Indian History Congress at Ravenshaw University 2.83

Indian History Congress (IHC) at a glance

1. Largest and oldest Association of Academicians in Humanities and Social Sciences:
It is the largest and oldest body of academicians in Humanities and Social Sciences. Started in 1935 at Poona, the IHC has about 10000 members.

2. Uninterrupted holding of Annual Session:
IHC has been holding the annual session uninterruptedly since 1935, except in the year 1942, 1962 and 1971.

3. Discussion on wide ranging issues
Each annual session comprises six parallel sections – from Ancient India, Medieval India, Modern India, Countries other than India, Archaeology and Contemporary India ¬; the presidential address, sectional presidential addresses delivered during the Session are major interventions in the latest historical researches. Significantly enough, about 1200-1300 research papers are presented and discussed during the Session. Many of the globally acclaimed historians and social scientists are associated with the Congress. Prof. Amartya Sen delivered the Presidential address in 2007 Calcutta Session.

4. Uninterrupted publication of its proceeding since 1935:
The proceedings of the IHC are continuously published since its inception.

Brief Profile of the Indian History Congress

The Indian History Congress (IHC) was established on 8th June 1935 in Poona, and it was called “All India Modern History Congress”. Sir Shafafat Ahmad Khan was its first president. At the second session in 1938 at Allahabad, All India Modern History Congress was rechristened as the Indian History Congress. Since then, the IHC has remained the largest academic and professional body of Indian historians. Today IHC boasts of about 9000 members.

As defined by its constitution its primary objective is the “promotion and encouragement of the scientific study of Indian history”. It holds annual sessions and publishes their proceedings mainly comprising research papers. Seventy-three annual sessions have been held so far except in the year 1942, 1962 and 1971. It also publishes various monographs and collections of papers. It has sponsored the publication of a Comprehensive History of India, many volumes of which have been published. The Indian History Congress stands for collaboration with historians throughout the world, and promotes the study of the history of countries other than India. The chronology of annual sessions of IHC is given below.
Sessions Place Year
1st Poona 1935
2nd Allahabad 1938
3rd Calcutta 1939
4th Lahore 1940
5th Hyderabad 1941
6th Aligarh 1943
7th Madras 1944
8th Annamalai 1945
9th Patna 1946
10th Bombay 1947
11th Delhi 1948
12th Cuttack 1949 (Ravenshaw College)
13th Nagpur 1950
14th Jaipur 1951
15th Gwalior 1952
16th Waltair 1953
17th Ahmedabad 1954
18th Calcutta 1955
19th Agra 1956
20th Anand 1957
21st Trivandrum 1958
22nd Gauhati 1960
23rd Delhi 1961
24th Could not be held due to the Chinese War
25th Poona 1963
26th Ranchi 1964
27th Allahabad 1965
28th Mysore 1966
29th Patiala 1967
30th Bhagalpur 1968
31th Varanasi 1969
32th Jabalpur 1970
33rd Muzaffarpur 1972
34th Chandigarh 1973
35th Jadavpur 1974
36th Aligarh 1975
37th Calicut 1976
38th Bhubaneswar 1977 (Utkal University)
39th Hyderabad 1978
40th Waltair 1979
41st Bombay 1980
42nd Gaya 1981
43rd Kurukshetra 1982
44th Burdwan 1983
45th Annamalai 1984
46th Amritsar 1985
47th Srinagar 1986
48th Goa 1987
49th Dharwad 1988
50th Gorakhpur 1989
51st Calcutta 1990
52nd Delhi 1991-92
53rd Warangal 1992-93
54th Mysore 1993
55th Aligarh 1994
56th Santiniketan 1995
57th Madras 1996
58th Bangalore 1997
59th Patiala 1998
60th Calicut (Diamond Jubilee) 1999
61st Calcutta (Millennium) 2000-01
62nd Bhopal 2001
63rd Amritsar 2002
64th Mysore 2003
65th Bareilly 2004
66th Santiniketan 2005-06
67th Calicut 2006-07
68th Delhi 2007
69th Kannur 2008
70th Delhi 2009-10
71st Malda 2010-11
72nd Patiala 2011
73rd Mumbai 2012

74th session and Ravensahaw
The 74th session will be held in Cuttack at Ravenshaw University from 28-30 December 2013. This is for the second time that Ravenshaw University is going to host the IHC Annual session. In 1949, the 12th session was held in the erstwhile Ravenshaw College. The 38th session of the IHC was held in Bhubaneswar in 1977. In addition to six academic sections, a special panel on Contemporary Odisha entitled “Society, State and Region: Historical and Contemporary Orissa” is proposed during the IHC.
The following persons have been elected as office bearers and executive members for the year 2012-2013

Vice Presidents : Prof. Irfan Habib and Prof. B.B. Chaudhary
Secretary : Prof. S.Z. H. Jafri (Delhi)
Treasurer : Dr (Mrs) Tripta Verma (Delhi)
Joint Secretaries : Dr. J.J. Sudhakar (Chennai) &
Dr. Dayanand Roy

MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Prof . Apurba Chakravarti (Malda)
Prof. Arun Bandopadhyay (Kolkata)
Prof. B.P. Sahu (Delhi)
Prof. B.S. Chandra Babu (Tamil Nadu)
Prof. Chandi Prasad Nanda (Cuttack)
Prof. C.P.N. Sinha (Bihar)
Prof. Dharmendra Kumar (West Bengal)
Prof. G.S.L Devra (Rajasthan)
Prof. Jahnabi Gogoi Nath (Dibrugarh)
Prof. J.V. Naik (Maharashtra)
Prof. Kulbir Singh Dhillon (Punjab)
Prof. K.T. Thomas (Kerala)
Dr. Mahendra Pratap (Varanasi)
Prof. M. Venkateshwar Rao (Andhra Pradesh)
Prof. Radhika Seshan (Maharashtra)
Prof. Rajan Saikia (Assam)
Prof. Shireen Moosvi (Aligarh)
Prof. Surendra Rao (Mangalagangotri)
Prof. Susnata Das (Kolkata)
Prof. T.R. Ghoble (Mumbai)

The Vice Chancellor of Ravenshaw University is the chairman of the organising committee and Prof Chandi Prasad Nanda of the department of History, Ravenshaw University is the local organising secretary of the Session.