International Conference on TAGORE AND NATIONALISM (05-07 November 2015)

Indian Institute of Advanced Study Rashtrapati Nivas, Shimla 171 005

International Conference

on

TAGORE AND NATIONALISM

      (05-07 November 2015)

    Programme

05 November, 2015, Thursday

9.15-9.45:         REGISTRATION

9.45-10.15:      Welcome address by CHETAN SINGH, Director,  IIAS.

                        Introducing the Theme: K.L. TUTEJA, Convener

10.15-11.00:   Inaugural Session: SABYASACHI BHATTACHARYA

                           11.00-1130:  Tea Break and Group Photo

Session I:   11.30-1.15

Chairperson:   Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

Speakers:           SUKANTA CHAUDHURI

                            Tagore, Nationalism and Imperialism

                            FAKRUL ALAM

                            Rabindranath Tagore at the Intersection of Nationalism and Modernity

                           K SATCHIDANANDAN

 The Pathography of Nationalism: Rabindranath Tagore and the National   Question

1.15-2.00: LUNCH BREAK

Session II: 2.00-3.45

Chairperson:    Chetan Singh

Speakers:         HARISH TRIVEDI

Tagore's Nationalism—and Premchand's

                           BHASKAR CHAKRABORTY

The Self, the Nation and the World Beyond It: Reading Tagore’s Travel Writings

                           STEFANO BEGGIORA

Tagore and nationalism: a perspective on Italy imagining the Indian Unity

3.45-4.00: TEA BREAK

Session III: 4.00-5.45

Chairperson:   K Satchidanandan

Speakers:         SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI

History, Identity and Nation in Tagore's Fiction

                           KRISHNA SEN

1910 and the Evolution of Tagore’s Vernacular Nationalism

                                    TILOTTAMA MISRA

Language, Nationalism and Tagore

November 6, 2015, Friday

Session IV: 9.45-11.30

Chairperson:               Harish Trivedi

Speakers:          MAHESH CHAMPAKLAL

Rabindranth Tagore’s Theater: Circumspect Nationalism in the Garden of Internationalism

                           SUKUMAR MURLIDHARAN

The Indian Enlightenment as Work in Progress: Looking back at the dialogue of Tagore, Gandhi and Ambedkar                            

                          SWAGATA K BASU

Ideas on Nationalism in Tagore and Unamuno: A Comparative Study                                         

Session V: 11.30-1.15

Chairperson: Indra Nath Choudhuri

Speakers:         R SIVA KUMAR

Santiniketan, the Making of a Community     

                            

ASMA RASHEED

“Living Gramophones”: Educators, Access and Equity in Higher Education Today

                              MRIDU RAI

Defending Nationalism: The Ideas of Rabindranath Tagore and Kashmiri Resistance

1.15-2.00: LUNCH BREAK

Session VI: 2.00-3.45

Chairperson:   Supriya Chaudhuri

Speakers:          BIRAJ M RATHI

Tagore’s Ghare Baire (Home and the World) and Char Adhyaya (Four Chapters): Rethinking Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Gender

                           AISHIKA CHAKRABORTY

Dancing against the Nation? The Politics of Kinesthetic of Tagore

                           SAURAV DASHTHAKUR

The useless and the ‘wonderful’: Work, leisure and being ‘at home in modernity’ in the music of Rabindranath Tagore

3.45-4.00: TEA BREAK

Session VII: 4.00-5.10

Chairperson:   Anindita Mukhopadhyay

Speakers          PATHIK ROY

From Rabindranath to Rituparno Ghosh: Domestic Space, Gender and the Nation in Chokher Bali

                          MANAS GHOSH

Nation and Partition: Home and Exile: Tagore reinvented by Ritwik Ghatak

November 7, 2015, Saturday

Session VIII: 9.45-11.30

Chairperson:   Krishna Sen

Speakers:          BASHABI FRASER

Rabindranath Tagore and the Spirit of India: an exploration of Tagore’s ideas on nationalism

                           SHAILESH PAREKH

Nationalism in Tagore’s Poetic Oeuvre

                           INDRA NATH CHOUDHURI

Tagore as a Transnational Writer                            

Session IX: 11.30-1.15

Chairperson:   Sukanta Chaudhuri

Speakers:         RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR

Grammar Lessons and Language Games: Rabindranath Tagore and Ludwig Wittgenstein on the Epistemology of Education

                        MAKARAND PARANJAPE

Tagore's Indignation: Swadeshi Samaj and the Political Novel

                       ANDREAS L KOTANIS

Rabindranath Tagore and Social Sensitivity 

Valedictory Remarks: 1.15-1.30

by CHETAN SINGH, Director, IIAS.

