Indian History Congress

Indian History Congress is the largest professional and academic body of Indian historians with over 35,000 members. It was established in 1935.[1] The name of any new applicant for membership needs to be proposed and seconded by existing Ordinary or Life Members.[2]

History

The lead to establish an all-India national congress of historians was taken by Poona historians during the period of British colonial rule. The first session took place in Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal, Poona, in 1935. Historians such as Datto Vaman Potdar, Surendra Nath Sen (who later became the first director of National Archives of India), and Sir Shafaat Ahmad Khan attended the first session.[3]

Historians Mohammad Habib and Susobhan Sarkar and later Nurul Hasan, Ram Sharan Sharma, Satish Chandra, Bipan Chandra, Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, Athar Ali, Barun De, Iqtidar Alam Khan, B. N. Mukherjee, K. N. Panikkar, Brajadulal Chattopadhayay, Dwijendra Narayan Jha, Sumit Sarkar, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Pritam Saini[4] have had a long association with the Indian History Congress.[5]

Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu[6] was invited to speak the 61st session at Kolkata.[7][8]

Controversy

The 79th session of the IHC, initially scheduled to be held at Savitribai Phule University, Pune, in December, 2018 was postponed. Now the Government of Madhya Pradesh has shown interest to conduct the event at Barkatullah University, Bhopal.

Awards

H.K. Barpujari Award


Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade Award (for lifelong service and contribution to Indian history)

References
  1. Anand, Arun (December 28, 2007). "Right wing historians to challenge Leftists in history congress".
  2. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS FOR INITIAL https://web.archive.org/web/20041213084134/http://members.tripod.com/historycongress3/membershiprules.htm
  3. Chakrabarty, Dipesh (2015-07-15). The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth. University of Chicago Press. p. 82. ISBN 9780226100456.
  4. Proceedings - Punjab History Conference, Issues 22-24 - pp 520
  5. Champakalakshmi elected new IHC President http://www.zeenews.com/nation/2008-12-30/494946news.html
  6. History in the Faking, Does the IHC believe in 'India's tradition of scepticism'? http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20010115/edits.shtml
  7. Jyoti Basu At Indian History Congress, People's Democracy, Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Vol. XXV, No. 02, January 14, 2001 http://pd.cpim.org/2001/jan14/jan14_history%20congress.htm
  8. Bengal: Escape into magical realism http://hindu.com/businessline/2001/02/13/stories/041355pr.htm
  9. Indian History Congress (1993). "Appendix 10: Awardees of Professor HK Barpujari Biennial Award". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 54: 995–1002. JSTOR 44143117.
  10. Srivastava, N.M.P. (2005). Professor R.S. Sharma: The Man With Mission; Prajna-Bharati Vol XI, In honour of Professor Ram Sharan Sharma. Patna, India: K.P. Jayaswal Research Institute.
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