OPENING CEREMONY & INAUGUAL ADDRESS - Dr. PADMA SUBRAHMANYAM , Dr. SACHCHIDANAND JOSHI, Dr. SUBROTO GANGOPADHYAY
GLIMPSES OF VEDIC EDUCATION (KERALIYA ANYONYAM)
PLENARY - Prof. KAPIL KAPOOR
The study of ancient India in modern India : a sociopolitical perspective By Prof. DILIP CHAKRABARTI
भारतविद्याप्रयोजनदर्शनम् By Prof. PIYUSHKANT DIKSHIT
Role of VADA in Nyaya Darshan By Prof. VN JHA
Pandit Kota Venkatachalam’s Work In Re-Constructing Indic Chronology from Primary Sources By Shri. SASTRY YANAMANDRA
The B of ABC of Indian Chronology: Dating Buddha’s Parinirvāṇa, A critique of Heinz Bechert’s Echo Chamber By Smt. MANOGNA SASTRY AND Shri. MEGH KALYANASUNDARAM
The Epoch of Buddha Nirvana (1865 BCE) By Shri. VEDVEER ARYA
Problems in the Chronology of the Mauryan Kings Chandragupta and Ashoka; Framing the Issue By Smt. Sumedha Verma Ojha
PANEL DISCUSSION1: SYSTEMS OF INQUIRY CHAIR : Dr. SARITA SESHAGIRI By Dr. VISHWA ADLURI, Dr. JOYDEEP BAGCHEE, Dr. SUDHIR LALL, Shri. NEERAJ ATRI
The beginnings of Indian agriculture By Dr. ANIL SURI
Time Frame of Vedic Civilization: Reality or Mystery By Shri. SRINJOY ROY CHOUDHURY
Antiquity of Indic Civilization Based On Agastya Evidence By Smt. RUPA BHATY
REVISTING THE DATE OF RIGVEDA - Prof. GAYA CHARAN TRIPATHI
By KEYNOTE 4 - Prof. KS KANNAN
THE PRISON OF HISTORY By KEYNOTE 5 - Dr. VISHWA ADLURI
108 “Deliberate” Methodological Fallacies in South Asian Population Genetics By Shri. SUDARSHAN T.NADATHUR
Validating the Date of Lord Ram’s Birth using Astronomy and Astrology By Shri. ANKIT SHAW
Reverse Engineering the Western Alphabet: How and When the Western Alphabet's Sequence of Letter Phonemes was Modelled after an Ancient Indian Abugida By Shri. WIM BORSBOOM
GENEALOGY, HISTORY & CULTURE: SOME INSIGHTS OF RECONSTRUCTING REGIONAL HISTORY OF MITHILA By KEYNOTE 6 - Dr. MADHU KHANNA
By Dr. JAYANTHI KUMARESH (VINA), Shri. KUMARESH RAJAGOPALAN (VIOLIN), Shri. JAYACHANDRA RAO (MRIDANGAM), Shri. SANKAARARAMAN KRISHNASWAMY (GHATAM)
INDIAN CHRONOLOGY: RIGHTING THE WRONG WITHOUT WRONGING THE RIGHT By Dr. CK RAJU
Exploring ‘Tree’ – a 3-D design prototype - a network of seed (core) and ramification (periphery) By KEYNOTE 8 - Prof. JOY SEN
By KEYNOTE 9 - Shri. WIM BORSBOOM
By KEYNOTE 10 - Dr. BIZAY SONKAR SHASTRI
Archeological Evidence supporting “DeviChandraguptam”, which establishes the ascension of Chandragupta2 of Guptas By Shri. RAMPRASAD SOGHAL
Bhaartiya chintan mein kaala- mimaansaa kaa swaroop (भारतीय विन्तन में काल-मीमाांसा का स्वरूप) By Prof. RAMAKANT ANGIRAS
Victories of Indian Warriors against Islamic Invasion and Rule from 8th to 18th Century By Smt. MANOSHI SINHA
CLOSING CEREMONY - SUDHIR LALL/Prof. KAMALESH DATTA TRIPATHI (VALEDICTORY ADDRESS) DR. SUBROTO GANGOPADHYAY (VOTE OF THANKS) (PATH FORWARD)
Travel Narratives in the Mahabharata By Shri. JIJITH NADUMURI RAVI
Second Urbanization, Mahabharata and India’s Intellectual Tradition: Recent Perspectives BY Dr. B.S.HARISHANKAR
Abhimanyu Effect – a new understanding combining ancient wisdom and modern sciences By Shri. SHIVAKUMAR BELAVADI
Astronomical Evidence of the date of Mahabharata War By Dr. M.L.RAJA
Chronology or Configuration: Issues in Vaak in Philosophy of BharÅtÅhari By Shri. RAJNISH MISHRA
The Ripples of Time :: Chronicling Ancient Board Games By Shri. AMAN GOPAL SUREKA
