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New Delhi:
The National Archives of India will celebrate its 120th Foundation
Day Friday with a seminar titled 'Politics, Philosophy and
Aesthetics: Revisiting Gandhi, Tagore and Iqbal'.
Set up in 1891 in Kolkata as the Imperial Records Department, the
National Archives was transferred to the capital in 1911 and moved
to its current premises in 1926.
A spokesperson for the National Archives of India said: "Though
there has been innumerable research on the three historic
personalities, the seminar proposes to review these three iconic
figures of south Asia who carved out spaces for themselves in
poetry and philosophy."
Understanding them in their context and analysing the sources of
their philosophical inspiration and reflecting on their reception
in South Asia, the conference will look at themes like "religion,
aesthetics and post colonialism with special reference to Tagore
and Iqbal", "Processes of canonization in post-colonial India:
nations, poets and politics of heritage", "South Asian modernity
and its limits: Tagore, Gandhi and Iqbal", "The idea of
reconstruction: National education and Rural Development", and
"Partition and its legacy".
As part of the foundation day celebrations, the National Archives
will also hold an exhibition on the Dandi March, based on original
documents and photographs, from March 11-18.
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