Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)
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Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR)
- ICHR is an autonomous body registered under Societies Registration Act (Act XXI of 1860) under the Union Ministry of Education.
- It was established in 1972 by an Administrative Order of the then Union Ministry of Education and Social Welfare.
- It is headquartered in New Delhi with regional centers in Bengaluru (Karnataka) and Gowahati (Assam).
- 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.
- Its aim is to encourage ‘objective and scientific historical research on India’ and to promote, accelerate and coordinate research in history.
- It also organizes and sponsors seminars, workshops, and conferences for the promotion and utilization of the historical knowledge.
Its work
It has done remarkable efforts to
- collect source materials in the form of inscriptions,
- translation of important and rare books,
- preparation of catalogues,
- editing the texts,
- seminal works on political and social movements in the country,
- preparation of statistical data and preparation of old Zamindari records.
Source “ICHR not rewriting history, only filling gaps”
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