PU-ISSER, to organise National Seminar on 'CHANGING INDIA: STATE, SOCIETY AND RELIGION' on Oct 24 -25

Chandigarh, October 23, 2016: Panjab University (PU) Institute of Social Science Education and Research (ISSER) would organize a National Seminar on “Changing India: State, Society And Religion” on October 24 & 25 at ICSSR Complex in sector 14 PU Campus.
Eminent and widely read scholar & Professor Emeritus at Aligarh Muslim University(AMU) Professor Irfan Habib would deliver the Keynote address. PU Vice Chancellor Professor Arun Kumar Grover would inaugurate the seminar at 10:30 AM on October 24 at the ICSSR Complex.
The themes to be covered in the two day seminar include the ‘Concept of Nation’;Changing Idea of India; Limits of Secularism; Composite Culture; Developments in Contemporary India; Ideolgy and Political Change; Nature of Indian State; Gender; and
Dalit Identities.
The seminar is in honour of the renowned historian and first Gian Ratan recipient of the Panjab University, Professor J S Grewal, who has reached his 90th year, to mark his outstanding contribution to historical scholarship. The prestigious seminar would bring together a number of eminent scholars from the social sciences together on the occasion.