Noted historians from the country and abroad will gather and discuss on the research references of the history and archaeology of South Asian countries, including India, on February 15.
Chief Minister Raman Singh will inaugurate the five-day, fifth international convention of South Asian Archaeological Society, jointly organised by the Culture and Archaeological department of the State Government and Pt Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur at village Nimora, here, on Saturday morning at 10.30.
Tourism and Culture Minister Ajay Chandrakar will preside over the function, while Agriculture, Water Resources and Religious Trusts and Endowement Minister Brijmohan Agrawal, Vice Chancellor of Pt Ravishankar Shukla University Prof SK Pandey will be the special guests and Chairman of lalit Kala Academy New Delhi and historian Dr KK Chakravarty will attend the function as Saraswat guest.
Registration of all the invited experts and representatives for the international convention will be done on February 14. During the convention, a research symposium based on the archaeological, ancient history and culture of different states in the country and South Asian countries will be held on February 18.
Archaeological specialists from Nepal, China, Japan, Afghanistan, South Korea, Sri lanka, Iran, Bangladesh, France and America will participate in the symposium. Research papers on the theme of “status of scientific archaeology” will be presented. A special session titled ‘Chhattisgarh Ki Jhalak’ centred on the history and archaeology will be held at the symposium.
About 150 archaeological specialists, historians and noted writers, including Dr KN Dixit from Delhi, Prof Jamkhedkar, Prof Diglurkar, Prof KP Rao, Prof MlK Murthy and Prof Basant Shinde from Maharashtra, Prof Robin Choudhar and Prof Alok Tripathi from Asam, Prof KK Bhan from Gujarat, Dr Arun Kumar Sharma, Prof lS Nigam, Dr RN Vishwakarma, Dr Dinesh Nandini Parihar, Gl Raikwar, Prof Prabhulal Mishra, Prof Vishnu Singh Thakur, Dr Ramendra Nath Mishra from Chhattisgarh, blog-writer lalit Sharma have been invited for the convention.
On February 17, all the participants will make a study tour of Chhattisgarh’s famous historical place, Sirpur. The international convention will conclude on February 18 at 3.30 pm, in which Chhattisgarh Governor Shekhar Dutt will be the chief guest.