ICHR Regional Centres

The ICHR has two regional centres one each functioning at Bangalore and Guwahati. The Bangalore regional centre is functioning at Law College Building, 1 Palace Road, Bangalore (Karnataka) and the Guwahati Regional Centre at Guwahati University Campus.

During the period under report both the regional centres conducted the following academic activities: -

The Southern Regional Centre (SRC) of ICHR, Bangalore held the following Periodical Lecture Series Programme:-

1. Professor Arun Bandyopahdyay of University of Calcutta presented a lecture on "How was Land owned and controlled in Tamilnadu in the 19th Century? The unfolding of 'Mirasi Question'.

2. Professor K.N. Ganesh, Dept. of History, University of Calicut, Kerala, "Debate on "State Formation Process in Kerala" on 28th July, 2006.

3. Professor B. Surendra Rao, Deptt. of History , Mangalore University, Mangalore, "History as Historiography" on 8th September 2006.

4. Professor S. Chandrashekar, Deptt. of History, Bangalore University, "Movement for United Karnataka" on 30th November, 2006.

5. Professor Himanshu Prabha Roy of JNU, New Delhi presented an illustrated lecture on "Application of Satellite Images on early Chalukya sites" on 8th December, 2006.

Library-Cum-Documentation Unit (SRC Bangalore)

The Library-Cum-Documentation Unit purchased 330 new books and 5 CD ROM on history/ Monuments of India and allied subjects. It is also subscribing to 75 journals. Among the important collections of the Documentation Unit are the rare Revenue Maps published by Government of Karnataka. The Centre has 834 maps of Southern India published by the Survey of India and Revenue Department. The Centre has also collected complimentary copies of 47 books including journals from institutions and scholars. During the period under report 1450 scholars visited the Library. They were extended reading, reference and consultation facilities on requests and were also provided with photocopying facilities. The Centre keeps Newspaper clippings of popular articles on various aspect of history, philosophy etc. for use of scholars

The North East Regional Centre (NERC) of ICHR

The Centre undertakes to publish research articles, presented in regular lecture series, Seminar proceedings etc. Under this programme the centre has published ten lecture series apart from the Seminar proceedings entitled, "Sources: Construction and Reconstruction of South Indian History" edited by Dr. N. Rajendran. The ten published booklets lecture series programme was released by the Chairman ICHR in Bangalore on 23.6.2006.

The work regarding publication of proceeding of the seminars on "History of Water and Land Management- South India (2004) and a Regional Seminar on 'Notions of History- Historical Writing on South India (2001) is in progress.

The Centre takes part in various Annual Conferences/Seminar of South and exhibits the Council's publications thereat. During the period under report the Centre has attended six such Annual Conferences/ Seminars etc.

The Centre has brought out the CD ROM on Epigraphia Carnatica Volumes and sold 40 copies of the CD during the reporting year. Special Lecture

1. Special Lecture I:

Organized from 14th to 16th September 2006, Professor Lee Haring, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Brooklyn College, delivered the lectures on the following themes.

a) Oral Literary Criticism

b) Creolisation and Indian Ocean Folkore

c) Folkore and Performance Theory

2. Special Lecture II:

Organized from 23rd to 25th November 2006, it was delivered by Dr. Judith-Rae Ross, Adjunct Professor, Department of History, DePaul University, Chicago on the following themes.

a) Master Historian or Propagandist: "Will the Real William Shakespeare please stand up?'

b) At the Intersection of Disease & History: Musins about Lenin, Henry VIII and Ronald Reagon

c) Recipe for Exploding Soupe a La Volatile: Women, Politics & History

During the period under report the centre has organized the following seminars:-

1. National Seminar on "The Tribes, Peasants and Modern Identity in the North Eastern India Circa 1800-2000 AD" held during 5th to 7th April, 2006.

2. National Seminar on "From Orality to writing: Understanding hundred years of charge in Mizoram" held during 2nd May to 4th May 2006.

Under the Lecture Series programme, the NERC has organized seven lectures delivered by prominent historians including the one delivered by Dr. Makiko Kimurra, Research Fellow (PD), JSPS, Tokyo University, Japan on 11th January, 2007.

The Centre has brought out publication of five lectures delivered by the historians of repute under the lecture series programme.

ICHR North-East Regional Centre, Guwahati

The Library-Cum-Documentation Unit has in total purchased 343 books on history and allied subjects. The Centre has also collected complimentary copies of 119 books and a few issues of journals, newsletters and assembly reports from institutions and scholars It has subscribed Katha Guwahati Publication. In all 54 Journals, Periodicals & other titles have been renewed and purchased. The Centre has procured 20 numbers of rare and unavailable books and reproduced by means of photocopy. The Centre has displayed the ICHR publications including Research Funding Rules during the National Seminar held at Agartala from 5th to 7th April, 2006 and at Aizwal from 2nd to 4th May, 2006. The ICHR News-letters are sent to all the Universities and educational institutions of the Region.

Foundation Day:

The Foundation day of the Centre was observed by organising lecture on North East India in the Context of Colonial Re-organisation of Bengal delivered by Prof. J.B. Bhattacharjee, Former Vice Chancellor, Assam University, Silchar.