Award of Fellowship

Scholars working on the below-mentioned research areas may apply for the award of Fellowships at the Institute at any time of the year. Their applications would be considered as and when vacancies arise.

(a) Social, Political and Economic Philosophy;

(b) Comparative Indian Literature (including Ancient, Medieval, Modern Folk and Tribal);

(c) Comparative Studies in Philosophy and Religion;

(d) Comparative Studies in History (including Historiography and Philosophy of History);

(e) Education, Culture, Arts including performing Arts and Crafts;

(f) Fundamental Concepts and Problems of Logic and Mathematics;

(g) Fundamental Concepts and Problems of Natural and Life Sciences;

(h) Studies in Environment;

(i) Indian Civilization in the context of Asian Neighbours; and

(j) Problems of Contemporary India in the context of National Integration and Nation-building.

1. Scholars belonging to weaker sections of society and those who are differently abled/physical challenged will be given preference.

2. Applications from scholars working in, and on, the North Eastern region of India are encouraged.

3. Fellows will be required to submit a monograph on the completion of their term. The Institute will evaluate and consider this monograph for publication. The Institute will have the first right of publication and will have the copyright of the monograph submitted by the Fellow.

4. The term of Fellowship for independent and retired scholars would initially be for a period of one year, allowing continuation for another year after evaluation of the work done during the first year. In no case will this continue beyond two years. However, for in-service scholars who want to come for two years, the Fellowship would be awarded for a period of two years subject to the condition that continuation of the Fellowship for the second year would only be granted if the external Evaluation Report of the work done by the Fellow during the first year is positive.

7. The prescribed application form can be downloaded from the website: www.iias.ac.in.  The application on the prescribed form may be sent to the Secretary, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla 171005. Only applications in the prescribed application form would be considered by the Institute.

8. Fellows are expected to remain in residence from 1st March to 15th December. Their stay at the Institute during the winter months is optional. They may proceed on study tours during this period.

9. Proposals involving empirical work requiring data collection through extensive fieldwork would not be considered.

10. The pay of in-service Fellows will be protected. In addition, they will get 20 per cent of their basic pay in case they are maintaining a separate house at the place of their work, other than government accommodation. The Fellowship grant for Fellows who are independent scholars is Rs. 56,400/- per month.

11. The Institute provides hard furnished, rent-free accommodation to Fellows in cottages on the Rashtrapati Nivas Estate. In addition, scholars will be provided a fully furnished study, on a sharing basis, with computer and Internet facilities.

12. The Fellows will be provided with free stationary. They will have access to the Institute's vehicles for local travel on payment of nominal charges.

13. Fellows are entitled to free medical treatment at the dispensary of the Institute.

14. It is mandatory for in-service candidates to apply through proper channel.

15. Fellowship applications of scholars who have been Fellows of the Institute within a period of the last five years will not be considered.

16. The short-listed scholars would be invited to make a presentation before the Fellowship Award Committee (FAC). Scholars with proven academic credentials, as decided by Screening Committee, may be exempted from this provision. Those interested can get further details from the Secretary of the Institute who is available on e-mail at secretary@iias.ac.in and may be contacted on 0177-2831379.

Applications are received throughout the year by the Institute. These are considered once or twice a year depending upon the number of vacancies arising from time to time.

The application forms can be downloaded from here PDF | MS Word

विश्व हिंदी दिवस 2016 के उपलक्ष्य में आयोजित अंतरराष्ट्रीय हिंदी निबंध प्रतियोगिता

विश्व भर के हिंदी सेवियों को सादर नमस्कार।

विश्व हिंदी सचिवालय की ओर से विश्व हिंदी दिवस 2016 के उपलक्ष्य में आयोजित अंतरराष्ट्रीय  हिंदी  निबंध  प्रतियोगिता   के लिए प्रविष्टयाँ आमंत्रित।

देश विदेश में हिंदी की प्रगति के लिए पूर्व अथवा वर्तमान में कार्यरत संस्थाओं व व्यक्तियों के बारे में उन्हीं के देश के लोगों द्वारा खोज को प्रोत्साहित करने, उनके  योगदान, इतिहास, व्यक्तित्व-कृतित्व आदि के विषय में जानकारी को शब्दबद्ध करने तथा सचिवालय के मंचों के माध्यम से विश्व हिंदी समुदाय को उस जानकारी से अवगत कराने के उद्देश्य से प्रतियोगिता का विषय रखा गया है:

"मेरे देश की हिंदी  संस्था" अथवा  "मेरे  देश का  हिंदी  प्रचारक"

नियम व शर्तों तथा पुरस्कार राशि के लिए संलग्न पोस्टर देखें।

सचिवालय को विश्वास है कि आप सभी अपनी संस्थाओं, अपने मंचों आदि के माध्यम से प्रतियोगिता की सूचना का प्रसार करेंगे तथा अधिकाधिक  लोगों को इसमें भाग लेने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करेंगे।

अग्रिम धन्यवाद सहित,

सादर

.....

