"Motilal Nehru and his Times" a conference in association with Prof. Neera Chandhoke & Dr. Anirudh Deshpande at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 9am onwards on 16th & 17th January 2014
Time : 9:00 am
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 Conference on ‘Motilal Nehru and his Times’ in association with Prof. Neera Chandhoke, Affiliate Fellow, NMML and Dr. Anirudh Deshpande, University of Delhi, Delhi
Concept Note : The objective of the conference is to highlight the contributions made by the Indian liberal tradition to our political and the constitutional history in the nineteenth and the early decades of the twentieth century. Indian liberalism has been too easily dismissed by a number of critics as mimetic, or as a mirror image of ideas held by British liberals. Yet, as Chris Bayly reminds us in his Recovering Liberties, Indians were able to excavate, appropriate, and adapt key aspects of the thought of European and American liberals in their search for freedom. Of particular note is the 1928 Motilal Nehru Report that drew up a blueprint for the future constitution of India. In many ways the report, drafted by a select committee of which Motilal Nehru was the chairman, presaged many of the debates among liberals in the west today, for instance on the rights of minorities, and the importance of an integrated Bill of Rights. Our focus in this conference on Motilal Nehru will help, we hope, to open a window onto the moderate/liberal tradition and the making of liberal-democratic India. In contrast to the heroic exploits of, say, the revolutionary nationalists at the turn of the twentieth century, the liberals painstakingly constructed the building blocks of a democratic India. They gave to the country a system of values that emphasized the political significance of representation, the paramountcy of individual freedom, the rule of law, accountability, limited government, individual and group rights, gender equality, and secular nationalism. Above all they emphasised the importance of the constitution, because constitutions set the basic framework for political negotiations and transactions. Of immense significance is the importance liberals gave to processes that further conciliation and agreement among competing interests. True to this tradition Motilal Nehru played an important role in bringing the moderate and the extremist wings of the Congress together in 1916, as well as forging Hindu Muslim unity in the Lucknow Pact. It is precisely this tradition that we need to recall in order to deal with periodic strife in the country. We will be commissioning papers that not only locate Motilal Nehru in the intellectual, political, and constitutional clime of his time, but also on the liberal tradition that he subscribed to and that he was the spokesman of. Every society needs to periodically recollect that the alphabets of the political languages it speaks today were first spoken by political stalwarts in the past. It is this that we wish to acknowledge and honour.
Programme Schedule:
Thursday, 16 January 2014
9.00 a.m. – 9.30 a.m. - Tea/Coffee
9.30 a.m.– 10.15 a.m. - Inaugural Session
Welcome by Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, NMML
Introduction by Prof. Neera Chandhoke, Affiliate Fellow, NMML
10.15 a.m.- 10.45 a.m. - Tea
10.45 a.m.- 12.45 a.m. - Session 2
Chair:
Dr. Harish Khare, Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund
Speaker:
Mr. Mukul Kesavan, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
‘A Moderate Nationalism’
Chair:
Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, NMML
Speaker:
Prof. Valerian Rodrigues, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
‘Competing Conceptions of Kaum/Nation in Motilal Nehru and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan’
12.45 p.m.-1.45 p.m. - Lunch
1.45 p.m.- 3.00 p.m. - Session 3
Chair:
Ms. Vrinda Grover, NMML
Speaker:
Mr. Anil Kumar Nauriya, NMML
‘Motilal Nehru and the Crisis of 1919-1920’
3.00p.m.-3.15p.m. - Tea
3.15 p.m.-4.30 p.m. - Session 4
Chair:
Dr. Anirudh Deshpande, University of Delhi, Delhi
Speakers: Prof. Raja Dixit, University of Pune, Pune
‘Liberalism in Renascent India with special reference to J.S. Mill and Maharashtra’
Friday, 17 January 2014
9.00 a.m.-10.15 a.m. - Session 5
Chair:
Prof. Niraja Gopal Jayal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Speaker: Dr. Rohit De, University of Cambridge, USA
‘Vakil Raj and Swaraj: The Legal Careers of Motilal Nehru, Jinnah and Ambedkar’
10.15 a.m.-10.30 a.m. - Tea
10.30a.m. – 11.45 a.m. - Session 6
Chair: Dr. P.K. Datta, University of Delhi, Delhi
Speaker:
Prof. Neera Chandoke, Affiliate Fellow, NMML
‘Social Rights in the Nehru Constitutional Draft and Thereafter’
11.45 a.m. -1.00 p.m. - Session 7
Chair:
Prof. Neera Chandhoke, Affiliate Fellow, NMML
Speaker:
Dr. Arudra Burra, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
‘Cooperation and Collaboration: The case of the Indian Civil Service’
1.00 p.m. - Lunch
Related Events : Talks
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
