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Dr. K.R. Narayan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia is going to organize an International Conference on “Election 2014: Implications for Dalit and Minorities in India” on September 2 & 3, 2014.
The Inaugural Session of the Conference is scheduled to be held on September 2, 2014 at 9.30 AM in Tagore Hall, Dayar-e-Mir Taqi Mir, Administrative Block, JMI.
Professor Sukhdeo Thorat, Chairperson, ICSSR shall inaugurate the Conference.
Prof. Talat Ahmad, hon’ble Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia shall Chair the Inaugural Session of the Conference.
Professor Sudha Pai of Centre for Political Studies and Rector (Pro-Vice-Chancellor), Jawaharlal Nehru University shall deliver the Keynote Address on this occasion. She will speak on “Analyzing the Performance of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha Elections 2014”.
The Closing Remarks will be delivered by Professor Ramesh Dadhich, Member Secretary, ICSSR.
A number of important dignitaries, research scholars and academicians across the country and abroad are expected to be present in the two-day Conference to discuss and deliberate on broad topics relevant to the theme of the Conference.
These include Prof. Ratna Kapoor (LLM, Harvard) Geneva, Dr. Shruti Kapila, Cambridge, Dr. Pritam Sigh, Oxford Brookes, UK, Dr. Malavika Kasturi, Toronto, Canada, Prof. Jyotirmaya Sharma, Chander Bhan Prasad, Mani Shankar Aiyer, Prof. Sandeep Shastri, Sidharth Vardharajan, Pavan Varma, Badri Narayan, Dr. Ruby Heredia, John Dayal, Ajoy Bose, Nilanjana Mukhopadhya, Shankarshan Thakur, Prof. Biswajit Das, Dr. Asha Sarangi, Dr. Mukul Kesavan, Prof. Sanjoy Hazarika, Prof. Rizwan Qaiser, Dr. Dwaipayan Bhattacharya, Dr. Himal Ahmad, Dr. Prasenjit Bose, Dr. Maidul Islam, Prof. Ramu Mannivannan, Anvar Ibrahim and others.
