Guest guest Posted August 28, 2000 Report Share Posted August 28, 2000 >>Outsider as Enemy: Politics of Rewriting History in India >> >>Prof. K.N. Panikkar >>Jawaharlal Nehru University, India >> >>Chairman, Archives on Contemporary History, India >> >>Monday, August 28 >> >>6 PM >> >>CDAS, McGill University >>3715 Peel Street, Montreal, Canada >> >>How these persons can have the presumption to censor the work of >>historians of the stature of K.N.Panikkar, defies imagination. Only the >>Nazis in Germany over sixty years ago could have been capable of such >>presumption.- Irfan Habib >> >>What is happening to Towards Freedom is not an isolated instance. It is a >>part of a larger design of the Sangh parivar to transform India into a >>Hindu nation unmistakable foreboding of fast emerging fascist conditions >>in our country. - K.N. Panikkar >> >>Earlier this year two volumes of modern Indian history books entitled >>Towards Freedom submitted to the Oxford Press were arbitrarily withdrawn >>by the Indian Centre for historical Research, the ICHR. One of the >>editors >>of these volumes is Prof. K.N. Panikkar, Chairman of the Archives on >>Contemporary History, India. >> >>It is a well known fact that after coming to power last year the present >>Indian government led by the Hindu fundamentalist party the BJP has >>started >>an assault on all democratic and secular educational institutions. It had >>placed its members and sympathizers on the Board of the ICHR. >> >>Prof. Panikkar will talk about the politics of rewriting history in the >>background of the emerging fascist tendencies in India.Organized by >>CERAS, Centre detudes et de ressources sur lAsie du Sud Alternatives >>CDAS, Centre for Developing Area Studies, McGill University >> >>Info: Feroz Mehdi at (514) 982-6606; ext. 2248 >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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