National Seminar on Glimpses of Land and Landscape in Indian Literature

National Seminar on "Glimpses of Land and Landscape in Indian Literature"

Date: 7-9 March 2011

Organized by 

Department of Modern Indian languages and literary Studies, 

University of Delhi

Abstracts on the theme of the seminar or any of the following topics are welcome from scholars:

1. Representation of Land and landscape in ancient texts/Indian epics/medieval Indian literature/modern Indian literature
2. Politicization of land and landscape in Indian literature
3. Land and the cultural identity
4. Geography and Indian Literature : interrelationship
5. Representation of rural, urban and Rurban spaces in Indian literature
6. Eco-criticism and Indian literature
7. Land, landscape and its arrangement in Indian literature
8. Position of land and landscape in Indian literature
9. Terrain and topography in Indian literature
10. Land and community in Indian literature

Registration: No registration fee will be charged to any participant.

Travel expenses and accommodation: It will not be possible for us to provide travel expenses to all the outstation participants. However, accommodation and local hospitality will be provided to all the outstation participants

Last date of the submission of the abstract: 25/02/2011
Last date of the submission of the full paper: 28/02/2011

For more details, please contact the seminar coordinator, Dr Rajendra Mehta
Email: darvesh18 AT yahoo.com, Mobile: 09868218928