ICHR Seminars
& Symposia
Seminars, Symposia sponsored by ICHR
(October 2007-March 2008)
1. A two-day International Seminar
on ‘The First War of Independence and Nation Building
in South Asia –Issues and Concerns’ was organized during
17?18 October 2007 at New Delhi by the Centre for Study
of Society and Secularism (Mumbai). Professor Sabyasachi
Bhattacharya, Chairman, ICHR, inaugurated the seminar.
Prominent speakers were Zoya Hasan, G. Hargopal, Uma
Singh, V. Suryanarayana, Partha Ghosh, S.D. Muni, N.
Mohan, Z. Nasreen, Parvin Nilofer, C. Rainford and Asghar
Ali Engineer.
2. A two-day National Seminar on ‘The
Revolt of 1857: Myth and Reality’ was organized by the
Department of Medieval and Modern History, University
of Lucknow, during 27-28 October 2007. It was inaugurated
by Professor Basudeb Chattopadhyay. Prominent speakers
were R.P. Singh, Rudrangshu Mukherjee, K.K. Sharma,
S.Z.H. Jaffri, Sugam Anand, V.D. Pandey and Iqbal Husain.
3. A two-day National Seminar on ‘European
Responses to the 1857 Rebellion in India’ was organized
by the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University
of Delhi, during 30?31 October 2007. Prominent speakers
were Anil Bhatti, Flaminia Nicora, Youges Sharma, Claudia
Reichel, Margit Koves, Margit Franz, Swati Dasgupta,
Suchitra Choudhry, Balaji Ranganathan, Sovon Sanyal,
Sarah Lemmen, Vibha Maurya and Maneesha Taneja.
4. A two-day National Seminar on Early
Resistance to Colonial Rule in Tamil Nadu: From Polygars
to 1857 was organized by the Department of History,
Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu),
during 1-2 November 2007. Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
inaugurated the seminar. Dr M. Ponnavaiko, Vice-Chancellor,
Bharathidasan University, presided over the inaugural
session. Prominent speakers were B. Surendra Rao, Sebastian
Joseph, Subramaniam Reddy, Shobnan, K.A. Manikumar,
Sadasivan, S. Gopalakrishnan, P.E. Mohan, P.B. Gopalakrishnan,
Mohan Ram, Kalimuthu, G.J. Sudhakar, S.N. Nageswara
Rao, and others.
5. A one-day National Seminar on ‘1857
ki Jange Azadi Mein Rohilkhand ka Hissa’ was organized
by Maulana Ibadat Education Society, Amroha (UP) on
4 November 2007. Prominent speakers were N.R. Farooqui,
S.N.R. Rizvi, S.Z.H. Jaffri, A.Q. Jafari, M.A. Naqvi,
Rizwan Qaiser, Firdaus Azmat, Shafat Fahim, Shams Naqvi,
Mehtab Naqvi, S.H. Akhtar and Shabi Ahmad.
6. A two-day National Seminar on ‘The
Revolt of 1857: Nature and Scope’ was organized by the
Department of History, Meerut College, Meerut (UP),
during 4-5 November 2007. It was inaugurated by Professor
S.P. Ojha, Vice-Chancellor, C.C.S. University, Meerut.
Former Union Minister, Shri Satya Pal Malik, also addressed
the seminar. Prominent speakers were S.C. Mittal, Geeta
Srivastava, R.S. Aggrawal, K.K. Sharma, and others.
7. A two-day National Seminar on ‘The
Revolt of 1857: Regional Perspectives’ was organized
by the Department of History, Vidyasagar University,
Midnapur (WB), during 20-21 November 2007. Prominent
speakers were S.Z.H. Jaffri, Farhat Hasan, Basudeb Chattopadhyay,
Ram Krishna Chatterjee, Himadri Banerjee, Atlury Murali,
P.K. Shukla, Biswamoy Pati, Sanjukta Dasgupta and Rajsekhar
Basu.
8. A two-day National Seminar on ‘The
Revolt of 1857: Parallels and Social Highlights’ was
organized by the Department of Ancient History and Culture,
Rohilkhand University, Bareilly (UP), during 24-25 November
2007. About 20 noted historians and scholars were invited
to present their papers on the said theme.
