The Centre for Contemporary Studies was set up as an advanced studies unit of NMML in 1990 and is housed in the Annexe building. Created with the purpose of streamlining research activities and providing an atmosphere conducive for research, the Centre is responsible for overlooking all research projects of NMML. It was established for the promotion of research on modern Indian and contemporary history with a special emphasis on the life and ideas of Jawaharlal Nehru and the freedom movement. It offers research fellowships to scholars engaged in advanced research on themes related to modern Indian history and contemporary studies. The three research areas in which fellowships are granted are 'Promotion of Research in Modern Indian History and Contemporary Studies', 'Perspectives in Indian Development' (Social, Economic and Cultural) and 'India and Changing Trends in World Economy and Polity'.
The Centre offers fellowships at the level of Senior Fellow, Fellow and Junior Fellow to scholars in any one of these three ongoing areas. Currently, the Centre is overseeing 19 research fellows who are working on a diverse range of subjects related to modern Indian history. Affiliation is also available to scholars who have been awarded fellowships by other organizations like the University Grants Commission (UGC), Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and the Ford Foundation.
Current Fellows and their Research Topics
Alok Bajpai
A Holistic View of Mahatma Gandhi's Politics in Theoretical Realms
Alok Sarin
Making Sense of History: A Mental Health Perspective
Anita Ghai
Women and Disability: Conceptualizing a Policy of Care
Bhupender Yadav
Understanding Change among Punjab Dalits, 1880-1980
Chayanika Uniyal
The Dynamics of Relations between the Congress and Left Block: From Nehru till Date
David Devadas
The Re-construction of Identities of Jammu & Kashmir
Dipankar Gupta
Country-Town Nexus and Globalization: A Study of the Relationship between Rural Migration Export and the Informal Sector
Ira Bhaskar
The Partition and Contemporary Communalism: Trauma, Memory and Community in Hindi Cinema
K. L. Tuteja
Hindu Consciousness and Nationalism in the Punjab 1906-1947
Madan Gopal Singh
The Many Lives of the Indian Film Song
Madhuri Sharma
Media, Medicine & Society: Continuity and Changes in Northern India, c. 1900-2000
Mahuya Bandhopadhyay
Social Practices, Governance Strategies and Lived Experiences an Urban Slum
Mayank Kumar
Social Stratification and Politics of Natural Resource Management
Meena Gopal
Shifts in Women's Work and Ideology in South Tamil Nadu: Labour Process and Gender Relations
Prabhat Kumar Shukla
Land, Power and Class: Shifting Equations and the Tribal Movements in Chotanagpur, 1800-1920
Ritu Bhagat
Landscape and Memory: Refugee Rehabilitation in Post-Partition Delhi
Rohit Wanchoo
Identity Formation in North West India, 1940-1960
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Open Sesame: Keywords for the Indian Subcontinent
Shri Krishan
Savarkar against Gandhi: A Comparison of Two Worldviews
V. Krishna Ananth
The Retreat of the Nehruvian Socialist Project: An Analysis into the Political, Legislative and the Judicial Interventions, 1952-2008
Former Fellows and their Research Topics
Achin Vanaik
Communal Politics
Aijaz Ahmad
Nationalism and Communalism in the History of Muslim Intelligentsia
Ajay S. Rawat
History and Growth of Forestry in Central Himalayas and its Impact on Peasant Women and Tribes
A. K. Ghosh
Rural Economics with Special Reference to the Absorption of New Technology for Growth
A. K. Gupta
- A Crisis in Middle Class Sensibility: The Bengali Cultural Scenario, India, 1939-1952
- The Leftists and the Rural Poor in India, 1934-51
Amar Farooqui
Lower Class Intervention in the Making of the Nation: Left Politics, Counter-Culture and the P. C. Joshi Era
Amiya Prosad Sen
Religion and the Reconstruction of Paradigms, Studies in Hindu-Bengali Intellectual Life c.1800-1900
Ananya Vajpeyi
Violent Spaces, Violated Persons: Rethinking the "Camp" and the "Refugee" in South Asia
Anil Sadgopal
Education Policies and Programmes: Developing a Methodology and Framework for Analysis
Anirudh Deshpande
Ideology and Identity: The Historical as Narrative in Cinema and Teleserials in Independent India- a Critical and Comparative Perusal
Anita Rampal
Education and National Development
Archana Prasad
