Shillong, March 13: The ninth annual convention of Oral Historical past Affiliation of India (OHAI) on “Mountain Historical past: On the Intersection of Reminiscence, Politics and Id,” was formally inaugurated by Minister of Training, Authorities of Meghalaya, Rakkam A. Sangma, on the auditorium of U Kiang Nongbah (Outdated) Visitor Home, North Jap Hill College, Shillong, on Wednesday.
The three-day annual convention of the Oral Historical past Affiliation of India (OHAI) has been organized in collaboration with the Division of Journalism and Mass Communication, North-Jap Hill College (NEHU), Shillong, and Northeast India AV Archive, St Anthony’s Faculty, Shillong, and supported by the Sasakawa Peace Basis, Japan.
Talking on the inaugural ceremony, Training Minister Rakkam A. Sangma emphasised on the must be rooted to at least one’s tradition whereas additionally sharing considerations over the erosion of 1’s age-old oral traditions, highlighting the challenges in preserving the wealthy oral tradition of the tribes of the North East. Additional, he additionally knowledgeable in regards to the makes an attempt of the Training Division, Authorities of Meghalaya to introduce a curriculum the place college students ranging from the elementary degree of education can be taught in regards to the wealthy tradition of Meghalaya.
Vice Chancellor of NEHU, Prof. Prabha Shankar Shukla, applauded the organisers for bringing collectively a galaxy of eminent students, academicians, researchers and scientists from all around the nation in a single room. “It’s a testomony to ‘unity in range’,” he burdened and reminded the members to “pay attention with empathy, query with curiosity”.
OHAI President, Vrunda Pathare, shared the historical past of OHAI and the way it got here into being throughout a convention within the yr 2013. She shared the challenges confronted by oral historians throughout nation. She stated, “Everybody was utilizing oral historical past however there was no construction or methodology”. Nonetheless, the success of OHAI conferences which is carried out all around the nation provides the oral historians the “possession of their very own narratives”, she concluded.
The convention intends to discover India’s wealthy regional histories and cultures, specializing in the customarily missed narratives from the mountain and mountain communities. The convention seeks to rectify this imbalance by delving into the socio-cultural and political histories of those numerous landscapes that emerge by way of the oral histories.
The convention, which is able to proceed for 2 extra days, focuses on the intersections of mountain research, social and cultural histories, indigeneity and politics by way of oral histories. It encourages questioning of the classes like ‘tribal’ and ‘indigenous’, and unpacking the varied narratives of and on mountains in addition to discover how these constructions are sometimes displaced in bigger political articulations of state and administration.
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