Director

Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

in association with

Purnujjal Papiya Ghosh Memorial Trust

cordially invites you to a Panel Discussion

at 3.00 pm on Tuesday, 8 October, 2013

in the Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building

on

‘The Challenges facing Social Sciences

and Humanities’

Panelists:

Prof. Udaya Kumar,

Senior Fellow, NMML

Dr. Meena Bhargava,

Indraprastha College for Women,

University of Delhi

And

Prof. Shaibal Gupta,

Asian Development Research Institute, Patna,

will deliver the Memorial Lecture

on

‘The Idea of Bihar’

at  5.00 pm in the Auditorium, Library Building,

Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.

The Panel and Lecture are being held in commemoration of the 60^th Birth Anniversary of the Late Prof. Papiya Ghosh. A distinguished scholar, writer, academic and teacher, she was a historian of distinction.  She was associated with the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library as an Affiliated Fellow 1988 to 1991.

Following are the books written by Late Prof. Papiya Ghosh:

Muhajirs and the Nation: Bihar in the 1940s.

The Civil Disobedience Movement in Bihar.

Community and Nation: Essays on Identity and Politics in Eastern India.

Partition and the South Asian Diaspora: Extending the Subcontinent.