SONIPAT: O.P. Jindal International College (JGU), primarily based in Haryana’s Sonipat, has launched a singular, one-of-its-kind Jindal India Institute (JII).

It’s a strategic assume tank housed inside a non-public college for ideationally and intellectually enabling India’s rise on the planet by constructing and disseminating a transnational, intellectually rigorous, evidence-based, multidisciplinary corpus of information that promotes the constructive elements and achievements of India.

JII’s purpose is to intellectually decolonise the examine and depiction of India and unfold world consciousness about India’s extraordinary accomplishments and potential within the twenty first century.

Till now, solely worldwide academic establishments similar to King’s Faculty London, the College of Birmingham, Johns Hopkins College and the College of Pennsylvania have been recognized to have arrange reputed India Institutes or Centres that cowl various elements of the India story via their in-house students and transnational networks and their very own ideological lenses. It’s ironic and lamentable that regardless of the existence of greater than 1, 000 universities and 50, 000 increased training establishments in India, not considered one of them had to this point ventured into something akin to a JII that may comprehensively and convincingly inform the exceptional India story to the world.

A multidisciplinary, all-encompassing India Institute that may bolster India’s rise via an impartial narrative in regards to the hundreds of thousands of transformations the nation is present process has been lacking in Indian academia. JII is a pioneer that intends to fill this massive vacuum and ideationally propel India’s rise.

The tagline of JII is ‘Propelling the Indian Century’, by which the Institute means working towards fulfilling nationwide aims for the centenary of India’s independence in 2047, similar to Viksit Bharat or developed India and ‘main energy’, and in addition to develop an creativeness and roadmap for long-term strategising on how India generally is a world chief for your complete twenty first century.

Though India is in the present day fiercely impartial and protecting of its strategic autonomy, there’s nonetheless an unlucky tendency to look as much as Western academic establishments and information media homes for studying, information manufacturing and judgement on what India is and the place it must be heading.

JII goals to interrupt the mental hegemony of India being other-defined and usher in a tradition and follow of high-quality analysis, evaluation, coverage advocacy and trainings that allow a self-defined and self-confident India to emerge as a world chief.

JII is led by the Vice Chancellor of JGU, Dr. C. Raj Kumar, who’s JII’s President, and the Dean of the Jindal College of Worldwide Affairs, Dr Sreeram Chaulia, who’s JII’s Director Normal.

On the event of JII’s institution, the Vice Chancellor of JGU and president of the Jindal India Institute (JII), Prof. (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar mentioned: “The duty of providing the true image of India to the world can’t be left to governments or Public Relations companies. Solely a high non-partisan personal college like JGU with over 1200 research-oriented school members from a number of disciplines can do justice to this trigger. Greater academic establishments in India have a particular accountability to uphold the picture and lift the stature of our nation on the planet. India’s aspirations for constructing a Viksit Bharat in 2047 is barely doable when its personal universities generate information about India in a scientific and strategic means that impresses and influences worldwide audiences. JII is an bold effort to extend world help and appreciation for India’s accomplishments and potential in a spread of challenge areas and fields. We intend to remodel perceptions about India via eye-opening and pioneering analysis, instructing, coverage advocacy and coaching initiatives.”

Talking on the launch of JII, its Director Normal, Dr. Sreeram Chaulia commented, “For a very long time, India has been painted internationally when it comes to its failures, inadequacies and disappointments. India has been problematised endlessly and critiqued by ideologically biased Indian and international intellectuals and journalists for not following the pathway that India is meant to comply with as per their elitist expectations and prescriptions.

Particularly in sure corners within the West, India-bashing is a badge of honour and a synonym for ‘progressive’ outlooks. Downplaying India’s achievements and exaggerating its lacunae is a dogma in these educational and journalistic circles. JII is an impartial enterprise to right the imbalances brought on by misguided shows of India. It’s going to present the much-needed credible India narrative and India voice to sensitise the world in regards to the extraordinary transformations underway within the nation in several domains. As an alternative of simply critiquing the critics and calling out the errors of the India-bashers, JII will convey to mild different proof to indicate how India is making regular progress in a spread of fields and setting an instance as a world chief in lots of domains.”

The problem-areas which can be lined below JII embody India’s democracy, financial system, society, tradition, spirituality, science and know-how, entrepreneurship, inclusiveness, rule-of-law, human rights, training, healthcare provision, environmental conservation, international coverage and so on. The majority of the JII’s mental output will come from JGU’s current school members who’ve excellent publication and analysis credentials. They are going to be concurrently accredited to JII as Fellows and Senior Fellows and can co-author and co-ideate alongside the international scholars-in-residence who can be chosen to come back to JGU below the aegis of a International India Visiting Fellowship.

Since JII is dedicated to spreading consciousness and producing help for the Indian Century globally, it has assembled a stellar group of ‘Buddies of India overseas’ as a part of its Worldwide Board of Advisers. These excellent students and thought leaders imagine that India’s rise is useful to the world.

Right here is the total checklist of JII’s Worldwide Advisers:

Eduardo M. Penalver – President, Seattle College, US

Ian Johnstone – Professor of Worldwide Legislation, The Fletcher College, Tufts College, USA

Jeffrey S. Lehman – Vice Chancellor, NYU Shanghai, China

Hold Nga Thi Le – Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Vietnam Journal for Indian and Asian Research, Vietnam

Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam

Satoru Nagao – Fellow (Non-resident), Hudson Institute, Japan

Nathaniel Persily – James B. McClatchy Professor of Legislation, Stanford Legislation College, Stanford College, US

Peter H. Schuck – Simeon E. Baldwin Professor Emeritus of Legislation, Yale Legislation College, Yale College, US

Holli A. Semetko – Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Media & Worldwide Affairs, Emory College, US

Lawrence W. Sherman – Wolfson Professor Emeritus, College of Cambridge, UK

Richard Caplan – Professor of Worldwide Relations, College of Oxford, UK

Salvatore Babones – Affiliate Professor, School of Arts & Social Sciences, College of Sydney, Australia

Anja Jetschke – Professor, Worldwide Relations, Institute of Political Science Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Sabu Padmadas – Founding Director, India Centre for Inclusive Progress and Sustainable Improvement, College of Southampton, UK

Joanna Newman – Provost, SOAS College of London, UK

JII is impartial from any Indian political get together or faction. It’s non-partisan when it comes to its affiliations with company homes and international companions. Grants and funds that JII receives from companions in India and overseas can be clear in nature and meant for particular deliverable tasks or publicly seen actions. JII won’t ever come below undue strain or affect of any vested curiosity teams and compromise its impartial imaginative and prescient and dedication to advance the Indian Century.