Special Lectures / Talks Organized

(October 2007-March 2008)
In keeping with its avowed aim of expanding, broad-basing and reinforcing its existing academic activities, the ICHR organized four lectures and a Book Discussion in the ICHR premises under its Lecture Series Programme during the period under report. The details are given below:

In the Name of Allah: Understanding Islam in Indian History and Society

Dr Raziuddin Aquil, Fellow in History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, spoke on the said theme on 26 October 2007.

Discussion on A.K. Bagchi and Gary A. Dymski, ed, Capture and Exclude: Developing Economies and the Poor in Global Finance.

In the Discussion that took place in the ICHR on 29 October 2008, Professor Surajit Majumdar (Institute for Studies in Industrial Development [ISID], New Delhi), Dr Atulam Guha (ISID, New Delhi), and Dr Prasenjit Bose (New Delhi) were the discussants. Professor A.K. Bagchi elaborated on the issues raised in the book and responded at length to the queries raised by the participants.

Inventing the Enemy: Religious Identity and Politics in the Writings of Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Dr Parimala V. Rao, Senior Research Associate, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi, spoke on the said theme on 15 February 2008.

European Bankers, Local Merchants and the Indo-French Trade from 1760s

Professor Arvind Sinha, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, spoke on the said theme on 30 November 2007.

Hindu Law and the Invention of Tradition

Dr Nandini Pande (Kolkata), a Senior Academic Fellow of ICHR, spoke on the said theme on 18 March 2008.