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National Fellows
Professor
Ghanshyam Shah
Professor Ghanshyam Shah is an eminent social scientist,
retired as Professor from JNU in 2003. Earlier, he was also
the Director, Centre for Social Studies, Surat; and Dr. Ambedkar
Chair Professor, LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie.
After retirement from JNU he joined Netherlands Institute
for Advanced Study in The Humanities and Social Sciences,
Wassenaar, the Netherlands as Fellow-in-Residence. Author
of more than twelve books in the field of Political Science
and Sociology is a recipient of several academic awards. At
present he is working on "Globalisation, Civil Society
and Governance".
Professor Gangmumei Kamei
Professor Gangmumei Kamei is a well-known historian. He writes
intensively on history and the contemporary issues. He is
a retired Professor of History, Manipur University. A social
and political activist, he gracefully combines in himself
the dual role of a scholar and activist. He was a Minister
for several times in the Government of Manipur. Some of his
well known books are: A History of Manipur: Pre-Colonial
Period; A History of the Zeliangrong Nagas: From Makhel to
Rani Gaidinliu; On History and Historiography of Manipur;
Ethnicity and Social Change and Essays on Primordial Religion.
Professor Gaya Charan Tripathi
Professor Gaya Charan Tripathi, recepient of the President's Certificate of Honour (2005) as a modern Sanskrit scholar, is an eminent Indologist who has been trained both in the traditional and modern streams of the discipline. A gold-medallist in his master's and having a Ph.D. in Vedic Studies from Agra, he was selected as a Post-doctoral Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service to work at the University of Freiburg/Br. where he specialised in Indo-European Philology and Comparative Religion besides producing an award-winning thesis for his Dr.Phil. degree. Upon his return, he served at the Universities of Aligarh and Udaipur, to go back again to his Alma Mater Freiburg as Asstt. Professor where he also worked on the ritual of Hindu temple-worship which earned him the degree of D.Litt. of Allahabad University. Professor Tripathi has been on the faculty of several German Universities as Visiting Professor, notably at Heidelberg, Tuebingen, Berlin, Leipzig and Marburg. He also taught twice at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver). He retired as Professor and Head of the Kalakosh Division of the Indira Gandhi National Centre of Arts (Delhi) and prior to that he was Principal of Sir Ganganatha Jha Research Institute, Allahabad for more than two decades. He has 8 books in Hindi, English and German; more than 20 critically edited Sanskrit texts and around 110 Research Articles in Indian and foreign Journals in English German, Hindi and Sanskrit languages. In IIAS he is working on the 'Monastic traditions of Budhism and Christianity'.
Dr. Rajvinder Singh
Dr. Rajvinder Singh is a free-lance writer and semiotician who is based in Berlin, Germany. He has published 11 books of Poetry in German, two in Punjabi as well as one short story collection in German. His numerous articles on various aspects of literary semiotics and on literature and Culture are scaterred in a wide range of scholarly journals and anthologies. He has taught semiotics at Technical University, Berlin and has been made thrice Poet-laureate in Germany between 1997-2007, lastly being the Poet-laureate in Trier, the oldest city of Germany, where Karl Marx was born and brought up.
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