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 Conference on ‘Motilal Nehru and his Times’ in association with Prof. Neera Chandhoke, Affiliate Fellow, NMML and Dr. Anirudh Deshpande, University of Delhi, Delhi
Concept Note : The objective of the conference is to highlight the contributions made by the Indian liberal tradition to our political and the constitutional history in the nineteenth and the early decades of the twentieth century. Indian liberalism has been too easily dismissed by a number of critics as mimetic, or as a mirror image of ideas held by British liberals. Yet, as Chris Bayly reminds us in his Recovering Liberties, Indians were able to excavate, appropriate, and adapt key aspects of the thought of European and American liberals in their search for freedom. Of particular note is the 1928 Motilal Nehru Report that drew up a blueprint for the future constitution of India. In many ways the report, drafted by a select committee of which Motilal Nehru was the chairman, presaged many of the debates among liberals in the west today, for instance on the rights of minorities, and the importance of an integrated Bill of Rights. Our focus in this conference on Motilal Nehru will help, we hope, to open a window onto the moderate/liberal tradition and the making of liberal-democratic India. In contrast to the heroic exploits of, say, the revolutionary nationalists at the turn of the twentieth century, the liberals painstakingly constructed the building blocks of a democratic India. They gave to the country a system of values that emphasized the political significance of representation, the paramountcy of individual freedom, the rule of law, accountability, limited government, individual and group rights, gender equality, and secular nationalism. Above all they emphasised the importance of the constitution, because constitutions set the basic framework for political negotiations and transactions. Of immense significance is the importance liberals gave to processes that further conciliation and agreement among competing interests. True to this tradition Motilal Nehru played an important role in bringing the moderate and the extremist wings of the Congress together in 1916, as well as forging Hindu Muslim unity in the Lucknow Pact. It is precisely this tradition that we need to recall in order to deal with periodic strife in the country. We will be commissioning papers that not only locate Motilal Nehru in the intellectual, political, and constitutional clime of his time, but also on the liberal tradition that he subscribed to and that he was the spokesman of. Every society needs to periodically recollect that the alphabets of the political languages it speaks today were first spoken by political stalwarts in the past. It is this that we wish to acknowledge and honour.
Programme Schedule:
Thursday, 16 January 2014
9.00 a.m. – 9.30 a.m. - Tea/Coffee
9.30 a.m.– 10.15 a.m. - Inaugural Session
Welcome by Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, NMML
Introduction by Prof. Neera Chandhoke, Affiliate Fellow, NMML
10.15 a.m.- 10.45 a.m. - Tea
10.45 a.m.- 12.45 a.m. - Session 2
Chair:
Dr. Harish Khare, Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund
Speaker:
Mr. Mukul Kesavan, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
‘A Moderate Nationalism’
Chair:
Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, NMML
Speaker:
Prof. Valerian Rodrigues, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
‘Competing Conceptions of Kaum/Nation in Motilal Nehru and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan’
12.45 p.m.-1.45 p.m. - Lunch
1.45 p.m.- 3.00 p.m. - Session 3
Chair:
Ms. Vrinda Grover, NMML
Speaker:
Mr. Anil Kumar Nauriya, NMML
‘Motilal Nehru and the Crisis of 1919-1920’
3.00p.m.-3.15p.m. - Tea
3.15 p.m.-4.30 p.m. - Session 4
Chair:
Dr. Anirudh Deshpande, University of Delhi, Delhi
Speakers: Prof. Raja Dixit, University of Pune, Pune
‘Liberalism in Renascent India with special reference to J.S. Mill and Maharashtra’
Friday, 17 January 2014
9.00 a.m.-10.15 a.m. - Session 5
Chair:
Prof. Niraja Gopal Jayal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Speaker: Dr. Rohit De, University of Cambridge, USA
‘Vakil Raj and Swaraj: The Legal Careers of Motilal Nehru, Jinnah and Ambedkar’
10.15 a.m.-10.30 a.m. - Tea
10.30a.m. – 11.45 a.m. - Session 6
Chair: Dr. P.K. Datta, University of Delhi, Delhi
Speaker:
Prof. Neera Chandoke, Affiliate Fellow, NMML
‘Social Rights in the Nehru Constitutional Draft and Thereafter’
11.45 a.m. -1.00 p.m. - Session 7
Chair:
Prof. Neera Chandhoke, Affiliate Fellow, NMML
Speaker:
Dr. Arudra Burra, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
‘Cooperation and Collaboration: The case of the Indian Civil Service’
1.00 p.m. - Lunch
Related Events : Talks
"Motilal Nehru and his Times" a conference in association with Prof. Neera Chandhoke & Dr. Anirudh Deshpande at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 9am onwards on 16th & 17th January 2014
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