusionary principles, and yet how the notions of an interlinked past remain apparent in the manner in which communities refer to self and the other.

MHC 04: Problems of Historical Knowledge This course focuses on questions and problems involved in historical research and writing, and reviews various historiographical traditions and formulations of historical method, giving special attention to the development of historical science during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The course familiarises students with seminal ideas of modern philosophy that have influenced the development of the social sciences in general and history in particular. While the first modules of this course explore theory and philosophy of history, subsequent modules deal with particular examples of the making of historical knowledge in Indian history and other areas and illustrate how understanding of historical reality has changed or been challenged by new discoveries or approaches.

Elective Courses Elective courses shall be offered in such quantity and variety that students would be able to choose at least two courses in their major specialisation area and one or two courses in their minor area in each semester of the programme. Some courses shall be offered more frequently than others. Courses will be added to the lists below according to the availability and interests of faculty (including visiting and guest faculty) and in response to the expressed needs of the students. Although there is a high probability of most of these courses being offered, the lists are suggestive rather than definitive. Many courses not listed here are being contemplated. Note that these lists do not indicate which courses will be offered in each semester or in what order. This information shall be made available before the commencement of each semester. The South Asian History specialisation area presently consists of the following courses: The Indian Nationalist Movement Communalism and Partition in South Asia Indias Economy and Colonial Rule 1750-1950 Environmental History of India Urbanisation in India Aspects of Rural Society in Western India Oral Epics in India: Exploring History and Identity The Making of Modern Punjab

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 History of Science and Technology in Modern India Devotion, Diversity and Dissent in Medieval India History of Education in India Indias Engagement with Modernity during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Literature and Society in Modern India Social Movements in India The Comparative History specialisation area presently consists of the following courses: Global Environmental History: An Introduction Indian Ocean Cities in History Aboriginal Histories History of Modern Japan Comparative Study of Labour Relations and Well Being Capitalism and Race in Southern Africa 1850-2000 Migrations and Diasporas in History From Colonialism to National Independence in the Caribbean Unstable Empires: Dimensions of British Imperial Experiences 1600-1970 India and China in the Twentieth Century Nations and Nationalisms Aspects of Gender in History Industrial Society in Historical Context

Courses from other Areas of Study Ambedkar University, Delhi is committed to interdisciplinary learning. Its faculty recognises the intellectual enrichment that students experience when they are exposed to more than one knowledge area. No intellectual discipline is isolated and self-sufficient and stasis occurs when a discipline attempts to close itself off from others. History students encounter ideas, concepts and theories that have either been generated from within other knowledge areas or have interdisciplinary implications and applications. MA History students are encouraged to deepen their familiarity with other fields of knowledge by completing 4-8 credits of courses from other areas of study. After consultation with a faculty advisor, MA History students may enrol in courses in language and literature, gender studies, economics, and environmental studies, from among other programmes.

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Research During the third and fourth programme semesters, all MA History students are required to complete two major research assignments on topics of their choice, for which they shall be awarded six (6) credits each. These courses are designed to engage students in extensive and intensive reviews of historical literature (i.e., secondary sources) and/or conducting research with historical data and primary documents/ source materials. Whereas a students credit load during the first and second programme semesters shall usually consist of four, 4-credit courses, during the third or fourth semesters he/she may carry a credit load of 6-6-4 i.e., two research paper courses (each of six credits) and a single regularly taught course (four credits). The research paper courses shall usually involve regular contact with faculty members as well as require the student to do independent research. The research paper in each case is expected to be 5,000 8,000 words in length, including notes and bibliography. The research papers may involve use of non-English language sources as well as sources in English, conducting oral interviews or utilising other non-written sources. In the case of these research courses, the assignments shall be evaluated by a faculty member (supervisor) or a group of faculty members. Research essay courses shall be counted in fulfilment of the specialisation area requirements outlined above. Students may complete both research papers for their major specialisation or one each in the major and minor areas. Students shall receive guidance in the modalities of completing the research papers. For queries contact Dr Tanuja Kothiyal at tanuja@aud.ac.in

MA Sociology
Duration: 2 years (4 semesters) Medium of instruction: English Total Credits: 64 Seats: 42

