Jawaharlal Nehru University , also known as JNU or Nehru University, is located in New Delhi, the capital of India. Situated in a bush forest on a ridge of the Aravalli hills with about 1000 acres (4 km²) of land in South West Delhi, the university is mainly a research oriented postgraduate University with about 5,500 students. The faculty strength is around 550. The University is organized in ten Schools (each of which has several Centers) as well as four independent Special Centers.History
Vice-Chancellors
• G. Parthasarathy, 1969-1974
• B. D. Nag Chaudhuri, 1974-1979
• K. R. Narayanan, 1979-1980
• Y. Nayudamma, 1981-1982
• P. N. Srivastava, 1983-1987
• M. S. Agwani, 1987-1992
• Yoginder K Alagh, 1992-1996
• A. Datta, 1996-2002
• G. K. Chadha, 2002-2005
• B. B. Bhattacharya, 2005-Present
JNU was established in 1969, by an act of parliament. It was named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's First-Prime Minister of India), and was founded by his daughter, Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi. G. Parthasarathy was appointed as the First-Vice-Chancellor of the university.
The objective of the founders of this university was to make it a premier institution of higher learning for students of the erstwhile Third World countries. The university from the very beginning was meant to be a centre for Third World studies. A third objective of the university has been to promote research and teaching leading to the increasing engagement of its students and teachers in higher level academic work and national and international policy making.
Schools
• School of Arts and Aesthetics: This is one of the newest schools of the university.
• School of BioTechnology: This is the youngest School of JNU, being formed in 2006 out of the earlier Centre for Biotechnology.
• School of Computer and Systems Sciences: This school has been attracting the largest number of applications as compared to other schools, since its inception in 1974.
• School of Environmental Sciences: Reserch in Hydrogeochemistry on Gangotri and Chota sigribGlaciers .Research in regards to Remote sensing application in Geosciences,specially Groundwater and Earthquake forewarning,Sun-Earth connection. Other researche includes: Environmental Biosciences,Geosciences,Geochemistry, Ecology,Chemistry,Cell Biology,Immunology,Pollution studies,Radiation Physics and Environmental Physics.
• School of Information Technology: It offers M.Tech in Computational and Systems Biology, Pre-Ph.D. and Direct T Ph.D. courses in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
• School of International Studies: This is the oldest school in JNU. It predates the establishment of the JNU, as the Indian School of International Studies, which was set up in 1956. The centres in this school are the Centre for Canadian, US and Latin American Studies, the Centre for East Asian Studies, the Centre for European Studies, the Centre for International Legal Studies, the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament Studies, the Centre for International Trade and Development, the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, the Centre for South, Central, Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies, the Centre for West Asian & African Studies and the Group of Comparative Politics & Political Theory.
• School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies: This is the only school that offers undergraduate courses. It also has several centres under it, such as the Centre of Arabic and African Studies, Centre of Chinese and South East Asian Studies, the Centre for French and Francophone Studies, the Centre of German Studies, the Centre of Indian Languages, the Centre of Japanese Korean and North East Asian Studies, the Centre for English Studies, the Centre for Linguistics, the Centre of Persian and Central Asian Studies, the Centre of Russian Studies, the Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian & Latin American Studies.
• School of Life Sciences: This school is also one of the oldest schools in the university.
• School of Physical Sciences: It was formed in 1986. It has faculty in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. At present the degree programs that are offered are the M.Sc. (Physics) and Ph.D. (in Physics, Chemistry or Mathematics). The School has experimental facilities in a number of different areas that include soft-matter physics, low temperature physics, materials science, supramolecular chemistry, as well as extensive computational facilities with a dedicated Nonlinear Dynamics laboratory.
