International Conference

Speakers

Affiliation

Title

Chair
Neera Chandhoke

Former Professor and Head Department of Political Science University of Delhi

Keynote Speaker Vinay Lal

Professor
Department of History and Asian American Studies, UCLA

Gandhi’s Dharma: Itineraries of a Religious Life

M. M. Verma

President
Interfaith Foundation

M.A. Naqvi

Director
Apollo Institute of Technology Kanpur

Masroor Ahmad Beg

Principal
Zakir Husain Delhi College University of Delhi

Speakers

Affiliation

Title

Chair Vinay Lal

Professor
Department of History and Asian American Studies, UCLA

Neera Chandhoke

Former Professor and Head Department of Political Science University of Delhi

Gandhi: Truth and Dialogue

Manindra Nath Thakur

Associate Professor
Centre for Political Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University

Gandhi’s Ethical Realism and Transformative Politics

Nishikant Kolge

Associate Professor
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

How to Understand Life and Philosophy of Gandhi: Some Suggestions

Speakers

Affiliation

Title

Chair
Manindra Nath Thakur

Associate Professor
Centre for Political Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University

Ananta Kumar Giri

Professor
Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai

Gandhi, Gramsci and Hitler

Bindu Puri

Professor
Centre for Philosophy Jawaharlal Nehru University

Gandhi and Tagore on the Idea of Surplus, Creativity and Freedom: In Conversation with Richard Sorabji

Ajay Gudavarthy

Associate Professor
Centre for Political Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University

Demystifying Resistance

Speakers

Affiliation

Title

Chair
M. M. Verma

President
Interfaith Foundation

Priya Sharma

Research Scholar
Centre for Political Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University

Critically Analysing the Shift form Satyagraha to Non-Violent Resistance: A Conversation between Gandhi and Gene Sharpe

Lajpat Rai

Assistant Professor Satyawati College University of Delhi

Gandhi - Tolstoy Sambandh: Ek Avlokan

Aditi Krishna

Research Scholar Department of English University of Delhi

Gandhian Ahimsa and Levinasian Ethics?

Saagar Tewari

Assistant Professor
Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities
O.P. Jindal Global University Sonipat

Relationship of Gandhi and Thakkar : The Constructive Programme and the Indian Aboriginal Tribes (1919-1950)

Discussant Divendu Jha

Research Scholar
Department of Political Science University of Delhi

Speakers

Affiliation

Title

Chair Madhulika Banerjee

Professor
Department of Political Science University of Delhi

Praveen Dhanda

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science Indraprastha College for Women University of Delhi

Re-Thinking Development: A Gandhian Perspective

Asmita Jataria

Assistant Professor National Law University Dharmashastra, M.P.

Gandhi’s Constructive Programme and Sustainable Development Goals

Rajesh Kumar

Assistant Professor
Delhi College of Arts and Commerce University of Delhi

Modern Civilisation and the Means-End Question: Gandhi’s View

Ruchi Shree

Assistant Professor
Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University

Non-violence and World Peace: Gandhian Perspective on Pacific Movements

Ruchi Shrivastava

Assistant Professor
Department of Social Work and Sociology, Banasthali Vidyapeeth

Gandhi’s Philosophy and Philosophy of Social Work

Prateek Yadav

Research Scholar
Centre for Political Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University

Examining eco swaraj in times of burgeoining environmental crises

Discussant Naved Jamal

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science Jamia Millia Islamia

Speakers

Affiliation

Title

Chair
Ananta Kumar Giri

Professor
Madras Institute of Development Studies

G. N. Trivedi

Associate Professor
Motilal Nehru College (Eve) University of Delhi

Gandhi Apportioned: An Overlapping Dimension of Personality

Ankur Jyoti Bhuyan and Anusmita Dutta

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science KBVSASU, Assam
Research Scholar CIPOD
Jawaharlal Nehru University

Normative Values and Pragmatism: Exploring the Root of Gandhi’s Truth and Satyagraha

Syed Sabreena Bukhari and Shagufta Bashir

Research Scholar
Department of Political Science University of Kashmir

Contribution of Gandhi to Democratic Theory: An Analytical Study

Archana Prasad

Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Kamla Nehru College University of Delhi

Reading Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj as methodological tool for Understanding Development in 21st Century

Discussant
D.K. Singh

Associate Professor KRG College Jiwaji University Gwalior

Speakers

Affiliation

Title

Chair
Dharmendra Kumar

Professor
J.H. College Barkatullah University Betul, Bhopal

Gyan Ranjan Swain

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science Ravenshaw University
Cuttack

Gandhi’s response to reform in criminal justice system in a global world

Md. Aftab Alam

Associate Professor Department of Political Science Aligarh Muslim University

Gandhi in Conversation with Champaran Peasantry: An Archival Study

Sanjeev Kumar

Assistant Professor
Zakir Husain Delhi College University of Delhi

Gandhi and Satyagraha

Sreejith Sugunan

Research Scholar
Centre for Political Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University

Swaraj and the Ethic of Social Responsibility in Gandhi’s Political Philosophy

Discussant Yasser Arafath

Assistant Professor Department of History
University of Delhi

Speakers

Affiliation

Title

Chair
Satish Deshpande

Professor
Department of Sociology University of Delhi

Gopal Guru

Former Professor and Chairperson
Centre for Political Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University Editor
Economic and Political Weekly

