The SOWMEN MITTER Initiative for Language ENGLISH & Related Studies (SMILERS) mourns the passing away of Prof Bipan Chandra,
one of India's pre-eminent historians and ardent crusader against
distortion of History and a powerful voice against communalism at this
time when an august body like the Indian Council of Historical Research
may, for obvious reasons, be used to make us believe that the two epics
- the Ramayana and the Mahabharata are events of History. His death at
this crucial juncture means a great loss not only to the academia and
cultivation of history as a discipline to seek out the truth, but also
to the overall secular ethos of the Indian literati and society in
general. We respectfully pay our homage to this secular soldier of
Modern Indian History.
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