{"id":221634,"date":"2023-04-17T19:38:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T19:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=221634"},"modified":"2023-04-17T19:38:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T19:38:04","slug":"seminar-on-press-people-and-jallianwala-bagh-massacre-at-gndu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/221634","title":{"rendered":"Seminar on Press, People and Jallianwala Bagh massacre at GNDU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amritsar, April\u00a017\u00a0(\u00a0Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; At the\u00a0\u00a0104<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of\u00a0\u00a0Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the Jallianwala <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-221635 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PPNJ1704202305.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PPNJ1704202305.jpg 600w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/PPNJ1704202305-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Bagh Chair\u00a0\u00a0organized a national Seminar \u201cPress, People and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre\u201d. The initiative to organize the Seminar\u00a0came from Vice-Chancellor Prof. Jaspal\u00a0\u00a0Singh Sandhu.\u00a0\u00a0Chairperson Prof. Amandeep Bal\u00a0\u00a0narrated the activities organised\u00a0\u00a0by the Jallianwala Bagh Chair and Department of History\u00a0\u00a0on thc centennial commemoration of the massacre in 2019 and afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>The Keynote speaker Prof. Salil Misra of Abedkar University called Jallianwala Bagh a transformative moment.\u00a0\u00a0He said the transformation manifested itself at four different levels &#8211; local, regional, national and even global. The image of the city of Amritsar was transformed from a sacred religious place to a site of the anti-imperialist struggle\u00a0The massacre also changed the face of Punjab as a region. From being a colonial heartland and a garrison state at the service of the colonial state, Punjab emerged as the headquarters of the nationalist struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Harjeet Singh Gill, Professor Emiretus, JNU, New Delhi\u00a0said Jallianwala Bagh is a symbol of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh unity. Professor Sarbjot Singh Behl, Dean Academic Affairs while presenting vote of thanks narrated his\u00a0\u00a0poem \u201cTain ki dard naa aya\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Prof S.S. Sohal former professor of History Department spoke on Irish factor in Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Prof Jaspalkaur of Punjabi University discussed contribution of Udham Singh, Prof Sukhmani Bal Riar of Panjab University spoke on\u00a0\u00a0VI &amp;VII volume of Disorders Inquiry Committee Report, Prof. Joginder Singh discussed the attitude of the Sikh Gentry towards massacre. Other presenters were Dr. Charanjit Kaur, Dr. Jasbir Singh, Dr. Raj Kumar, Dr. Baljit Singh and Dr. Dilbag Singh.\u00a0\u00a0Prof. Parminder Singh (Retd.), Department of English, GNDU, Amritsar in his valedictory address said March and April of 1919 are symbols of unity. He said on this day we must pay homage to Teja Singh Swantantar who sent 40 guards for the protection of Saifuddin Kitchlew, the \u2018Hero of Jallianwala \u2018 in 1947.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amritsar, April\u00a017\u00a0(\u00a0Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; At the\u00a0\u00a0104th\u00a0anniversary of\u00a0\u00a0Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the Jallianwala Bagh Chair\u00a0\u00a0organized a national Seminar \u201cPress, People and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre\u201d. The initiative to organize the Seminar\u00a0came from Vice-Chancellor Prof. Jaspal\u00a0\u00a0Singh Sandhu.\u00a0\u00a0Chairperson Prof. Amandeep Bal\u00a0\u00a0narrated the activities organised\u00a0\u00a0by the Jallianwala Bagh Chair and Department of History\u00a0\u00a0on thc centennial commemoration of the massacre &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-english"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seminar on Press, People and Jallianwala Bagh massacre at GNDU | Punjab Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/221634\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seminar on Press, People and Jallianwala Bagh massacre at GNDU | Punjab Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amritsar, April\u00a017\u00a0(\u00a0Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; At the\u00a0\u00a0104th\u00a0anniversary of\u00a0\u00a0Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the Jallianwala Bagh Chair\u00a0\u00a0organized a national Seminar \u201cPress, People and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre\u201d. 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