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Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Chair Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University Report of the Activities in Academic Year 2018-19 Report approved by the Monitoring Committee Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Chair on Integral Humanism (Prof. Ram Pravesh Pathak) (Dr. Shyam Kartik Mishra) Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences PDDU Chair Professor Banaras Hindu University Faculty of Social Sciences, BHU Report of the Activities by PDDU Chair (Academic Year 2018-19) 1 Contents Preface The Activities: 1. Lecture Series: August 30 and 31 September 3, 2018 i. Report ii. Photos iii. Paper News 2. Deep Student Interactive Session: September 7, 2018 i. Report ii. Photos iii. Paper News 3. Essay Competition: Morning Session, September 11, 2018 i. Report ii. Photos iii. Paper News 4. Painting Competition: Afternoon Session, September 11, 2018 i. Report ii. Photos iii. Paper News 5. Special Lecture: September 22, 2018 i. Report ii. Photos iii. Paper News 6. Youth Parliament: Morning Session, September 25, 2018 i. Report ii. Photos iii. Paper News 2 7. Valedictory Session of the Birth Anniversary Celebration i. Report ii. Photos iii. Paper News 8. Memorial Lecture on Death Anniversary of Pt. Deendayal i. Report ii. Photos iv. Paper News 9. National Seminar: March 01-02, 2019 i. Report ii. Photos iii. Paper News iv. DVDs of Videography 10. Special Lecture: April 06, 2019 i. Report ii. Photos 11. Library: Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay Chair 12. Academic Activities by the Chair Professor i. Lectures Delivered ii. Publication and Submission 13. The Committees of Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay Chair 14. Staff and Functionaries of the Chair 15. The Way Ahead 3 Preface Banaras Hindu University, a renowned institution founded by Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya as a treasure of ancient Indian thought and culture, established Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay Chair in September 2017, having received Corpus Fund from the Ministry of Culture to set up a Permanent Chair under the faculty of Social Sciences to pay homage to this great pragmatic - humanistic thinker at the very appropriate occasion of his birth centenary celebration year. Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Chair in Integral Humanism came into operation with appointment of Chair Professor on 27th September 2017. Worldwide growing hatred, violence and restlessness compel to think of alternative model of development. In this context, the ideology of „Integral Humanism‟ needs to be critically evaluated if it can ensure holistic and sustainable development of the society that paves way to happiness, peace and harmony in the life of individual, society, nation and the globe. In the light of this vision, the chair has missions to work with researching and outreaching the inherent values implied in ancient Indian culture that believes in Omni-presence of almighty (Adwait), making people think, internalize and realize that the exposure of an individual, society and nation through the world view rooted in Indian culture is ever in form of AKHAND MANDALAKAR (non-conflicting and mutually interwoven) relationship between Vyashti (Individual), Samashti (Society), Srishti (Nature) and Permeshti (God), developing a society wherein people understand need and value of coexistence (Chiti) and live their life with happiness taking care of others, be it living or non-living (Virat), exploring policy implications of the ancient Indian cultural values through making it of age (Yuganukool) and incorporating also the foreign thoughts in it making it suitable to the needs of the country (Deshanukool) and finally transforming the ideologies of ancient Indian culture into institution building and policy making. In view of the above mission, the main objective of the chair is to explore the scope of Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay‟s ideas towards social and economic justice in 21st century India by undertaking researches on Political Philosophy, Integral Humanism, Traditions of India‟s ancient culture and strengthening the concept of Swaraj (Self Governance). Among the other objectives, the chair will initiate special paper in different discipline of social sciences based on philosophy and actions of Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay. The chair will sensitise the students and teachers of the Faculty of Social Sciences and allied disciplines by organising seminars, symposia, workshops, field visits and cultural activities like drama, debates etc., exchange of students and teachers with Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay‟ s Chair with other universities for a short duration. The aim of sensitisation is to change the discriminatory attitude in the Indian society as visualised by Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay. Finally, the Chair will design and execute short-term 4 capacity-building programmes for teachers and research scholars in higher education focused towards the designated discipline of the Chair. In order to fall in line with the above stated vision and achieve the aforesaid objectives, chair has undertaken certain