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SCHOLAR, MAID STABBED TO DEATH
POLICE YET TO UNRAVEL MYSTERY
BEHIND THE GRUESOME KILLINGS
4 DECEMBER 2006, THE TIMES OF INDIA, PATNA
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Memorializing Papiya |
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Papiya’s
Family has
supported
Awards in
her memory
in the Educational
Institutions
where she
studied and
taught.
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St.
Joseph’s
Convent,
Patna
for an
Annual
Inter-School
Debate
Competition,
commencing
on 8 October
2007,
Papiya’s
birthday.
The Trophy
was bagged
by the
team from
St. Joseph’s
Convent
in 2007.
It remained
with St.
Joseph's
Convent
in 2008.
The competition
was held
on 17th
October
2008.
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Patna
Women’s
College
for the
Topper
in B.A.
History
- Ms.
Aakanksha
Poddar
was presented
the Award
on 25
January
2008.
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Department
of History,
Patna
University
for the
Topper
in MA
History
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Ms.
Khusboo
Singhania
was
presented
the
Award
on 19
January
2008
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Ms.
Shubhra
Das
was
presented
the
Award
on 11
December,
2008
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Hindu
College,
University
of Delhi
for the
Topper
in MA
History
The
Professor
Papiya
Ghosh
National
Award
has been
instituted
with the
Indian
History
Congress
from 2009.
The
PURNUJJAL
PAPIYA GHOSH
MEMORIAL FUND
and PURNUJJAL
PAPIYA GHOSH
MEMORIAL TRUST
(
http://www.purnujjalpapiyaghoshmemorialtrust.com
) have been
set up to
support these
Awards and
other related
activities,
inter-alia,
to promote
academic excellence.
(Purnujjal
is the synthesis
of Papiya’s
parents’ names
– Purnima
and Ujjal).
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As
a befitting
tribute, the
Syndicate
of Patna University
has approved,
on 3 May 2007,
setting up
of the ‘PAPIYA
GHOSH CENTRE
FOR GENDER
STUDIES’
to promote
research in
this area
of topical
importance.
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An
Annual Award
has been instituted
in Papiya's
memory by
Saurav Sen,
her nephew,
from 2008,
in the Department
of History,
Oxford University
(UK) for the
best M. Phil
Dissertation.
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A
Treatment
Facility,
in memory
of Papiya,
has been dedicated
by Manas and
Keya Sen,
Papiya's brother-in-law
and sister
at the Indo-American
Cancer Institute
and Research
Centre, Hyderabad
(Andhra Pradesh,
India).
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A
Memorial Fund
for Ph.D and
Short Term
Fellowships
in Papiya’s
memory has
been set up
at the CENTRE
FOR STUDIES
IN SOCIAL
SCIENCES,
CALCUTTA
(an Institution
under the
Govt. of India)
for young
women Academicians
from non-metropolitan
areas of the
country, at
the initiative
of friends
and family.
It has been
supported
by, among
others, the
Dorabji Tata
Trust. Contributions
to the Corpus,
which are
tax-exempt,
have been
invited from
benefactors
and well-wishers.
For details
of the proposed
Fellowship,
Dr. Partha
Chatterjee,
Centre for
Studies in
Social Sciences
(CSSS), may
be contacted.
The Address
and other
contact particulars
are:
R1
Baishnabghata
Patuli Township,
Kolkata (India)
– 700 094.
Tel : 00-91-33-24627252
/ 24625794 /
24625795
Fax : 00-91-33-24626183.
E-mail : cssscal@vsnl.net
or info@cssscal.org
Nisha
P.R. has been
awarded the two-year
Ph.D Fellowship
by the Fund and
has commenced
work from September
1, 2008. She has
been admitted
for a Ph.D at
the Department
of History, University
of Delhi under
the supervision
of Dr. Dilip M.
Menon. Nisha is
working on "A
History of the
Circus and Circus
Performances in
Twentieth Century
Kerala".
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Epsita
Halder and Bitasta
Das have been
awarded the Short-Term
Fellowships for
six months by
the Fund. Epsita
is a Lecturer
in the Department
of Comparative
Literature, Jadavpur
University, Kolkata,
and is working
on "Understanding
Lived Islam Through
the Marsiya Tradition".
Bitasta Das is
enrolled in the
Ph.D. Programme
of the Centre
for the Study
of Culture and
Society (CSCS),
Bangalore and
is working on
"Unravelling Ethnic
Tensions : Colonialism,
Post-colonialism
and the Identity
Question in Assam".
