Fukunaga Masaaki (Gifu Women's University and IRF-SAARC)

Dr. FUKUNAGA Masaaki
Professor, Center for South Asian Studies
Gifu Women's University
Gifu  JAPAN

and

Executive Managing Director
The International Research Forum on SAARC
Tokyo, Japan

Mailing address:
c/o D-8, FCCJ
7-1, Yurakucho 1-chome
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0006  JAPAN

email: fukunaga10@gmail.com
URL: http://www.gijodai.ac.jp/csas/

Description of work:

Degree: Ph.D. (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi India)

Research Interests:
Social Stratification of India
Social Change in North Indian Village
Study of holy city, Varanasi
Hindi

Publication of book:
Society, Caste and Factional Politics.
   Manohar Book Service, New Delhi,  1993.

International Activity:
Director, Asian/East Asia Center
Society of Heritage Planning & Environmental Health
Varanasi, India

Keywords:
South Asian Studies
North India
Village Studies
SAARC
Sociology of Indian Society
Japanese scholar
Varanasi
Hindu Pilgrimage