Lecture conducted
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 21 2018:
A foreign policy lecture series on "India's Asian Relations', organised by School of Social Sciences, Manipur University in collaboration with Ananta Centre, New Delhi was held at Lamyanba Shanglen today.
The lecture was delivered by Dr Sugata Bose, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha & Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
The programme started with a welcome remark by Dr Rajen Singh Laishram, Department of Political Science, MU.
Dr Naorem Lokendra Singh, Professor of History, MU gave a brief biographical profile of Dr Sugata Bose, and his association with the Nationalist 'Bose' family of West Bengal.
Dr Bose served as Director of Graduate Studies in History at Harvard and was the Founding Director of Harvard's South Asia Institute.
His scholarship has contributed to a deeper understanding of colonial and post-colonial political economy, the relation between rural and urban domains, inter-regional arenas of travel, trade and imagination across the Indian Ocean, and Indian ethical discourses, political philosophy and economic thought.
His published works include the much-acclaimed A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire and His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire.
Dr Amar Yumnam, Professor of Economics, Manipur Central University remarked that listening to Dr Bose was an emotional experience which is more than an academic engagement.
In his Lecture titled, "India's Asian Relation" Dr Sugata Bose dwelled on the nascent churnings in the 20th century that led to the evolution of the Asian entity, the very idea of Asia beyond geographical boundaries, the values associated with this great continent, and which today has recovered a global position.
In the discourse on the idea of Asia and the Indian connection, Dr Bose deliberated how Rabindranath Tagore occupies an imminent position, and his bagging of the Nobel Prize is a testimony to the ideal.
Dr Bose underscored that modern history can be interpreted as the interplay of multiple universities and identified the roles played by not only Tagore but also by Okakura and Subhaschandra Bose, wherein they presented their views on universalism, patriotism and internationalism.