B R Deepak

B. R. Deepak (Chinese: 狄伯杰; pinyin: Dí Bójié) is an Indian sinologist. He is the first Indian to receive China's highest literary award.

Biography

Deepak studied at Peking University in Beijing, China from 1991 to 1993, and in 1996 studied as a Nehru Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. He obtained his PhD in Chinese history and language in 1998 from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, and studied for a MBA at the Lancaster University Management School in England from 2001 to 2002. He is currently an Associate Professor of Chinese at the Center of Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University.^[1] He is best known for his books on Sino-Indian relations. He was also the editor of a Chinese-Hindi dictionary.

2001. India-China Relations in first half of the Twentieth Century. New Delhi: APH Publishers. ISBN 9788176482455
2003. Chinese-Hindi Dictionary (汉印词典, Chini-Hindi Shavda kosh). New Delhi: Ministry of Human Resource and Development.
2005. India & China 1904-2004. Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 9788178271125
2006. My Life With Kotnis. Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 9788178271524
2009. Chini Kavita: 11vin Shatabdi Isa Poorv Se 14vin Shatabdi Tak. Prakashan Sansthan. ISBN 8177143999
2010. Agriculture, Countryside and Peasants. Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd. ISBN 8178312057

2011. Special book Award For Translation of Chinese Classical Poetry into Hindi by the Government of China.
2006. Asia Fellow Award For conducting research on China's Agrarian Issues at the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China by Asia Scholarship Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand.
2003. Post Doctoral Fellowship By the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
1996. Nehru Fellow Award For doctoral studies at the Graduate Training College of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China by the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi India.
1991. India-China Cultural Exchange Fellowship For advanced studies in Chinese History and Civilization at Peking University, China by the Government of India and China.