Name |
Bhaswati Sarkar |
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short bio of (100-200 words) |
Dr Bhaswati Sarkar is a Professor at the Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She graduated in Political Science from Presidency College, Kolkata and did her Masters in Political Science from the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. For her Ph.D she worked on the Hungarian Minorities in Eastern Europe and continues to be interested in themes of identity and minority rights. Her research interests are ethnicity, nation, nationalism, democracy, democratic transition and consolidation, citizenship, immigration, integration, multiculturalism, minority rights, secularism and persistence of religion, European integration and European identity. She looks at Europe focusing particularly on Central and Eastern Europe and the Nordics. She also keenly follows political developments in Asia particularly related to Indian foreign policy. Education and skill development are her other areas of interest. She has a number of publications to her credit and regularly participates in national and international conferences. |
affiliation(s) and current position at your institute |
Professor, Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
(5-7) keywords of your research fields (both on Indo-Pacific and other) |
Ethnicity, Nationalism, Nation Building, Democracy, Democratic transition and Consolidation, Minority Rights |
A list of maximum 3 relevant works/publications on Indo-Pacific |
Sarkar, Bhaswati , Nation-State Unsettled: Spain’s Catalan Challenge’ in Gulshan Sachdeva ed., Challenges in Europe: Indian Perspective, (New Delhi: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) Sarkar, Bhaswati ‘The Right Matters in European Politics’ in Gulshan Sachdeva ed., Challenges in Europe: Indian Perspective, (New Delhi: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) Sarkar, Bhaswati ed., India and the Nordics in a Changing World (New Delhi: Kaveri Books, 2018) |
Links to your online profiles |
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University profile page |