B. R. Deepak () is an Indian

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. He received the

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for a book of translations of Chinese poetry into Hindi, becoming the first Indian to receive China's highest literary award.

Biography

Deepak studied at

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, China from 1991 to 1993, and in 1996 studied as a

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at the

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in Beijing. He obtained his

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in Chinese history and language in 1998 from the

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, India, and studied for an

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at the

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from 2001 to 2002. He is currently a Professor of

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at the Center of Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is best known for his books on Sino-Indian relations and Chinese to English and Hindi translations. He was also the editor of a Chinese-Hindi dictionary. He has been a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, visiting professor at Tianjin Foreign Studies University, China, Beijing Language University, China; Doon University, Dehradun India, and Teaching Fellow at the Scottish Centre of Chinese Studies in the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Works

* 2001. ''India-China Relations in first half of the Twentieth Century''. New Delhi: APH Publishers. * 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: A Century of Peace and Conflict''. Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd. * 2010. ''Agriculture, Countryside and Peasants''. Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd. * 2012. ''India-China Relations: Future Perspectives''. Vij Books, New Delhi * 2012. ''India-China Relations: A Civilizational Perspective''. Manak, New Delhi * 2015. ''India and China - Foreign Policy Approaches and Responses''. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd, * 2018. ''China's Global Rebalancing and the New Silk Road''. Springer Singapore * 2020. ''India and China: Beyond the Binary of Friendship and Enmity''. Springer Singapore * 2021. ''India`s China Dilemma: The Lost Equilibrium and Widening Asymmetries''. New Delhi: Pentagon Press. * 2024. ''China in Xi Jinping`s New Era: Politics, Economy and Foreign Policy. * 2024. ''Rising India and China: Strategic Rivalries in the Himalayas and the Indo-Pacific Volume 1''. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. * 2025. ''Rising India and China: Strategic Rivalries in the Himalayas and the Indo-Pacific Volume 2''. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.

Translations

* 2006. ''My Life with warkanathKotnis''. New Delhi: Manaak. Translation of Guo Qinglan's 《我与柯棣华》，北京：解放军文艺出版社 (2005). * 2009. ''चीनी कविता: 11वीं शताब्दी ईसा पूर्व से 14वीं शताब्दी तक (Chinese Poetry: From 11th Century BCE to 14th Century)''. Prakashan Sansthan. * 2016. ''कन्फ़्यूशियस सूक्ति संग्रह''. New Delhi: Prakashan Sansthan. * 2017. ''मेनशियस''. New Delhi: Prakashan Sansthan. * 2017. ''दिवार के उस पार: समय रेत पर हमारे पद चिन्ह ''. New Delhi: Prakashan Sansthan. Translation of My Tryst With China. China Translation Press 2017, Beijing * 2018. ''चीनी सभ्यता के बुनियादी मूल्य ''. New Delhi: Prakashan Sansthan. Translation of Chen Lai's 《中华文明核心价值》，北京：生活·读书·新知三联书店（2015） * 2018. ''कन्फ़्यूशियसवाद के चार ग्रन्थ''. New Delhi: National Book Trust of India. (Chinese to Hindi translation of the Chinese classic 《四书》Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company (2009) * 2019. ''ची श्येनलिन : एक समालोचनात्मक जीवनी ''. New Delhi: Prakashan Sansthan. Translation of Yu Longyu and Zhu Xuan's 《季羡林评传》，济南：山东教育出版社（2016） * 2021. ''चीन और भारत: सभ्यताओं का संवाद. New Delhi: Prakashan Sansthan. Translation of Yu Longyu and Liu Zhaohua's 《中外文学交流史：中印卷》，济南：山东教育出版社（2015） * 2021. ''पुराना जहाज़''. New Delhi: Prakashan Sansthan. Translation of Zhang Wei's 《古船》，济南：山东教育出版社（2016） * 2022. ''Ji Xianlin: A Critical Biography ''. New Delhi: Pentagon Press. Translation of Yu Longyu and Zhu Xuan's 《季羡林评传》，济南：山东教育出版社（2016） * 2022. ''China and India: Dialogue of Civilisations''. New Delhi: Pentagon Press.

Awards

* 2011. ''

'' 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

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, 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.

References

External links

Deepak's page at Jawaharlal Nehru University
Indian sinologists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Long stubs with short prose He has a wife and two sons, namely Yao Deepak and Jay and Hans Deepak. {{India-linguist-stub