On Tuesday, 17 March 2020, the Pridi Banomyong International College, Thammasat University, Tha Prachan campus, will present a new event in its Indian Studies Lecture Series.
India-Thailand Relations: Prospects of Research will take place from 1:30pm to 3:30pm in the PBIC Meeting Room on the second floor of the Pridi Banomyong International College, Tha Prachan campus. All TU students and other TU community members are cordially invited to attend.
The event will present information about exchange between the Kingdom and India. The Thammasat University Library owns a number of books about comparative research in Thailand and India.
Among other studies in the TU Library collection reflecting a shared perspective on research between Thailand and India are Fisheries and aquaculture research capabilities and needs in Asia: studies of India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the ASEAN region by The World Bank and Doing legal research in Asian countries: China, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, as well as Ganga-Mekong conference 2018 : proceedings co-organised by Pridi Banomyong International College (PBIC), Thammasat University, Thailand and Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR), India in cooperation with India Studies Centre, Thammasat University; Shweta Sinha editor.
Distinguished speakers
At the 17 March event, the speakers will include Assistant Professor Samhita Chaudhuri,Ph.D., of the Department of Geography at Bijoy Krishna Girls College, Howrah, India.
According to its website, Bijoy Krishna Girls’ College offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and is affiliated to University of Calcutta. It is the sole girls’ college in Howrah district.
Howrah is a district of the West Bengal state in eastern India. Howrah district is a highly urbanized area of West Bengal. Howrah city has been called the Glasgow of India and the Sheffield of India, after two industrialized cities in the United Kingdom.
The vision and mission of Bijoy Krishna Girls’ College are as follows:
Vision & Mission
Our commitments towards an enriched all encompassing development of our students have help us formulate our mission along the following lines:- To enlighten and impart proper education to our students so that they can find their own niche in the society. To generate social, economic and political awareness among the students in order to enable them to take up leading role in overall socio-economic development of the country at large. To promote the cause of girl students, emerging from socially and economically backward strata of the society and assist them in establishing their individual entity.
Its aim and objectives follow the motto Learning leads to emancipation:
Objectives
Established in 1947 on the eve of independence, with this vision, we have started following the under mentioned Mission and Objectives for our institution:
- Long cherished goal of socio-economic independence with special emphasis on the education of the girls
- Development of responsible and independent citizenship in the context of 21st century
- Empowerment of the girls through expansion of knowledge
- Achievement of academic excellence
- Development of participatory model of education with larger involvement of the stakeholders
- Making provision for affordable education
- Holistic and humanitarian education
- Quality upgradation of faculty members by encouraging research and introducing them with technology based newer methods for imparting education
- Encouraging an integrated approach to the development of the institution involving teaching, non-teaching and student members
- To continue with our much coveted CPE status with sustained effort and to move beyond it
- Symbiotic approach in education for a better tomorrow.
Its future plans include:
- To further strengthening of teaching learning system.
- To provide more support to students by introducing more skill development courses.
- To develop the potential of the students through placement training by topnoch company executives.
- To promote faculty development programmes so as to initiate path breaking research activities.
- To introduce more Postgraduate courses.
- To construct state of the act laboratories in Bio Science department.
- To get a land near the college campus for further expansion especially for the Postgraduate and Research facilities.
- To apply for autonomus status for the college and if possible elevate Bijoy Krishna Girls’ College, Howrah to University.
- To publish two international research journals –
- BKGC International Journal of Science & Management.
- BKGC International Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences under R&D Cell, Bijoy Krishna Girls’ College, Howrah.
Another speaker at the 17 March event will be Dr. Karmveer Singh of the Department of History and Indian Culture, University of Rajasthan, India.
The University of Rajasthan is a public and state university and one of the oldest universities in the Indian state of Rajasthan, located in the city of Jaipur.
Rajasthan is a state in northern India. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population.
The TU Library collection contains a number of books about aspects of Rajasthan.
As all TU students know, on the Underground 1 level of the Pridi Banomyong Library, Tha Prachan campus, The India Corner contains books generously donated by the Embassy of India in the Kingdom of Thailand, located in Thawi Watthana, Bangkok.
The books available on the shelves of the India Collection about Rajasthan include: Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan, or, the Central and Western Rajput states of India by James Tod, edited with an introduction and notes by William Crooke.; Arts and crafts of Rajasthan by Aman Nath & Francis Wacziarg; Colourful Rajasthan for all seasons by Dharmendar Kanwar; Colours of a desert land, Rajasthan by Dr. Surendra Sahai; Jaipur & the beautiful cities of Rajasthan by Rajaram Panda; and Materials, methods & symbolism in the pichhvai painting tradition of Rajasthan by Desmond Peter Lazaro.
Among noted alumni of the University of Rajasthan is Ramkumar Singh, an Indian screenwriter, Hindi fiction author, film lyricist, film critic and columnist. TU students may borrow his books by using the TU Library Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service.
These include a novel, the political satire Zed Plus, published in 2015. He also wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of his book, also entitled Zed Plus.
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