9. A two-day National Seminar on ‘Communal
Unity and Indian Freedom Struggle’ was organized by
the Department of Medieval History, Hamidia Girls’ Degree
College, Allahabad, during 25-26 November 2007. More
than 30 papers, mainly based on indigenous sources,
particularly Urdu and Persian, were presented. Prominent
speakers were S.Z.H. Jaffri, Zafarul Islam, S.N.R. Rizvi,
A.Q. Jafari, and others.
10. A one-day National Seminar on ‘Revolt
of 1857 and the Punjab: Historiographical Perspectives’
was organized by the Department of Punjab Historical
Society, Punjabi University, Patiala, on 28 November
2007. It was inaugurated by Professor Surjit Hans and
the keynote address was delivered by Professor Dilip
Menon. P. K. Shukla explained that in 1857 all rebellious
leaders were looking towards Bahadurshah Zafar as a
symbol of legitimate sovereignty. Prominent speakers
were Navtej Singh, Shamsul Islam and S.S. Gill.
11. A two-day National Seminar on ‘Role
of the Prominent Heroes in the Revolt of 1857 in the
Malwa Region of Madhya Pradesh’ was organized by Sri
Kaveri Research Institute, Ujjain (MP), during 29?30
November 2007. Twenty papers were presented in this
seminar. Prominent speakers were Suresh Mishra, B.L.
Lunia, M.K. Raghuvir Singh, K.L. Srivastava, and others.
12. A two-day National Seminar on ‘The
Revolt of 1857’ was organized by Bangiya Sahitya Parishad,
Kolkata, during 1-2 December 2007. The keynote address
was delivered by Professor Barun De. Prominent speakers
were Aniruddha Ray, Basudeb Chattopadhyay, Avijit Ray,
Atish Dasgupta, Himadri Banerji, Aloke Das, Nurul Islam
Manjur and Sabyasachi Bhattacharya.
13. A two-day National Seminar on ‘1857
Uprising – Lessons and Relevance to Present India’ was
organized by the Commemoration Committee of 150th Anniversary
of 1857 Freedom Struggle, Jhansi, during 8-9 December
2007. Prominent speakers were Irfan Habib, Chaman Lal,
Pradeep Saxena, P.K. Shukla, Prabhash Joshi, Asghar
Wajahat, Murli Manohar Prasad Singh, Chanchal Chauhan,
Ram Sharan Joshi, and others.
14. A two-day International Conference
on ‘Remembering 1857’ was organized by Jamia Millia
Islamia, New Delhi, during 13-14 December 2007. Professor
Mushirul Hasan, Vice-Chancellor, and Dr Rakshanda Jalil
contributed substantially to the organization of this
seminar. Among the scholars who presented papers were
Amresh Misra, Ira Bhattacharya, Sarmistha De, Sabyasachi
Dasgupta, Veena Naregal, Charu Gupta, and others.
15. A two-day National Seminar on ‘1857
in Indian History–Historiography and Memory’ was organized
by the Department of History, Pondicherry University,
during 23-24 December 2007. Fourteen noted scholars
were invited to present papers on the said theme. Prominent
among them were R.L. Hangloo, Meena Bhargava, Subramania
Reddy, A. Satyanarayana, Srinath, Z. Lahir, K.A. Manikumar,
and others.
16. A symposium on ‘One Hundred and
Fifty Years of 1857 Struggle’ was organized by A.P.C.
Mahalaxmi College for Women, Tuticorin, on 7 January
2008. Prominent speakers were K.N. Panikkar, K.K.N.
Kurup, S. Gopalakrishnan and S. Chandrashekhar.
17. A two-day National Seminar on ‘Rajasthan
Mein 1857: Ek Jan Andolan was organized by SHODHAK,
Jaipur, during 14-15 January 2008. Dr Ram Pandey of
SHODHAK elaborated on the theme of the seminar in which
about 25 papers were presented. Prominent speakers were
K.C. Yadav, S.K. Pant, S.K. Gupta, T.K. Mathur, Rajpal
Singh, Rita Pratap, Shiv Kumar Bhanot, Asha Pandey,
Abul Moin Khan, Reyazuddin Khan, and others.
