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Deux Bourses d'Aide à la Recherche pour les programmes « Transition économique » ou « Relations Internationales » du Centre de Sciences Humaines de New Delhi (Inde)

Le Centre de Sciences Humaines de New Delhi offre à compter du 1er octobre 2008 deux bourses d'aide à la recherche pour des doctorants en économie/sciences politiques ou en relations internationales.

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Pour connaitre les programmes de bourses du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères pour les Français souhaitant poursuivre leurs études ou recherches à l'étranger :


EGIDE
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CHAUDHURI Basudeb
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Director
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GOURMELEN Jean-Luc
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Secretary General & Financial Officer
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SENGUPTA Rupa
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Publications in-charge
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HANIF Mallika
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Assistant to the Director
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SHARMA Shelly
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Assistant to the Financial Officer
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CHAWLA Nidhi
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Assistant to the Financial Officer
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SHARMA Ridhima
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Librarian-Documentalist
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DE BERCEGOL Rémi
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Scientific Secretary
Urban dynamics
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Rémi de Bercegol is a PhD student in Geography from LATTS, "research group on technology, territories and societies" from ENPC/Paris-Est. He has joined CSH in February 2007 as a scientific secretary.
He is currently working on his thesis research, aiming to assess the impact of decentralization in smaller towns, especially regarding the improvement of basic services. Various research have dealt with these issues within the CSH in rural areas (research work of G. Kumar) and in large metropolises (APUG research program) but little attention has been paid to these issues in smaller urban settlements.


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MICHAUD Jean-Yves
Webmaster
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AHMAD Zarin
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Regional dynamics in South Asia and international relations
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Dr Zarin Ahmad is a Ph. D in South Asian Studies from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and presently Fellow in International Relations at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. Her Ph. D dissertation was on Ethnic Conflict and Refugees focusing on Sri Lankan refugees. She has worked on the identity assertion of Sri Lanka Muslims for her M. Phil. She has also carried out research on the Quraish biradree of Delhi and Oral histories of partition victims.


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BISWAS Rongili
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Economic transition and sustainable development
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Rongili Biswas works in political, public and development economics with a special emphasis on india. Her research interest includes political lobbying, redistributive politics, poverty, regional disparity and public intervention in federal economies.


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Selected papers :
  • Download file Rongili Biswas and Sugata Marjit, Distributive Manipulations and Political Stability : A Theoretical Analysis
  • Download file R. Biswas, S. Marjit and V. Marimoutou, State Lobbying at the Centre and Discretionary Finance in India
  • Download file Rongili Biswas, Sugata Marjit, Political Lobbying and Fiscal Federalism , Economic and Political Weekly, February 23, 2002

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DE BERCEGOL Rémi
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Scientific Secretary
Urban dynamics
Contact remi.debercegol@csh-delhi.com

Rémi de Bercegol is a PhD student in Geography from LATTS, "research group on technology, territories and societies" from ENPC/Paris-Est. He has joined CSH in February 2007 as a scientific secretary.
He is currently working on his thesis research, aiming to assess the impact of decentralization in smaller towns, especially regarding the improvement of basic services. Various research have dealt with these issues within the CSH in rural areas (research work of G. Kumar) and in large metropolises (APUG research program) but little attention has been paid to these issues in smaller urban settlements.


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GAYER Laurent
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Coordinator
Regional dynamics in South Asia and international relations
Contact laurent.gayer@csh-delhi.com

Laurent Gayer’s research concerns identity politics in an international perspective. He is presently working on the publication of his Ph.D, which he obtained from Sciences Po Paris in 2004 and which deals with the internationalization of Sikh and Mohajir nationalisms. He is also involved in a research project on India’s “nuclear nationalism”, which is looking at the politics and symbolic of India’s strategic and political elites’ “nukespeak”. He is also the coordinator of the French ministry of Foreign Affairs’ international research program on the “Restructuring of Contemporary Islam in Asia, from the Caucasus to China”.

