Progress in any discipline of knowledge rests upon the unrestful minds of students and scholars of that branch of study. Conferences are the meeting grounds where new ideas, approaches, methods and perspectives take shape. Sharing of the ideas and recent researches is the motive of this publication, Dimensions in Indian History, which comprises of the select papers presented at the fourteenth Session of the Uttar Pradesh History Congress. The volume begins with the Presidential Address (Shekhar Pathak) and the Radhey Shyam Memorial Lecture (Irfan Habib). A wide variety of researches in the fields of archaeology, numismatics, epigraphy, society, culture, arts, ancient texts and medieval literature, economic organizations, religious cults, peasant and other movements, colonial India, freedom movement, modern India and the national movement, has been compiled in the present volume.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A.K. Sinha
Dr. Anil Kumar Sinha (b. 1948) is Assistant Director, Forensic Science Laboratory, Assam, Kahilipara, Gauhati. He got a First Class Master’s Degree in Physics. Later, joined the Law Faculty at the University of Gauhati and got L.L.M. (1980) and Ph.D. in Law (1989). He also passed the Certificates of Proficiency in French and Russian Languages from the Gauhati University standing first class first. He served as a Guest Lecturer in Law and an invitee lecturer as a resource person to teach L.L.B. and L.L.M. students of the Gauhati University. He was on the distinguished panel of teachers in the Assam Administrative Staff College, at Dispur, Assam. He was also a guest lecturer at the Pre-Examination Training Centre at the Gauhati University to teach criminal law to the Indian administrative Service examinees. As the seniormost ballistics expert of the Government of Assam, he has been imparting training on Forensic Ballistic and related legal matters to senior police and judicial officers of all the states of North-Eastern India. He has published a number of articles on Forensic Science, Law and Criminology in both English and Assamese. He is mainly interested in the subject of criminology. He has attended a number of seminars and conferences held throughout the country.
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