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Robin Bannerman Jeffrey FASSA FAHA is a Canadian-born professor. His primary research interest is the modern history and politics of India, especially with reference the northern area of Punjab and Kerala in the south. He is also interested in Indian media studies and development studies. [1]

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Robin Jeffrey was born in Canada. [2] He studied first at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, from where he graduated with a BA degree. [1] He was awarded a D.Phil. in modern Indian history by the University of Sussex, England, in 1973 and had previously worked as a school teacher in Chandigarh, India, for the Regional Institute of English and the Canadian University Service Overseas between 1967 and 1969. [1] [3] His first employment had been in 1963 as a sports writer for a small daily newspaper in Canada. [4]

Jeffrey took up a position as a research fellow at the Australian National University upon completion of his doctorate. He has taught at that institution in Canberra during two different periods. He taught politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, between 1979 and 2005, where he became a professor. [1] [3] In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, [5] having been previously elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1994. [6]

As of 2018, Jeffrey is an Emeritus Professor of La Trobe University and the Australian National University. He chairs an advisory panel of the Australia India Institute within the University of Melbourne, Australia. [1] He was a visiting research professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies, based at the National University of Singapore, since 2009. [3]

In 2011, when concentrating on media and development studies, Jeffrey said that

The mobile phone is the most disruptive individual device since shoes. Shoes gave people who owned them the ability to do things they could not do before and that people without shoes could not do. If you want to control people and make them inferior, take away their shoes. [2]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Mobile phones most disruptive device since shoes: Robin Jeffrey". The Economic Times. 29 July 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "ISAS Research Team: Professor Robin Jeffrey". Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  4. Jeffrey, Robin (2000). India's Newspaper Revolution: Capitalism, Politics and the Indian-Language Press, 1977-99. London: C. Hurst & Co. p. Rear cover. ISBN   9781850654346.
  5. "Robin Jeffrey". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  6. "Robin Jefrrey: Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). National University of Singapore. Retrieved 24 March 2013.