Captain Amarinder Singh

Chief Minster, Government of Punjab

Cordially invites you to

Webinar on

REVISITING HISTORY AND LITERATURE

OF THE JALLIANWALA BAGH MASSACRE (1919)

To commemorate the
THE CENTENARY OF JALLIANWALA BAGH
MASSACRE

On
13th August, 2020
(10.30 am to 4.30 pm)

Live Streaming Link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZRm500zKs4WWq7n2AQxsuA/featured

GURU NANAK DEV UNIVERSITY

AMRITSAR
R.S.V.P.
Prof. Jaspal Singh Sandhu
(Vice-Chancellor)

Prof. Amandeep Bal

(Co-ordinator)
Email: head.history@gndu.ac.in, 9815449974
 Webinar on

REVISITING HISTORY AND LITERATURE

OF THE JALLIANWALA BAGH MASSACRE (1919)
Programme
13th August, 2020
ACADEMIC SESSION- I
(10:30 am to 1:00 pm)
Introduction of the Theme
Amandeep Bal (Prof.) GNDU, Amritsar (10:30 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.)

Salil Misra (Prof.) Ambedkar University, Delhi.

“The Legacy of Jallianwala Bagh” (10.40 a.m. to 11.10 a.m.)

Sucheta Mahajan (Prof.) , JNU, New Delhi.

“Commemorating the Massacre
Memorialising Imperial Punjab: Jallianwala Bagh” (11:10 a.m. to 11:40 a.m.)

Navdeep Singh Suri , Retired Diplomat, an independent writer

Panel Discussion: Jallianwala Bagh through the Lens of a
Survivor: Nanak Singh’s Khooni Baisakhi (11:40 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.)

Address of Chief Minister, Government of Punjab

Captain Amarinder Singh
(12:10 PM to 12:30 PM)
Book Release: Re-Imagining Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (1919-2019)

Sarmishtha Dutta Gupta, Independent writer, Calcutta

“ Jallianwala Bagh, Rabindera Nath
Tagore & the Politics of Memory ” (12:35 pm to 1:00 pm)
ACADEMIC SESSION- II (2:30 PM to 4:30 PM)

Sukhdev Singh Sohal, (Former Professor, GNDU, Amritsar)

“ Episode, Tragedy or Massacre:
The Jallianwala Bagh (1919) in Historiography” (2:30 pm to 3:00 pm)

Dr. Rakshanda Jalil , literary historian and critic

“ Jallianwala Bagh: In the Mirror of
Urdu Prose & Poetry” (3:00 pm to 3:30 pm)

Chaman Lal , Former Prof., JNU, New Delhi

“Looking at Jallianwala Bagh through
the prism of Hindi novel ‘Amritsar 1919” (3:30 pm to 4:00 pm)

Bodh Prakash (Prof.) Ambedkar University, Delhi

“ Jallianwala Bagh and Representing the Nation”
(4:00 pm to 4:30 pm)
Co-Moderator:
Dr. Shefali Chauhan Amandeep Bal (Prof.)
(Co-ordinator & Moderator)
Head, Department of History