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Annual Report 1987-88 I General CONTENTS Section Sul~ject Page No. General II Budget 2 III Funding Historical Research 2 IV National Fellowships 4 v Publications 4 VI Special Projects 9 VII International Collaboration 10 VIII Seminars I Workshops, Conferences ll IX The Indian Historical Review 12 X Documentation-cum-Library Centre 12 XI Other Significant Activities 13 Dl COUNCil OF HISTORICAl RESEARCH I ANNUAL REPORT 1987-88 I GENERAL The Jndian Couneil of Historical Research was established in 1972 as an autonomous body with a view to providing funds for historical res~::trch and to foster objective and scientific study of history. The Council awards fellowships. Study-cum-travel grants and publication subsidies. It also endeavours to make available source material as well as results of historical research through an ambitious publi­ cation programme. It also brings out a Journal The Indian Historical Review which includes interpretative pape1:s and reviews. It organises Seminars and academic conferences and gives financial assistance for travel within and outside the country for conducting -historical research. The Council also maintains a large and continuously expanding library for the use of historians and· researchers and also provides documentation services, The Council has a Chairman and 27 other members of whom 18 are historians and 7 ex-officio members representing the Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development; Secretary, Department of Culture; Financial Advisor of Ministry of Human Resource Develop­ ment, Government of India, the National Archives of India; the Archaeological Survey of India; the U.G.C.; etc. The appointment of the members is made by the Government of 1ndia for a period of three years. The composition of the Council c:~s on 31 March 1988 is given in Appendix-I. The strength of the Council as on 31 March 1988 is given in Appendix-It During the period under Review the Council continued to place emphasis on the fulfilment of its aims and objectives by focusing attention on the less explored areas of research which include study of socio-economic formations, History of Ideas, History of Peasantry and 1 Agrarian Relations. Urban studies, Demography and kinship studies, Quantitative History~ Freedom Struggle, Regional History and Historv, of Science and Technology. Emphasis was also placed on the editing1 :, 1 calendering and translation of historica1 sources in both regional and , foreign languages. The work on the special project ''Towards Freedom'' assigned by the Government of India was re-organised. The compHing and editing of the remaining volumes has been assigned to different Volume Editors and it is expected to finish the work by 31 March 1992. Work is continuing on other projects, "Role of the State Legislatures in the Freedom Movement", ''Praja Mandai Movement", "Sources of Indian History and Civilization and Culture'' II BUDGET During 1987~88 the ICHR received a total grant of Rs. 1,32,85,000/­ from the Ministry of Human Resource Development. This comprised Rs. 40,00,000/# for Plan, Rs. 75,00,000/- for Non-Plan and Rs. 17,85,000/- for "Towards Freedom". As of l-4-1988, the Council also had Rs. 6,909/- as cash in hand and Rs. 4,09,558/- in the Bank, the total opening balance being Rs. 4, 16,467. The Council realised a sum of Rs. 1 ,61 ,898/~ frow sale of books/journals and royalties. Its Accounts for 1987-88 and the Annual Audit report may be seen at Appendices III & IV respectively, IU FUNDING HISTORICAL RESEARCH The most important objective of the ICHR is to provide funds to scholars/institutions for research and publications. The Grants-in­ aid schemes of the Council includes provision of funds for (i) Research Projects; (ii) Fellowship; (iii) Study-cum-Travel Grants to researchers pursuing M.Phil and Ph.D.; (iv) Publication subsidies, and (v) financial assistance to academic organisations of historians. The detailed information about the grants~in-aid provided to various scholars/organisations since inception of the Council till March 1988 is given below : 2 Year Research Fellowships Study/Travel/ Total of Projects Contingent Col. 2, grant 3&4 2 3 4 s 1972-73 19 8 1 28 1973-74 8 11 2 21 1974-75 7 14 3 24 1975-76 18 12 15 45 1976-77 2l 37 82 140 1977-78 5 21 159 185 1978-79 22 31 ·115 168 1979-80 18 44 138 200 1980-8\ 17 94 106 217 1981-82 49 86 183 318 1982-83 15 135 180 330 1983-84 10 76 59 145 1984-85 30 141 199 370 1985-86 30 88 166 284 1986-87 23 63 13 7 223 1987-88 32 134 198 364 324 995 1743 3062 The detailed list of Research Projects, fellowships and study grants sanctioned during 1987-88 may ~e seen in Appendices V, VI & VII. It will be seen that the num'Jer of projects/fellowships/study grants shoV'~"d a large increase during the year 1 87~88. Proposals for grants­ in-aid are carefully examined by experts and then placed before the ~ Research Projects Committee/Study Grants Committee. Attention is paid to ensure that the grants are distributed evenly in different parts of the country. During the year under report, the Council has provided publication subsidy to 89 books. While acting as an agent for exchange of ideas the Council provided financial assistance to 56 institutions for holding seminars, symposia and conferences. Detailed list of publication subsidies and financial assistance sanctioned to Professional Organi­ sations of Historians is given in Appendices Vlll & IX respectively. A detailed list of scholars who were provided travel subsidies to visit abroad to attend seminars/conferences is given at Appendix X. 3 IV NATIONAL FELI,O\VSHIPS National Fellowships are awarded to eminent historians who wish to work on projects of special historical importance (fellowship Rs. 3,000/- p.m.: contingency Rs. I 0,000/- per annum and secretarial charges Rs. I ,000/- per month for a period of three years). At any one time there cannot be more than six National Fellows. Those who carried on research under this scheme during this period were : L Professor K. A. Nizami 2. Professor Debla Mitra 3. Professor A. R. Kulkarni 4. Professor G. C. Pan de Two other eminent historians Professor R. S. Sharma and Professor Satish Chandra were offered National Fellowship during the period under report. v PUBLICATIONS A. Under its own publication programme the Council has brought out the following volumes during the year 1987-88 : BOOKS English 1. Documents on Indians in Russia in the 17th & 18th Centuries by Surendra Gopal, 2. lnscriptions of Pallavas by T.V. Mahalingam. Tamil 3. Katherine Afayo and India by M. Jha. 4. Sangam Polity by N. Subramaniam. Telugu 5. Industrial Evolution of India in recent times by D. R. GadgiJ. 4 Persian 6. Jamia-al-Uloom by Qazi Sajjad Hussain. Journal 7. The Indian Historical Review, Vol. X, No. 1 & 2. 8. The Indian Historical Review, Vol. XI, No. 1 & 2. B. BOOKS UNDER PRINT The following books, bejng published by the Council, are in the press : English 1. Source Book of Indian Civilization by Niharranjan Ray. 2. Inscriptions of the Sarabhapur(van Panduvanisive and Somavadsim by A. M. Shastri in two parts. 3. Guniyat-al- Muniya by Shahab Sarmadee. 4. Labour fl.1ovement in India: Documents 1918-1921 by A.R. Desai. 5. The Roh::' of Madras Legislature in the Freedom Struggle 1861~ 1947 by S. Krishnaswamy. 6. A Topographical List of Inscriptions in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala States-Vol. II by T.V. Mahalingam. 7. Sirat- i-Firuzshalzi by S. Hasan Askari. 8. Sources on National }.;! overnent 1922-24 by M. P. Sri Kumaran Nair. 9. Sources on National Movement ( 1899-1902) by B. L. Grover. 10. A Topographical list of Arabic, Persian and Urdu Inscriptions of South India by Z. A Desai. 1 I. Planter Raj to SHiarc~j : Freedont Struggle and Electoral Politics in Assam 1826-1947 by Amalendu Guha (Second Reprint Edition). 12. Enc.vclopaedia of Indian Archaeology (in two volumes) by A. Ghosh. Hindi 13. Jodhpur Rajya Ki Khyat by Raghubir Sinh and M. S. Ranawat. 14. The Age of Imperial Unity- Vol. II by K. S. Munshi. 5 Tamil 15. Culture and Civilization ql Ancient India in Historical Out/int' by D.D. Kosambi. 16. Th1.' Cholas by K.A.N. Sastri. 17. Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India by R. S. Sharma. I 8. Origin and Development of Vaisnavism from 200 B.C. to 500 A.D. by S:uvira Jaiswal. 19. Economic Life in the V~ia.vanagar Empire by T.V. Mahalingam. 20. Bengal Renaissance and other Essays by S.C. Sircar. 21. Indian feudalism by R.S. Sharma. 22. The C£•ntral Structure of the Mugha/ Empire and its practical r' working upto the year 1657 by Ibn Hasan. 23. Rebel!ion (1857) by P. C. Joshi. 24. The .lv.fughal NobilitY under Aurangzeb by M. Athar Ali. Kannada I 25. Histm:v of Tipu Sultan by Mohibul Hasan Khan. C. Books published under the publication subsidy programme of the Council \ 1. A History of the Rise and fall of the .Niarathas of the Bundelkhand..-'~ by Dr. Bhagwan Das Gupta. 2. Bhuvaneswar ld Dev Murthiyan Ek Pratibha Shast1:v Adhyayan by Dr. Rekha Pandey. 3. Prachin Bharatiya Yudh Vyavastha by Dr. Ram Singh. 4. Purvi Punjab Dian Riyasthan with Kisan Ghol in Pw~jabi. 5. Uttarakhand Me Cooli Begar Pradha by Dr. Shekhar Pathak. 6. Dictionary of National Biography by Dr. N.R. Ray. 7. System of Education in Medieval India by Dr. Md. Ashfaque \IIi Ahmad.
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