Eligibility: Bachelors degree with 45 % marks (or an equivalent grade) from a recognised University. Relaxation of 5% marks for candidate belonging to SC, ST and PD categories. Reservation of Seats: In accordance with the Government of NCT of Delhi rules. The Masters Programme in Sociology at AUD is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills that will make them engaged citizens of the world capable of critical thinking and reflective action. The unique approach of the programme is its focus on orienting students to the relationship between text and context, between sociology and society, and between the past and the present. Over the course of their programme, students develop a reflective awareness of the historicity of the social and the ability to locate the history of the discipline within the sociology of knowledge. In so doing, we aim to ensure that while their learning is relevant in todays market-driven world, as sociologists, they are also equipped to critique the commodification
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of knowledge in a consumerist economy. The MA programme in Sociology at AUD envisages its students as compassionate researchers and active learners who are committed to making a difference in the world. The curriculum in Sociology at AUD achieves this by means of innovative courses that sharpen students communication skills and professional capabilities. Our unique courses on Workshop on Expressions and Organisational Exposure demonstrate this orientation. The former is aimed at developing students writing, library research and presentation skills as it takes them through the mechanics and protocols of various genres of writing from proposals to reports, theses and dissertations. The latter course introduces students to a range of organisations in and around Delhi that are engaged in social science research and advocacy, and hence to the world of employment opportunities for sociologists in the NGO, governmental, and private sectors. All students complete a Dissertation that entails primary research whether textual, archival, or fieldbased that is relevant to their research question and interests. The courses on Social Theory and Social Research are conceptualised in such a way that they foreground the necessary dialogue between the world of abstraction and everyday life. For example, in the courses on Social Research, emphasis is placed on demonstrating the links between epistemological assumptions, methodological approaches, and specific methods and techniques of research. Likewise, in Social Theory, we animate the links between ontological worldviews, middle-range theoretical formulations, and concrete theoretical concepts. In sum, our curriculum aims to impart the necessary and continuous movement between deductive and inductive modes of reasoning and scholarship in the study of society. Other core courses on Culture, Hierarchy and Difference, and Economy, Politics and Society examine the mutual constitution of the economic, cultural and political realms in Indian social life. The course titled Sociology of Indian Society, on the other hand, introduces the students to various perspectives and debates in Indian Sociology through an examination of substantive themes such as caste, village, community and gender. AUDs flexible academic structure fosters an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and research. Students must complete five elective courses over the course of their programme. They may choose from a range of courses that are on offer within the School of Liberal Studies in the Humanities or Social Sciences, or from other schools in Development, Psychology, Ecology, Education, Business, etc. Graduates from our programme are thus taught to think broadly and to ask questions from multiple vantage points, while delving deeply into specific research issues. This breadth and depth of scholarship and training is unparalleled among Sociology programmes in Indian academia. The Sociology faculty at SLS is drawn from varied academic backgrounds whose research methodologies span the spectrum of survey research, case studies, life histories, interviews, and narrative and content analysis. Fields of research specialisation include the environment, agrarian change, caste and exclusion, class formation, culture and consumerism, globalisation and transnational migration, social movements, and gender and sexuality studies. There are also sociologists and anthropologists at AUD who are located in schools other
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than SLS. They make significant contributions to the scholastic and educational life of Sociology at AUD and are an important resource for students as research advisors.

Proposed MA Sociology Programme Structure

Courses Core Interdisciplinary courses Semester 1 Social Theory 1 (4) Society 1 (4) Culture, Hierarchy and Difference (4) Programme Specific Work on Corse Courses Expressions 1 (2) Organisational Exposure (4) Electives Semester 2 Summer Social Theory 2 (4) Society 2 (4) Social Research 1 (4) Workshop on Expressions 2 (2) Dissertation 1 (2)

(Credits in Parentheses)
Semester 3 Economy, Politics & Society (4) Social Research 2 (4) Semester 4

Sociology of Indian Sociology of Indian

Fieldwork Dissertation 2 (4)

Elective 1 (4)

Elective 2 (4) Elective 3 (4) Elective 4 (4) Elective 5 (4) 16 credits

Credits per semester 16 credits (total 64)

16 credits

16 credits

Core Courses Social Theory 1: Classical Theory A course on Social Theory will introduce students to the classical sociological thinkers like Marx, Weber, Durkheim and Simmel. This course highlights their ideas about modern society, capitalist order, social inequality and change. The objective will be to touch on their similarities and differences on the above themes. The course dwells on the distinctive method that each of these thinkers adopt in understanding the society they lived in. The Social Theory 1 course will also introduce students to some of the classical anthropological thinkers. While the classical sociologists were by and large busy studying the modern European society, anthropologists like Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Evans-Pritchard and Frazer studied the so-called primitives. Their works/monographs on primitive cultures remain seminal in enriching and deepening our understanding of the social.