Namaskaar, 

The World Hindi Secretariat is organising an International Hindi Essay Competition in the context of World Hindi Day 2016. 

The competition aims at highlighting the past and present contribution made by institutions and individuals of various countries in the promotion of Hindi. To this end the competition shall encourage research on their history, life and works, documentation of these contributions and the diffusion of all these information through the various platforms available at the Secretariat. Hence the title of the essays shall be: 

“Mere desh ki Hindi Sansthaa” or “Mere desh ka Hindi Pracharak” 

Kindly see attached posters for terms and conditions and prizes. 

The Secretariat rests assured of your contribution in the onward transmission of the advert for the competition through your respective institutions and other platforms and is hopeful of the participation of a maximum number of people in this endeavour. 

With anticipated thanks.  

विश्व हिंदी सचिवालय 

फोन: +230-6761196, फैक्स +230-6761224

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Padmshri Dr Kiran Seth ji will be in Varanasi on 8th October 2015

Kiran Seth (born 1949) is an Indian academician, Professor Emeritus in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is most known as the founder of SPIC MACAY (1977), a non-profit organization which promotes Indian classical music, Indian classical dance, and other aspects Indian culture, amongst youth the world over; through its about 500 chapters and through conventions, baithaks, lectures and musical fests. In 2009, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India for his contribution to the Arts.
Seth was born on 27 April 1949. Seth's father, Bhojraj Seth, was a mathematician and the first professor at the IIT Kharagpur, established in 1951, while his mother Bhagawathi Seth was a housewife.[1] After completion of schooling from Modern School in Delhi, Seth secured AIR (All India Rank) 28 in the prestigious Joint Entrance Examination (IIT- JEE). Seth was one of the toppers of Mechanical Engineering (B.Tech) from IIT Kharagpur in the year 1970, after which he did his MS in 1971 and PhD in 1974 from Columbia University in New York.[citation needed.
He started his career working as a Member of the Technical Staff (MTS) at Bell Laboratories, New Jersey in 1974, a job he gave up to return to India in 1976 as an Assistant Professor to teach at IIT Delhi, where he has been working ever since. It was at IIT Delhi that he founded SPIC MACAY in 1977.
He has been member of several committees and boards, including, Central Advisory Board of Education, General Council of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Executive Board of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, and Advisory Board (Education) of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan.He has also served as Vice Chairman of the Governing Council of the Film and Television Institute in Pune, 2012 -14.
Seth is credited with setting up the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture amongst Youth (SPIC MACAY) in 1977, a society that has done phenomenal amount of work in the area of promoting classical music and culture amongst school and colleges in India and more recently in different parts of the world.
This is the biggest, nonprofit, voluntary, cultural, youth movement in independent India. Its contribution to Indian classical music & dance is unparalleled. Generations of Indians are today aware of Indian classical music and in a position to appreciate it, thanks to the efforts of Seth.
Today the movement conducts thousands of concerts, lec-dems, talks, yoga workshops, classic film shows, theater shows and craft workshops all over in schools and colleges so that the young person is inspired and awakened.
Awards and recognition
• Padma Shri – by the Government of India in 2009.
• Distinguished Alumnus Award by the IIT Kharagpur in 2010.
• NDTV Indian of the Year under Arts and Culture category in 2009.
• Sahitya Kala Parishad Award.
• Sanskriti Award.
• Harballabh Sangeet Sammelan Award in 2009.
• Keshav Kothari Smriti Award.
• Ustad Chand Khan Award in 2009.
• Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award 2011.
• FTII Vice Chairperson (2012-14)

India is world renowned for its varied classical music forms, classical dance forms and in totality, its rich culture and heritage. But, with the onslaught of rapid change and global homogenization, this multifaceted Indian heritage is being increasingly marginalized and diluted. SPIC MACAY seeks to conserve and promote an awareness of this rich and heterogeneous cultural tapestry amongst the youth of this country through focus on the classical arts, with their attendant legends, rituals, mythology and philosophy and to facilitate an awareness of their deeper and subtler values.

The Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth, often known by its initials (SPIC MACAY), is a voluntary youth movement which promotes Indian classical music, Indian classical dance, and other aspects of Indian culture. It is a movement with chapters in over 200 towns and cities all over the world.