Laurent Gayer is a research associate at the Centre for the Study of India and South Asia (Centre d’études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, CEIAS, EHESS-CNRS, Paris).


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Himanshu
Economic transition and sustainable development
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Selected papers :
  • Download file Himanshu, Poverty and Inequality in India - II : Widening Disparities during the 1990s , Economic and Political Weekly, September 25, 2004
  • Download file Himanshu, Poverty and Inequality in India - I , Economic and Political Weekly, September 18, 2004
  • Download file Himanshu, Wages in Rural India: Sources, Trends and Comparability , Indian Journal of Labour Economics, April-June 2005
  • Download file Himanshu, Recent Trends in Poverty and Inequality: Some Preliminary Results , Economic and Political Weekly February 10, 2007
  • Download file Himanshu, Agrarian Crisis and Wage Labour: A Regional Perspective , The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Volume 49, Number 4, 2006
KENNEDY Loraine
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Coordinator
Economic transition and sustainable development
Contact kennedy@ehess.fr

Loraine Kennedy’s main research area is the political economy of India, with a focus on the regional factors underlying growth and on emerging patterns of federal governance. Her current research analyzes the response of state governments to economic reforms, both in rhetoric and action, and on their growth strategies, which tend to rely increasingly on the differentiation of space. In this context, she is examining state re-scaling strategies, which are contributing, with market forces, to the assertion of large cities as growth engines. In addition, she is current participating in an interdisciplinary study group whose common framework examines industrial restructuring strategies in emerging economies and the broad socio-political compromises underpinning their engagement with the global economy.


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TAWA LAMA-REWAL Stéphanie
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Coordinator
Political dynamics, institutional set-up and social change
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Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal is a research fellow in the Centre for the Study of India and South Asia (CNRS-EHESS, Paris), presently detached to the CSH. She works on the political representation of groups (more particularly women) in India but also in Nepal. She has recently completed an assessment of the policy of reservations for women in urban local bodies in India in collaboration with Archana Ghosh, from the Institute of Social Sciences (Publications section). She now pursues her observation of the Indian decentralization policy through two projects: (i) an assessment of the latter’s impact on the delivery of primary heath care in Delhi; and (ii) a study of the contemporary forms and stakes of (sub)political mobilizations in urban India (Research programmes section).


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ZERAH Marie-Hélène
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Urban dynamics
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BAIXAS Lionel
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Political dynamics, institutional set-up and social change
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Lionel BAIXAS is a PhD student in political science from CERI/Sciences Po, Paris. He has joined the CSH in November 2005.

He is currently working on his thesis about the divergence in the democratic transition process in India and Pakistan since 1947.


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LEFEBVRE Bertrand
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Urban dynamics
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Bertrand Lefebvre is a PhD student from the department of Geography at the University of Rouen, France. He is currently working on his thesis about the emergence of corporate hospitals in India. He is also a specialist in GIS (Geographic Information System).


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SEBI Carine
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Economic transition and sustainable development
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Carine Sebi is a PhD student in Economics from GAEL, Grenoble Applied Economics Laboratory (France). Her main area of research is common pool resource management, dealing with the acceptability of regulatory instruments for protecting the commons. She uses both theoretical and experimental economics approaches. She is also working on the cohabitation of recreational and commercial fishing, in particular in Annecy Lake (France).


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VERNIERS Gilles
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Political dynamics, institutional set-up and social change
Contact gilles.verniers@sciences-po.fr

Gilles VERNIERS is a PhD student in political science from CERI/Sciences Po, Paris. He joined the CSH in November 2007.

He is currently writing a doctoral thesis on the Samajwadi Party and Uttar Pradesh electoral politics. He has previously worked on the rise of regional parties in India and the process of marketisation of electoral politics, in the context of State elections. His main academic interests focus on issues of political representation, regional party politics, the transformation of the context of Indian politics and the sociology of elected representatives.

Gilles VERNIERS is also Sciences Po Delegate to India, in charge of student and faculty mobility and academic cooperations with various Indian partners.


