CHAIR/ STUDY COURSES

ON INDIA IN THE 21st CENTURY

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

1. To analyze the strategies of the economic development and growth applied in India during 1947- 2000.

2. To study the colonial and independence reality of India .

3. To tackle the basis of the Indian economical outlining.

4. To study the philosophers of the Independence and Post Independence: Tilak, Gandhi, Ahmed Khan, Jinah, Nehru, Indira among others.

5. To understand the integration keys between the educational and productive sector of India .

6. To establish the importance of the Indian model regarding the tradition and modernity of this ancient country.

7. To determine the conceptions of the Indian State in the scientific and technological field and its effects in the social politics of the people.

8. To understand the politics of the Indian State regarding space technology, green revolution, atomic energy, milky revolution, software, and cooperation among others fields in the present development of the Hindustan.

9. To debate about the concepts of: Non-violence, the truth, peaceful resistance, tolerance, peace, democracy, socialism and cooperation among others, in the contemporary Indian perspective.

10. To evaluate the main obstacles and problems in the development of India in the 21st century.

11. To determine the position of India about globalization, terrorism and militarism.

12. To analyze the policies implemented in matters of international relations towards Latin America .

13. To stage photographic and artistic exhibitions about India .

14. To summon each year, essay contests about India and its contemporaneity.

15. To stage Indian Film Festivals.

16. To display cultural activities in universitiesnationwide, through the performance of Indian artistic delegations.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE 

• Each university must name a representative or coordinator of the Chair/ Study Courses.

• It could be integrated by teachers, students and any person interested in India and Ghandi's philosophy. Their work shall be adhonorem.

• Each coordination is autonomous regarding its organization and planning of activities.

• The Embassy of India will offer its support giving cultural materials, and International and Venezuelan lecturers of India .

• For any request or suggestion the contact officer will be the Cultural Attache, Mr. R. K. Jha.

• Once the functional structure of the interuniversity coordinators is ready, the norms that will govern the functionality of the chair/ study courses will be elaborated.

JUSTIFICATION

  Which are the reasons to create a chair named India in the 21st Century in the land of Bolivar ? The reasons which justified its creation are so numerous and powerful as those that would justify the creation of a chair about Venezuela Today in the land of Gandhi .

In the framework of the current projects of cooperation and integration of Southern countries, it is essential the development of the ways of knowing the realities of the nations in the region, in order to have more possibilities of cooperation and integration between them. India is without question one of the twomore important nations of the so called Third World in all terms – political, economical, demographical, technological, and scientific, among other fields. Therefore, it is a priority the establishment in Venezuela of a chair dedicated to the study of the achievements and reality of India nowadays, consequence of its past and present.

In order to fulfill the objectives mentioned before, the chair must be concentrated in the study of the implemented, strategies of development, the integration of education and investigation within the companies, the culture, the ethnic groups and the history of India. Regarding the economical politics implemented recently, it is very important the study of the thought of the Independence 's philosophers, as its democratic model, which is an example for the world, since our country is the democracy with more qualitative and quantitative weight in the international scenario.

For the Embassy of the Republic of India is an honor to take the initiative and offer this chair to the consideration of the university students of the nation of Bolivar, since giving honors to others is a way to honor ourselves, and our purpose is to tighten fraternal bounds due to the contributions these countries have given to each other in the past. India in the 21st Century defines itself as continuously and permanently changing country; this is its greatest cultural and national peculiarity, as a result of the constant dialogue between tradition and modernity.

A Chair/ Study Courses identified with present times represents a starting point for us to present our progress to university students and the Venezuelan people; debates and perspectives that will let us gain mutual enriching experiences in the most extensive dimension, establishing an exchange of knowledge about the economic modernization based on our own joint and individualized experiences.

Another aspect to highlight about India is the putting into operation of reforms in the public and private sector, and the opening of the industrial sector in the late 80's and beginning of the 90's of the last Century. These measures allowed the definitive activation of the potentiality of self-supplying and expansion of our technologies in every productive sector, expanding in this way a coherent industrialization which emphasizes every day the present of the immediate future. We are confronting the future with courage, since our fathers, who fought for the Independence , taught us that the rising of the minimal conditions of humanity and socialization of our people are essential conditions for our permanence in the future. Therefore, the current proposal to create a chair for a creative debate and constructive dialogue, hopes to open doors and windows with a fraternal spirit of sincere brotherhood, charged with fresh and transparent airs which can mutually rescue our collective memory.

This Chair/ Study Courses is a fecund land to fertilize the development of science and technology, it is a fecund land for communications, it is a fecund land to foment cultures, it is a fecund land to understand peace thoughts, tolerance, non violence and love based in active solidarity towards greater integration. It is a brother territory for those who understand that the global development of humanity can not be based on the exclusion and separation of peoples. India and Venezuela must intensify their fight against underdevelopment and the new mechanisms of neo-colonization. The fruits of this Chair will be varied according to the benefits emanated from our interinstitutional will of action.

SUPPORTING INTITUTIONS

• Indian Council of Cultural Relations in New Delhi .

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of India .

• Embassy of India in Venezuela .

• Indian Scientific and Technological Institutions .

• Association of Rectors from Indian and Venezuelan universities.

• Ministry of Higher Education.

• National Council of Culture.

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela .