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New Delhi, in an attempt to encourage people to promote family genealogies, community stories and local history, Miranda House College of Delhi on Saturday launched an educational initiative titled “History via Indic Lens”.
An official statement stated that the project is part of a major attempt to reduce Indian history, aims to revive the centuries -old practice of lineages and to connect citizens to their ancestral and cultural roots.
The program will include an annual national level competition that invites participants to present at least 5,000 words research-based essays.
Two comprehensive themes have been identified: “family and community history,” focusing on large kinship groups, and “my village, city, or city history,”,, which included villages absorbed in urban areas.
Entries will be accepted over a period of nine months and the signal will be evaluated by a panel of prestigious scholars inherent in knowledge traditions.
Miranda House Alumna and Academic Madhu Kishwar, who established the Kishwar Memorial Trust in memory of their parents and funded the initiative, the project said the project would help to bridge the gap between the people and their past.
“A society ignorant of its own roots cannot produce an authentic national history. To chart a clear future, we must first recover our past through our millennium-old knowledge, Paramapara,” he said.
At the launch event, around 200 students and faculty members participated, Kishwar shared anecdote from his family history, explaining how knowledge often loses when the lineage is not preserved.
In today’s era, many are unable to remember the names of their ancestors beyond their grandparents, which highlights the urgency of such an attempt, Kishwar said.
Professor Bijaylaxmi Nanda, Principal of Miranda House, welcomed the cooperation, “This” described as a valuable opportunity for scholars and citizens, which to engage in meaningful historical research and contribute to the process of nation-building. ,
The organizers stressed that this initiative is open to all, not only for academics, it makes a grassroots level to promote authentic historical scholarship and community engagement.
The family archives, attracting oral traditions and local memories, hope to create a collective reserves of history that provides a counter-story for colonial accounts.
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