School of Social Sciences
• School of Social Sciences: It is the largest School (in terms of the number of faculty members) in JNU with 9 centres. These centres are the centres in this school are the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, which is accredited as Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) by University Grants Comminssion and premier centre in the Field of (GEOGRAPHY),the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, , which is a premier institute in the field of economics, the Center for Historical Studies, which regularly brings out a reputed peer-reviewed journal, entitled "Studies in History", the Center for Philosophy, the Centre for Political Studies, the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies,
Institutions affiliated to JNU
• The National Defence Academy, Pune
• The Army Cadet College, Dehra Dun
• College of Military Engineering (CME), Pune
• Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME), Secunderabad
• Naval College of Engineering (NCE), INS Shivaji, Lonavla
• Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE), Mhow
• Centre for Development Studies (CDS)[3], Trivandrum
• Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad
• National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi
• C.V.Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
• International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi
• Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh
• Central Institute of Medicine and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow
• Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi (now renamed as the Inter-University Accelerator Centre(IUAC))[4]
• School of Arts and Aesthetics: This is one of the newest schools of the university.
• School of BioTechnology: This is the youngest School of JNU, being formed in 2006 out of the earlier Centre for Biotechnology.
• School of Computer and Systems Sciences: This school has been attracting the largest number of applications as compared to other schools, since its inception in 1974.
• School of Environmental Sciences: Reserch in Hydrogeochemistry on Gangotri and Chota sigribGlaciers .Research in regards to Remote sensing application in Geosciences,specially Groundwater and Earthquake forewarning,Sun-Earth connection. Other researche includes: Environmental Biosciences,Geosciences,Geochemistry, Ecology,Chemistry,Cell Biology,Immunology,Pollution studies,Radiation Physics and Environmental Physics.
• School of Information Technology: It offers M.Tech in Computational and Systems Biology, Pre-Ph.D. and Direct T Ph.D. courses in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
• School of International Studies: This is the oldest school in JNU. It predates the establishment of the JNU, as the Indian School of International Studies, which was set up in 1956. The centres in this school are the Centre for Canadian, US and Latin American Studies, the Centre for East Asian Studies, the Centre for European Studies, the Centre for International Legal Studies, the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament Studies, the Centre for International Trade and Development, the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, the Centre for South, Central, Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies, the Centre for West Asian & African Studies and the Group of Comparative Politics & Political Theory.
• School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies: This is the only school that offers undergraduate courses. It also has several centres under it, such as the Centre of Arabic and African Studies, Centre of Chinese and South East Asian Studies, the Centre for French and Francophone Studies, the Centre of German Studies, the Centre of Indian Languages, the Centre of Japanese Korean and North East Asian Studies, the Centre for English Studies, the Centre for Linguistics, the Centre of Persian and Central Asian Studies, the Centre of Russian Studies, the Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian & Latin American Studies.
• School of Life Sciences: This school is also one of the oldest schools in the university.
• School of Physical Sciences: It was formed in 1986. It has faculty in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. At present the degree programs that are offered are the M.Sc. (Physics) and Ph.D. (in Physics, Chemistry or Mathematics). The School has experimental facilities in a number of different areas that include soft-matter physics, low temperature physics, materials science, supramolecular chemistry, as well as extensive computational facilities with a dedicated Nonlinear Dynamics laboratory.
