PROJECT TIME CAPSULE AND THE I C H R ^7 known fact, including official studio, point to the contrary. Socialism. is shown to be the burning passion of these 25 years. Was it?8 In the readers9 correspondence columns of Th^ Hindu, Krishna.-swamy gave his answer thus: Why did he (Badrinath) not s»ay what we have done to solve bur land problems and the problem of food scarcity?... Why did Mr Badrihath speak only about our failures and difficulties? ...Etytno logically, viewpoints and prejudices are two different things, but in historical writing^, the margin between the two is often so thin that it always becomes possible for a historian to consider another's work prejudiced, while he may remain unconscious of his own prejudices in making such a criticism.4 In the same letter, Krishnaswamy revealed that 'to my knowledge^ the capsule contained 10,000 words and 30 pages. Here wa& an inadvertent divulging of 'classified' matter. The Prime Minister was forced to disclaim any knowledge of the capsule's contents. The Council sent a letter to Krisbnaswamy asking him for an explanation and for public silence on" matters of such n,ioment and secrecy. He wrote back) handing over the case for defence to the ICHR where the responsibility was squarely placed. , On October 15;, P Ramamurthy^ member of the Politbureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) released copies of the text of the scroll to the press. He described it as "an insult to the Indian people, tt is not a history of India, but reads like the report of the General Secretary pf the Congress Party, detailing the so-called achievements of the Congress Party in power."8 II J To state that the time capsule is an ode to th^ Congress regime—^ that it sees history as the achievement of ones Nehru ^nd ont Congress government after another—is after all to state that it has played strue to its design. Ignoring the role of the people, it has distorted N^tOry fpr thi? purpose- . . . . ^U ^^^\ 1947 is seen by the capsule historian as the achievement ofGandhi and the leaders of the Congress Party, tn fact, India after the^war witnessed a mass revolutionary upheaval against British rule. Peasant revolts, general strikes of workers, student strikes and mass movements developed on an unprecedented scale. It was all these, combined With the revolts of ftie armed forces and the police, culminating in the great Royal Indian Navy Mutiny, that finally forced British Imperialism to see the Waiting on the wall. The capsule lauds the wisdom of Vallabhbhai Fatel in bringing about the integration of the princely states: the people's struggles in ever^ state which laid the foundation for integration find n6 place. The struggle of the'people ofTravancore; fte battles oFthe WoAVr^ of^iinftajbrh-Vi^a-lar and the rote played by them In nipping the feudal princes' consjpirfacy