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India And 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
11:30-13:00

In 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

13:00-14:30- Lunch

Session-2
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 I
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- 13:15-14:00

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 16:30-17:30

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 Two
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
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