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Social Theory 2: Contemporary Theory If the classical social theorists were preoccupied with understanding modern society, more contemporary theorists have been engaged with the dual project of debating these theories, while also attempting to understand the emergent realities of their own social worlds. Our reading of contemporary theory will thus be comparative and historical in ways that productively extend students knowledge of classical social theory. This course will examine exemplary works that address a range of social issues and develop varied theoretical standpointsfrom later strands in hermeneutics to contemporary forms of discourse analysis, post-Marxism, post-structuralism, postmodernism, post-colonialism and feminismwhich are germane to a wide variety of substantive fields in the social sciences. The aim is to provide students with the necessary skills to enable them to read theory as they progress further in their studies and focus on specific issues, and to start building their own theoretical tool-kits.

Social Research 1 The courses on Social research 1 and 2 are spread across two semesters. The course Social Research in the first semester introduces students to the epistemological foundations of a major methodological tradition in social sciences, namely Positivism and its implications for the pursuit of research. Building on the debates on Positivism, the course trains students in the formulation of research problem, research designs and various techniques of data collection. The objective of the course will also be to expose students to various statistical methods of data analysis and computer aided packages such as MS Excel, SPSS and AtLasti.

Social Research 2 Social Research 2 begins with critiques of positivism, such as, Hermeneutics, Feminist, Post-Structuralist, Marxist and Post-Marxist, and their methodological implications for the pursuit of social research. The students will be taught to look at social reality in a more layered and embedded sense. The course will train the students in various techniques of research, such as ethnography, case studies, content analysis, discourse analysis, focus group studies, and participatory action research. The objective of the course will also be to expose students to various methods of data analysis and computer aided packages such as NVIVO, CAQDAS.

Sociology of Indian Society 1 The course introduces students to the growth and development of sociology in India and the debates pertaining to it. It traces the trajectories of can there be a Sociology of India debate initiated in 1957 by Dumont and Pocock. Building on those debates the course further examines various discourses on Indian Society. Whether tradition-modernity continuum is still a relevant frame, whether there are distinct schools as articulated by

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some scholars or whether historicising Indian society is a way out these are some of the questions the course will address. In addition, the course will examine the dominant and central themes, namely village dynamics and caste and kinship networks, of early sociology in India and how the disciplinary focus gradually shifted to other substantive themes.

Sociology of Indian Society 2 This course is a follow up of the Sociology of Indian Society 1. Here the focus of the course shifts from macro theoretical debates to the way these debates get played out on the ground. The course will try and examine various attributes and features of Indian society in terms of its institutions and processes. The emphasis and focus of the course will be on the contemporary dynamics and themes of Indian society as reflected in studies on gender, media, religion, globalisation and transnationalism. The course will revisit the Sociology of India debate and examine the merits of some of the new perspectives and questions as articulated by Sociologists such as A.R. Vasavi, Veena Das, Sujata Patel and others.

Organisational Exposure The course is designed to create an interface between students and various organisations working largely on social issues. The course attempts to prepare and equip the students with the relevant exposure to areas of work, people and organisations where sociology as a discipline is not just valued but also preferred. This course would therefore involve field visit to organisations ranging from NGOs, international research and development agencies to media and corporate houses, with an aim to acquaint the students with various career prospects. The students will be expected to locate the organisations they visit in the larger contexts of social processes and structures.

Workshop on Expression This course is meant to equip students with writing and research skills. This course restricts itself to training students in some of the fundamental learning skills which research methodology courses do not cover systematically. This course is divided into two parts spread over the first two semesters. The first part is directed towards techniques of gathering information and the second part towards sharing information. Upon completion of the first part of this course students are expected to learn various skills required for gathering information like effective use of a library and the internet and also learning to read and review literature.

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Economy, Politics and Society This course aims to capture Indian society in the throes of transition. The course studies the specific character of economic and political modernisations in India. It moves away from the trinity model whereby market, state and society appear as three distinct entities, towards an examination of the complex process of institution building shaped by colonial modernity and nation building in post-colonial India. The process of institution building has never been a uniform experience in India. What we encounter is not one single state or market, but its different avatars occasioned/necessitated by regimes of governmentalities. The course intends to expose students to the changing political economy of India. Apart from looking at state and market as grand institutions articulating and drafting rules of governance, the course visits the idea of the everyday state and market. The objective here is to view institutionalisation from the bottom. It tells us a great deal about the banality of the so-called institutions and how they are minutely and, at times, imperceptibly textured into wider society.