The “Big Bang”- conception of the idea behind SPIC MACAY, happened way back in 1972. Kiran Seth, a young graduate from IIT Kharagpur, was studying for his doctorate at the Columbia University, New York, when he chanced to attend a Dhrupad concert by Ustad Nasir Aminuddin Dagar and Ustad Zia Fariddudin Dagar at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York.

In 1976, Dr Kiran Seth returned to India and started teaching and doing research work at IIT Delhi. There, he got together with the students and started SPIC MACAY in 1977, and its first concert was held at IIT Delhi in the same year.

SPIC MACAY seeks to foster the exchange of traditional Indian values and to generate awareness of the rich cultural traditions and heritage of India. In order to achieve its goals, SPIC MACAY organizes concerts, lectures, demonstrations, informal discussions, and seminars. These are hosted by the local chapters of the organization. Today, SPIC MACAY has some 500 chapters across the world and holds around 6000 events annually, mostly in educational institutions, but also occasionally in “public” venues like town halls or community parks.
Some of its major activities include: FEST series, VIRASAT series, National Conventions for students and teachers, National School Intensives, Music in the Park, the SPIC MACAY Scholarship Programme, heritage walks, talks by eminent thinkers, yoga and meditation camps, screening of classical cinema etc. Lately it has also started getting international artistes from other equally rich cultures to perform in India.

The organization structure of SPIC MACAY is very decentralized and democratic in its functioning involving college students/youth as its office bearers. It has a national executive body which is elected every two years. Each state has a central state facilitator based in New Delhi and a state coordinator in the respective state capital as well as chapter coordinators in different regions of the state. There are also various heads for publicity, finance, artiste management and programming scheduling. All chapters have a similar system of governance with a Chairman, Secretary (a student) and a Treasurer.

Some years ago the organization also formed an Advisory Board consisting of eminent personalities from all walks of life.
Since its inception and its first concert in 1977 at IIT Delhi, SPIC MACAY has grown geographically and in content to over 300 centres in India and 50 abroad. Over, 6000 events are conducted annually. And it has done so by engaging the youth at the grass-root level of early schooling years, for the exposure as well as in the organization of programmes.

All PhDs should not be treated equivalent to NET

The Human Resource Development Ministry currently headed by Mrs. Smriti Irani and the University Grants Commission (UGC) has stated that they are unlikely to review the Supreme Court judgment that debars many PhD holders from teaching jobs. The rationale behind this is that teachers need to clear an eligibility exam which credits their teaching ability and that a PhD does not automatically qualify the same ability.

At a meeting of the UGC last week, the matter came up for discussion. Two members of the commission said the representative of the HRD ministry and the UGC officials gave the impression that they may not seek any review of the court decision.

On March 16, the apex court upheld the UGC’s regulations of 2009 on minimum qualification for appointment of teachers in colleges and universities. According to the regulations, the eligibility for assistant professor in a college or a university is the National Eligibility Test or the State Level Eligibility Test (SLET) qualifications. However, a candidate who has a PhD that complies with the UGC’s PhD norms of 2009 would be eligible for the post even if he has not cleared NET or SLET.

The UGC had in 2009 provided for admission through entrance test and course work before working on the thesis. It also laid down that a teacher cannot guide more than eight PhD students and five MPhil students at any point in time. Before this, every university had its own PhD regulations.

The 2009 order threatened the careers of thousands of existing PhD holders who had not cleared NET/SLET. After protests, the UGC last year decided to amend its regulations to grant an exemption to the pre-2009 PhD holders. It sent the amended regulations to the HRD ministry, which has not yet granted approval.

Ruling in a case filed by a few PhD holders, the apex court held that the HRD ministry and UGC are the highest policy makers and their norms must be followed.

Since no assessment has been done to ascertain if any universities were following the UGC’s 2009 norms for PhDs, it is not clear which of the pre-2009 PhD holders can be granted exemption from NET/SLET. The confusion is affecting the prospects of many aspiring teachers, including those who had earned their doctorates from universities that followed rigorous norms.

After serving as ad hoc faculty in Dyal Singh College under Delhi University for seven years, Manoj Singh was selected as assistant professor in March but his appointment has now been put on hold.

The college has sought clarification from the varsity whether it can appoint him since he does not have NET/SLET qualification. The university has not replied because there is no clarity on the issue yet.

“I have done PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). But the college is not allowing me to join as a regular teacher after selecting me,” Singh said.

Out of nine candidates selected, seven have been allowed to join in this college because they had qualified NET/SLET.

College principal I.S. Bakshi could not be reached for comment despite repeated calls to his mobile phone.

