GB Pant Social Science Institute initiated Bidesia-project, an international exhibition and research project on the dynamics of migration, social development and cultural identity in the Bhojpuri region of India, in Surinam and the Netherlands, is about to witness its next developmental phase.
The work on the Bidesia gallery at Manav Vikas Sangrahalaya of GB Pant Social Science Institute (GBPSSI), Jhusi, will be started in the second week of May and it will be opened for the visitors in the month of July. The gallery will include photographs, dioramas, memory charts etc portraying the entire process of migration of Indians to the Netherlands and Surinam.
GBPSSI will be hosting the third project meeting from May 1 to 6.
The scholars attending the meeting include the representatives of the KIT Tropen Museum, Susane Legene, Marijkee Besselink and Chitra Gajadin from
The Netherlands. The representatives of IMWO, Surinam include Maurits Hassankhan, Narinder Mohkamsingh and Sahiensha Ramdas.
Maurits Hassankhan is an eminent historian at the University of Paramaribo and is also the Internal Affairs Minister, Government of Surinam. He will be inaugurating the first paper of Dr Chan ES Choenni in the Institute's seminar hall on May 1, under the Bidesia Occasional Paper Series, which has evolved as a part of the Bidesia project with a view to bringing to the forefront the studies on indentured and contemporary migration.
"The project now also proposes to set up a Bidesia gallery as a section within Manav Vikas Sangrahalaya. The presentation of the proposed gallery has been conceptualized and tentatively visualized. It is proposed to show this presentation through write ups (the concept), drawings etc to the intending agencies, during this meet for the execution of work. The work is to be executed by second week of May," added Tiwari.
{{/usCountry}}"The project now also proposes to set up a Bidesia gallery as a section within Manav Vikas Sangrahalaya. The presentation of the proposed gallery has been conceptualized and tentatively visualized. It is proposed to show this presentation through write ups (the concept), drawings etc to the intending agencies, during this meet for the execution of work. The work is to be executed by second week of May," added Tiwari.
{{/usCountry}}"The term 'Bidesia' is used as an affectionate term for non-resident Bhojpuri, and, in another sense, refers to the folk tradition which got created in memory of those resident and non-resident Bhojpuris," said BN Tiwari, keyperson involved in the project and also the incharge of Manav Vikas Sangrahalay at the institute.