Culture, Hierarchy and Difference This course will examine the ways in which culture re/produces difference, hierarchy and inequality and how individuals are produced as cultural subjects. We will begin with some classic statements in the study of culture, such as those by Raymond Williams, Clifford Geertz, Paul Willis and Stuart Hall from the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies, and the post-Orientalist scholarship of the subaltern studies collective. We will then turn to an examination of contemporary politics in India that have brought issues of cultural hegemony to the fore in the re-marking of identities, hierarchies and difference. These will include the rise of identity politics and the Hindu Right since the 1980s, the shaping of a majoritarian public sphere, the reinvention of tradition in the caste-gender nexus as evidenced in the incidents of honour killings and khap panchayats, and the emergence of a visible sphere of middle-class consumerism and consumption in the urban cityscape and in provincial towns. The goal throughout is to comprehend the making of hegemonic cultures through which compliant and desirous subjects are produced and, through them, hierarchy and inequality reproduced.

Elective Courses The basket includes some very exciting courses on Social Exclusion, Agrarian Societies, Globalisation and Transnationalism, Religion and Society, Social Construction of Gender and Sexuality, Sociology of Education, Narrative, Self and Society, Medical Sociology, Family and Kinship, Science, Technology and Society, Environment and Society. For queries contact Dr Santosh Kr. Singh at santosh@aud.ac.in

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Assessment and Evaluation

Courses shall be transacted through classroom teaching, teacher-guided discussions, tutorial writing and oral presentations made by the students. The medium of instruction is English. Students shall be evaluated on the basis of tutorials, written and oral assignments and participation in discussions, mid-term examinations, term-end examinations, research essays and dissertations. AUD is committed to a pedagogy of continuous assessment; this means that students will obtain grades across the teaching semester by completing a variety of exercises or assessments, and no single exercise shall account for more than 40% of the total assessment, the only exception being the courses based on the production of research essays. Students will not be able to perform at the required level and complete the programme simply by attending classes and clearing an end-term examination. Failed courses may be repeated or another course fulfilling the same programme requirements as the failed course (and with the same credit weightage) may be opted for. On other matters, the general policy framework of the University is applicable to the admission and academic requirements of MA students.

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General Rules and Procedures

Eligibility
Eligible candidates should have a Bachelors degree from a recognised University, with 45% marks (or equivalent grade) in any subject. Relaxation of 5% will be given to candidates belonging to SC, ST and Physically Disabled (PD) categories. Meeting the eligibility criteria will not ensure a seat for any candidate. Admission will be strictly on the basis of marks obtained in the admission test and interview as applicable. Eligibility is essential for appearing for the admission test. Merely qualifying in the entrance test and the interview will not entitle candidates to claim the right to admission. They will have to satisfy all the eligibility conditions laid down by the University. Note: Candidates appearing in the final year examination of Bachelors / Postgraduate Degree Examinations are eligible to apply irrespective of their percentage of scores obtained till the time of application, provided that they fulfill the eligibility criteria when their results are declared and which must be submitted to the AUD Office before 31 July 2012.

Medium of Instruction
The medium of instruction at AUD is English. However, we encourage students from different linguistic backgrounds to apply for admission to the postgraduate programmes at AUD.

Application Procedure
The Bulletin of Information and facilities for on-site filling of application forms will be available at the Universitys campuses at Kashmere Gate and Dwarka from 25 May 2012 to 20 June 2012 between 10 am to 4 pm. The last date for applying is 20 June 2012. Details regarding the application procedure will be updated from time to time on the University website.

Selection Procedure
The admission to various MA Programmes in SLS would take place through entrance tests to be held in the first week of July 2012, followed by interviews for Economics and English. The format and structure of admission tests for the different programmes of the School of Liberal Studies would be as given below:
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MA Economics
Admission will be through a combination of a written test and an interview, with the weights for the two components being 75 per cent and 25 per cent respectively. Basic analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills, understanding of economic concepts covered in any standard undergraduate programme in economics, and awareness of contemporary issues will be tested.

MA English
The admission test will comprise a written test and an interview. The written test will have two sections. In the first section, candidates will be required to write an essay as a response to a passage and also critically appreciate a short literary text. These questions will assess their aptitude for literature, and their analytical and critical abilities. In the second section, candidates will be evaluated on their language skills.

MA History
The entrance test will consist of a combination of questions requiring short and long written answers. It is designed to assess the applicants aptitude for studying history and tests analytical capacities and (English) language proficiency. Material, if any, and detailed instructions about the test shall be placed on the AUD website a few weeks prior to the entrance examination.

