Dr. Khinvraj Jangid

Associate Professor

B.A. (Jainarayan Vyas University, Jodhpur);

M.A.; M.Phil.; Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi);

Post-Doctoral (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

: kjangid@jgu.edu.in, : +91-91 130 4091714

Biography

Dr. Khinvraj Jangid is Associate Professor & Director of Jindal Center for Israel Studies. Dr. Khinvraj holds PhD in West Asian Studies from School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His PhD work was selected for the prestigious international Sylff Award (2009-2012) by the Tokyo Foundation, Japan. He is Summer Institute for Israel Studies (SIIS) Fellow with Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, USA.

He is leading pioneer research comparing India and Israel through the their ideas of nation-building and statehood in post-colonial Asia. India and Israel present fascinating case study of nationalism and universalism, religion and secularism, and majority and minority identities. Leaders such as Jawaharlal Nehru and David Ben-Gurion had much in common than acknowledged thus far.

Before joining JGU, he taught for a semester at Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2014). Since 2010, he has been visiting faculty at the Indian Society of International Law, V K Krishna Menon Bhawan, New Delhi. Dr. Jangid holds life-long membership of Tokyo Foundation as Sylff Fellow for his academic and research pursuits.

Research Interests

Israeli society and politics, Israel Palestine Conflict, India-Israel Relations, Theories of International Relations, Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

Publications

Article

Imagining Nations, Creating States: Nehru, Ben-Gurion and an Analogical Study of India and Israel in Post-Colonial Asia
Israel Studies, 26.1, 2021
Images of Israel in India
Fathom, October 2020
Available Online: https://fathomjournal.org/images-of-israel-in-india/
The Israel-Palestine Peace: The Problem of Narratives
Journal of West Asian Studies, volume 24, 2010.

Review Essay

The Dilemmas of the Conflict
Journal of International and Global Studies, Vol. 3 No. 1, November 2011
Available online: http://www.lindenwood.edu/jigs/

Book Review

Growing up Jewish in India: Synagogues, Customs and Communities from the Bene Israel to the Art of Siona Benjamin by Ori Z Soltes, Niyogi Books, Delhi, 2021, Fathom, October 2021. Available Online: https://fathomjournal.org/book-review-growing-up-jewish-in-india-synagogues-customs-and-communities-from-the-bene-israel-to-the-art-of-siona-benjamin/
Arafat & Abbas: Portraits of Leadership in a State Postponed by Menachem Klein, OUP, 2019, Fathom, June 2020. Available online: https://fathomjournal.org/book-review-arafat-and-abbas-portraits-of-leadership-in-a-state-postponed/
Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel by Ilan Pappe, Pluto Press, 2010, Strategic Analysis Vol. 36, No. 1 January 2012, 173-174
Journey to the Holy Land by Amir Ahmad Alawi, Translators: Mushirul Hasan and Rakhshanda Jalil, New Delhi, OUP, 2009, Middle East Institute New Delhi, Issue No. 08, Friday, 7 January 2011
Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by Avi Shlaim, Knopf, 2008, Middle East Institute New Delhi (www.mei.org.in ), No.5 Wednesday 16 June 2010
Bridging the Barrier: Israeli Unilateral Disengagement by Tami Amanda Jacoby, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007, Middle East Institute New Delhi, Issue No. 01, Friday, 19 February 2010
The Contested History of Israel, International Studies, 45, 2 (2008): 158-161

Commentary/OP-ED

Grants and Awards

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Buchman Faculty of Law & Jewish History Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel, March 2018 – February 2019
Summer Institute for Israel Studies (SIIS) Fellow, 14 June – 6 July 2016
Schusterman Centre for Israel Studies
Brandeis University, Waltham, United States
Sylff Research Abroad 2012
PhD field work at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (May-August 2012)
International Research Fellowship, Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund
Nippon Foundation & Tokyo Foundation, Japan for a period of three years (2009-2012)
National Eligibility Test for Lectureship 2011
University Grant Commission, India
Junior Research Fellowship 2011
University Grant Commission, India
UGC Research Fellowship (2007-2009)
University Grant Commission, India

Course Taught at JGU

Israel-Palestine Conflict
Foreign Policy of Israel
International Relations: Theory and Praxis
International History since 1945

Dr. Khinvraj Jangid

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