School of Social Sciences
• School of Social Sciences: It is the largest School (in terms of the number of faculty members) in JNU with 9 centres. These centres are the centres in this school are the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, which is accredited as Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) by University Grants Comminssion and premier centre in the Field of (GEOGRAPHY),the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, , which is a premier institute in the field of economics, the Center for Historical Studies, which regularly brings out a reputed peer-reviewed journal, entitled "Studies in History", the Center for Philosophy, the Centre for Political Studies, the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies,
Institutions affiliated to JNU
• The National Defence Academy, Pune
• The Army Cadet College, Dehra Dun
• College of Military Engineering (CME), Pune
• Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME), Secunderabad
• Naval College of Engineering (NCE), INS Shivaji, Lonavla
• Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE), Mhow
• Centre for Development Studies (CDS)[3], Trivandrum
• Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad
• National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi
• C.V.Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
• International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi
• Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh
• Central Institute of Medicine and Aromatic Plants, Lucknow
• Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi (now renamed as the Inter-University Accelerator Centre(IUAC))[4]
Collaborators
The university has exchange programmes and academic collaboration through the signing of MoUs with 71 foreign universities around the world.[5]. This list includes
• Ankara University, Turkey
• Australia National University, Canberra, Australia
• George Washington University, USA
• GNU, Korea
• Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France [6]
• King's College London, United Kingdom [7]
• Lancaster University, UK
• MVL Moscow State University, Russia
• School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
• University of Cologne, Germany
• University of Heidelberg, Germany
• University of Illinois, USA
• University of North Carolina, USA
• University of Philippines, Quezon City
• University of Sydney, Australia
• Yale University, USA
• NASA,USA
The university has exchange programmes and academic collaboration through the signing of MoUs with 71 foreign universities around the world.[5]. This list includes
• Ankara University, Turkey
• Australia National University, Canberra, Australia
• George Washington University, USA
• GNU, Korea
• Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France [6]
• King's College London, United Kingdom [7]
• Lancaster University, UK
• MVL Moscow State University, Russia
• School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
• University of Cologne, Germany
• University of Heidelberg, Germany
• University of Illinois, USA
• University of North Carolina, USA
• University of Philippines, Quezon City
• University of Sydney, Australia
• Yale University, USA
• NASA,USA
Prominent Alumni
Politicians
Party Offices
• Prakash Karat, General Secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• Pranay Krishna, General Secretary, JASAM (जसम)
• Kavita Krishan, Central Committee Member, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
• Pushkar Mishra, PS to Jana Krishnamurti, Ex- BJP President
• Chandra Shekhar Prasad (Chandu), Ex-JNUSU president, Was shot by Shahabuddin in Siwan (Biahar)
• Ashok Tanwar, President Indian Youth Congress
• D.P Tripathi, General Secretary, Nationalist Congress Party
• Sitaram Yechury, Member, Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Party Offices
• Prakash Karat, General Secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• Pranay Krishna, General Secretary, JASAM (जसम)
• Kavita Krishan, Central Committee Member, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
• Pushkar Mishra, PS to Jana Krishnamurti, Ex- BJP President
• Chandra Shekhar Prasad (Chandu), Ex-JNUSU president, Was shot by Shahabuddin in Siwan (Biahar)
• Ashok Tanwar, President Indian Youth Congress
• D.P Tripathi, General Secretary, Nationalist Congress Party
• Sitaram Yechury, Member, Polit Bureau, Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Union Minister of State and state level Cabinet Minister
• Thomas Issac, Finance Minister of Kerala
