Why in News?

Indian Council of Historical Research:

• The ICHR is an autonomous body of the HRD Ministry, which had been established by an Administrative Order of the then Ministry of Education.
• The body has provided financial assistance to the historians and direction to the research scholars in their multifarious topics of historical research through established historians and scholars of the country.
• ICHR disburses funds for carrying out research to Indian as well as foreign scholars on their applications for fellowships, grants, and symposia.

Objectives:

• The objectives of the ICHR, as enunciated in the initial pamphlet published by the Department of Education, Government of India in 1972 are as under:
• to bring historians together and provide a forum for exchange of views between them;
• to give a national direction to an objective and scientific writing of history and to have rational presentation and interpretation of history;
• to promote, accelerate and coordinate research in history with special emphasis on areas which have not received adequate attention so far;
• to promote and coordinated a balanced distribution of research effort over different areas; and to elicit support and recognition for historical research from all concerned and ensure the necessary dissemination and use of results.