MA Sociology
The entrance test will comprise essay type questions meant to assess the candidates analytical ability and capacity to articulate alternative ideas with regard to contemporary social realities. (Further details on entrance tests would be available on our website www.aud.ac.in)

Seats
42 seats per MA programme

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Reservation of Seats
Reservations are provided to the candidates as per the guidelines based on the norms applicable to educational institutions in the NCT of Delhi. These are (subject to change as per Government notifications): Programme Total Intake Capacity Delhi Quota (NCT)1 (85%) Total D-SE (15%) D-ST (7.5%) D-OBC (27%) D-General (not reserved) Total O-SC (15%) O-ST (7.5%) O-General (not reserved) MA 42 36 5 3 10 18 6 1 0 5

Open to non-Delhi candidates (outside NCT) (15%)

Some seats have been kept aside for the following categories of students. These will be over and above the sanctioned seats in the different programmes of study as per details below2: Categories Foreign National3 Single Girl Child Extra Curricular Activities/ Sports Kashmiri Migrants Physically Disabled (PD)4 Wards of Armed Forces Personnel killed or disabled in action (WAFP)5 For MA (in each class) 1 1 1 1 1

NCT will mean that the applicant should satisfy at least one of the following conditions: a. The qualifying degree for admission to the programme is from an institution in Delhi. b. The residence of the applicant is in Delhi.

2 3 4 5

Subject to fulfillment of the eligibility criterion to get admission. It was decided by the Admission committee that a maximum of 2 seats per programme would be allowed for Foreign Nationals in each MA programme. 3% of total number of sanctioned seats. 3% of total number of sanctioned seats.

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Fees
Rs. 16,000 per semester will be charged as the full semester fees. The total fee payable at the time of admission will be Rs. 16,000 (for Semester 1) and a refundable caution deposit of Rs. 2,000 for the use of university facilities.

Fee Waivers and Scholarships

A large number of partial and full fee waivers and scholarships are available. As far as possible, the University will ensure that deserving prospective students are not denied the opportunity of studying at AUD due to their inability to pay the fees.

Cancellation of Admission
The admission of Candidates who fail to provide proof of securing the merit as evident from original transcript is likely to be cancelled. Refund of fees in such cases will be as per the policy on refund of fees.

University Policy on Refund of Fees

Time Period for refund in a particular programme of study Before start of Orientation After start of Orientation Amount to be deducted Rs. 1,000 Only caution deposit will be refunded

The decision of the Admission Committee on all matters of admission will be final. The jurisdiction of any dispute will be limited to the NCT of Delhi.

Admission to Foreign Students

Some seats have been kept aside for foreign students over and above the sanctioned seats in different programmes of study. The details are given in the section Reservation of Seats. Eligibility: The eligibility in terms of academic qualifications for foreign students will be the same as for Indian students. However, they must produce evidence of proficiency in English. In addition, foreign students should fulfill the following conditions before finalisation of admission:

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1. They must hold a student visa endorsed by the Ministry of External Affairs to Ambedkar University, Delhi. The visa should be valid for the entire period of study. 2. Their eligibility equivalence must be recognised by the Association of Indian Universities. 3. They must meet the conditions specified by the UGC and the Ministry of External Affairs from time to time. Fees: The fees for foreign students would be US$600 per semester. In addition, they would have to pay Rs. 2,000 as a refundable caution deposit. The dates for submission of forms for different programmes by foreign students are from 25 May 2012 to 20 June 2012. Foreign students should send their applications to the following address: Dean, Student Services Ambedkar University Delhi Lothian Road, Kashmere Gate Campus Delhi-110006 info@aud.ac.in

Anti-Ragging Regulations
Ambedkar University, Delhi is opposed to all forms of ragging. Fresh students are advised that they should desist from doing anything, willingly or against their will, even if ordered to do so by a senior or any other student that could be considered to constitute ragging. Also any attempt at ragging should be promptly reported to the Anti-Ragging Squad or to the Dean or to the Head of the Institution. Detailed anti-ragging regulations are available on the University website. All students admitted to AUD will have to submit an affidavit that they will not indulge in any form of ragging. A similar affidavit will also have to be submitted by their parents/guardians.