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BERTHET Samuel
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Political dynamics, institutional set-up and social change
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His areas of investigations are the construction and evolution of the state, and the negotiation of identities in the modern and post-modern context.

His thesis dissertation focused on the cultural relations between India and France from 1870 to 1962, with a special attention for the Bengali Renaissance and the history of the Parsis.

He is a former lecturer in Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, and Jawaharlal Nehru University.


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DELAGE Rémy
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Regional dynamics in South Asia and international relations
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Rémy Delage has a Doctorate in Human Geography from the University of Bordeaux, France. His PhD dealt with the socio-geographical aspects of Sabarimala pilgrimage in Kerala and South India. Being affiliated to the Department of Anthropology and the Centre of South Asian Studies at SOAS (London), his post-doctoral research (2004-2005) aimed at deepening one of his major interests, the dynamics of geographical discourse and knowledge in India. He is currently working on Muslim educational networks in the double context of internal and external reforms, which inform the social dynamics of the Muslim society in contemporary India. He is also participating in the project coordinated by the IRASEC (Bangkok, Thailand), looking at the Muslim minorities in South and South East Asia.


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DUPONT Véronique
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Urban dynamics
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Dr. Véronique Dupont is a senior research fellow in economic-demography from the (French) Institute of Research for Development (IRD, Paris). She is also an associated member of the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies (CEIAS, Paris). She has carried out research on population mobility and the urbanization process in Gujarat and the Delhi region.


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GRAVEL Nicolas
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Coordinator
Economic transition and sustainable development
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Nicolas Gravel's research concerns public economics, broadly defined as the branch of economics that studies the cause and the consequences of public intervention in the economic sphere. His recent work has dealt with the normative and positive analysis of alternative jurisdiction structures and with the measurement of multidimensional inequalities and diversity.


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  • Download file Nicolas Gravel and Sylvie Thoron, Does endogenous formation of jurisdictions lead to wealth stratification?
  • Download file Nicolas Gravel and Michel Poitevin, The Progressivity of Equalization Payments in Federations
  • Download file Sebastian Bervoets and Nicolas Gravel, Appraising Diversity with an Ordinal Notion of Similarity: An axiomatic Approach
  • Download file Nicolas GRAVEL, Une analyse économique de la liberté de choix
  • Download file Nicolas Gravel, Patrick Moyes and Benoît Tarroux, International multidimensional comparisons of inequality in disposable income and access to public goods
  • Download file Nicolas Gravel and Patrick Moyes, Ethically Robust Comparisons of Distributions of Two Individual Attributes
  • Download file Nicolas Gravel, What is diversity ?
KUMAR Girish
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Coordinator
Political dynamics, institutional set-up and social change
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He joined the CSH in March 2001
His area of special interest is democratic decentralization in India.
He worked on several projects on the subject exploring its different dimensions: Locating space for panchayats in state politics, perspective of legislatures on panchayats, interpreting the role of rural local self government institution in promoting local democracy.


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  • Download file Girish Kumar, Looking Beyond Despair and Disbelief , published under Part II of Surat Singh (ed. 2004), Decentralised Governance in India : Myth and Reality (Deep & Deep Publications, New Delhi), see pp.77-88
LECLERC Eric
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Coordinator
Regional dynamics in South Asia and international relations
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Dr. Eric Leclerc is associate professor of geography at the University of Rouen (France). He started his research in south India on developmental issues, both in rural areas as well as in small towns. At that stage, a large part of his problematic revolved around internal migrations as indicators of important links between the town and its countryside. After completing his Phd in 1993, he was engaged with the LEDRA (Research Laboratory for Arid and Semi-arid Region) in two collective projects to produce atlases in Mauritania and Mali. This decade in Africa was an opportunity to question the validity of mapping and G.I.S. tools for development activities.

These new geographical horizons were the starting point of a comparative approach which was thematically organised around population mobility in societies engaged in very different relations with their territories. After the completion of these atlases, he put human mobility at the center-stage of the process of transforming contemporary societies. Indeed his actual research programme at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (New Delhi) is interrogating a static vision of the Indian society. He is analysing the role of the expatriate Indian communities in our new inner-world space (global scale), as agents in the construction of a world-society.