• Digvijay Singh (Bihar), former Union Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Ministers from Countries other than India
• Baburam Bhattarai, former Finance Minister of Nepal
• Thomas Issac, Finance Minister of Kerala
• Digvijay Singh (Bihar), former Union Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
Ministers from Countries other than India
• Baburam Bhattarai, former Finance Minister of Nepal
Professionals
• Ranjit Nayak, World Bank Country Representative in Kosovo (Alumni and former Academic Staff)
Dr.Santosh Mehrotra, Director, Institute of Applied Manpower Research
Dr. Amiya Chandra, MCD
Dr.A.Prabaharan, Director, Public Action
Mr. Manoj Kumar Nirala Sr. Executive, Societe Generale, (France's 2nd largest Bank)
• Ranjit Nayak, World Bank Country Representative in Kosovo (Alumni and former Academic Staff)
Dr.Santosh Mehrotra, Director, Institute of Applied Manpower Research
Dr. Amiya Chandra, MCD
Dr.A.Prabaharan, Director, Public Action
Mr. Manoj Kumar Nirala Sr. Executive, Societe Generale, (France's 2nd largest Bank)
• Dr. I.S Chauhan, Indian Ambassador to Fizi; Vice Chancellor, Barkutullah University, Bhopal
• Shakeel Ahmed Khan, Director General, Nehru Yuva Sangathan Kendra, Delhi
• Dr. Bhagirath Prasad, Principal Secretary, Home (MP); VC, DAVV, Indore
• Shakeel Ahmed Khan, Director General, Nehru Yuva Sangathan Kendra, Delhi
• Dr. Bhagirath Prasad, Principal Secretary, Home (MP); VC, DAVV, Indore
Entrepreneurs
• Dr. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saif Al Nahyan, Chairman of Etihad Airways
• Aditya Jha, Canadian entrepreneur; philanthropist and philosopher; active in Canadian public affairs
• Dr. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saif Al Nahyan, Chairman of Etihad Airways
• Aditya Jha, Canadian entrepreneur; philanthropist and philosopher; active in Canadian public affairs
Academics
• Muzaffar Alam, George V.Bobrinsky Professor of History, University of Chicago, USA
• Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Rajeev Bhargava, Director, Centre for Studies in Developing Societies, Delhi
• Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, New York
• Amitabh Mattoo, Vice Chancellor, Jammu University, Srinagar
• Deodutta Roy, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FLorida, USA
• Yogendra Yadav, Sociologist and Election Analyst
• Muzaffar Alam, George V.Bobrinsky Professor of History, University of Chicago, USA
• Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Rajeev Bhargava, Director, Centre for Studies in Developing Societies, Delhi
• Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, New York
• Amitabh Mattoo, Vice Chancellor, Jammu University, Srinagar
• Deodutta Roy, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FLorida, USA
• Yogendra Yadav, Sociologist and Election Analyst
Novelists
• Uday Prakash, Renowned story writer
• Uday Prakash, Renowned story writer
Writers
• Vijay Singh Prominent film maker and writer based in Paris
• Vijay Singh Prominent film maker and writer based in Paris
Journalists
• Amitsen Gupta, Eminent journalist
• C.Raja Mohan, Editor, The Hindu and Indian Express; presently Professor, Rajaratnam School of International Studies, National Technological University, Singapore
• Saurabh Shukla, Senior Editor, India Today
• Amitsen Gupta, Eminent journalist
• C.Raja Mohan, Editor, The Hindu and Indian Express; presently Professor, Rajaratnam School of International Studies, National Technological University, Singapore
• Saurabh Shukla, Senior Editor, India Today
Eminent Faculty
School of International Studies
International Studies
• R.P.Anand
• Kanti Bajpai, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
• Bharat Desai, International law expert, chief architect of framework of IPCC
• Muchkund Dubey, formerly Foreign Secretary of India
• Ashok Sanjay Guha
• V.S.Mani, First-Director, Gujrat National Law University, Gandhinagar
• Amitabh Mattoo, former Vice Chancellor, Jammu University, Srinagar
• C. Raja Mohan
• Rahmatullah Khan, former Rector, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Mahendra P Lama, Vice Chancellor, Sikkim University
• Varun Sahni, Vice Chancellor, Jammu University, Srinagar
• Y.K.Tyagi
• Matinuzzaman Zuberi, Member, National Security Council, Delhi
School of Languages
Chinese
• Tan Chung, Director, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi
Hindi
• Purushottam Agarwal, Member, UPSC
• Manager Pandey, Hindi critique
• Namvar Singh, literateure
Urdu
• Anwar Alam, Urdu critic on novels and literary movements
• Mazhar Hussain Urdu critic and expert on Aligarh Movement.
