The West Odisha History Congress (WOHC) held its fifth online webinar series on Sunday on the topic of “Techno Culture in Gandhara: Based on Material Culture”. Dr Trilochan Jena, secretary WOHC delivered his welcome address and introduced the guest at the beginning, which was followed by an address of Dr BC Pradhan, former Professor of GM Autonomous College, Sambalpur.
Dr Pradhan enlightened the participants by his informative and insightful speech. He spoke about the location of Gandhara Mahajanapada, characteristics and features of Gandhara Art and socioeconomic and political conditions of contemporary Gandhara region.
Dr Pranab Kumar Chattopadhyaya, former visiting faculty, Archaeometallurgy, Institute of Archaeology, New Delhi, who was the resource person of the webinar, delivered his talk on the topic. He highlighted on Copper-Bronze technology adopted by Gandhara artists during early historic period.
In an interactive session, participants asked several questions including ancient metallurgy of contemporary India and recent trends of researches that are going on in historical and archaeological studies.
Dr Baba Mishra, president, WOHC, Dr PK Dandsena, vice-president, Dr Ranvir Singh, treasurer, Dr Sakir Hussain of Ispat College, Rourkela and students of different colleges participated in the webinar. Dr Sudam Deep of Sonepur College moderated the webinar and Raj Kumar Rate of Khariar Autonomous College offered a vote of thanks.