At last week’s meeting, the UGC members brought up the plight of the pre-2009 PhD holders.

“The UGC and government officials said that they would respect the Supreme Court direction,” a member said.

Another member said the HRD ministry was not approving the amendments to the regulations on the ground that many universities have started implementing the UGC regulations. Any change would add confusion and dilute quality, he said.

Teachers’ organisations feel the regulations should be amended since they cannot be implemented retrospectively. All India Federation of University and College Teachers’ Organisations general secretary Ahok Barman said the government must file a review petition. “You cannot implement a policy retrospectively. It is a big blow to thousands of PhD holders who want to become teachers,” Barman said.

Former Madras University vice-chancellor S.P. Thyagarajan, who headed a committee that prepared the 2009 regulations on PhDs, hailed the Supreme Court ruling.

“Personally, I support the court order. There has to be some quality control in teacher appointment. All PhDs should not be treated equivalent to NET,” he said.

राष्ट्रीय सेमीनार 4 अक्टूबर 2015-समकालीन परिदृश्य और अखिलेश का साहित्य

प्रिय साथी 

संभावना संस्थान की गतिविधियों और इतिहास से आप सुपरिचित हैं। यह एक पंजीकृत संस्थान हैजिसने अनेक साहित्यिक आयोजन विगत में किये हैं। जनवरी 2013 में संस्थान ने अपने पहलेराष्ट्रीय सेमीनार का आयोजन किया था।

अब हम इस शृंखला में अगला आयोजन 4 अक्टूबर 2015, रविवार को कर रहे हैं। इस बार आयोजनका विषय है- समकालीन परिदृश्य और अखिलेश का साहित्य। इस आयोजन में हम हिन्दी केसुपरिचित कथाकार अखिलेश का रचना पाठ और समकालीन कथा परिदृश्य पर विस्तृत चर्चा करनाचाहते हैं। उम्मीद है कि देश के अनेक साहित्यकार एवं विश्वविद्यालयों के आचार्य इस सेमीनार मेंभागीदारी करेंगे। 

आयोजन में भाग लेने के इच्छुक शोध छात्रों एवं प्राध्यापकों को पंजीकरण हेतु सम्भावना संस्थान केनाम से 300 रुपये का ड्राफ्ट भेजना होगा। सेमीनार में पढे गए पत्रों को संभावना द्वारा पुस्तकाकारप्रकाशित करवाया जाएगा। भागीदारी कर रहे प्रतिभागियों के दोपहर के भोजन एवं चाय इत्यादि कीव्यवस्था संस्थान द्वारा की जायेगी। भागीदारी का प्रमाण पत्र आयोजन के समापन सत्र में वितरितकिया जाएगा। शोध पत्र प्राप्त होने की अंतिम तिथि 25 सितम्बर है।

किसी भी जानकारी के लिए संस्थान  से संपर्क किया जा सकता है।

सम्भावना संस्थान

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राष्ट्रीय सेमिनार कबीर: महान संचारक

राष्ट्रीय सेमिनार  

कबीर:  महान संचारक 

9 और 10 अक्टूबर, 2015, रायपुर

आयोजक

कबीर संचार अध्ययन शोधपीठ

कुशाभाऊ ठाकरे पत्रकारिता एवं जनसंचार विश्वविद्यालय

रायपुर (छत्तीसगढ़)

संरक्षक

डॉ. मानसिंह परमार

कुलपति

कुशाभाऊ ठाकरे पत्रकारिता एवं जनसंचार विश्वविद्यालय

रायपुर, छत्तीसगढ़

ई-मेल: kulpati@ktujm.ac.in

संयोजक

डॉ. आर.बालाशंकर

अध्यक्ष, कबीर संचार अध्ययन शोधपीठ

कुशाभाऊ ठाकरे पत्रकारिता एवं जनसंचार विश्वविद्यालय

रायपुर, छत्तीसगढ़

ई-मेल: balashankar12@gmail.com

सह-संयोजक

डॉ. नरेन्द्र त्रिपाठी

अध्यक्ष,  इलेक्ट्रॉनिक मीडिया विभाग

कुशाभाऊ ठाकरे पत्रकारिता एवं जनसंचार विश्वविद्यालय

रायपुर, छत्तीसगढ़

ई-मेल: drnarendra88@gmail.com

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मो. 09425755699

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हिन्दी का माह आ गया है।  अपने देश भारत में सितंबर माह आते ही हिंदी का गुणगान दुगुने उत्साह से आरम्भ हो जाता है। हिंदी दिवस से लेकर हिंदी सप्ताह, पखवाड़ा और माह तक मनाया जाता है। चलिए, इस बार हिंदी के कुछ प्रथमों के बारे में जानते हैं।