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Creating Gender-Sensitive Campus Spaces

Ambedkar University, Delhi is committed to ensuring a dynamic and participatory academic experience and a safe campus for all its members. Our endeavour is to create a campus environment for our students and staff, both women and men, in which we as individuals and as part of diverse collectives can grow and explore our potential without fear or the burden of prejudices. AUD is engaged in devising consciousness-raising methodologies that will enable the university community to develop a common understanding of sexual harassment that it is a violation of ones dignity as well as freedom of mobility, freedom of speech and of expression. We are also creating a code of conduct that will serve as behavioral guidelines to ensure a congenial and equitable environment for all members of the University. We are committed to providing a creative and stimulating academic culture and a healthy and safe campus life to our students and staff. We welcome all those who join us in the coming year to become a part of this process of creating a unique campus environment and participating in a rewarding academic experience.

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Application Procedure
1. The Bulletin of Information of the School of Liberal Studies and facilities for on-site filling of forms will be available from 25 May to 20 June 2012 on all working days at the Kashmere Gate and Dwarka offices of the University from 10 am to 4 pm for Rs. 70 and Rs. 300 respectively. The price of the application form for SC / ST / PD applicants will be Rs. 100. 2. Application forms can also be downloaded from the website of the University (www.aud.ac.in) and also submitted online. 3. Completed application forms downloaded from the website can also be sent by post accompanied with a demand draft in the name of Ambedkar University, Delhi for Rs. 300. For SC / ST / PD candidates the amount will be Rs. 100. Those who have purchased the form will not be required to pay any fee. 4. Completed applications can be submitted in person at the Kashmere Gate as well as the Dwarka offices of the University or sent by post. 5. The last date for submission of applications is 20 June 2012. Those applying by post must ensure that their application along with enclosures reaches in time. The University shall not be responsible for delays caused by the postal department. Applications that reach after the due date will not be entertained. 6. No acknowledgement or any other communication will be sent to individual candidates. Candidates must consult the website and / or the notice boards of the University for checking the status of their application. These will be displayed in accordance with the Admission Schedule. 7. Successful candidates will be required to submit attested copies of a character certificate from the Head of the Institution last attended, a certificate of their date of birth, transcript of marks and certificate of the last examination passed, as also certificates of reserved category, where applicable. They will be required to bring their original certificates for verification at the time of admission. They will also have to submit affidavits, both personal and from their parent / guardian, in the format provided in the anti-ragging regulations on the Universitys website. 8. The admission of candidates who fail to provide proof of meeting eligibility criteria as evident from original transcripts will be cancelled. Refund of fees in such cases will be as per the University policy on refund of fees. 9. A large number of fee waivers (full as well as partial) and scholarships are available. The application form for these will be posted on the website for downloading. A candidate who wants to apply for fee waiver should fill in such a form and submit it after admission.

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Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes

Name of the Programme BA Honours with a Major in Economics School Admission Procedure Merit list based on subjects of XII examinations Merit list based on subjects of XII examinations Merit list based on subjects of XII examinations Merit list based on subjects of XII examinations Merit list based on subjects of XII examinations Merit list based on subjects of XII examinations Merit list based on subjects of XII examinations Entrance Examination and Interview Entrance Examination and Interview Entrance Examination and Interview Entrance Examination and Interview Entrance Examination and Interview Entrance Examination and Interview Contact Details deansus@aud.ac.in, surajit@aud.acin deansus@aud.ac.in, usha@aud.ac.in deansus@aud.ac.in, sanjay@aud.ac.in deansus@aud.ac.in, geetha@aud.ac.in deansus@aud.ac.in, rachana@aud.ac.in deansus@aud.ac.in, rukmini@aud.ac.in deansus@aud.ac.in, denys@aud.ac.in deansls@aud.ac.in, chirashree@aud.ac.in deansls@aud.ac.in, diamond@aud.ac.in deansls@aud.ac.in, santosh@aud.ac.in deansls@aud.ac.in, tanuja@aud.ac.in deanshs@aud.ac.in, rachana@aud.ac.in deanshs@aud.ac.in, rachna@aud.ac.in School of Undergraduate Studies School of BA Honours with a Undergraduate Major in English Studies School of BA Honours with a Undergraduate Major in History Studies School of BA Honours with a Undergraduate Major in Mathematics Studies School of BA Honours with a Undergraduate Major in Psychology Studies School of BA Honours with a Undergraduate Major in Sociology Studies School of BA Honours in Social Undergraduate Sciences and Humanities Studies School of Liberal MA in Economics Studies School of Liberal MA in English Studies School of Liberal MA in Sociology Studies School of Liberal MA in History Studies School of Human MA in Psychology Studies School of Human MA in Gender Studies Studies

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MA in Environment and Development Masters in Development Studies Masters in Educational Studies Masters in Business Administration#

