The Kameshwar Singh Memorial Lecture Series
An Introduction
The Foundation celebrates the Birthday of Maharajadhiraja Kameshwar Singh, the last Maharaja of Darbhanga, on 28 November every year.
The celebration is held in the premises of the Foundation, Kalyani Niwas, Kameshwar Nagar, Darbhanga, which is also the residence of Maharaniadhirani Kam Sundari. The Kameshwar Singh Memorial Lecture is delivered on this occasion by a scholar of National and International repute.
Lecture Series That Has Been
Conducted So Far
An Yearwise Description
In this series, the lectures have been delivered by the following intellectuals :
| Year | Description |
| 2023 | Prof. Anand Kumar : “स्वराज-रचना और राष्ट्रनिर्माण का गांधी मार्ग”. |
| 2022 | Prof. Shekhar Pathak : “हिमालय चुनौतियों का घर”. |
| 2021 | Shri Sankarshan Thakur : “Mithila’s Inalienable but Complex Relationship with Bengal”. |
| 2020 | Prof. Ratneshwar Mishra : “Nationalism in Indian Context : Historical Perspective”. |
| 2019 | Prof. Mahesh Rangarajan : “Nature and Nation : Ecology, Society and History in Contemporary India the Connection”. |
| 2018 | Prof. N. Jayram : “Indians in Trinidad’ to ‘Indo – Trinidadians’ : The Making of a Girmitia Diaspora, 1845 -1995”. |
| 2017 | Prof. Smritikumar Sarkar : “Environment and Society A Study of People’s Housing in India”. |
| 2016 | Prof. Harish Trivedi : “Living with Others”. |
| 2015 | Shri Govind Mishra : “हम जीना क्यों चाहते हैं?”. |
| 2014 | Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak : “Varna System of Mahatma Gandhi view’s of Dr. Ambedkar & the Sulabh way to resolve the caste question”. |
| 2013 | Dr. Purusottam Agrawal : “Anusandhan Apani Aadhunikta Ka”. |
| 2013 | Dr. Mohan Mishra : “An overview of Mithila”. |
| 2012 | Dr. Vashistha Narayan Jha : “Linguistic modeling of the universe : the world-view of the Nyaya-Vaisesika System of Indian Philosophy”. |
| 2012 | Shri D.N.Gautam : “Nyayashastra Ki Janam-Bhoomi me Navya-Nyaya Ki Sishu-Krira”. |
| 2011 | Dr. Dipankar Gupta : “ Demographic Indicators of Social Change : Indian Growth Story and the Role of Small Towns”. |
| 2011 | Dr. Pradeep Kumar Bose : “Civil Society, Political Society and Citizenship in India”. |
| 2010 | Dr. K.L. Sharma : “Transformation of Caste System into “Caste” in Contemporary India”. |
| 2009 | Sri Muchkund Dubey : “Bihar : Vartaman Sthiti Aur Bhavishya”. |
| 2008 | Dr. Yogendra Singh : “Social Transformation”. |
| 2007 | Dr. Manager Pandey : “Bharat ke Parvarti Samanti Samaj me Sahitya ki Sanskriti”. |
| 2006 | Professor Sho Kuwajima : “The Contemporary History Which I have seen in India, Bihar and Japan”. |
| 2005 | Professor Satish Saberwal : “On the making of Muslims in India Historically”. |
| 2004 | Dr. D.K. Bhattacharya : “Emergence of Man and the Consequences of Change : A Case of India”. |
| 2003 | Dr. Namwar Singh : “Vartaman Dharm our Dharm Sankat”. |
| 2002 | Professor Andre’ Beteille : “Poverty and Inequality”. |
| 2001 | Dr. Amiya Kumar Bagchi : “What should be the Agenda of the State in India?”. |
| 2000 | Sri Bhagirath Lal Das : “Globalisation, Development, Poverty”. |
| 1999 | Dr. Ramawatar Yadav : “Maitili Linguistic Research : The State of the Art”. |
| 1998 | Professor Aniruddha Ray : “Transformation of Bihar : European Discourses (late 16th to early 19th century)”. Published as a book later on. |
| 1997 | Professor Sabyasachi Bhattacharya : “Reflections on the Concept of Regional History”. |
| Professor Surendra Gopal : “The Local, the Regional and the National : The Dynamics of History”. | |
| 1996 | Professor Ramkrishna Mukherjee : ‘Caste in Itself’, ‘Caste and Class’, or ‘Caste in Class’ : A Brief Discussion of the Three Concepts in the Historical and Contemporary Perspectives in India. |
| Professor Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri : “Society and Culture of the Tribal World in Colonial Eastern India : Reconsidering the Notion of ‘Hinduization’ of Tribes”. | |
| Dr. K.S. Singh : “Varna Ratnakara and its Ethnography”. |