Concept of Humility in Gandhi and Ambedkar

Gianluigi Segalerba

Professor
University of Vienna

Gandhi on the Foundations of the Ethically Correct Individual Constitution

Mohammad Sajjad

Professor
Department of History Aligarh Muslim University

Perceptions of Muslims about Gandhiji in some of Urdu Prose and Writings

Speakers

Affiliantion

Title

Chair Bindu Puri

Professor
Centre for Philosophy Jawaharlal Nehru University

Madhu Kumari and Priya Singh

Assistant Professor Department of Journalism and Mass Communication Banasthali

Gandhi’s Ethics in Journalism

Scholar Banasthali

Shivani Singh

Assistant Professor
Dyal Singh College (Eve.) University of Delhi

Gandhian Strategy of Resistance

Simple M Pani

Assistant Professor
Shaheed Bhagat Singh College University of Delhi

Gandhivaad v. Gandhigiri: Perceptions in Popular Culture

Deepali Mahendru

Scholar
Central Institute of Education University of Delhi

Gandhi and Education

Discussant

Assistant Professor

Skylab Sahoo

Department of Political Science

Miranda House

University of Delhi

Speakers

Affiliation

Title

Chair
Nishikant Kolge

Associate Professor
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

Sanjay Kumar

St. John’s College
B.R. Ambedkar University Agra

The Dalit Question and the Agency of Change: A Study of D. R. Nagraj’s Essay Two Imaginary Soliloquies: Ambedkar and Gandhi

Nitika Ladda

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science Lady Shri Ram College for Women University of Delhi

Body and the Site of Reform and Swaraj for Gandhi

Anshu Srivastava

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science Indraprastha College for Women University of Delhi

Gandhi, Untouchability and Temple Entry

Nitya Prakash

Research Scholar
Jawaharlal Nehru University

The Courage of Truth: Psychoanalytic Resonance and Reflections of Mahatma Gandhi

Discussant Shailaja Menon

Assistant Professor School of Liberal Arts
Ambedkar University, Delhi

Speakers

Affiliation

Title

Chair
N. Sukumar

Professor
Department of Political Science University of Delhi

Lungmila Longvah

Faculty
Department of Political Science St. Ann’s College for Women Mehdipatnam, Hyderabad

The Need to Revisit the Religion of Gandhi - His Way of Life

Honey Raj

Research Scholar
Central University of Jharkhand

Gandhi and Judaism: A Covert Acknowledgment or ‘Veil of Ignorance’

Nishant Kumar

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science Dyal Singh College
University of Delhi

Moral Action in Every Day Life: Analysing the role of Bhagvat Gita in Developing Gandhi’s Deontological Framework

Aamir Riyaz

Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Aligarh Muslim University

The Notion of Religion: A Gandhian Perspective

Discussant Pooja Rani

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science Gargi College
University of Delhi

Chair Shahid Amin

Former Professor and Head Department of History University of Delhi

Guest of Honour Kumar Ratnam

Member Secretary
Indian Council of Historical Research
Member Secretary
Indian Council of Philosophical Research

Valedictory Speaker Sudhir Chandra

Noted Historian

Reading Gandhi, Reading
Myself: Politics, Religion and Culture

Speakers

Affiliation

Title

Chair
Ashok Pankaj

Professor
Council for Social Development

Shilpa Singh

Assistant Professor
VM Salgaonkar College of Law Panji, Goa

Gandhi’s Idealism through the Marxist Lens: A Philosophy of
the Bourgeoisie

Vyas Muni

Research Scholar
School of International Studies Central University of Gujarat

Gandhi: A Proponent of
Pre-Modernity, Modernity or Post-Modernity

Suab Ahmed

Research Scholar Department of English
Jamia Millia Islamia

Revisiting Gandhian Ideology in ‘A Bend in the Ganges and
Shadow from Ladakh’

Bhawna Sharma

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science Amity University

Gandhi and nationalism: Analysing the role of national
elite in nation building

Meghna Kajla

Research Scholar
Department of Political Science University of Delhi

Gandhi and the Idea of Politics-II: Sensing Swadeshi

Discussant Lalit Kumar

Assistant Professor Department of English
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College University of Delhi

Chair Shahid Amin

Former Professor and Head Department of History
University of Delhi

Guest of Honour Kumar Ratnam

Member Secretary
Indian Council of Historical Research
Member Secretary
Indian Council of Philosophical Research

Valedictory Speaker Sudhir Chandra

Noted Historian

Reading Gandhi, Reading Myself: Politics, Religion and
Culture

Speakers

Affiliation

Title

Chair
A P S Chouhan

Professor and Head Department of Political Science Jiwaji University, Gwalior

Devasia M. Antony

Assistant Professor Hindu College University of Delhi

The ‘Sva’ of ‘Swaraj’ in Hind Swaraj: The Existential, the Ethical and the Ecological Contours of Civilizational Paradigm

Mithilesh Jha

Assistant Professor IIT, Guwahati

Mahatma Gandhi and Idea of Swaraj

Maneesha Roy

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science Gargi College
University of Delhi

Global Legacy of Gandhian Satyagraha: A Centenary Revisit to Champaran Movement

Meenakshi Gogoi

Research Scholar
Centre for Political Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University

Gandhi and Women’s Movement

Discussant Ashwin Parijat Anshu

Fellow
Indian Institute of Advanced Study
Assistant Professor
Zakir Husain Delhi College

Chair Shahid Amin

Former Professor and Head Department of History University of Delhi

Guest of Honour Kumar Ratnam

Member Secretary
Indian Council of Historical Research
Member Secretary
Indian Council of Philosophical Research

Valedictory Speaker Sudhir Chandra

Noted Historian

Reading Gandhi, Reading Myself: Politics, Religion and
Culture