18. A three-day National Conference
on ‘1857 Revisited’ was organized by the Department
of History, Kurukshetra University, during 16-18 January
2008. Prominent speakers were J.P. Mishra, Jogendra
Singh, Jigar Mohammad, Himadri Banerjee, S.N.R. Rizvi,
K.C. Yadav, S.C. Mittal, S.Z.H. Jaffri and Raghuvendra
Tanwar.
19. A two-day National Seminar on ‘The
Movement of 1857’ was organized by the Department of
Medieval and Modern History, University of Allahabad,
during 20-21 January 2008. V.C. Pandey, Ratneswar Mishra,
Lal Bahadur Verma, Iqbal Hussain, Sushil Srivastava,
S.Z.H. Jaffri, S.N.R. Rizvi, A.A. Fatmi and Om Prakash
presented papers in the seminar.
20. A two-day National Seminar on ‘Reappraisal
of Freedom Struggle’ was organized by the Department
of History and Archaeology, Andhra University, Waltair,
during 2-3 February 2008. Prominent speakers were R.
Soma Reddy, Aloka Parasher Sen, S.S. Ramchandra Murthy,
M. Radhakrishna Sharma, Y. Sudarshna Rao, D. Bhasker
Murthy, S. Rajasekhara, P.N. Parabrahma Sastry, and
others.
21. A three-day National Seminar on
‘The Revolt of 1857 in Central India’ was organized
by Rani Durgawati Vishvavidyalaya, Jabalpur (MP), during
2-4 February 2008. It was inaugurated by Professor Namvar
Singh, Vice-Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi International
Hindi Vishvavidyalaya. About 40 scholars including Namwar
Singh, Rajiv Dube, Uma Tripathi, M.A. Khan, J.P. Mishra,
Aleem Ahmad Khan, Pradeep Shukla, O.P. Sharma, A. Gangatharan,
and others presented papers.
22. A one-day National Seminar on ‘Delhi
and its Neighbourhood’ was organized by the Department
of History, Mata Sundari College for Women, University
of Delhi, on 12 February 2008. It was inaugurated by
Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Chairman, ICHR. The
keynote Address was delivered by Professor Irfan Habib.
Other distinguished scholars who participated in the
seminar were Suraj Bhan, Shireen Moosvi, U.P. Arora,
S.Z.H. Jaffri, S. Pandey, K.M. Shrimali, B.P. Sahu,
Ratna Shree, Shabi Ahmed, P. K. Shukla and Amar Farooqui,
Member Secretary, ICHR.
23. A two-day National Seminar on ‘The
First War of Independence of 1857’ was organized by
the Commissioner, Archaeology, Archives and Museum,
Bhopal, during 16-17 February 2008. Prominent speakers
were Arun Awasthi, Mamta Chinsoria, Mehboob Desai, J.P.
Mishra, R. Mishra, Arun Pathak, Meena Rai, Amita Singh,
Devendra Chaube, Zakir Hussain, and others.
24. A three-day symposium on ‘Sources
and their Nature on 1857 in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan’
was organized by Shri Natnagar Shodh Sansthan, Sitamau
(MP), during 24-26 February 2008. Prominent speakers
were S. K. Purohit, S.P. Vyas, Shankar Goyal, S.S. Bais,
Ravindra Bharadwaj, Pamaram, Agnes Thakur, R.N. Srivastava,
Pradeep Shukla, Abha Pal, and others.
25. A two-day National Seminar on ‘Andaman
and 1857’ was organized by Andaman and Nicobar Administration
at Port Blair during 26-27 February 2008. It was inaugurated
by Lt. General (Retd.) Bhopinder Singh, the Hon’ble
Lt. Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands. P.K.
Shukla of ICHR critically examined the theme on the
basis of primary sources. N. Rajendran, M.A. Mujtaba,
G.S. Pandey, M.A. Salim and M.M. Singh were among the
distinguished scholars who presented papers and discussed
the theme in detail.
26. A two-day National Seminar on ‘Revisiting
1857: Significance and Relevance’ was organized by the
Department of History, University of Kalyani (WB), during
26-27 February 2008. It was inaugurated by Professor
Arabinda Kumar Das, Vice-Chancellor, and the keynote
address was delivered by Professor Basudeb Chattopadhyay.
Distinguished speakers at the seminar included Himadri
Banerjee, Atul Chandra Pradhan, Chhanda Chatterjee,
Sukumar Sarkar, Kaushik Roy and Sabyasachi Dasgupta.
