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UGC Dr. Ambedkar Studies Centre, Vidyant Hindu PG College, University of Lucknow organised a National Seminar on ‘Dr. BR Ambedkar: Perspectives of Social Justice’ on March 14, 2011 at RaiUmanathbali Auditorium, Quiserbagh, Lucknow. This seminar was a culminating event of all programmes held earlier under the auspices of the Centre.
Suggested sub-themes of the seminar were:

  • Social Justice: Theoretical Perspectives (including traditional and modern perspectives of social justice)
  • Social Justice: Socio-cultural Perspectives
  • Social Justice: Political Perspectives and the Perspective of Nation Building
  • Social Justice: Economic and Developmental Perspectives
  • Social Justice: Historical Perspectives
  • Social Justice: Feminist Perspectives
  • Social Justice: Subaltern Perspectives
  • Social Justice : Environmental Perspectives
  • Perspective on Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies

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There were four sessions in the Seminar. A detailed description of these sessions and names of paper-presenters are as follows:

Inaugural Session Topic On Chair Co-Chair Keynote Address
  Lighting of Lamp, Floral Offerings, Manglacharan Prof B Hanumaiah,Vice Chancellor, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow Prof A Ramaiah Chairperson, Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies, School of Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
      Dr. Amalendu Dutta President, Managing Committee, Vidyant Hindu PG College, Lucknow
Technical Session I Social Justice: Economic and Feminist Perspectives Prof A Ramaiah Chairperson, Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policies, School of Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Dr. DNNS Yadav, Department of Law, University of Lucknow Dr. Shura Darapuri Department of History, Himachal University, Shimla
        Dr. ChitwanVerma Department of English,
Sri JNPG College, Lucknow
        Dr. Bharti Pandey Department of Economics,
Sri JNPG College, Lucknow
        Dr. Manjula Upadhyay Department of Econmics, AP Sen Girls PG College, Lucknow
Technical Session II Social Justice: Socio-Politico-Economic Perspectives Prof Kameshwar Choudhury, Dean, School for Ambedkar Studies, Babasaheb BhimraoAmbedkar University, Lucknow   Dr. Sanjay Singh Department of Sociology,
Dr. RML National Law University, Lucknow
    Prof RK Dixit, Department of Political Science, University of Lucknow   Dr. LC Mallaiah Department of Economics, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow
        Dr. Dharam Kaur Principal, Vidyant Hindu PG College, Lucknow
        Prof AP Tiwari Department of Economics,
Dr. Shakuntala Mishra Rehabilitation University, Lucknow

Seminar was a great success as participation in the event was extensive but focused. Out of about 270 delegates, 70 presented their papers on various sub-themes of the seminar.