1. हिन्दी में प्रथम डी. लिट् -- डा. पीताम्बर दत्त बड़थ्वाल
2. हिंदी के प्रथम एमए -- नलिनी मोहन साव्न्याल (वे बांग्लाभाषी थे।)
3. भारत में पहली बार हिंदी में एमए की पढ़ाई -- कोलकाता विश्वविद्यालय में कुलपति सर आशुतोष मुखर्जी ने 1919 में  शुरू करवाई थी।
4. विज्ञान में शोधप्रबंध हिंदी में देने वाले प्रथम विद्यार्थी -- मुरली मनोहर जोशी
5. अन्तरराष्ट्रीय संबन्ध पर अपना शोधप्रबंध लिखने वाले प्रथम व्यक्ति -- वेद प्रताप वैदिक
6. हिंदी में बी.टेक. का प्रोजेक्ट रिपोर्ट प्रस्तुत करने वाले प्रथम विद्यार्थी - श्याम रुद्र पाठक (सन् १९८५)
7. डॉक्टर आफ मेडिसिन (एमडी) की शोधप्रबन्ध पहली बार हिन्दी में प्रस्तुत करने वाले -- डॉ० मुनीश्वर गुप्त (सन् १९८७)
8. हिन्दी माध्यम से एल.एल.एम. उत्तीर्ण करने वाला देश का प्रथम विद्यार्थी -- चन्द्रशेखर उपाध्याय
9. प्रबंधन क्षेत्र में हिन्दी माध्यम से प्रथम शोध-प्रबंध के लेखक -- भानु प्रताप सिंह (पत्रकार) ; विषय था -- उत्तर प्रदेश प्रशासन में मानव संसाधन की उन्नत प्रवत्तियों का एक विश्लेषणात्मक अध्ययन- आगरा मंडल के संदर्भ में
10. हिन्दी का पहला इंजीनियर कवि -- मदन वात्स्यायन
11. हिन्दी में निर्णय देने वाला पहला न्यायधीश -- न्यायमूर्ति श्री प्रेम शंकर गुप्त
12. सेंट्रल लेजिस्लेटिव असेंबली में हिन्दी के प्रथम वक्ता -- नारायण प्रसाद सिंह (सारण-दरभंगा ; 1926)
13. लोकसभा में सबसे पहले हिन्दी में सम्बोधन : सीकर से रामराज्य परिषद के सांसद एन एल शर्मा पहले सदस्य थे जिन्होने पहली लोकसभा की बैठक के प्रथम सत्र के दूसरे दिन 15 मई 1952 को हिन्दी में संबोधन किया था।
14. हिन्दी में संयुक्त राष्ट्र संघ में भाषण देने वाला प्रथम राजनयिक -- अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी
15. हिन्दी का प्रथम महाकवि -- चन्दबरदाई
16. हिंदी का प्रथम महाकाव्य -- पृथ्वीराजरासो
17. हिंदी का प्रथम ग्रंथ -- पुमउ चरउ (स्वयंभू द्वारा रचित)
18. हिन्दी का पहला समाचार पत्र -- उदन्त मार्तण्ड (पं जुगलकिशोर शुक्ल)
19. हिन्दी की प्रथम फ़िल्मी पत्रिका -रंगभूमि
20. सबसे पहला हिन्दी-आन्दोलन : हिंदीभाषी प्रदेशों में सबसे पहले बिहार प्रदेश में सन् 1835 में हिंदी आंदोलन शुरू हुआ था। इस अनवरत प्रयास के फलस्वरूप सन् 1875 में बिहार में कचहरियों और स्कूलों में हिंदी प्रतिष्ठित हुई।
21. समीक्षामूलक हिन्दी का प्रथम मासिक -- साहित्य संदेश (आगरा, सन् 1936 से 1942 तक)
22. हिन्दी का प्रथम आत्मचरित -- अर्धकथानक (कृतिकार हैं -- जैन कवि बनारसीदास (कवि) (वि.सं. १६४३-१७००))
23. हिन्दी का प्रथम व्याकरण -- 'उक्ति-व्यक्ति-प्रकरण' (दामोदर पंडित)
24. हिन्दी व्याकरण के पाणिनी -- किशोरीदास वाजपेयी
25. हिन्दी का प्रथम मानक शब्दकोश -- हिंदी शब्दसागर
26. हिन्दी का प्रथम विश्वकोश -- हिन्दी विश्वकोश
27. हिन्दी का प्रथम कवि -- राहुल सांकृत्यायन की हिन्दी काव्यधारा के अनुसार हिन्दी के सबसे पहले मुसलमान कवि अमीर खुसरो नहीं, बल्कि अब्दुर्हमान हुए हैं। ये मुलतान के निवासी और जाति के जुलाहे थे। इनका समय १०१० ई० है। इनकी कविताएँ अपभ्रंश में हैं। -(संस्कृति के चार अध्याय, रामधारी सिंह दिनकर, पृष्ठ ४३१)
