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.