'Nehru’s World' a workshop at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 9am onwards on 19th April 2014

Time : 9:00 am onwards

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Workshop on ‘Nehru’s World’.

Concept Note:
Our commemoration takes the form of a reflection on Nehru and his world. His universe obviously included India, but it embraced all of humanity. As he shaped India in so many different ways over more than five decades, he was aware, more than most of his generation, that it was an India in the world, not an India locked into itself. He ceaselessly reflected upon how this particular was related to an universal and how they shaped each other. Perhaps India itself provided a model of it, of how the immense multiplicity within India could constitute the larger entity, which he summed up in the formula, “unity in diversity.”
To this end, the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library is hosting a series of three events, each with a distinct focus and thematic coherence.  This workshop is the first of the three events and will focus on Nehru and the World. All are open events and aims to provide a platform for original and creative scholars to share their approaches with us.

Programme Schedule:      

9.00 a.m. – 9.10 a.m.                     
Welcome by Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library,New Delhi



 9.10 a.m. – 10.10 a.m.                            Session 1

Chair:                                             Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan,
                                                       Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi


Speaker:                                        Prof. Srinath Raghavan,
                                                        Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
                                                       ‘Revisiting the China Crisis 1959-62’  


10.20 a.m. – 11.20 a.m.                          Session 2
Chair :                                             Prof. Madhavan Palat,
                                                        Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund,
                                                        New Delhi 

Speakers:                                      Dr. C. Raja Mohan,
                                                        Observer Research Foundation,
                                                        New Delhi 
                                                       ‘Beyond Idealism:
                                                        Power and purpose of Nehru’s geopolitics’

11.20 a.m. –11.30 a.m.                           Tea Break


11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.                          Session 3
Chair:                                           Dr. Harish Khare,
                                                     Nehru Fellow,
                                                     New Delhi 


Speaker :                                  Mr. Shivshankar Menon,
                                                   National Security Advisor,
                                                   Government of India
                                                  ‘A Nehruvian Foreign Policy Today’ 

 12.40 p.m. – 1.40 p.m.                           Session 4


Chair:                                         Prof. Neera Chandhoke,
                                                   Affiliate Fellow,
                                                   NMML 

Speaker:                                    Dr. Chandrashekhar Dasgupta,
                                                   The Energy and Resource Institute, New Delhi
                                                   ‘Nehru, Patel in China’


1.40 p.m.- 2.30 p.m.                                Lunch

2.30 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.                              Session 5


Chair:                                           Prof. Madhavan Palat,
                                                    Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund,
                                                    New Delhi 

Speaker:                                    Dr. Pallavi Raghavan,
                                                   Centre for Policy Research,
                                                    New Delhi
                                                   ‘The Making of India-Pakistan Dynamics:
                                                    Nehru, Liaquat and the No War Pact
                                                    correspondence of 1950’

3.30 p.m.                                    Conclusion

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