Forestry and Tribal Development in Central India: The Future of the Forest Communities in Contemporary India
Arvind Sinha
Imperial Delhi; Economy and Society 1912 - 1947
Arvind Vyas
Models of Socialist Economic Development
A. Satyanarayana
Land, Caste and Domination in Andhra Pradesh
Ashis Banerjee
- Political Sociology of Backwardness: The Case of Eastern Uttar Pradesh
- The Federal Articulation of Nationalism and its Problems
Babu Mathew
Towards a New Form of Trade Unionist
Basudev Chatterjee
- History of Pre-Industrial Technology in India, and
- The Novel and India's Intellectual History
Baldev Singh
Development of Science and Technology
Bhagwan Singh Josh
The Rise of Bharatiya Janata Party: Democracy, Religion and State of India
Bikram Narayan Nanda
Social Transformation of a Tribe: Case Study of Bonda Highlanders of Orissa
Boudhayan Chattopadhyay
Asian-Pacific Region in the Global Economy with Particular Reference to Japan and the SAARC Countries
Brinda Bose
Gender, Nation and Globalization: The Shaping of a New Alternative Indian Cinema
Chitra Joshi
State, Society and Crime
Charu Gupta
Identity and Difference: Gendering 'Untouchables' in Colonial North India
Deepak Malik
Social Forces in Nation Building Exercise: Study in Interaction
Devinder Kumari (Raheja)
Financial Safeguards Following Breakdown of Marriage
Dharma Kumar
Various Aspects of the Historical Relationship between Law and the Social Structure, including the Caste System
Dhirendra Datt Dangwal
Scientific Forestry and Sustainable Management of Forests in India: Myth and Reality
Dilip Simeon
Violence, Modernity and the Metaphysics of Absolutism
Dilip Menon
The Crucible of War: South Indian Society in an Age of Conflict c. 1700 - 1850
D. N. Banerjee
Harijan Sevak Sangh and Uplift of Harijan Community
D. N. Panigrahi
Social Foundation of British Rule in India: A Study in Social Change and an Analysis of the Roots of Political Consciousness among Social Groups in U. P. 1890-1920
Gail Omvedt
Perspectives of the Anti-Caste Movement on Socio-Economic Development
Geeta Kapur
An Analysis of the Iconography and Narrative Style of a Selection of Indian Films
Ghan Shyam Devra
Commercial History of Rajasthan: Trends and Prospects, 1750-1850
Girish Mishra
Problem of Non-emergence of Industrial Entrepreneurs in Bihar and its Socio-economic Causes.
Govind Kelkar
Women in Protest Movement/ Struggles in 20th Century Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
G. P. Deshpande
Comintern: The National and Colonial Question - A Comparative Study of India and China
G. S. Misra
Mao Zedong's Thought - Theory of Revolution and National Development in China
Gyanesh Kudaishya
Refugees and Displaced Persons in Contemporary South Asia
Indu Agnihotri
Punjab: A Social History of the Depression Years
Iqbal Singh
Humanism in International Relations/Non-alignment
Jayati Srivastava
Emerging Role of the NGOs in the WTO: Implications for India
Kancha Ilaiah
Dalit Movement in Andhra Pradesh: A Study in Subaltern Revolt
Kapil Kumar
Congress Peasant Relationship
Karuna Ahmad
Social Reform or Social Change: A Case Study of Women's Education
Kaushik Roy
War and State Formation in South Asia: Global Conflict, INA and Dissent in the Indian Armed Forces, 1942 - 49
K. N. Panikkar
Cultural History of Colonial India during the Last Few Years
Krishna Kumar
The Role of Education in India's Political Development
K. S. Subramanian
The Making of India's Domestic Policy
Lalita Chakravarty
Turning Point in Adult Male Mortality Rates in India (1970 - 72): Implication for Poverty Eradication Programme
Leela Dube
Kinship, Property, Relations and Gender Relations in Contemporary India
Madhavan K. Palat
Soviet Decolonization and the Nationalities Question
Mahesh Rangarajan
The Social History of Hunting and Wildlife Conservation in India
Majid H Siddiqi
A Social History of Petitioning in Colonial India 1840 - 1890
Maninder Nath Thakur
Conflict and Institutional Change in India
Meenakshi Jain
Inter-Community Relations in Post-Mughal India
Meenakshi Thampan
Culture and Feminity: A Study of Women's Body, Feminity and Life Styles in Indian Society
Mollica Dastider
Minority Identity and Inter Group Differences in Plural Societies: A Study of the Political Response towards Majoritarian Discourses in India and the West
Muchkund Dubey
History of the Evolution of Major Concepts of International Development Co-operation within the United Nations System
Mukul Kesavan
