Samipya 2000 Vol 17 Ank 03 04

SR No.: 535817
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bhartiben Shelat, R T Savalia
Publisher: Bholabhai Jeshingbhai Adhyayan Sanshodhan Vidyabhavan
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 84
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Samipya, & India
File Size: 8 MB

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Dynamics of National Awareness in Gujarat Before 1885*
(A Case-Study of Verbal Tradition)
Dr. Rasesh Jamindar It is indeed very gratifying for me to be here amidst you all this morning. I am extremely grateful to the chair-person and the members of the executive committee of the Indian History and Culture Society for their magnanimity in bestowing on me the honour of presiding this annual gathering which I very humbly feel I do not deserve. Nevertheless, I feel it deemed indeed to be grately honoured in having an opportunity to address this august assembly of eminent historians and archaeologists; but I do seek your indulgence to admit that I have no special claim to preside over this gathering. I have, nevertheless, accepted this singular honour just because I am associated with this august body since its inception and was vice-chairperson for sometime. My most sincere thanks to all distinguished members of this Society.
The IHCS is now running in its 21st year. Its membership continues to grow every year. It has been making persistent endeavours for promoting the cause of developing methods of history writing in our own settings thereby making our understanding and concept of history indigenously more clear and transparent by helping us to use our own sources and resources on the basis of our own thinking and notion which we have inherited since Vedas. It has made pioneering contributions for the promotion of exchanges of ideas and experiences we have had in our field of research for understanding our cultures through such annual sessions and by publishing annual proceedings for adorning our own library.
It is indeed very heartening that a very healthy tradition is being set up in holding three annual conferences together of three academic societies, though different in their outlook but surely interdisciplined, which would certainly integrate knowledge while interacting with one another as all of them are interdependent.
We are meeting in Shreenagar - Garhwal, a land endowed with some of the richest natural beauty and located in the very foots of our celebrated Himalayas, under the pleasant auspices of H.N.B. Garhwal University. This is one of the most important historical towns and cultural centres enroute to the famous shrines of Badrināth and Kedārnāth. The very venue of our sessions for three days i.e. this university has been certainly helping youths of this region to get them abreast with university level research-oriented education and be in the main stream of our nation's
. Presidential Address for the Indian History and Culture Society, Shreenagar-Garhwal Session,
16-10-97 to 18-10-97. + Retd. Professor and Head of the Dept. of History and India Culture, Gujarat Vidyapith,
Ahmedabad Dynamics of National Awareness in Gujarat Before 1885]
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