12-05-2006, 08:48 AM
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Looking for a Hindu Identity
by D N Jha
[Presentation at the 66th Indian History Congress, Shantiniketan, January 28, 2006]
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory...sid=167217
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 Andrà BÃteille [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]
'The Problem' in: Rewriting History
by Neeladri Bhattacharya [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]
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]
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]
Communalisation of Education: Fighting history's textbook war [January 28, 2002]
History and community sentiment
by Rajeev Bhargava [Jan 02, 2002 ]
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]
Looking for a Hindu Identity
by D N Jha
[Presentation at the 66th Indian History Congress, Shantiniketan, January 28, 2006]
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory...sid=167217
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 Andrà BÃteille [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]
'The Problem' in: Rewriting History
by Neeladri Bhattacharya [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]
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]
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]
Communalisation of Education: Fighting history's textbook war [January 28, 2002]
History and community sentiment
by Rajeev Bhargava [Jan 02, 2002 ]
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]