Separatism in the Muslim Minority Provinces of India, 1935-1947
Nasir Tyabji
Technology Acquisition and Innovation in India: An Agenda
Neera Chandhoke
The Urban Poor and the Integration of the Indian Nation
Niraja Gopal Jayal
The Indian Idea of Citizenship
Nirmal Kumar
Mazhurul Haque: A Political Biography
Nonica Datta
The Making of Ambala Cantonment, 1840-1920
N. S. Jaganathan
Repression and Response: The Indian Press in Confrontation with Authority
Partha Nath Mukherji
Social Movements and Nation-Building in India
Partho Dattav
Patrick Geddes and Colonial Planning in Early Twentieth Century India
P. P. Mohapatra
Industrialization and Consciousness: The World of Jamshedpur Workers, 1930- 1980
P. S. Gupta
Decolonization, the Commonwealth and the Cold War: South Asia in British Overseas Relations, 1941-56
Pradip Kumar Datta
A Social History of the Literary Sphere in Bengal 1870-1930
Praful Bidwai
The Political Economy of Structural Adjustment: The Case of India
Pralaya Ranjan Kanungo
Constructing a Hindu Identity in the United States: Diasporic Politics of Hindu Nationalism
Pulapre Balakrishnan
Two Queries related to India's Economic Prospects in the Twenty First Century
Radha Kanta Barik
Study of Unrecognised Intelligentsia in Orissa during 19th Century
Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan
The 'New' Indian Novel in English
Ramachandra Guha
A Social and Ecological History of Shifting Agriculture in Colonial India
Rana Pratap Behal
The Culture of Displacement: A Study of Refugees from West Pakistan in Delhi, post 1947
Rani Dhavan Shankardass
- Vallabhai Patel: His Role and Style in Indian Politics
- Debt Bondage
Ravi Vasudevan
Film and Social History
Romila Thapar
Hinduism
Sabyasachi Dasgupta
The Post Independence Indian Army: A Product of Colonial Legacy
Satish Saberwal
Analysis of Societal Crisis
Seema Srivastava
Redemption, Care and Cure by Women for Women - Rise of Female Medical Missions in United Provinces, 1890 - 1920
S. Gopal
The Interaction of Western Ideas and Indian Thought in the 20th Century
Shama Mitra Chenoy
The Role of Khattris in the British Takeover of Delhi, 1794 - 1857
Shashi Joshi
Roots of Communalism in Indian Society
Shekhar Pathak
A Study of Colonial Intrusion in Himalaya: The Background, Nature and Consequences
S. M. Hongray
Impact of Urbanization on Tangkhul Nagas in Ukhrul District, Manipur
S. Murli
Environmental Aesthetics, Landscape and Poetry
Sreekala S.
Spectacle and Change - Anthropological Explorations of Theatre Organization in Urban India
Subhransu Sekhar Mishra
Central Asia in the New Millennium: Indian Foreign Policy Perspectives
Sudha Mahlingam
Global Energy Scenario and Implications for India's Energy Security
Sudha Pai
Democracy at Work, Dalit Question and Political Response: Comparative Study of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh
Sudipta Kaviraj
Contemporary Indian Politics
Sudhir Chandra
Literature and Society in Modern India
Sujata Patel
Capital and Labour in Ahmedabad Textile Industry, 1939-84
Sumit Guha
Law, Market and Society, Land Rights in Maharashtra under Marathas and British c.1700-1900
Sumit Sarkar
The Socio-Economic and Cultural Formulations of Popular Movements in the Gandhian Era
Sunanda Sen
The Theoretical Positions in the Literature dealing with Global Interdependence and its Desirability in the Context of the Emerging Structural Pattern in the North-South Economic Relations
Surjit Mansingh
India and China in Asia: Retrospect and Prospect
Suroopa Mukherjee
Dancing in the Streets: The Woman Gas Victim as Survivor of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy
Susan Visvanathan
Christian Mission in India in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Syeda Saiyidain Hameed
Amir of the Caravan: Abul Kalam Azad
Tanika Sarkar
Tarakeswar Scandals and the Social History of Bengal, 1870 - 1920
Ujjwal Kumar Singh
Gandhi as a Political Prisoner and Prison Reformer
Uma Chakravarty
Gender, Caste and Class in India: Tracing its Roots in Early India and Locating its Shifts in Colonial and Post-colonial India
Vinayak Narain Srivastava
The Study of Political Identity Formations Contingent on Socio-Cultural and Civilizational Attributes
Vinod Raina
Interrelationships of Ecology, Technology and Development
Visalakshi Menon
The Congress Organization in Uttar Pradesh, 1945-47
Vishnu Khare
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