60 SOCIAL SCIENTIST
RSS Jubilation
With these triumphs, the RSS has had full cause to be jubilant. Though many could only guess what was happening behind the scenes in the Ministry of Education and the IGHR, the RSS of course knew it for certain and knew it all. On March 4, 1979, its weekly Organiser gave as its front-page srory its own account of its capture of the ICHR and the perversion of the translation programme. The display of its usual stock-in-trade, a barrage of abuse and scandalmongering against "Marxists", could not conceal its glee at the coup in the ICHR and the use of public money to translate and publish the Bhavan volumes in all Indian languages.
The RSS success has been made possible with the help of some perennial weathercocks among Indian historians. But their number fortunately is small. It is time for all those historians who believe in secular value to raise their voice against the use of the ICHR's funds for spreading the communal poison. There is no doubt that ultimately even the Government of India will have to take note of the protest, and permit the ICHR to function without taking regular orders from the Deendayal Research Institute. ALIGARH HISTORIANS GROUP
1 The History and Gultuce of the Indian People, (ed.) R C Majumbar Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Vol I pp 215-218.
2 Ibid., Vol Vll pp 627-639.
3 Ibid., Vol VI p617.
4 Ibid., Vol pp 622-623.
5 Ibid., Vol VI p 623.
8 Ibid., Vol VII pp XI-XII.