"Cuttack City: Blending between tradition and modernity" a talk by Prof. Radhakanta Barik at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 14th August 2014
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"Cuttack City: Blending between tradition and modernity" by Prof. Radhakanta Barik
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Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Venue : Seminar Room, 1st Floor, 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 Public Lecture in the ‘Cities in History’ series "Cuttack City: Blending between tradition and modernity" by Prof. Radhakanta Barik, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi.
Abstract : Cuttack is one of the oldest port cities of India. It is also the second largest city and former headquarters of the state of Orissa. It was established almost a thousand years ago. The history of modernization of the city started around 1866 on the backdrop of the great famine which pushed thousands of famished people to the city and created a platform of city society to raise voice against injustice inflicted on people of Odisha and gradually the concept of civil society came up in the city. The continuous debates and discourses with the intelligentsia prompted the Commissioner T E Ravenshaw to initiate the opening of a college in the city in 1868. Simultaneously, a few schools were established by the Christian Missionaries which provided a foundation of modern schooling in the city. Some more schools were started by the wealthy class on voluntary basis and subsequently the city became a major educational centre of the Orissa. Important landmarks in the city became centres of cultural and political movements. The Ranihat canal which was built by people affected by the 1866 famine now became a place for “remembering, reminding and rememorizing”. Cuttack city was surrounded by villages which were later incorporated into the city mapping. This brought ‘Shahi’ culture into cosmopolitan culture of the city. The Reform movements in Bengal found an echo in Cuttack. The 1930s and the 1940s saw an advancement of art and culture. The most important movement was started by intellectuals who got influenced by the Brahmo Samaj. The print culture contributed to create a new sensibility among people who started writing about various social and political issues affecting society. Some of the journals brought out during the early periods were: Jagannath Tirtha Mahamtya 1848, Samyabadi 1888, Utkal Dipika 1866 (first critique on the 1866 famine), Prajatantra 1923 and many more. The Samaj started as a weekly by Gopabandhu Das in 1919 as a nationalist journal which turned into a daily paper in 1930. Cultural advancement through theatre and films got reflected in politics of the city which for a century carried a moderate liberal face where a Muslim would sing Jagannatha bhajans and yet another oppose the creation of Pakistan.
Speaker : Prof. Radhakanta Barik’s area(s) of expertise extensively deals with North Indian Politics, Social Movements, Caste Studies, Subaltern Studies, Odisha Politics and Society. He joined the Indian Institute of Public Administration in 1991 and has previously held professional appointments at Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi and Government College, (Port Blair) Panjab University. He is a former Senior Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. His specialization was in Politics and History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and received a doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Delhi.
His publications include Politics of the JP Movement, Radiant Publishers, 1977, Land and Caste Politics in Bihar, Shipra Publications, Delhi, 2006, Saffron Regime: Ideology, Liberal Intelligentsia and Fear, Shipra Publications, 2012, Reviewing the Reservation Policy in Changing Social Order (ed) , Shipra Publications, Delhi, 2012.
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Venue : Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture in the ‘Cities in History’ series "Cuttack City: Blending between tradition and modernity" by Prof. Radhakanta Barik, Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi.
Abstract : Cuttack is one of the oldest port cities of India. It is also the second largest city and former headquarters of the state of Orissa. It was established almost a thousand years ago. The history of modernization of the city started around 1866 on the backdrop of the great famine which pushed thousands of famished people to the city and created a platform of city society to raise voice against injustice inflicted on people of Odisha and gradually the concept of civil society came up in the city. The continuous debates and discourses with the intelligentsia prompted the Commissioner T E Ravenshaw to initiate the opening of a college in the city in 1868. Simultaneously, a few schools were established by the Christian Missionaries which provided a foundation of modern schooling in the city. Some more schools were started by the wealthy class on voluntary basis and subsequently the city became a major educational centre of the Orissa. Important landmarks in the city became centres of cultural and political movements. The Ranihat canal which was built by people affected by the 1866 famine now became a place for “remembering, reminding and rememorizing”. Cuttack city was surrounded by villages which were later incorporated into the city mapping. This brought ‘Shahi’ culture into cosmopolitan culture of the city. The Reform movements in Bengal found an echo in Cuttack. The 1930s and the 1940s saw an advancement of art and culture. The most important movement was started by intellectuals who got influenced by the Brahmo Samaj. The print culture contributed to create a new sensibility among people who started writing about various social and political issues affecting society. Some of the journals brought out during the early periods were: Jagannath Tirtha Mahamtya 1848, Samyabadi 1888, Utkal Dipika 1866 (first critique on the 1866 famine), Prajatantra 1923 and many more. The Samaj started as a weekly by Gopabandhu Das in 1919 as a nationalist journal which turned into a daily paper in 1930. Cultural advancement through theatre and films got reflected in politics of the city which for a century carried a moderate liberal face where a Muslim would sing Jagannatha bhajans and yet another oppose the creation of Pakistan.
Speaker : Prof. Radhakanta Barik’s area(s) of expertise extensively deals with North Indian Politics, Social Movements, Caste Studies, Subaltern Studies, Odisha Politics and Society. He joined the Indian Institute of Public Administration in 1991 and has previously held professional appointments at Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi and Government College, (Port Blair) Panjab University. He is a former Senior Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. His specialization was in Politics and History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and received a doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Delhi.
His publications include Politics of the JP Movement, Radiant Publishers, 1977, Land and Caste Politics in Bihar, Shipra Publications, Delhi, 2006, Saffron Regime: Ideology, Liberal Intelligentsia and Fear, Shipra Publications, 2012, Reviewing the Reservation Policy in Changing Social Order (ed) , Shipra Publications, Delhi, 2012.
"Cuttack City: Blending between tradition and modernity" a talk by Prof. Radhakanta Barik at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 14th August 2014
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