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PANDEY Sanjay Kumar
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Academic Consultant
Political dynamics, institutional set-up and social change
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ROBIN Cyril
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Political dynamics, institutional set-up and social change
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Cyril Robin is an associated researcher in the Centre de Sciences Humaines. He works on political representation in India. He has recently completed his PhD, which he has obtained from Sciences Po Paris in 2007 and which deals with Caste and Politics in Bihar. He is currently working on the role of caste associations in urban governance.


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  • Download file Cyril Robin, 2005 Bihar elections: Laloo against Who? , Economic and Political Weekly, December 18, 2004
SENGUPTA Dipankar
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Economic transition and sustainable development
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SINGH Swaran
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Academic Consultant
Regional dynamics in South Asia and international relations
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Dr Swaran Singh is specialized in China’s foreign and security policy with special interest in China’s periphery and India-China relations. His other interests include Arms Control and Disarmament, Peace and Conflict Resolution, War and Peace and other aspects of India’s defence and nuclear policies.


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ANGUELETOU Anastasia
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Economic transition and sustainable development
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BOUIFROU Linda
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Urban dynamics
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NAUDET Jules
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Political dynamics, institutional set-up and social change
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TARROUX Benoit
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Economic transition and sustainable development
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Benoît Tarroux is a PhD student from GREQAM (Marseille) and the University of Mediterranean, Marseille, France. He is currently working on his thesis about the multidimensional appraisal of welfare and inequality. His current work is dealing with the measurement of economic inequalities in the setting of multiple attributes (income and public goods) and the context of uncertainty (precariousness, health risk). He is, also, currently working on the social desirability of equalization policy in federal countries, in particular in India.


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  • Download file Benoit Tarroux, Are equalization payments making Canadians better off ? - A two-dimensional dominance answer.
  • Download file Nicolas Gravel, Patrick Moyes and Benoît Tarroux, International multidimensional comparisons of inequality in disposable income and access to public goods

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KUMAR Ashok
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KUMAR Mahesh
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PARASHAR Pushpa
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administration

CHAUDHURI Basudeb - Director
GOURMELEN Jean-Luc - Secretary General & Financial Officer
SENGUPTA Rupa - Publications in-charge
HANIF Mallika - Assistant to the Director
SHARMA Shelly - Assistant to the Financial Officer
CHAWLA Nidhi - Assistant to the Financial Officer
SHARMA Ridhima - Librarian-Documentalist
DE BERCEGOL Rémi - Scientific Secretary
MICHAUD Jean-Yves - Webmaster

research fellows

AHMAD Zarin - International relations
BISWAS Rongili - Economics
DE BERCEGOL Rémi - Geography
GAYER Laurent - International relations
Himanshu - Economics
KENNEDY Loraine - Economics
TAWA LAMA-REWAL Stéphanie - Political science
ZERAH Marie-Hélène - Urban studies

affiliated phd students

BAIXAS Lionel - Political Science
LEFEBVRE Bertrand - Geography / Urban studies
SEBI Carine - Environmental Economics
VERNIERS Gilles - Political Science

associated researchers / experts

BERTHET Samuel - Political and cultural history of contemporary India
DELAGE Rémy - Geography
DUPONT Véronique - Urban studies
GRAVEL Nicolas - Economics
KUMAR Girish - Political science
LECLERC Eric - Geography / International relations
PANDEY Sanjay Kumar - Political science
ROBIN Cyril - Political science
SENGUPTA Dipankar - Economics
SINGH Swaran - International relations

associated phd students

ANGUELETOU Anastasia - Economics
BOUIFROU Linda - Geography / Urban studies
NAUDET Jules - Sociology
TARROUX Benoit - Economics

other staff

KUMAR Ashok - Telephone operator and factotum
KUMAR Mahesh - Telephone operator and factotum
PARASHAR Pushpa - House keeping