Masters programme*

School of Human Ecology School of Development Studies School of Educational Studies School of Business, Public Policy and Social Entreprenuership School of Culture and Creative Expressions

Entrance Examination and Interview Entrance Examination and Interview Entrance Examination and Interview Entrance Examination, Group Discussions and Interview Entrance Examination and Interview

deanshe@aud.ac.in, ghazala@aud.ac.in deansds@aud.ac.in, sumangala@aud.ac.in sesadmissions@aud.ac.in mbaadmissions@aud. ac.in shivaji@aud.ac.in sumangala@aud.ac.in

Programmes across Schools

The School of Development Studies and the School of Human Studies are jointly launching an MPhil programme in Development Practice in collaboration with PRADAN. The programme involves field immersion for about two semesters in rural and tribal locations. An MA programme in Global Studies is on the anvil. This involves participation of faculty across several Schools.

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The admissions process for the MBA programme is already underway. There will be an MA available from the School of Culture and Creative Expressions with specialisations in Visual Art, Literary Art, Cinematic Studies and Performance Studies.

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Faculty List
S.No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Name Anil, Kanwal, PhD (Lucknow) Aurora, Gunjeet, PhD ( JNU) Babu, Suresh, PhD (Delhi) Banerjee, Arindam, PhD ( JNU) Banerjee, Rakhi, PhD (TIFR) Banerjee, Taposik, PhD ( JNU) Bardapurkar, Abhijeet S., PhD (TIFR) Behera, Minaketan, PhD (Allahabad) Bhagowalia, Priya, PhD (Purdue) Bhalla, Alok, PhD (Kent) Bhambri, Divya, MPhil (Delhi) Bhargarh, Aparajita, MSc (Delhi) Bhattacharya, Jyotirmoy, PhD ( JNU) Bhushi, Kiranmayi, PhD ( JNU) Chaube, Kopal, MPhil (Delhi) Chaudhary, Rachna, PhD (Delhi) Choudhury, Shyamolima Ghosh, MA (Delhi) Chowdhury, Sayandeb, MPhil ( Jadavpur) Damodaran, Sumangala, PhD ( JNU) Dangwal, Dhirendra Datt, PhD ( JNU) Das, Surajit, PhD ( JNU) Dasgupta, Chirashree, PhD (London) Dash, Bidhan Chandra, PhD (IIT, Mumbai) Position Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor Professor Academic Fellow Academic Fellow Assistant Professor Associate Professor Academic Fellow Assistant Professor Research Assistant Assistant Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor (yet to join) Associate Professor Assistant Professor Discipline/ Specialisation Finance, Accounting, Management English Ecology Economics Educational Studies Economics Educational Studies Economics Economics English Mathematics Child Development Economics Sociology Political Science Gender Studies, Political Science Psychology English Development Studies, Economics History Economics Economics Sociology

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24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47

Datta, Kasturi, MPhil (Delhi) Devi, Oinam Hemlata, PhD (Delhi) Devi, Thokchom Bibinaz, MA (Delhi) Dhar, Anup Kumar, PhD ( Jadavpur) Dhar, Ivy, PhD ( JNU) Govinda, Radhika, PhD (Cambridge) Gupta, Anshu, PhD (Delhi) Haq, Shifa, MA (Delhi) Jain, Manish, PhD (Delhi) Jimo, Lovitoli, MPhil ( JNU) Johri, Rachana, PhD (Delhi) Kabra, Asmita, PhD ( JNU) Kaicker, Nidhi, MBA (Delhi) Kamei, Gangmumei, MA (Delhi) Kapadia, Aparna, PhD (London) Kar, Debal C., PhD (Delhi) Karollil, Mamatha, PhD (TISS) Kaul, Venita, PhD (IIT, Delhi) Kothiyal, Tanuja, PhD ( JNU) Lal, Jayati, PhD (Cornell) Leighton, Denys, PhD (Washington) M., Murali Krishna, PhD (Hyderabad) Mamkoottam, Kuriakose, PhD (Delhi) Mandal, Subrata Kumar, PhD ( JNU)

Academic Fellow Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Research Assistant Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Librarian Assistant Professor Visiting Professor, Director, CECED Assistant Professor Associate Professor Visiting Professor Academic Fellow Professor, Director SBPPSE Associate Professor

Political Science, Development Studies Human Ecology, Social Anthropology Psychology Psychology, Gender Studies, Philosophy Political Science, Development Studies Gender Studies, Development Studies, Political Science Operations Research, Management Psychology Educational Studies Gender Studies, Sociology Psychology, Gender Studies Human Ecology, Economics Management Psychology History Library Psychology Early Childhood Education and Development History Sociology History English Management Development Studies, Economics