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Part
of its activities,
a conference
on 'MINORITY
CULTURES'
was held at
the Cente
on 25-26 June
2009, where
12 papers
were presented
by the Scholars
from India
and Bagladesh.
The CSSSC - Papiya Ghosh Fund Has Decided to Award 2 Short Term Fellowships for 2009-2010 to the following Doctoral Students:
- Sandali Thakur of Pune University
- Sreebitha P.V. of Hyderabad University
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Dr.
Mridula Mukherjee,
Director, Nehru
Memorial Museum
and Library, (NMML)
New Delhi, has
conveyed that
NMML, where Papiya
was a Fellow,
would initiate
a suitable proposal
for memorializing
her after a process
of consultation.
Her
contact particulars
are :
Tel : 00-91-11-23015333
& FAX : 00-91-11-23793296.
E-mail : mriduladitya@gmail.com
or nehrumemorial@gmail.com
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IIAS
(Indian Institute
of Advanced Study),
Shimla, where,
too, Papiya was
a Fellow, is contemplating
a similar initiative.
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Papiya’s
posthumous, pathbreaking
publication “Partition
and the South
Asian Diaspora
– Extending the
Subcontinent”,
has been presented
by the Family
to several reputed
Libraries, Institutions
and eminent persons
in India and overseas,
to ensure its
wide dissemination.
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A
Compilation of
Papiya's published
works has been
published by OUP
in January 2008,
entitled, “Community
and Nation – Essays
on Identity and
Politics in Easter
India”.
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Papiya's
Ph.d Thesis on
“Civil Disobedience
Movement in Bihar,
1930-34 has been
published by Manak
in March 2008.
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Papiya’s
unpublished Articles
have featured
in reputed Academic
Journals of Khuda
Baksh Oriental
Library, Patna
and Jamia Milia
Islamia University,
Delhi. (See Section
on "Publications"
- Sl. Nos. 25
& 28).
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A
Collection of
Essays in honour
of Prof. Papiya
Ghosh, on the
Theme of ‘Bihar’s
Journey from the
20th to the 21st
Century’, with
contributions
from eminent persons
in different fields
is being planned
in association
with SAGE.
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Papiya's last major work, the manuscript of which was retrieved from her stolen computer lying in the Patliputra thana Patna, has been published by Routledge. It is entitled, 'Muhajirs and the Nation- Bihar in the 1940s'. It was formally launched on the 8th October 2009, her birthday, by Shri Somnath Chatterjee, Former Speaker Lok Sabha at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
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Papiya’s
vast collection
of Books and Journals
have been donated
by her Family
to the Department
of History, Patna
University and
the East-West
Centre, Patna.
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To
celebrate her
truly inspirational
life, a book,
“Toast to Papiya”,
with unique insights
and wide-ranging
memories with
contributions
from Family and
friends and some
of her own writings
has been published
in April 2008.
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A
3-day Commemorative
Programme was
organized to honour
Prof. Papiya Ghosh
in Patna University,
between 3rd –
5th December,
2007. It comprised
a Memorial Lecture
by former Professor
of Delhi University,
Prof. Uma Chakravarti
on “New Scripts
: the Nineteenth
Century Educational
Project for Women”,
a Memorial-Debate
on “Judicial Activism
is not the Solution
to India’s Governance
Problems” and
an Essay Competition
on “India’s Role,
as the World’s
largest Democracy
– Future Prospects”.
National Research
Prof. Vina Das
of the Centre
for Development
of Women’s Studies,
Delhi formally
inaugurated the
PAPIYA GHOSH
CENTRE FOR GENDER
STUDIES. Dignitaries
who attended the
Programme included
the Vice Chancellor,
Dr. Y.C. Simhadri,
former Chief Justice
of Punjab and
Haryana High Court,
B.K. Roy and Advocate,
Patna High Court,
B.K. Choudhary.
Minister of State
(Higher Education),
Govt. of India,
Mrs. D. Purandeshwari,
who had to cancel
her participation
at the last minute,
had her Speech
read out on the
occasion, inter-alia,
wishing the PAPIYA
GHOSH CENTRE FOR
GENDER STUDIES
a successful future.
Prof. Simhadri,
VC and Prof. Nawal
K. Choudhary,
Head Department
of Economics,
Patna University,
took the initiative
to host the Programme.
Raziuddin Aquil
and Partha Chatterjee,
eds,
History in the Vernacular
(
Delhi: Permanent
Black, 2008 ) have
dedicated their
book to the memory
of their friend
and colleague, Dr.
Papiya Ghosh.
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