28. हिन्दी की प्रथम आधुनिक कविता -- 'स्वप्न' (महेश नारायण द्वारा रचित)
29. मुक्त छन्द का पहला हिन्दी कवि -- महेश नारायण
30. हिन्दी की प्रथम कहानी -- हिंदी की सर्वप्रथम कहानी कौनसी है, इस विषय में विद्वानों में जो मतभेद शुरू हुआ था वह आज भी जैसे का तैसा बना हुआ है. हिंदी की सर्वप्रथम कहानी समझी जाने वाली कड़ी के अर्न्तगत सैयद इंशाअल्लाह खाँ की 'रानी केतकी की कहानी' (सन् 1803 या सन् 1808), राजा शिवप्रसाद सितारे हिंद की 'राजा भोज का सपना' (19 वीं सदी का उत्तरार्द्ध), किशोरी लाल गोस्वामी की 'इन्दुमती' (सन् 1900), माधवराव सप्रे की 'एक टोकरी भर मिट्टी' (सन् 1901), आचार्य रामचंद्र शुक्ल की 'ग्यारह वर्ष का समय' (सन् 1903) और बंग महिला की 'दुलाई वाली' (सन् 1907) नामक कहानियाँ आती हैं | परन्तु किशोरी लाल गोस्वामी द्वारा कृत 'इन्दुमती' को मुख्यतः हिंदी की प्रथम कहानी का दर्जा प्रदान किया जाता है|
31. हिन्दी का प्रथम लघुकथाकार-माधवराव सप्रे
32. हिन्दी का प्रथम उपन्यास -- 'देवरानी जेठानी की कहानी' (लेखक -- पंडित गौरीदत्त ; सन् १८७०)। श्रद्धाराम फिल्लौरी की भाग्यवती और लाला श्रीनिवास दास की परीक्षा गुरू को भी हिन्दी के प्रथम उपन्यस होने का श्रेय दिया जाता है।
33. हिंदी का प्रथम विज्ञान गल्प -- ‘आश्चर्यवृत्तांत’ (अंबिका दत्त व्यास ; 1884-1888)
34. हिंदी का प्रथम नाटक -- नहुष (गोपालचंद्र, १८४१)
35. हिंदी का प्रथम काव्य-नाटक -- ‘एक घूँट’ (जयशंकर प्रसाद ; 1915 ई.)
36. हिन्दी का प्रथम ज्ञानपीठ पुरस्कार विजेता -- सुमित्रानंदन पंत (१९६८)
37. हिन्दी साहित्य का प्रथम इतिहास -- भक्तमाल / इस्त्वार द ल लितरेत्यूर ऐन्दूई ऐन्दूस्तानी (अर्थात "हिन्दुई और हिन्दुस्तानी साहित्य का इतिहास", लेखक गार्सा-द-तासी)
38. हिन्दी कविता के प्रथम इतिहासग्रन्थ के रचयिता -- शिवसिंह सेंगर ; रचना -- शिवसिंह सरोज
39. हिन्दी साहित्य का प्रथम व्यवस्थित इतिहासकार -- आचार्य रामचंद्र शुक्ल
40. हिन्दी का प्रथम चलचित्र (मूवी) -- सत्य हरिश्चन्द्र
41. हिन्दी की पहली बोलती फिल्म (टाकी) -- आलम आरा
42. हिन्दी का अध्यापन आरम्भ करने वाला प्रथम विश्वविद्यालय -- कोलकाता विश्वविद्यालय (फोर्ट विलियम् कॉलेज)
43. देवनागरी के प्रथम प्रचारक -- गौरीदत्त
44. हिन्दी का प्रथम चिट्ठा (ब्लॉग) -- "हिन्दी" चिट्ठे 2002 अकटूबर में विनय और आलोक ने हिन्दी (इस में अंग्रेज़ी लेख भी लिखे जाते हैं) लेख लिखने शुरू करे, 21 अप्रैल 2003 में सिर्फ हिन्दी का प्रथम चिट्ठा बना "नौ दो ग्यारह", जो अब यहाँ है (संगणकों के हिन्दीकरण से सम्बन्धित बंगलोर निवासी आलोक का चिट्ठा)
45. हिन्दी का प्रथम चिट्ठा-संकलक -- चिट्ठाविश्व (सन् २००४ के आरम्भ में बनाया गया था)
46. अन्तरजाल पर हिन्दी का प्रथम समाचारपत्र -- हिन्दी मिलाप / वेबदुनिया
47. हिन्दी का पहला समान्तर कोश बनाने का श्रेय -- अरविन्द कुमार व उनकी पत्नी कुसुम
48. हिन्दी साहित्य का प्रथम राष्ट्रगीत के रचयिता -- पं. गिरिधर शर्मा ’नवरत्न‘
49. हिंदी का प्रथम अर्थशास्त्रीय ग्रंथ -- "संपत्तिशास्त्र" (महावीर प्रसाद द्विवेदी)
50. हिन्दी के प्रथम बालसाहित्यकार -- श्रीधर पाठक (1860 - 1928)
51. हिन्दी की प्रथम वैज्ञानिक पत्रिका -- सन् १९१३ से प्रकाशित विज्ञान (विज्ञान परिषद् प्रयाग द्वारा प्रकाशित)