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48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75

Mann, Preeti, PhD (Oxford) Mao, Akha Kaihrii, MPhil (Delhi) Mathur, Punita, MSc ( Jodhpur) Mazumdar, Surajit, PhD ( JNU) Meiling, Bhoomika, MPhil ( JNU) Menon, Shailaja, PhD ( JNU) Menon, Shyam, PhD (MSU, Baroda) Mir, Urfat Anjem, PhD (Delhi) Misra, Salil, PhD ( JNU) Mitra, Wrick, MPhil (Delhi) Monditoka, Aruna Kumar, PhD (Hyderabad) Mudiganti, Usha, PhD (IIT, Delhi) Mukherjee, Chandan, PhD (ISI, Calcutta) Mukherjee, Tuheena, PhD (IIT, Delhi) Mukhopadhyay, Amites, PhD (London) Nagalia, Shubhra, PhD ( JNU) Nagpal, Ashok, PhD (Delhi) Narzary, Dharitri, PhD (Delhi) Navani, Manasi Thapliyal, MPhil (Delhi) Negi, Rohit, PhD (Ohio State) Nite, Dhiraj Kumar, PhD ( JNU) Nookathoti, Trinadh, MPhil (Hyderabad) Pandey, Anshumita, MA (Delhi) Panikkar, Shivaji K., PhD (MSU, Baroda) Persaud, Anil, PhD ( JNU) Pradhan, Gopalji, PhD ( JNU) R., Vinod, MPhil (Delhi) Rai, Alka, MLIS (IGNOU)

Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Research Assistant Associate Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Vice Chancellor Assistant Professor Professor, Dean, SLS Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Professor, Dean, SDS and SHE, Registrar Assistant Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Professor, Dean, SHS Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Professor, Dean, SCCE Assistant Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Librarian

Development Studies, Social Anthropology Educational Studies Home Science Economics English History Educational Studies Sociology (Anthropology) History Psychology, Sociology Development Studies, Political Science English Economics, Development Studies Psychology, Management Sociology, Environment and Development Gender Studies, Political Science Psychology History Educational Studies Human Ecology, Geography History Economics Psychology Art History History Hindi Psychology, Educational Studies Library

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76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102

Raturi, Radhika, MA (Delhi) Roy, Ashis, MA (Delhi) S., Santhosh, MA (MSU, Baroda) Sachdeva, Deepti, MSc (Oxford) Samuel, Nupur, MA, MEd (Delhi) Sankrit, Satyaketu, PhD (Patna) Sarin, Neetu, MA (Delhi) Sarkar, Surajit, MBA ( Jodhpur) Saurabh, Anand, MPhil (Delhi) Sawhney, Simona, PhD (California, Irvine) Sen, Rukmini, PhD (Calcutta) Sengupta, Anirban, PhD (TISS)

Research Assistant Research Assistant Academic Fellow Assistant Professor Academic Fellow Associate Professor Assistant Professor Consultant Academic Fellow Visiting Faculty Assistant Professor Assistant Professor

Psychology Psychology Fine Arts Psychology, Social Anthropology English Hindi Psychology Community Knowledge, Digital Practices Political Science English Sociology, Gender Studies Development Studies, Sociology Human Ecology, Ecology Educational Studies History Human Ecology, History Psychology Sociology History Home Science, Child Development English English English Psychology Sociology, Management Physics Mathematics

Shahabuddin, Ghazala, PhD (Duke) Associate Professor Sharma, Gunjan, MCom, MEd Assistant Professor (Delhi) Sharma, Sanjay Kumar, PhD Associate Professor, Director (London) CCK Singh, Praveen, PhD ( JNU) Assistant Professor Singh, Rajinder, MA (Delhi) Research Assistant Singh, Santosh Kumar, PhD ( JNU) Assistant Professor Snehi, Yogesh, PhD (Panjab) Assistant Professor Taneja, Parul, MSc (Delhi) Thakur, Vikram Singh, PhD (Hyderabad) Thomas, Sanju, MA (Kerala) Vahali, Diamond Oberoi, PhD ( JNU) Vahali, Honey Oberoi, PhD (Delhi) Valentina, Kancharla, PhD ( JNU) Varma, Vijaya S., DIC, PhD (London) Venkataraman, Geetha, PhD (Oxford) Academic Fellow Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor Professor Assistant Professor Advisor Planning Professor, Dean, SUS

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