Workshop on 'Nehru’s India' at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 9am onwards on 1st May 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 India’.

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 second of the three events and will focus on how Nehru wished to shape India. It will also examine the contested nature of his legacy and how an emerging democracy fostered informed critical debate on the leadership, and the many dimensions of public life. All are open events and aim to provide a platform for original and creative scholars to share their approaches with us.

Programme Schedule 
Thursday, 1st May 2014
9.00 a.m.– 9.05 a.m.
Welcome address:
Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan,
Director,
NMML.

9.05 a.m.- 10.05 a.m.
Session 1 : ‘Democracy’
Chair:
Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan,
Director, NMML.
Speaker:
Dr. Ornit Shani,
Haifa University,
Israel.
‘Rewriting the Bureaucratic Colonial Imagination in the Preparation for the First Elections’

10:20 a.m.-11.20a.m.
Session 2
‘Development’
Chair: Dr. Ashok Desai, Independent Researcher and Columnist,
New Delhi.

Speaker: Prof. Nasir Tyabji, Former Fellow of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund and Senior Fellow,
NMML.
‘The Politics of Industry in Nehru’s India’

11.20 a.m.-11.35 a.m.
Tea

11.35 a.m.- 12.35 p.m.
Session 3
‘Nationalism’
Chair:
Mr. Anil Nauriya,
NMML.
Speaker:
Dr. Venu Madhav Govindu,
Indian Institute of Science,
Bengaluru.
‘The Gandhian Response to the Challenges of Independence’

12.45 p.m.-1.45 p.m.
Session 4
‘Science and Technology’
Chair:
Prof. Deepak Kumar,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi
Speaker:
Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey,
King’s College,
University of London,
UK.
‘Science and Technology for Nehru’s India’

1.45 p.m.- 2.45 p.m.
Lunch

2.45 p.m.- 3.45 p.m.
Session 5
‘Indian Institutions’
Chair:
Prof. Madhavan Palat,
Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund,
New Delhi
Speaker:
Prof. Sudhir Krishnaswamy,
Azim Premji University, Bengaluru and
Columbia Law School, USA.
‘Nehru and the Supreme Court:
A plea for institutional comity’

3.45 p.m.- 4.00 p.m.
Tea

4.00 p.m.- 5.00 p.m.
Session 6
‘Contemporary India’
Chair:
Mr. Harsh Sethi, Seminar, New Delhi
Speaker:
Dr. Ajay Gudavarthy,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi.
‘Tracing Nehru in Contemporary Indian Politics’

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