Proceedings Of The Academic Session New Delhi,12th Dec.1976

An Academic Session arranged in connection with the Inaugural Meeting of SWARBICA, was held at the National Museum Auditorium, New Delhi, at 10.00 A.M. on Sunday, the 12th December, 1976. The session was presided over by Prof. Amba Prasad, Professor of History in Delhi University.
The delegates of SWARBICA and a large number of invitees attended the meeting.
Each country in the region was invited to present a paper on the occasion. Only two papers* were received, one from Nepal and another from India,
The session started with Dr. Shaphalya Amatya, Chief Exploration Officer of Nepal reading the note entitled "Economic and Cultural Relations with the Region",
This was followed by Dr. A.R. Kulkarni of India who read his learned paper "'Cultural Contacts of India."
After the reading of these papers, Dr. Morris Rieger, Chairman of the Committee on Archival Development set up by the International Council on Archives, read a paper* on the Committee for Archival Development and the International Archival Development Fund.
The Chairman wound up the session by some valuable observations on the cultural and economic ties between India and her neighboring countries since the ancient times and the materials relating to one another available in the countries in the region.