52. सबसे पहली टाइप-आधारित देवनागरी प्रिंटिंग -- 1796 में गिलक्रिस्त (John Borthwick Gilchrist) की Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language, Calcutta ; Dick Plukker
53. खड़ीबोली के गद्य की प्रथम पुस्तक -- लल्लू लाल जी की प्रेम सागर (हिन्दी में भागवत का दशम् स्कन्ध) ; हिन्दी गद्य साहित्य का सूत्रपात करनेवाले चार महानुभाव कहे जाते हैं- मुंशी सदासुख लाल, इंशा अल्ला खाँ, लल्लू लाल और सदल मिश्र। ये चारों सं. 1860 के आसपास वर्तमान थे।
54. हिंदी की वैज्ञानिक शब्दावली -- १८१० ई. में लल्लू लाल जी द्वारा संग्रहीत ३५०० शब्दों की सूची जिसमें हिंदी की वैज्ञानिक शब्दावली को फ़ारसी और अंग्रेज़ी प्रतिरूपों के साथ प्रस्तुत किया गया है।
55. हिन्दी की प्रथम विज्ञान-विषयक पुस्तक -- १८४७ में स्कूल बुक्स सोसाइटी, आगरा ने 'रसायन प्रकाश प्रश्नोत्तर' का प्रकाशन किया।
56. एशिया का जागरण विषय पर हिन्दी कविता -- सन् 1901 में राधाकृष्ण मित्र ने हिन्दी में एशिया के जागरण पर एक कविता लिखी थी। शायद वह किसी भी भाषा में 'एशिया के जागरण' की कल्पना पर पहली कविता है।
57. हिन्दी का प्रथम संगीत-ग्रन्थ -- मानकुतूहल (ग्वालियर के राजा मानसिंह तोमर द्वारा रचित, 15वीं शती)
58. हिंदी भाषा का सबसे बड़ा और प्रामाणिक व्याकरण -- कामताप्रसाद गुरु द्वारा रचित "हिंदी व्याकरण" का प्रकाशन सर्वप्रथम नागरीप्रचारिणी सभा, काशी में अपनी लेखमाला में सं. १९७४ से सं. १९७६ वि. के बीच किया और जो सं. १९७७ (१९२० ई.) में पहली बार सभा से पुस्तकाकार रूप में प्रकाशित वव
हुआ।
59. हिन्दी में इंटरव्यूह विधा पर पहला शोध करने वाले- डा. विष्णु पंकज

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Creator of the MOHAN VEENA and the winner of the GRAMMY AWARD, Vishwa Mohan has mesmerized the world with his pristine pure, delicate yet fiery music. It is due to Vishwa's maiden mega effort that he rechristened guitar as MOHAN VEENA, his genius creation and has established it at the top most level in the mainstream of Indian Classical Music scenario, thereby proving the essence of his name VISHWA (meaning the world) and MOHAN (meaning charmer) and indeed , a world charmer he is.

Being the foremost disciple of Pt. Ravi Shankar, Vishwa Mohan belongs to that elite body of musicians which traces its origin to the Moughal emperor Akbar's court musician TANSEN and his guru the Hindu Mystic Swami Haridas.

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt has attracted international attention by his successful indianisation of the western Hawaiian guitar with his perfect assimilation of sitar, sarod & veena techniques, by giving it a evolutionary design & shape and by adding 14 more strings helping him to establish the instrument MOHAN VEENA to unbelievable heights. With blinding speed and faultless legato, Bhatt is undoubtedly one of the most expressive, versatile and greatest slide player s in the world.