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Indian History Congress+
Dt: 11/1/18
Indian History Congress+
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
Once there was only one labour organisation in the country, the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC). Great nationalists like V V Giri , N M Joshi and others were its leaders. It had the blessings of Jawaharlal Nehru and such patriots. But soon it was infiltrated and was taken over by the Indian Communists. Congress realised its folly very late and had to found a new trade union i.e the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) excluding the Communists. Under the communist control, the AITUC became intolerant and suppressive of any but the communist political line. So the socialists also went out and so many other trade unions came out of it.
2. Once there was only one student’s organisation, the All India Students Federation. Its first session was presided over by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. Persons like I K Gujral, H N Bahuguna ( and I even ) were its members. The AISF was like the AITUC, infiltrated and taken over by Communists. Then the nationalist-minded had to come out and found the national Students Union.
3. The Indian History Congress was founded (origin 1935) with good intentions but was infiltrated in and by now, is totally communist -controlled just like the AITUC and the AISF. When in 1969 Indira Gandhi split the Indian National Congress hallowed by the leadership of patriots like Dadabhai Naoroji, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru, she needed the support of the rabble. The Communists decided that was the best opportunity for them to infiltrate and influence the Congress. Former members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and such high-ranking leaders ( eg: Mohan Kumara Mangalam, Raghunath Reddy, H R Gokhale) joined the Indira Congress and became Cabinet Ministers. In return for the magnificent street and media support, the communist parties requested a dakshina (gift) a University from Indira Gandhi.
+(Most of this paper was written in Dec 2001 and published in the journal Secularism Combat. This is the updated (Jan 2018) version)
The bill for JNU was introduced in 1965. Com. Bhupesh Gupta speaking in the Rajya Sabha want the government to introduce courses in scientific socialism, cover word for Marxism-communism. The JNU became functional, courtesy Indira Gandhi in 1969. Nehru was during 1947-’51 denounced as a lackey of Anglo-American imperialism by the Communist Party of India, led by B T Ranadive, under guidance from COMINFORM (Communist International Forum) directed by J.V.Stalin. The CPI then took to arms (Telangana, West Bengal, Madas, Kerala..) to overthrow the Nehru government. That was ruthlessly suppressed by Sardar Patel, Dy P.M and Home Minster. They managed to put fellow-travelling history lecturers and communist writers into Universities, especially in the JNU and other Central Universities. Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, K N Panikar, RS Sharma, KL Srimali, Bipan Chandra and their colleagues are first and foremost Marxists and communists, earmarked to work in the realm of history. They have been calling one another “eminent” historians. One of them writes a book; other colleagues review it and call him a great author.
4. It is just like what is described in a fable. The camels invited donkeys for their marriage party. The donkeys said “aho roopam”, i.e how magnificently beautiful are the camels. The camels in turn praised the donkeys by saying “aho dhwani” i.e how magnificent is the sound (braying) of the donkeys. The “eminent” historians have immensely benefitted by implementing the wisdom in the fable. ICHR was taken over by them. They ignored every truly objective historian like RC Majumdar and others. They trashed all the great historians like Sir Jadunath Sarkar and UN Ghoshal. They were nominating themselves to participate in international Congress of Historians. That is how they went on building their exclusive “eminence”. These people are intolerant and serve the cause of the communist party. The communist ”historians” have always been fabricators of history to suit firstly their Marxist ideology and secondly, the communist master who has gained control of the party and the country. In the former Soviet Union, the “eminent” communist historians re-wrote the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union whenever a new communist ruler took over the party and the country. They glorified the current master of the communist party and government .
5. Communists, like some propagandists of fundamentalist religions, repudiate truth if it does not fit into their dogma. They present only such facts as support their dogma. That is how the communist Government of West Bengal has ordered its writers of text books to recast Indian history into whatever their ideology wants it to be presented as.
6. I presented the following papers at three meets of the Indian History Congress
India’s Nationhood Before & After 1947 (Cuttack 2013)
Secularism: Precept & Practice in Post-Independence India (JNU, Delhi 2014)
Truth & Reconciliation Commission of India (Malda, West Bengal 2015)
I asked for a discussion. Romila Thapar was there and so was Irfan Habib. They “killed” me by their silence. A friend remarked to me in private. “ You are lucky; they did not abuse or manhandle you”. It is significant that the IHCs are now held in anti BJP Universities /states West Bengal, Kerala, Jamia Millia etc.
7. The Indian history Congress must be freed from the clutches of communists. Governments should not give any money to this communist-dominated outfit. Just as the nationalists broke away from the communist-controlled AITUC and the AISF, the nationalist and patriotic historians must break away from the Indian History Congress and found a new organisation. If we are to build up a strong, self-confident and self-respecting, nation, Indian history must be presented with all its glorious achievements from times immemorial to the successful resistance for 700 long years to a foreign religious imperialism followed by a political colonial imperialism. The correction of the distortions, the excision of the fabrications, the righting of the negations systematically practices by Communists and fellow-traveller history –writers would involve many struggles and a long time. It will be a very strong struggle. The beginning has been made. The communist historians must be advised to invent and adopt a new country rather than wanting to hang onto a country, the majority of whose people have no regard and have no faith in them. The HRD Ministry and all its organs must withdraw their patronage to thee resident non-Indians (RNI) Marxist Macaulayite fabricators of history. (1021 words)END