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


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


Post-Doctoral (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Dr. Khinvraj Jangid

Associate Professor

Email kjangid@jgu.edu.in
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Key Expertise Israeli society and politics, Israel Palestine Conflict, India-Israel Relations, Theories of International Relations, Diplomacy and Foreign Policy.

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


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


Post-Doctoral (Tel Aviv University, Israel)


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.

  • Israel-Palestine Conflict

  • Foreign Policy of Israel

  • International Relations: Theory and Praxis

  • International History since 1945

  • 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

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

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/

Arms diplomacy was Israel’s legacy to earn diplomatic wins. But Pegasus got it a bad image, The Print, 28 December 2021. Available Online: https://theprint.in/opinion/arms-diplomacy-was-israels-legacy-to-earn-diplomatic-wins-but-pegasus-got-it-a-bad-image/789319/

How the Legend of Modi, Hindu Hero and Political Messiah, Is Breaking India’s Politics, Haaretz, 24 September 2021. Available Online: https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-the-legend-of-modi-hindu-hero-and-political-messiah-is-breaking-india-s-politics-1.10204705

The thought processes on a private university campus, The Hindu, 12 September 2021. Available Online: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/the-thought-processes-on-a-private-university-campus/article36396992.ece

Arundhati Roy is really wrong about Hamas, Haaretz, 31 May 2021. Available Online: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-why-arundhati-roy-should-not-support-hamas-rockets-of-resistance-1.9844620

Israel’s Democracy is Facing a Stress Test, The Hindu, 27 March 2021. Available Online: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/israels-democracy-is-facing-a-stress-test/article34173054.ece

As Israel Holds its Fourth Election in Two Years, Netanyahu’s Contentious Record Divides his Nation, Scroll, 24 March 2021. Available Online: https://scroll.in/article/990378/as-israel-holds-its-fourth-election-in-two-years-netanyahus-contentious-record-divides-his-nation

The Moorcroft Mystery

Fathom, October 2020 Available Online: https://fathomjournal.org/images-of-israel-in-india/

The Israel-Palestine Peace: The Problem of Narratives

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/

Palestine, now a Footnote, The Hindu, 25 August 2020. Available Online: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/palestine-now-a-footnote/article32431833.ece

Why Israel is ‘Kosher’ for Indian Academic Collaborations, The Week, 12 July 2020. Available Online: https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2020/07/12/why-israel-is-kosher-for-indian-academic-collaborations.html

Modi and the Mahatma: How India’s Hindu Nationalists Hijacked Gandhi, Haaretz, 12 January 2020. Available Online: https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-narendra-modi-s-second-assassination-of-mahatma-gandhi-1.8376087

Modi’s Malignant Anti-Muslim Vision for India Is Becoming Reality, Haaretz, 18 December 2019. Available Online: https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-modi-s-malignant-anti-muslim-vision-for-india-is-becoming-reality-1.8287113

Israel in Crisis. This time, it has no one else to blame, Hindustan Times, 9 December 2019. Available Online: https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/israel-is-in-crisis-this-time-it-has-no-one-else-to-blame-analysis/story-IOYYOskguv7CnXqNdE11SI.html

Modi the ‘Hindu Messiah’ Manipulated Hope and Hate to Win India’s Election, Haaretz, 23 May 2019. Available Online: https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-how-modi-became-india-s-hindu-nationalist-messiah-1.7274767

There is much more to JNU than Left Politics for a Hindi-medium student, The Wire, 13 May 2019. Available Online: https://thewire.in/education/jnu-hindi-medium-students

Under Modi, the ‘New’ India Prioritizes Aggression – and Prizes Israel’s Example, Haaretz, 3 March 2019. Available Online: https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-under-modi-the-new-india-prioritizes-aggression-and-prizes-israel-s-example-1.6982517

What Bibi Netanyahu might be Thinking when He Walks into Sabarmati Ashram, News18.com, 17 January 2018. Available Online: https://www.news18.com/news/opinion/opinion-what-bibi-netanyahu-might-be-thinking-when-he-walks-into-sabarmati-ashram-1634309.html

Like Israel, India’s Founding Values Challenged from Within, Haaretz, 15 August, 2017. Available Online: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.806794

Modi Visit: How Israel Went from ‘Contaminated’ by Colonialism to India’s Strategic Ally, Haaretz, 4 July, 2017. Available Online: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.798921

Growing ideological convergence, not just business, is driving India-Israel relations, Hindustan Times, 7 July, 2017. Available online: http://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/common-ideology-not-business-or-strategic-benefits-is-driving-india-israel-ties/story-2d35TyP7HY6EDNOAJioJdJ.html

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

Diary: Indian International Center, Vol. 26, No. 2, March-April 2012 Date Unspecified

The Upsurge in the Middle East

The Dilemmas of the Conflict

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

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

Diary: India International Center, Vol. 25, No. 3, May-June 2011

Journal of West Asian Studies, volume 24, 2010.

The Contested History of Israel, International Studies, 45, 2 (2008): 158-161
Email kjangid@jgu.edu.in
Key Expertise Israeli society and politics, Israel Palestine Conflict, India-Israel Relations, Theories of International Relations, Diplomacy and Foreign Policy.
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