Jawaharlal Nehru University

Program Information

Degree Offered

M.A.

Format: Campus

Program Description:

Courses are offered in Indian Intellectual and Cultural Traditions , Vedic Studies, Navya-Nyaya, Sanskrit Language and Literature, Pali & Prakrit Language & Literature, Indian Philosophical Systems, Computational Linguistics, Indian Discourse Analysis, Sanskrit Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Puranas, Epics, , Sanskrit Poetics and Aesthetics, Environmental Ethics, Manuscriptology, Indian Socio-Political Thought. Specialized courses are offered in third and fourth semesters in the following areas

Veda

Sahitya

Darsana

Computational Linguistics

Sanskrit Linguistics

Social Thought

Indian Aesthetics & Poetics

Pali & Prakrit Studies
M.Phil/Ph.D

There are FIVE immediate objectives before the Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies:

(i) to increase the access of the texts of Indian thought by making them available in the modern Indian languages and media,
(ii) to expound the texts of thought in a modern idiom to explicate their intrinsic intellectual content,
(iii) to examine the Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia and the Middle East culture and intellectual matrix in terms of Indian thought,
(iv) to evaluate the traditions of thought not only for their evaluatory power but also for their inbuilt potential for adaptation and evolution.

The M.Phil/Ph.D. programme will organise: expositional and developmental research (in seminal texts of thought, and two-fold comparative research between classical Indian theoretical frameworks and texts on the one hand and on the other hand

(a) modern Indian Languages and literatures and cultural practices,
(b) Persian and Asian languages, and
(c) modern European languages and cultural practices.
M.Phil/Ph.D. Research facilities are available in the following areas:

Vedic Studies

Agamic Systems

Sanskrit Literature

Indian Philosophical Systems and Schools

Indian Aesthetics & Politics

Indian Discourse Analysis

Sanskrit Grammar and Linguistics

Navya Nyaya Language & Methodology

Environmental Ethics

Scientific Traditions in Sanskrit

Computation Linguistics

Sanskrit Lexicography

Indian and Western Logical Systems

Indian Socio-Political Thought

Epics

Pauranic Literatures

Pali and Prakrit Studies

Manuscriptology

Accreditation:

Accredited University

Tuition & Financial Aid

Financial Aid Offered: No