50 SOCIAL SCIENTIST crisis, and not Indira Gandhi's determination to "carry forward the unfinished revolution of our time,^28 that is relevant to their finances. The pipelines for resources of the Fifth Plan are drying up one by one, and the ICHR can be no exception. With this realization, a profound gloom has set around the ICHR, a gloom associated with still-born projects and careers stopped at the outset. Those who thought of enmeshing, controlling, regulating, superintending and tutoring history from its most comprehensive manifestations to its most insignificant stirrings have now to settle for something on an altogether reduced scale. Those who tended to lose all understanding of the present in a fantasy of the future that lay in store—who drugged themselves with "antiquated shams and accumulated lies5'29 in relation to their own content—must now reckon with the consequences of the misspent history of 25 years. 1 Third Meeting of the ICHR, Notes on Items of the Agenda, Appendix VI, Item X, p 39. 2 "...I am sending herewith a copy of the first draft of 'India Since 19475, covering Independence, partition and integration of States for your perusal. I wish to know from you whether I am going on the right lines and also whether I have to include any further item in the list of topics I have to write on ... I am happy with the work I am doing ..." (Letter from Krishnaswamy in Delhi to Professor S Gopal at St Anthony's College, Oxford, June 1973) 3 The Hindu, Madras, September 10, 1973. A summary ofBadrinath's critique was published in the ^Diversities" column of The Hindustan Times Weekly, New Delhi^ October 7, 1973. 4 S Krishnaswamy, Letter to the Editor, The Hindu, September 17, 1973. 5 P Ramamurti, "Statement to the Press on the Scroll Contained in the Time Capsule;" Bangalore, October 15,1973. 6 Economic and Political Weekly, July 14, 1973. 7 Report of the Task Force on Agrarian Relations, Planning Commission, New Delhi, March 1973, p 7. 8 Anant G Negandhi, "The Foreign Private Investment Climate", The Economic Times, July 22,1970. 9 See The Indian Council of Historical Research, Ministry of Education and Social Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, March 1972, pp 8-17. 1 ° The Council has 25 members in addition to a Member-Secretary. •Apart from the Chairman and the 18 historians nominated by the Government of India, a representative of the University Grants Commission, the Director-General of Archaeology, the Director of the National Archives and four persons to represent the Government openly, including the Minister of State for Education and Social Welfare, are members of the Council. 1 1 The Indian Council of Historical Research, op. cit., p 1. 12 D D Kosambi, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline, Vikas Publications, Delhi 1970, p 10. -«s Ibid., p 10.