Why Indian history books revolves only around Gandhi, Nehru and INC?
In 1948, Prof. Ramesh Chandra Majumar or RC Majumdar as popularly known, submitted a proposal to the Government to write an authentic and truthful history of the freedom struggle. In 1952 the education ministry appointed a Board of Editors for the compilation of the history. Professor Majumdar was appointed by the Board as the Director and entrusted with the work of sifting and collecting materials and preparing the draft of the history. The board also consisted academicians who are communists and some were close to Nehru family. Clearly there was discord in the team which could not work properly and this board was dissolved by end of 1955. RC Majumdar studied BA and MA from Presidency College, Calcutta (now Kolkata), he was history professor at University of Calcutta for seven years. He became Vice-Chancellor of University of Dacca (Dhaka) for five years (1937-1942) and shifted to BHU, Varanasi. Being an academic historian, RC Majumdar was close to President Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Vi...