History Department organized lecture on 150th Birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

Amritsar, November 7 (Punjab Post Bureau) – Department of History of Guru Nanak Dev University organised an online lecture on Mahatma Gandhi in commemoration of  150^th Birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on the initiative of Punjab Government and Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Jaspal  Singh Sandhu.

                    While introducing about the lecture, Prof. Amandeep Bal Head Department of History said that Mahatma Gandhi led world’s largest mass movement comprising of  different sections of people including different castes, religions, communities and even classes towards freedom. Mahatma Gandhi offers a paradigm of conflict resolution, rather than that of victory or defeat.

                  The key speaker Prof. Harish Chander Sharma former Professor from the Department of History of the University spoke on Understanding Mahatma through his own work Hind Swaraj.  Prof. Sharma said that Mahatma Gandhi’s movement of transformation came when he learnt that Natal Assembly was going to disenfranchise Indians. From that time onwards, he was an Indian first and all his other identities as Hindu, Gujrati or anything else were secondary. Hind Swaraj was written in the ship in ten days when he was returning from England to Durbin in 1909.

                 Prof. Sharma said that Hind Swaraj is the foundational work of Mahatma Gandhi and all his later thoughts flow from here.  On this occasion, the question answer session was taken by Dr. Shifali Chauhan. Dr. Harneet Kaur presented vote of thanks.