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who controls the present controls the past" -- George Orwell's 1984 |
| Communalisation Of History: The Long Battle Ahead by Amar Farooqui [August 17, 2008] Predicaments of Secular Histories by Neeladri Bhattacharya [Winter 2008] The Right-wing is the final authority on the Ramayana, there's no space for debate or scholarly discussion by Khalid Akhter [April, 2008] A New Edifice : A book review by Rudrangshu Mukherjee [March 28, 2008] Many Rams: Many Ramayanas by Ram Puniyani [March 25, 2008] Crying wolf: Ramayana, Ramanujan and the ABVP by T K Rajalakshmi [March 15, 2008] Unlikely Arrows In Ram’s Quiver by Raghu Karnad [March 15, 2008] How many Ramayanas ? I am for many Ramayanas by DP Satish [reproduced at SACW on March 6, 2008] Case of the Missing Wife: History is free, and thus should be used responsibly by Rudrangshu Mukherjee [March 6, 2008] Sahmat statement re ABVP's assault on the Department of History, Delhi University [February 26, 2008] Upholding scientific principles of historical writing: Interview with K.N. Pannikar by C Gouridasan Nair [February 25, 2008] Violence by ABVP activists in the Delhi University's Department of History [February 25, 2008] An e-mail account from Delhi Response to Sangh objections on AK Ramanujan's History text Note prepared by the departmental council of the department of history, University of Delhi, in its meeting of February 4, 2008 ABVP protests and Mayawati support them on 'contentious' text A news report [February 3, 2008] Looking for a Hindu Identity by D N Jha [Presentation at the 66th Indian History Congress, Shantiniketan, January 28, 2006] Selected
news reports on the 66th Indian
History Congress
Guard against colour to history says Pranab Mukherjee at the India History Congress (News Report - 28 January 2006) First official Pakistan delegation to attend IHC by Jayanth Jacob by Manjari Mishra [December 8, 2006] NCERT refuses to chop beef mention [May 27, 2006] Review Article India: The War Over History by William Dalrymple [April 7, 2005] The Rediff Interview / Romila Thapar [February 10, 2005] A scathing indictment by T.K. Rajalakshmi The exoneration of the historians involved with the "Towards Freedom Project" in the interim report of the Bandopadhyay Committee is evidence of the BJP-led government's communal agenda. [January 29, 2005] Forgotten themes R. Champakalakshmi talks to historian Romila Thapar [December 19, 2004] History Textbooks in India: Narratives of Religious Nationalism by K N Panikkar [October, 2004] Caught in historical cliches by Praful Bidwai [September 11, 2005] "Learning History Without Burden" - the Advisory prepared for India's National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) on how teachers could teach using the pre-2000 and the existing textbooks, which are flawed and biased, and endeavour to work towards more child friendly books in future. [August 2004] Report of the Panel of Historians submitted to Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India [August 2004] India considers historic rewrite by Scott Baldauf [July 16, 2004] India's Battle Over its History by J. Sri Raman [June 4, 2004] One nation's many pasts by Romila Thapar [April 2, 2004] Saffron Infusion: Hindutva, History, and Education by Latha Menon [?, 2004] Historians plan 'parallel textbooks' [December, 2003] Myth and History by AndrÉ BÉteille [October 11, 2003] Text-Books, Politics and the Practice of History by Tripta Wahi [September 2003] Bulldozing the Past into Existence by Janaki Nair [2003] Romila Thapar: Her Struggle for a Non-Sectarian History Continues by Richard Barnett and B. P. Giri [Fall 2003] In Defence of the Indian Historian Romila Thapar by SACW Alert [April 28, 2003] 'Paradigm shift' in history? - I 'Paradigm shift' in history? - II by Michael Witzel [April 1 and April 8, 2003] A new brand of history - II by Vishwa Mohan Jha [March 1, 2003] A critique of NCERT texts - I by Vishwa Mohan Jha [February 15, 2003] Hindutva and its ‘mhystory’ by Pradip Kumar Datta [February 2003] Historical pedagogy of the Sangh Parivar by Tanika Sarkar [February 2003] 'The Problem' in: Rewriting History by Neeladri Bhattacharya [February, 2003] History As Told By Non-Historians by Anjali Modi Teaching against Communalism: Role of Social Science Pedagogy by Ananya Vajpeyi [December 21, 2002] "Communalization of Education: The History Textbooks Controversy" by the Delhi Historians' Group [2002] History Period by Shahid Amin [March 31, 2002] Communalising Education by Bipan Chandra, Yogendra Singh, Namwar Singh, G S Bhalla, Annie Koshy, Kamala Menon, Sumit Sarkar and a large number of others. Delhi [March 9, 2002] Attempt to rewrite History fascist: Bipan [ 21 February, 2002] Communalisation of Education: Fighting history's textbook war [January 28, 2002] History and community sentiment by Rajeev Bhargava [Jan 02, 2002 ] India moves to "Talibanise" history by John Elliott [17 December 2001] History and the enterprise of knowledge by Amartya Sen The text of inaugural address at the 61st session of the Indian History Congress. [Jan 20, 2001 ] Hindutva and history: Why do Hindutva ideologues keep flogging a dead horse? by Romila Thapar [October 13, 2000] Horse Paly in Harrapa: The Indus Valley Decipherment Hoax by Michael Witzel and Steve Farmer (report on media hype, faked data, and Hindutva propaganda in recent claims that the Indus Valley script has been decoded. Ever since the publication of this article, the Hindutva Far right has consistently attacked and derided the work of Witzel and Farmer) [October 13, 2000] History and interpretation: Communalism and problems of historiography in India by Irfan Habib Rightist history is communal history The Rediff Interview/ K N Panikkar To reduce history to religion is distorting history The Rediff Interview/ K N Panikkar Communalism And History Textbooks by R.S. Sharma Does Indian History Need To Be Rewritten? by Sumit Sarkar (December 2, 2001) Time, Chronology and History: the Indian Case by Harbans Mukhia The history project The reconstitution of the Indian Council of Historical Research points to a continuing drive to project a certain ideological agenda. by Sukumar Muralidharan Historians flay bid to communalise history (News report) Nov. 2001 The Communal Offensive and the Indian Council of Historical Research by Tanika Sarkar [April 2000] The falsification of history by Parvathi Menon [March 18, 2000] Righting or rewriting Hindu history by Ann Ninan [February 2000] Against Communalising History by D. N. Jha [March 1999] History Writing Takes a Strong Hindu Turn by Ann Ninan [1998] Hindu zealots altering history: scholars by Deepshikha Ghosh, New Delhi Project on history terminated [The Hindu, 3 November 1998] |
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Getting the spin right on history Interview by Shiraz Sidhva The E-mail Discussion Group Indo Eurasian Research Web site of Prof. K. N. Panikkar Speak Out Against the Hindutva Assault on California's History Textbooks Hindutva
Goes to School
by Shalini Gera & Girish Agrawal [Feb 4, 2006] Defending the Faith: New Battleground In Textbook Wars: Religion in History by Daniel Golden in Wall Street Journal [January 25, 2006] India History Spat Hits the US Now, Hindu Nationalists Rewriting California Textbooks |
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