27. A two-day National Seminar on ‘Rising
of 1857: Literary, Folklore and other Cultural Representations
of South India’ was organized by the Department of History,
Archaeology and Culture, Dravidian University, Kuppam
(AP), during 18-19 March 2008. About 15 noted scholars,
which included N. Rajendran, S. Gopalakrishnan and P.
Yanadi Raju, presented papers.
28. A one-day National Seminar on ‘India
in 1857’ was organized by Arya Kanya Mahavidyalaya,
Kurukshetra, Haryana, on 29 March 2008. Prominent speakers
were Suraj Bhan, K.L. Tuteja and S.D. Gajrani, who elaborated
on the role of Kurukshetra in the 1857 Uprising.
29. A two-day National Seminar on ‘Regional
History and Historiography of 1857’ was organized by
Hastinapur Research Institute, Meerut (UP), during 29-30
March 2008. Prominent speakers were A.K. Sinha, S.K.
Mittal, A.K. Mittal and J. K. Sharma. P.K. Shukla and
Ashfaque Ali examined the rebels’ perceptions as reflected
in the original sources.
30. A National Seminar on ‘Peoples’
Role in 1857 Uprising—Delhi and its Neighbourhood Region’
was organized by Surajmal Memorial Education Society,
New Delhi. It was inaugurated by Professor Sabyasachi
Bhattacharya, Chairman, ICHR. Mushirul Hasan, K.C. Yadav,
Geeta Srivastava, Suraj Bhan, S.Z.H. Jaffri, Sushma
Yadav, and others were among the prominent speakers
who presented papers on the said theme.
Exhibitions
1. At the request of Nehru Centre,
Mumbai, an Exhibition was organized by the ICHR from
15 October to 4 November 2007. It was inaugurated by
Professor Mariam Dossal. A large number of students,
teachers, scholars, media persons, and common masses
visited the venue throughout the period of Exhibition.
2. The ICHR, in collaboration with
its Southern Regional Centre, Bangalore, organized an
Exhibition on 1857 during 15-31 December 2007 at Bangalore.
It was inaugurated by Professor S. Chandrashekhar of
Bangalore University. The Southern Regional Centre made
special efforts in translating the catalogues of the
Exhibition into Kannada language which were distributed
along with English catalogues to the visitors.
3. With the cooperation of the University
of Delhi, the ICHR organized an Exhibition on 1857 on
the occasion of the 68th Session of the Indian History
Congress (28-30 December 2007) from 28 December 2007
to 4 January 2008 at the Faculty of Arts, University
of Delhi. Over a thousand delegates of the Indian History
Congress, university students, and common masses visited
the Exhibition.
4. In collaboration with Victoria Memorial
Hall, Kolkata, the ICHR organized an Exhibition on 1857
from 21 January to 4 February 2008. It was inaugurated
by Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the Hon’ble Governor of
West Bengal. Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya introduced
the theme of the Exhibition during the inaugural function.
On this occasion a symposium was also organized on ‘1857
Uprising’ on 25 January 2008. Prominent speakers were
Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Shireen Moosvi, N. Rajendran,
and others.
5. In collaboration with Jawahar Kala
Kendra, Jaipur, the ICHR organized an Exhibition on
1857 during 1-10 February 2008. A large number of students,
teachers, common masses, media persons, etc. visited
the venue throughout the Exhibition period.
6. The ICHR organized an Exhibition
on 1857 in collaboration with the State Museum of Goa,
Panaji, during 19-29 February 2008. Shri Pratap Digambar
Kamath, the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Goa, inaugurated
the Exhibition. Many dignitaries participated in the
inaugural programme.
7. The ICHR organized an Exhibition
on 1857 at Berhampore in collaboration with the Department
of History, University of Kalyani (WB), during 26-28
February 2008. It was inaugurated by Professor Arabinda
Kumar Das, Vice-Chancellor of the University.
8. The ICHR, in association with its
North-East Regional Centre, Gauhati, organized an Exhibition
on 1857 during 5-16 March 2008. The Exhibition was inaugurated
by Professor Amarjyoti Chaudhury, Vice-Chancellor, Gauhati
University. Six important documents bearing significant
information about the Rebellion of 1857 in the regions
of the North-East were also made a part of the Exhibition.
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