Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)

Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)

Subject : Polity

Context:

• According to an Indian Council of Historical Research(ICHR) concept note on Constitution Day stated that India has been practising democratic traditions since the “Vedic times”when villages developed a hierarchy of self-governing institutions such as“panchayats and khaps”.
• More about Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR):
• ICHR is an autonomous body of the Union Ministry of Education.
• It was established under Societies Registration Act (Act XXI of 1860) in 1972 by an Administrative Order of the then Union Ministry of Education and Social Welfare.
• It is based in New Delhi with regional centersin  Pune, Bengaluru and Guwahati.
• ICHR disburses funds for carrying out research to Indian as well as foreign scholars on their applications for fellowships, grants, and symposia made to ICHR or through HRD Ministry.
• It has provided financial assistance to the historians and direction to the research scholars in their multifarious topics of historical research.
• What is the composition of the ICHR:
• The composition of the Council is as follows:
  • An eminent historian nominated by the Government of India who shall be Chairman of the Council; 
  • Eighteen historians nominated by the Government of India;
  • A Representative of the U.G.C;
  • Director-General of Archaeology;
  • Director, National Archives;
  • Four persons to represent the Government who shall be nominated by the Government of India and which shall include one representative each of the Ministry of Education, the Department of Culture and the Ministry of Finance; and Member Secretary.