PaRCha – JNU – JNUSU – 2000 ID-61834
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een deliberately spr~ ro’ect and the ICHbe countered .
Fciends, k a lot of misinforma~~~n~at~: ‘Towacds i~~~~~~:O/pc~pagand~ ~=~~~sordid tale of .
During th:a~~~;;::~; in th~cchao;;~;: ~!11,9 publis~~~~ ;~:;;d. Freedo~’J’;~;e~t~:Stthree decades. .
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~~~eew;:;,rg two v~~u~~;o~g~t. The wh_ol~u~~~a:hich continued unchec e .
andaSSIVQt~e factscarr~bprtio;.. and–. w~:;t~. C?f P!:lb)!~ -. . t d as Genera .
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-.,_,_I Ed’ltor but no progress was ..
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"’ .. · .. . s. Go pal was app01n lished the ficst volume n.
The pcojact was conceived n 1973 ~~~ed as Chief Editoc and subse~ue~!~P~~opra to the then CHA de till1982 when Dr.P.N.Chopra ~~. 2~ volume was subm<t!ed. Y ‘t did not sufficiently reflect the .
ma1985. In 1987 the’b manuscript of t d the manuscript for prmtmg as I.
ho did not sen .
Chairman lrfan Habl ‘ w ement etc! .
Marxist view on role of peasant mov ‘ reflected the outlook of only a .
. . ensure that the rest of the volu_mesand distributed the work for the .
At this point lrtan Habb n o~der to nize" the Towacds eceedom pro~ectdeological bias and who were.
‘ce~ain’ ideology, decldge~i~~o;;:~~~a._ll of whom reflected a certa n ‘ .
cemainlng volumes to I . . ..
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d with and chan~~~~t~,…a_ ~:gj~~~. ~ne new team Were Supposed to.
!:;d’f.lm/f.’J ;?n U92..6uteven this was violated. The HAD Ministcy then extended the .
0’"’""""""".:!r."!;”:~"”-""""’"~S~C"~~. 7s ·was not adhered to. .
Aher all this delay the 1" volume edited by P.S.Gupta came out in 1997 which apart from the expected ideological bias and Whitewashing of the cole of a particular ocganization in 1 942, contains howlers like having no contents or index in 2 of the 3 volumes, and wrongly prinling even the name of /CHAt .
/CHA has til/ today spent a lola/ of Rs.4 crOf’e on this project under the ‘supervision’ of people like S. Gopa/ and Irian Habib, with little or no output and that too With such howlers! In the light of this the vain protest by the authoc (Panikkac)) that he has not even received his honocarium, is inelevant, to say the .
amount of taxpayers’ money went? .
least. If he is to be taken at his word, would the likes of S.Gopat and /. Habib please explain where this .
Also, the 3,member committee which was set up by the council for review these volumes ociginal/y .
consisted of B.A.Nanda, T.R.Aavindran and Satish Mitta/, which howevec could not take up the work. On .
Dec. 20, 1999 a new committee consisting of ICHR Chairman Prof. B.A.Grover, Prof. A.A.Khan and .
Dr.Satish Mittal all renowned hislorians, was appointed who ae to examine these works before.
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publication in order lo pcevent such mistakes and biases as in the last volume. .
The hue,and,ccy raised by vested interests both within JNU and outside is deplorable for its intemperate .
attack Which seeks to whitewash and hide !he clever distortion of historical documents, facts and .
presentation, by historians owing allegiance to a certain ideology and also the campant conuption and .
nepotism by these ‘historians’ who have been in control of state institutions like the iCHA since the time .
of late Sh.S.Nun;t Hasan, member of Indira Gandhi Cabinet in the 1970s. Nuru/ Hasan (With a// .
reverence to him) was responsible foe initiating the distortion and politicization of history and it is the same .
coterie (Panikkar et a/) set up by him which has been in control of state-funded institutions and been the .
beneficiaries of government largesse till today. .
The renowned histonan Oc.M.G.S.Narayanan said thai thO concerted attacks en ICHR we: r;_art ot a "Marxist party pattern of dislorting h1stocy in ocdec to cover up e<r m ·, mu"’y ”"" vt «nupuon, .
. th . ·sdeeds" (The New Indian <=Xpress,.
18 Feb 2000). There Is a need to expose these elements Who ha~~t~-~t the publisha aod Pooo (ICHR) of the controvers1a vo umes ‘:’ 1 .
nepotism and distortiQn of history behil"’d hem. It IS thef nng~~ :pn~nt o~ the project are not misused to .
. I I t0 8 sure that publiC U .
serve the ideological interests of the cotene. .
Long Live Students Unity! .
Vande Mataram!! Sd/-.
Sandeep Mahapatra Jt. Secy., JNUSU .
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