Indian History Congress
- December 28, 2022
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Indian History Congress
Subject :History
Context: 81st session of the Indian History Congress (IHC) at the Madras Christian College, Chennai.
About Indian History Congress:
- Indian History Congress(IHC) was founded in
- IHC is the largest association of professional historians in South Asia.
- It has about 35000 members of which over 2000 delegates participate in its session every year.
- It has been holding its sessions very regularly from its inception and publishing its proceedings every year since 1935.
- Origin:
- IHC can be traced to the efforts of scholars working on India’s ancient past as well as modern history, in a bid to counter the colonial claims, while also drawing from Western analytical methods.
- Bharata ItihasaSamshodhaka Mandala (BISM) was one such effort that owed its origins to the stalwart Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade. He founded this institution in 1910 in Pune with the support of K C Mehendale.
- BISM organised an All India Congress in 1935 to celebrate its silver jubilee. The Indian History Congress (IHC) was thus born with about 50 delegates.
- Mandate:
- To regulate the standard of works of history produced in India.
- To promote impartial and substantive history.
- To commit to a fair and scientific history, devoid of bias and politics.
- Historians Ram Sharan Sharma, Satish Chandra, Bipan Chandra, Romila Thapar, B. N. Mukherjee, N. Panikkar, BrajadulalChattopadhayay, Dwijendra Narayan Jha, Sumit Sarkar, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya have had a long association with the Indian History Congress.