Programme Schedule
An International Conference in Honor of the 100th Birth Anniversary of Professor P. L. Bhargava
Organized by
The Department of Sanskrit, University of Rajasthan , Jaipur
19 – 21 December 2009
| December 18th | |
| 07:30 -09:00 PM | Welcome Dinner |
| December 19th | |
| 09:00 -10:00 AM | Registration & Tea |
| 10:00 -12:00 PM | Inaugural Function Welcome by Dr. Vinod Shastri Honouring of Special Guests Remarks by Shri Divakar Bhargava Plenary Address by Dr. Vachaspati Upadhyaya Remarks by Dr. Johannes Bronkhorst Remarks by Shri Pratapsingh Khatchariavas Remarks by Honorable Vice-Chancellor Dr. Farhan Qamar Remarks by Chief Guest The Honorable Governor Kamala ji Expression of Thanks by Dr. Lakshmi Sharma |
| 12:00 – 01:00 PM | Lunch |
| 01:30 – 02:00 PM | Plenary Lecture Dr. Devarshi Kala Nath Shastry |
| 02:05 – 02:45 PM | Plenary Lecture Dr. Greg Bailey The Puranas as Sources for History, but what kind of history? |
| 02:50 – 03:20 PM | Invited Lecture Dr. Abhijit Ghosh Rationale Behind the Parentages of the Pandavas: Honouring the Sequence of a Vedic Tradition? |
| 03:25 – 03:50 PM | Tea Break |
| 03:55 – 04:25 PM | Invited Lecture Dr. Liudmila Khokhlova Traces of Indo-Aryan on the Territory of Former Soviet Union and Russia |
| 04:30 – 04:55 PM | Invited Lecture Dr. Hari Ram Acharya |
| 05:00 – 06:00 PM | Free Time/ Tea/ Mingling |
| 06:00 – 07:30 PM | Cultural Performance |
| 07:30 – 09:00 PM | Dinner |
| December 20th | |
| 09:00 – 09:25 AM | Registration & Tea |
| 09:30 – 10:10 AM | Plenary Lecture Dr. Ashok Aklujkar Why Asoka is older than he looks |
| 10:15 – 10:55 AM | Plenary Lecture Dr. Johannes Bronkhorst Candragupta Maurya and His Importance for Indian History |
| 11:00 – 11:25 AM | Tea Break |
| 11:30 – 12:10 PM | Plenary Lecture D.ssa Irma Piovano |
| 12:15 – 01:30 PM | Lunch |
| 01:35 – 02:00 PM | Invited Lecture Dr. Madan Mohan Sharma |
| 02:05 – 02:35 PM | Invited Lecture Prof. Boris Zakharyin Soviet and Russian Historians on Aryans’ Problem (A Synopsis) |
| 02:40 – 03:05 PM | Invited Lecture Dr. Subhash Taneja Kalhana ki Rajtarangini |
| 03:10 – 03:35 PM | Tea Break |
| 03:40 – 05:55 PM | TBA (Dr. Madan Lal Sharma, others) |
| 06:00 – 07:00 PM | Free Time |
| 07:00 – 09:00 PM | Banquet & Commemorative Talks |
| December 21st | |
| 09:00 – 09:25 AM | Registration & Tea |
| 09:30 – 11:30 AM | Plenary Lecture by Dr. Satyavrat Shastri |
| Valedictory Function | |
| 12:15 – 01:15 PM | Organized Sight Seeing Tour |