Interrogating the Brahminical Discourses of Subaltern Studies: Some Reflections By Shri. RAVI SAXENA
Chronology of Sanitation in India – What Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Must Learn From History By Shri. SAHANA SINGH
Temple Architecture and Rituals of Kerala:Tradition and Culture Corpus By Dr. JAYAN ERANCHERI
An Exploration based on the triad of Syntax, Semantics, and Semiotics: Case study of few chosen Indus valley seals and petroglyphs By Prof. JOY SEN, Smt. TANIMA BHATTACHARYA
PANEL DISCUSSION2: IDENTITIES & RIGHTS IN CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC CHAIR: Dr. SARATH MENON By Shri. J SAI DEEPAK, Shri. VIVEK AGNIHOTRI, Shri. RAJEEV SREENIVASAN, Shri. ARIHANT PAWARIYA, Shri. SANJAY DIXIT
Breaking the colonial ‘Mindcuffs’- how language has controlled the Hindu psyche By Shri. AMAR TRIVEDI
Antiquity of Varanasi By Prof. JOY SEN
Historical Glimpses of Indic Civilization By Shri. NILESH NILKANTH OAK
Intense discussions on various aspects of history. Key questions asked by the anchor of the session will be tackled by scholars, who will be seated around roundtables. The discussions will be summarized by interlocuters at each table. Several rounds of questions will be asked in order to drill down to the most critical issues. The key objectives of this roundtable will be: 1) Strengthening Sanskritic lenses for framing narratives 2) Developing new research initiatives and research grant proposals, 3) Empowering traditional and regional language scholars An outcome document will be prepared on the basis of recommendations and conclusions that ensue from these roundtable discussions, which will be presented to policy makers.
MEDIA CO-ORDINATOR Smt. SAHANA SINGH
New Discovery of Yavanas/ Insights into Antiquity of Yoga By Shri. MRUGENDRA VINOD/ Dr. SRIPAD GHALIGI
Chronology of Saiva Religion/ Sthala Purana of Andal Temple By Dr. T. GANESAN, Dr. SAS SARMA/ Dr. NANDINI MURALI
Arunachal Purana/ Impact of Indic knowledge on Modern Education By Dr. R. SUBRAMONY/ Dr. S. RUKMINI
Date of Buddha 1634 BCE. How Europeans distorted Bharat History By Shri. M. DAMODHAR RAO
Using Immutable Cultural Facets to establish Unity and Continuity of Indic Cultural Chronology: A Case Study By Shri. MOHAN RAGHAVAN
Out of India - By Land or by Sea? A Paradigm Shift in Ancient Migration Theories By Shri. WIM BORSBOOM
Devi Worship: Deep Continuities in Indian History By Smt. ARPITA MITRA
Strategic Imperatives, False Chronologies and Hurdles that confront an Indic Grand Narrative By Shri. RAJEEV SREENIVASAN
Revising Western Indologists’ Chronology By Dr. SHIVSHANKAR SASTRY
Indic Science of Consciousness: Chronological Relevance to The Indic Knowledge Traditions and Modern Science By Dr. KOTRA KRISHNA MOHAN AND Dr. SHASHI KIRAN REDDY
By Dr. SUSHMA JATOO, Prof. GIRISH NATH JHA, Prof. HEERAMAN TIWARI, Dr. VIRENDRA BANGROO
By Dr. ABHIJIT DIXIT, Dr. ARVIND SHARMA, Dr. MANI SHANKAR DWIVEDI, Dr. INDRESH SHUKLA, Dr. KRISHNA MISHRA
The Impact of Kashmir Shaivism on the Indic universe: a chronological perspective By Dr. K. GOPINATH
Addressing Some Discrepancies in the Chronology of Ancient Indian History : The Era of Yudhishtira and the Era of the Sakas By Smt. KAUSIKI CHEBBEYAM
Indic Chronology Through the Vedic Rituals By Dr. SITARAM AYYAGARI