India & Central Asia
Day One Monday, 3rd December, 2018
Venue: Seminar Rooms II and III, Kamaladevi Complex, IIC
Inaugural Session
Time : 10:30-11:30
Chair : Shri N. N. Vohra President, India International Centre
Welcome Remarks: Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar President, Institute of Global Studies & Former Ambassador of India to Kazakhstan, Sweden and Latvia
Introduction to the Conference: Professor Syed Akhtar Husain President, Institute of Indo-Persian Studies & Professor, Centre for Persian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Chairman’s Remarks: Shri N. N. Vohra President, India International Centre
Vote of Thanks: Air Marshal Naresh Verma (Retd.) Director, India International Centre
Tea Time :
Session 1
Time : 11:30-13:00
Chair : Professor Kiran Chaudhry, Centre of French and Francophone Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Khatereh Sheibani, York University, Canada
Like “An Image on a Pen-Case” Sadeq Hedayat’s Men and Women in The Blind Owl
Pinky Isha, Rabindrabharati University, India
The Blind Owl : A Study through the lens of a fine Gothic Heritage blended with elements of Drakula Fiction.
Parminder Singh Bhogal, Punjab University, India
Sadegh Hedayat : A Look into his Socio-Political Times
Syed Akhtar Husain, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Bits and Pieces of the Blind Owl
Lunch: 13:00-14:30
Session-2
Time: 14:30-15:30
Chair : Dr Khatereh Sheibani, York University, Canada
Mahmood Alam, EFL University, India
The Inanimate Characters in The Blind Owl
Miad Rashedifar, Tehran Peace Museum, Iran
Silent Women in The Blind Owl
Nahid Morshedlou, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
To Be or Not To Be? A Comparative Study on Intellectual Dialogue in Afsaneh of Nima and Buf-e-Kur of Hedayat
Session 1
Time : 12:00-13:15
Historical Perspectives on India-Central Asia Relations
Chair : Ambassador K. Raghunath, Former Ambassador to USSR & Foreign Secretary, Government of India
B.R. Mani, Director-General, National Museum and Vice-Chancellor, National Museum Institute, Indo-Uzbek Cultural Ties
Laura Yerekesheva, Deputy Director, Institute of Oriental Studies;
Discovering “the Other” in Serindia : The Narrative of Central and South Asian Culture in the Works of A. Stein
Phunchok Stobdan, Former Indian Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan
Rebooting Civilizational Connect The Rise and Fall of Buddhism in Central Asia
Shernaz Cama, Director, UNESCO Parzor Project, New Delhi
The Dawn of History : Zoroastrianism – Ideas and Impact
Sunita Dwivedi, Independent Scholar, New Delhi
Tracing the ‘Buddha Colossi’ Along Silk Road
Discussion
Lunch Time– 13:15-14:0
Session II (A)
14:00 – 15:00
Language and Literature of Central Asia and India
A Linguistic and Literary Dialogue
Chair: Ambassador Kanwal Sibal, Former Foreign Secretary. Govt. of India (Tentative)
Mansura Haidar, Professor and Former Dean, Aligarh Muslim University (Aligarh)
Travelogues : A Rear Window to Indo-Central Asian Common Man’s Milieu
Nahid Morshedlou, Faculty Member, Ministry of Education, Varamin, Iran
Journey of Persian Poetry through Central Asia to India
Md. Arshadul Quadri, Assistant Professor of Persian, University of Lucknow, Reception of Central Asia in Contemporary Urdu Literature
Suchandana Chatterjee, Senior Academic Fellow, ICHR, New Delhi
Central Asian Studies in India
Discussion
Session II (B)
15:00-16:00
Language and Literature of Central Asia and India
A Linguistic and Literary Dialogue
Chair: Ambassador Nalin Surie, Former Director-General, Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi
Shodimahmad Z. SUFIEV, Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Features Of the Genre : Saqi-Nameh
Aleem Ashraf Khan, Professor and Head, Department of Persian, Delhi University (Delhi)
Accounts of Sufis of Central Asian Origin in the Treatise of Shaikh Abdul Haq Dehlavi
Mahmood Alam, Assistant Professor of Persian, EFLU, Hyderabad
Codicological Approach to Written Heritage of India and Central Asia
Syed Akhtar Husain, Professor, Centre for Persian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), Bukhara in the Persian Literary Discourse
Discussion
Tea-16:15-16:30
Session III
16:00 – 17:30
Art and Architecture of Central Asia and their influence on Indian Subcontinent
Chair : Dr. Vikram Lall, Architect, Historian and Scholar
Kavita Singh, Professor of Art History, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi , Bihzad to Basawan: Sultan Husayn Mirza’s Zafarnama and the illustrations of Akbar’s Life
Sirojiddin S. Nurmatov, Associate Professor, Department of South Asian Languages, Tashken State Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan
The Linguistic and Cultural Relations of Central and South Asian’s Countries
Dipanwita Donde, Manager, Department of Collection, Management and Research of Indian Modern Art, Delhi Art Gallery Humanism and Portraiture : The notion of Humanism in the works of medieval Persian poets in Central Asia and how these ideas travelled and impacted portrait-making of Mughal emperors in the 16th – 17th century in the Indian subcontinent
Nasir Raza Khan, Director, India-Arab Cultural Centre, JMI, New Delhi Legacy and contribution of Sher Shah Sur to Indian Architecture
Discussion
Reception by President, IIC at 19:00 in Multipurpose Hall, Kamladevi Complex
Day 2
Tuesday, 4rd December, 2018
Session IV
10:00-11:15
Central Asia
A Union of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Chair: Ambassador Ashok Sajjanhar, President, Institute of Global Studies & Former Ambassadorof India to Kazakhstan, Sweden and Latvia
Sheker Saparova, Research Scholar from Turkmenistan at School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Central Asia is heart of ‘New Great Silk Road’
Kuldip Singh, Professor, Department of Political Science, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar
Stable Despotism in the Veil of Democracy in Kazakhstan: Globalizing Polity Defies Standard Norms
Muzaffar Olimov, Professor, Tajik National University, Dushanbe
How to counteract religious extremism? (Tajikistan: A Case Study)
Nazar Mammedov, Lecturer, Department of International Relations, International University, Turkmenistan
The Great Silk Road and Turkmenistan’s Contribution to Global Sustainable Transport Agenda
Discussion
Tea Time: 11:15-11:30
Session V
11:30-12:30
Central Asia in Modern Times
Chair: Ambassador Yogendra Kumar (tentative)/ Ambassador Salman Haider
Mara Gubaidullina, Professor, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan
The Triangle Of Connections: Kazakhstan Between India And China In New Silk Road Projects
Abuzar Khairi, Associate Professor, Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Impact of Jadidism on the Development of Central Asian Society
Preeti D. Das, Assistant Professor, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Contribution of India in Society and Culture of Central Asian Countries
Abdelmejit Azymov, Research Scholar, Academy of Sciences, Turkmenistan
India and Turkmenistan: Key Contributors of Security through TAPI
Discussion
Lunch Time– 12:30-13:30
Session VI
13:30-14:30
Geo-politics and Geo-economics in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Chair: Ambassador Skand Tayal (Tentative)
Mirzokhid Rakhimov Professor and Head of Social-humanities Branch of Academy of Sciences;
Director of Uzbekistan Contemporary History Center, Uzbekistan
Multilateralism and Central Asian Initiatives
Nirmala Joshi, Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Role of Multilateral Groupings in Central Asia : Prospects for Regional Cooperation
Sanjay Kumar Pandey, Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
New Great Game in Central Asia and Implications for India
Session VII
14:30-15:30
India and Central Asia: Issues and Challenges
Chair: Ambassador I. P. Khosla, former Ambassador of India to Afghanistan
Sanjay Deshpande, Director, Centre for Central Eurasian Studies, University of Mumbai, Mumbai
India’s Connectivity with Central Asia: Trade Relations and Energy Security
Berdinyyazov Merdan, Lecturer, Institute of International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkmenistan, Ashgabat
Turkmen-Indian bilateral relations, their development in political, economic, trade, historical and cultural spheres
Kulbhushan Warikoo, Professor, Central Asian Studies Programme, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
India and Central Asia: Opportunities and Challenges
Athar Zafar, Research Fellow. Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi
India and Central Asia: Issues and Challenges
Shivaji Bhaskar, Assistant Professor, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
India-Central Asia Relations: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities in India’s Extended Neighborhood Policy
Tea Time– 15:30-16:30
Valedictory
Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan
Chairperson, IIC-International Research Division
Report on the Conference: Professor Syed Akhtar Husain
President, IIPS & Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi
Comments by participants: Dr.Laura Yerekesheva
UNESCO Chair Coordinator, KazakhstanProfessor Sanjay Kumar Pandey
School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru
University
Valedictory Address: Hon’ble M. Hamid Ansari
Former Vice President of India
Vote of Thanks: Md. Arshadul Quadri
Assistant Professor, University of Lucknow, Lucknow
Tea Time-17:30