Name of the Activity: Ashokan Edicts: Early Forms of Mass Communication in Ancient India
Type of Activity: Peer Lecture
Date/ Duration of Activity (from-to): 17th May 2025
Time: 14:30-16:00
Details of Resource persons: Prof. Devina Gupta
of Participants: – 4
Objective of the event: To present a forum for the faculty member to present her research on Ashokan edicts as early forms of mass communication in ancient India
Brief description of the event: The Department of History organised a peer lecture entitled ‘Ashokan Edicts: Early Forms of Mass Communication in Ancient India’ on May 17, 2025. It was conducted in room 547 from 2:30 pm to 4 pm. The lectured enquired into one of the edicts (both pillar and rock) as earliest forms of communication in ancient India. The lecture differentiated how this was different from the kind of mass communication espoused by the kind propagated in modern Europe. The lecture ended with how these edicts were the earliest form of communication intended by the monarch for his hitherto heterogeneous subjects spanning from the northwest to the south of India.
Outcome of the event: The lecture was successful as it elicited exciting conversations and feedback among the faculty members and opened an avenue to present their findings in front of an informal informed audience.
On 1.4.2023, the Department of History, in collaboration with the NSS unit of the Bhawanipur Education Society College, organised an Extension and Outreach Programme, at Shanti Rani Primary School at Bansdroni. The programme was organised to celebrate World Water Day (held each year on 22nd March). The faculty and the students had all assembled together …
“The secret of going ahead is getting stared” -Mark Twain Everything after all, begins with an idea, and that was the focus of the “Ideation” session. The Bhawanipur entrepreneurship and start-ups training collective hosted the session with the goal of giving students an understanding of how business ideas are generated. The session was held …
The Department of Political Science organised a field trip to Netaji Bhawan for the students of Semester IV. A total of 47 students accompanied by 4 teachers visited the ancestral house of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. They witnessed the German-made Wanderer car that was used by Netaji in his escape from India in January 1941. …
Name of the Activity: Rabindranath and the Historiography of Contemporary Bengal (7th Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Memorial Lecture 2025) Type of Activity: Memorial Lecture / Academic Lecture Date/Duration of Activity (from–to): 10 December 2025 Time: 4:00 PM onwards Details of Resource Person: Professor Bhaskar Chakraborty – Eminent historian and scholar No. of Participants: 63 Objective of the …
Ashokan Edicts: Early Forms of Mass Communication in Ancient India
Name of the Activity: Ashokan Edicts: Early Forms of Mass Communication in Ancient India
Type of Activity: Peer Lecture
Date/ Duration of Activity (from-to): 17th May 2025
Time: 14:30-16:00
Details of Resource persons: Prof. Devina Gupta
of Participants: – 4
Objective of the event: To present a forum for the faculty member to present her research on Ashokan edicts as early forms of mass communication in ancient India
Brief description of the event: The Department of History organised a peer lecture entitled ‘Ashokan Edicts: Early Forms of Mass Communication in Ancient India’ on May 17, 2025. It was conducted in room 547 from 2:30 pm to 4 pm. The lectured enquired into one of the edicts (both pillar and rock) as earliest forms of communication in ancient India. The lecture differentiated how this was different from the kind of mass communication espoused by the kind propagated in modern Europe. The lecture ended with how these edicts were the earliest form of communication intended by the monarch for his hitherto heterogeneous subjects spanning from the northwest to the south of India.
Outcome of the event: The lecture was successful as it elicited exciting conversations and feedback among the faculty members and opened an avenue to present their findings in front of an informal informed audience.
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