Associate Fellow, Asia Programme

Telephone:	+44 (0)7729 007 031
Contact:	Email Dr Marie Lall

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Expertise

• Politics of South Asia
• India and Pakistan: Political economy, foreign policy formulation including pipeline diplomacy, Indo-Burmese relations, migration and Diaspora politics
• Education policy with regard to gender, race and social exclusion issues in developed and developing countries
• Education policy in India and Pakistan
• Formation of National Identity in South Asia;

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Projects

• Changes of Indian foreign policy vis-à-vis its neighbours under the BJP government
• India's pipeline diplomacy - focus on Myanmar, Iran and Pakistan
• The radicalization of India's Diaspora
• Indian textbooks project
• Pakistan's education reform
• Project on achievement of children of Asian origin (forthcoming)
  

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Recent Publications

Books and Monographs

• Education as a Political Tool in Asia, (with E. Vickers (eds)), Routledge, London, 2009
• The Geopolitics of Energy in South Asia, ISEAS, Singapore, 2009
• India's Missed Opportunity, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2001

Journal articles

• 'Gender and Education in Pakistan - The Shifting Dynamics Across Ethnic Groups', Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 9.1, 2009
• 'Educate to Hate - The Use of Education in the Creation of Antagonistic National Identities in India and Pakistan', Compare, 38.1, 2008
• 'The Geopolitics of Energy in Asia: Indo-Chinese Competition over Myanmar's Gas Reserves', Panorama, No. 2, 2007
• 'India Seeks Energy Security in Iran' Far Eastern Economic Review, 2007
• 'Indo-Myanmar Relations in the Era of Pipeline Diplomacy', Contemporary South East Asia, 28.3, 2006
• 'Education in India at the Crossroads' South Asian Journal, No. 10, 2005
• 'Institutional Attempts to Build a 'National' Identity in India: Internal and External Dimensions' (with K Adeney), India Review, 4.3, 2005
• 'Centre-periphery Tensions in a Globalising World: The Case of India and the Punjab', International Journal of Punjab Studies, 8.2, 2001

Chapters in Books

• 'Diaspora and Homeland Politics: Comparative Experiences of Mobilisation for Hindutva and Khalistan' (with S Thandi) in E Leclerc (ed.) Migrants, Diaspora and Transnational Politics: Indian Case Studies, Manohar, Delhi, (forthcoming)
• 'Education in Myanmar - The Interplay of State, Civil Society and Business' in M Skidmore and T Wilson, Dictatorship, Disorder and Decline in Myanmar, ANU E-Press, Canberra, 2009
• 'What Role for Islam Today? The Political Islamisation of Pakistani Society' in A Khan (ed.) Shaping a Nation: An Examination of Education in Pakistan, 2009
• 'Pakistan' in K DeRouen and P Bellamy (eds.) International Security and the United States, An Encyclopaedia, Vol. 2, Praeger Security International, 2008
• 'Indian Education Policy under the NDA Government' in K Adeney and L Saez (eds.) Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism, Routledge, London, 2005
• 'Mother India's Forgotten Children' in E Ostergaard-Nielsen, International Migration and Sending Countries, Palgrave, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003

Commissioned Research Reports

• Creating Agents of Positive Change - The Citizens Foundation in Pakistan, TCF, Karachi, 2009
• India-Myanmar Relations - Geopolitics and Energy in Light of the New Balance of Power in Asia, ISAS Working Paper 29, 2008
• The Political Economy of the Iran-Pakistan-India Pipeline, (with I Lodhi) ISAS Working Paper 26, 2007
• Indian Students in Europe: Trends, Constraints and Prospects - Living in 'the Age of Migration', Briefing Paper for the Academic Network for European Research on India, 2006
• The Challenges for India's Education System, Chatham House Briefing Paper, 2006

Miscellaneous (including newspaper articles)

• The BJP's Textbook Revisions: What Lasting Legacy for Society?, Opinion Asia, 2007
• 'India is Loosing Burma to China' (with R Sikri), Asian Age, New Delhi, 2007
• 'Pakistan's Crisis-What's Next for Musharraf?', Singapore Business Times, 2007
• 'The Role of Education in Society', Voice, Yangon, 2006

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Experience

2002 - Date	Senior Lecturer, Institute of Education
2003 - 2006	Visiting Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

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Broadcast Experience

Extensive

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Languages

English, German, French - broadcast Spanish, Portuguese and basic Hindi - not for broadcast