Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies

Coordinates: 22°34′15″N 88°24′47″E / 22.5708981°N 88.4131176°E / 22.5708981; 88.4131176
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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata
Coordinates22°34′15″N 88°24′47″E / 22.5708981°N 88.4131176°E / 22.5708981; 88.4131176
Chairman
Prof. Radharaman Chakraborty
Director
Dr. Sarup Prasad Ghosh
Parent organisation
Ministry of Culture, India
Websitehttp://www.makaias.gov.in

The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies is an autonomous

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
are also associated with it.

History

With the start of the birth centenary celebrations of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in 1989, the need for a research institute devoted to the study of his life and writings as well as area studies, especially to the research in secular

Director
, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, was given the responsibility of organising the event.

Directors
  • Prof. Barun De, 1993–1997
  • Shri B.P. Saha, 1998–1999
  • Prof. Jayanta Kumar Ray, (acting), 1999–2000
  • Prof. Mahavir Singh, 2000–2005
  • Prof. Jayanta Kumar Ray, 2005–2007
  • Prof. Hari Vasudevan, 2007–2011
  • Dr. Sreeradha Dutta, 2011–2017
  • Prof. Vinay Kumar Srivastava, 2017–2018
  • Dr Gayatri Maheshwari, 2018–2019
  • Dr. Mundayat Sasikumar, 2019
  • Dr. Sarup Prasad Ghosh, 2019–present
The Azad Bhavan, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies.
Science City Auditorium – Kolkata

Prof. Nurul Hasan, was the founder-president of the institute's society and the executive council. Professor

vice chairman of the executive council, and Prof. Barun De was appointed as the first director of the institute.[2]

At this time the former residence of Maulana Azad at 19, Ballygunge Circular Road, presently 5, Ashraf Mistry Lane (better known locally as Lovelock Lane off Ballygunge Circular Road), was handed over by the Government of West Bengal to the institute. It was meant house a museum. Soon the institute shifted to 567, Diamond Harbour Road, Calcutta, where it temporarily occupied two large floors of a rented house. Later, at the turn of the present century, it was shifted to Maulana Azad's house, where both the institute and its museum were located until 2010. A new building, named 'Azad Bhavan', has been subsequently built on the one-acre plot given to it in Salt Lake, where the institute has now been shifted. The museum will remain in Maulana Azad's house, now renamed Maulana Azad Museum.[3][4][5]

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Academics

Institute

The institute organizes seminars, conferences, symposia, workshops and a few annual lectures including Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Memorial Lectures and the Barun De Memorial Lecture.[7]

Museum

The Maulana Azad Museum was inaugurated on 11 March 2006, in memory of the former education minister, at his former residence in Calcutta. The museum holds annual lectures and other cultural events.[8]

Administration

It is registered as a society under the West Bengal Registration of Societies Act, 1961. It is mainly financed by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of India. His Excellency, the

governor of West Bengal is the president of the society of the institute. Dr. Sujit Kumar Ghosh is the chairman of the institute. Dr. Sarup Prasad Ghosh is the institute's present director
.

Location

Maulana Azad's home is an example of twentieth-century

National University of Juridical Sciences, Calcutta
.

Notable faculty

See also

References

  1. ^ MAKAIAS Retrieved 2015-03-03.
  2. ^ The Hindu, July 2013
  3. ^ "Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies --- Museum". makaias.gov.in. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  4. ^ "VISIT MAULANA AZAD MUSEUM". makaias.gov.in. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  5. ^ "A house for Azad". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 June 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  6. ^ "PM Inaugurates new campus of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies and work on 2nd Phase of Science City". Prime Ministers of India. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  7. ^ Barun De Memorial Lecture
  8. ^ tripopola.com, Tripopola (18 June 2024). "Maulana Azad Museum". www.tripopola.com.

External links

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