International and Area Studies in India

Appadorai, A.

doi:10.1177/0020881787024002004

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“…In India, enormous organizational and intellectual confusion arises from the widespread assumption that area studies are international studies 'merely by the virtue of the area being studied being foreign' (Rana 1988b: 65). This is best epitomized by the identical titles of an article and a book-International and Area Studies in India-written and edited respectively by two of India's pioneering scholars in the field (Appadorai 1987;Rajan 1997). In reality, as Rana (1988b: 65) correctly notes, area studies are 'multidisciplinary in nature', while IR is only 'one among the many other disciplines area studies embrace'.…”

Section: Fallacy 1: the Study Of Foreign Areas Is International Relatmentioning

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The Fallacies and Flaws of Area Studies in India

Sahni

2009

International Studies

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Area studies programmes were established in Indian universities in two waves. The first wave emanated from an individual initiative of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1955 and the second from a committee set up by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in April 1963, soon after India’s military defeat at the hands of China in 1962. While a large number of area studies programmes now exist in Indian universities, they have, from their earliest days, been handicapped by four conceptual fallacies and nine operational flaws. The fallacies are related to the subject matter, disciplinary focus, terms of reference and policy relevance, and the flaws are—the absence of theory, lack of multidisciplinary perspectives, analyses that are based on macro-level research, scarce fieldwork, deficiencies in language skills, lack of quantitative research projects, event-driven research agendas, predominance of secondary sources in research, and taught courses which are too broad in their formulation and too narrow in their subject matter. Each fallacy is fundamental; the flaws, taken together, have been fatal for the area studies programmes in India. The article ends with seven suggestions on how these programmes could be revitalized.

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Section: Fallacy 1: the Study Of Foreign Areas Is International Relatmentioning

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The Fallacies and Flaws of Area Studies in India

Sahni

2009

International Studies

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“…Institucionalização da Área de RI pós-Independência Indiana O estudo de RI na Índia surge pouco tempo antes de sua independência (Appadorai, 1987). Uma das instituições que atuou como precursora da introdução da área de RI no país teria sido o Conselho Indiano de Assuntos Mundiais (ICWA), instituído em 1943, sob a presidência de Tej Bahadur Sapru (Rajan, 1994).…”

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“…Segundo Appadorai (1987), desde a independência da Índia, há um crescente interesse na área de Relações Internacionais devido à percepção de que as relações da Índia, agora como um país livre (ao invés de uma colônia inglesa), com outros países livres no mundo, teriam sido alteradas. Todavia, quando da independência do país, havia pouco incentivo governamental e estrangeiro à introdução do estudo das relações internacionais e de estudos de área na Índia (Rajan, 1994).…”

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“…), principalmente, em seus departamentos de Ciência Política (Rajan, 1994). Assim como Appadorai (1987) Sahni (2009) coloca que, apesar de nenhum documento da UCG fazer menção explícita, é possível argumentar que o interesse governamental no estudo das regiões e países mais próximos da Índia provém da derrota militar indiana em uma disputa fronteiriça com a China em 1962. O acontecimento teria "levado ao entendimento de que o país teria interpretado totalmente mal os desenvolvimentos na China, assim como as intenções da liderança Chinesa" (Sahni, 2009, p.51, tradução própria).…”

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