activities in academic year 2017-18 as also in year 2018-19. Mainly 3 activities were organised by the chair during 6 months span of this Academic Year 2017-18 and 10 activities in the current academic year of 2018-19. We have established a small library in the name of ‘Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay Pustakalaya’ under the Chair which is on the way of taking its due shape in due course of time. The PDDU Chair, BHU aims at establishing itself as a nodal centre for the study of and research on Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay thoughts and philosophy. Numbers of outreach activities, Research Fellowships and Workshops/ Symposia are proposed for ensuing year. A brief description of the activities of the Chair during current year has been given in this report. I am highly indebted to members of the Monitoring Committee and Programme Implementation Committee constituted to accomplish tasks taken up by the Chair. The cooperation extended by the office staff of the Faculty of Social Sciences and also that of the officials of the Central Office, BHU who are at the helm of affairs of the Chair is laudable. I express my deep sense of gratitude to Prof. R. P. Pathak, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University for his keen interest and ever preparedness to extend his all possible help to the chair to set New Goal Post and achieve it. (Shyam Kartik Mishra) Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay Chair Professor Dated: 5 The Activities of the Chair: 1. Special Lectures by Prof. Ashok G. Modak: August 30 and 31, 2018 6 Special Lecture Dated 30-08-2018 Activities of the new academic year 2018-19 began with the first special lecture delivered by Prof. Ashok Gajanan Modak, National Research Professor, MHRD, New Delhi on 30th August 2018. The lecture was delivered on „Integral Humanism: Concept and Uniqueness‟. In fact, this event was a point of commencement of Celebration of 102nd Birth Anniversary of Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay that consisted of numerous events and activities proposed to be undertaken from 30th August to 25th September 2018. To Prof. Madak, Integral Humanism emphasizes that happiness of human being alone is not enough but it ensures deep sense of concerns for the world wellbeing. This is uniqueness of this thought and point of deviation from other western thoughts. In this vein, Integral Humanism is not an „Ism‟ like other western paradigms such as capitalism and socialism but a philosophy of life. Loss of divisive dualism (Dwait) and prevailing over ideology of oneness (Adwait) can ensure development of one and all. To Prof. Modak, even western thinkers are in search of alternative model of development because capitalism and socialism have served the objective of growth but not development. Owing to inherent features in these paradigms, it could not ensure freedom and equality. Dr. Shyam Kartik Mishra, Chair Professor, PDDU Chair welcomed the speaker, dignitaries and audience and introduced the theme of address. Prof. R.P. Pathak, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, BHU presided over the session. Prof. Pathak appreciating Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay said that this thought could deeply influence people because Deendayal Ji lived his life as per his thought. Prof. Ashok Kaul, Prof. Ajit Kumar Pandey and Prof. Arvind Joshi (All from Dept. of Sociology) participated in the interaction. The Programme was compeered by Prof. Pravesh Bharadwaj. Dr. Shikha Mishra, coordinator of the programme, proposed vote of thanks. Prof. Chandrakala Padia, Former Vice-chancellor, University of Bikaner, Rajasthan, Prof. C.B. Jha (Ayurved Dept.), Prof. Jaikant Tiwari,Former Dean, FSS, Prof. Malvika Pandey (Dept. of History), Dr. Deenanath Singh, Dr. Swarn Suman (Dept. of J &MC), Dr. Om Prakash (Dept. of German Studies), Dr. Seema Mishra (Dept. of History) were present during the lecture. 7 Special Lecture Dated 31-08-2018 The second special lecture was also delivered by Prof. Ashok Gajanan Modak, National Research Professor, MHRD, New Delhi on 31st August 2018. The lecture was delivered on „Democracy in Integral Humanism‟. The second day programme started withlighting of the lamp by the guests and dignitaries and „Kulgeet‟ by the students of the University. Dr. Shyam Kartik Mishra, Chair Professor, PDDU Chair welcomed the speaker, dignitaries and audience and introduced theme of the lecture. 8 Prof. Modak said, „In Deendayal‟s Humanism, king is for the society. Authority of society prevails over that of king. Thus, every segment of society is „Adhikari‟ and the king is only „Sattadhari‟. Real democracy is a system where society is empowered with opposing any act of king which is, at large, against the social wellbeing. To him, in Deendayal‟s concept of democracy, a leader ought to have firm determination for public welfare. Prof. R.P. Pathak, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, BHU presided over the programme. Prof. Pathak appreciating Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay said that in Indian culture, Praja (subject) have had supreme power and King always had moral bindings to fulfill interest of its subject. Prof. Ashok Kaul, Prof. Ajit Kumar Pandey and Prof. Arvind Joshi (All from Dept.