• Mohammad Hasan, Urdu critic and play writer
• Sadiqurrahman Kidwai, Urdu critic and Secretary of Ghalib Institute, New Delhi
• Akhtar Mahdi, Littérateur
School of Life Sciences
Life Sciences
• Shibtosh Mookerjee
• Saumitra Mukherjee
School of Social Sciences
Economics
• Amit Bhaduri
• Gurdarshan Bhalla, former Member, Planning Commission of India
• Jayati Ghosh, Member, National Knowledge Commission, India
• Prabhat Patnaik, Deputy Chairman of the Kerala Planning Commission
• Utsa Patnaik
• Abhijit Sen, Member, Planning Commission of India
Geography
• Munis Raza, Chairman, Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi
History
• Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Chairman, Indian Council for Historical Research, New Delhi
• Bipan Chandra, Chairman, National Book Trust, New Delhi
• Satish Chandra, former Chairman, University Grants Commission, New Delhi
• Sarvapalli Gopal, former Chairman of National Book Trust, New Delhi
• Mridula Mukherjee, Director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi
• K.N. Panikkar, Vice Chancellor, Sree Sankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady, Kerala
• Tanika Sarkar
• Romila Thapar, former Chancellor of Hyderabad University
Political Science
• Aijaz Ahmed
• C.P. Bhambri
• Rajeev Bhargava, Director, Centre for Developing Society, New Delhi
• Sudipta Kaviraj
Sociologist
• Yoginder Singh
• T.K.Oomen
• Dipankar Gupta
• Avijit Pathak
• P.S Ramakrishnan
Centre for Law and Governance
Law
• Pratapbhanu Mehta, Ex-Chairman, National Knowledge Commission
Visiting Faculty
• Ms. Chandrika Kumaratunga, Former Sri Lanka President; Visiting Lecturer, School of International Studies
• Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India; Visiting Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences
• Mr. Shilendra Kumar Singh, Governor of Rajasthan; Visiting Professor, School of International Studies
School of International Studies
International Studies
• R.P.Anand
• Kanti Bajpai, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
• Bharat Desai, International law expert, chief architect of framework of IPCC
• Muchkund Dubey, formerly Foreign Secretary of India
• Ashok Sanjay Guha
• V.S.Mani, First-Director, Gujrat National Law University, Gandhinagar
• Amitabh Mattoo, former Vice Chancellor, Jammu University, Srinagar
• C. Raja Mohan
• Rahmatullah Khan, former Rector, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• Mahendra P Lama, Vice Chancellor, Sikkim University
• Varun Sahni, Vice Chancellor, Jammu University, Srinagar
• Y.K.Tyagi
• Matinuzzaman Zuberi, Member, National Security Council, Delhi
School of Languages
Chinese
• Tan Chung, Director, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi
Hindi
• Purushottam Agarwal, Member, UPSC
• Manager Pandey, Hindi critique
• Namvar Singh, literateure
Urdu
• Anwar Alam, Urdu critic on novels and literary movements
• Mazhar Hussain Urdu critic and expert on Aligarh Movement.
• Mohammad Hasan, Urdu critic and play writer
• Sadiqurrahman Kidwai, Urdu critic and Secretary of Ghalib Institute, New Delhi
• Akhtar Mahdi, Littérateur
School of Life Sciences
Life Sciences
• Shibtosh Mookerjee
• Saumitra Mukherjee
School of Social Sciences
Economics
• Amit Bhaduri
• Gurdarshan Bhalla, former Member, Planning Commission of India
• Jayati Ghosh, Member, National Knowledge Commission, India
• Prabhat Patnaik, Deputy Chairman of the Kerala Planning Commission
• Utsa Patnaik
• Abhijit Sen, Member, Planning Commission of India
Geography
• Munis Raza, Chairman, Indian Council for Social Science Research, New Delhi
History
• Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Chairman, Indian Council for Historical Research, New Delhi
• Bipan Chandra, Chairman, National Book Trust, New Delhi
• Satish Chandra, former Chairman, University Grants Commission, New Delhi
• Sarvapalli Gopal, former Chairman of National Book Trust, New Delhi
• Mridula Mukherjee, Director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi
• K.N. Panikkar, Vice Chancellor, Sree Sankaracharya Sanskrit University, Kalady, Kerala
• Tanika Sarkar
• Romila Thapar, former Chancellor of Hyderabad University
Political Science
• Aijaz Ahmed
• C.P. Bhambri
• Rajeev Bhargava, Director, Centre for Developing Society, New Delhi
• Sudipta Kaviraj
Sociologist
• Yoginder Singh
• T.K.Oomen
• Dipankar Gupta
• Avijit Pathak
• P.S Ramakrishnan
Centre for Law and Governance
Law
• Pratapbhanu Mehta, Ex-Chairman, National Knowledge Commission
Visiting Faculty
• Ms. Chandrika Kumaratunga, Former Sri Lanka President; Visiting Lecturer, School of International Studies
• Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India; Visiting Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences
• Mr. Shilendra Kumar Singh, Governor of Rajasthan; Visiting Professor, School of International Studies
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