Event: DR. C.D. DESHMUKH MEMORIAL LECTURE 2018
Venue: C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building, New Delhi
Date: 14.01.2018
Topic: Great Contemporaries: Akbar, Suleiman I and Elizabeth I Speaker
The ‘Philosopher Monarch’ was an ideal of Plato’s. The age of the Antonines in Rome produced five of them in quick succession. Thereafter, these three contemporaries more or less fulfilled the same ideal of Kingship. Their attitude to their subjects, and particularly to their minority subjects, is a lesson in the modern Constitutional Ideal of Fraternity, assuring the dignity of the individual, and the unity and integrity of the Nation.