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Mayuri Banerjee

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Mayuri Banerjee is a Research Analyst with the  East Asia Centre at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and  Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. Her research focus is on India-China relations.  She primarily looks at the role of memory and trust in India-China relations  after the 1962 war and Indian media perception of China.

Ms. Banerjee completed her M.Phil. from  Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and her  dissertation was on “The Politics of Perception: Exploring Memory In  India-China Relations in Post-1962 Period”. Currently, she is pursuing PhD at  the Department of International Relations at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her  doctoral thesis deals with “Remembering 1962 war: War Memory and  Trust-Deficit in India-China Relations.

Her prior professional experience include  working as a Research Assistant at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF),  Kolkata. At ORF, she worked on Indian Regional Media’s Perception of China. She  has also worked as a Guest Lecturer in Basanti Devi College, Kolkata, and also  at the Lincoln University College, Malaysia, virtually.

She received the Indu Bhushan Putatunda and  Shanti Shudha Putatunda Memorial Award in 2013 from Jadavpur Alumni Association  and Certificate of Merit in Political Science in 2014 from Jadavpur University.  She was also a recipient of the prestigious Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund  (SYLFF) Masters’ Fellowship in 2015.

Some of her writings have been published as web  commentaries in ORF Expert Speak, South Asian Voices (Stimson Centre, USA) and web  portals like The Kootneeti.

Research Analyst

Publication

Debating the Past: Nehru, China and Lessons from 1962 War

The year 2022 marks the 60th anniversary of the 1962 Sino-Indian war. Fought over a period of one month, the war is seen as one of the watersheds in the history of India–China relations. Besides creating a considerable dent in bilateral ties, it also led New Delhi to revamp its defence and military infrastructure. Incidentally, in terms of research on China studies in India, the war proved to be a defining moment of transition.

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