Welcome to 8th National Young Historians’ Seminar, 2024
(2nd Chapter)
Bharat is rapidly transforming and striving to revive the glory of its ancient intellectual heritage. The objective of the seminar is to explore and elucidate the history of Bharat through a comprehensive examination of its ancient knowledge systems and cultural heritage. The seminar will be a two-day event with paper presentations, keynote speeches, workshops and panel discussions. The core theme of this seminar is Bharatiya Knowledge System in National Education Policy (2020) and Vision for Writing History. The topics of the seminar include, but are not limited to:
- Historical Geography of Bharat
- Social life and Ethos, Craft, Corporate Life
- Science and Technology, Bharatiya Calendar System
- Art, Literature, Management, Political Thought, Law
- Military Strategy, Agriculture, Hydro-Science, Metallurgy
- Democratic Ethos, Philosophy
- Heritage Conservation of Assam
About IIT Guwahati
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, the sixth member of the IIT fraternity, was established in 1994. The academic programme of IIT Guwahati commenced in 1995. At present the Institute has eleven departments, seven inter-disciplinary academic centres and five schools covering all the major engineering , science, healthcare, management and humanities disciplines, offering B.Tech., B.Des., M.A., M.Des., M.Tech., M.Sc., MBA and Ph.D. programmes. Within a short period of time, IIT Guwahati has been able to build up world class infrastructure for carrying out advanced research and has been equipped with state-of-the-art scientific and engineering instruments. Besides its laurels in teaching and research, IIT Guwahati has been able to fulfil the aspirations of people of the North East region to a great extent since its inception in 1994.
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati's campus is on a sprawling 285 hectares plot of land on the north bank of the river Brahmaputra around 20 kms from the heart of the city. With the majestic Brahmaputra on one side, and with hills and vast open spaces on others, the campus provides an ideal setting for learning.
IIT Guwahati is the only academic institution in India that occupied a place among the top 100 world universities – under 50 years of age – ranked by the London-based Times Higher Education (THE) in the year 2014 and continues to maintain its superior position even today in various International Rankings. IIT Guwahati gained rank 32 globally in the ‘Research Citations per Faculty’ category and overall 364 rank in the QS World University Rankings 2024 released recently. IIT Guwahati has retained the 7th position among the best engineering institutions of the country in the ‘India Rankings 2023’ declared by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the Union Ministry of Education. IIT Guwahati has been also ranked 2nd in the ‘Swachhata Ranking’ conducted by the Govt. of India. IIT Guwahati has been ranked as the top-ranked University in 2019 for IT developers by HackerRank in the Asia-Pacific region. Also, IIT Guwahati ranks 6th globally in Sustainable Development Goal 7 (Affordable and clean energy) of the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2023.
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