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The Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR) is an autonomous body of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, which had been established by an Administrative Order of the then Ministry of Education and Social Welfare. It was registered as a Society with the Delhi Government . The body, over the past so many years has been providing financial assistance to the Historians and direction to the research scholars in their multifarious topics of Historical Research through established Historians and scholars of the Country. ICHR disburses funds for carrying out research to the Indian as well as the Foreign Scholars on their applications for Fellowships, Grants, symposia etc., made to the Indian Council of Historical Research or through the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The source of the Funds, at the disposal of the ICHR is Grants-in- Aid received from the Department of Higher Education in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Grants-in- Aid from various Indian States, private donations from individuals and other Countries and also from the proceeds of revenues from the sale of Publications of the ICHR. The ICHR has a rich Corpus of Funds which has been continued to be deposited with UCO Bank at Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi. Its the only academic institution which had chosen to keep its deposit with a non State Bank of India under the decision of its former Chairman, Professor Irfan habib. Based in Delhi with Regional Centers in Bangaluru (Karnataka) and Gowahati (Assam), the Indian Council for Historical Research has been serving the scholarly community with distinction. The Regional Center of the ICHR at Bangaluru was established by an eminent liberal Historian Professor S Settar the then Chairman of ICHR and the then Director of ICHR Dr Sushil Kumar. The Regional Center at Gauhati was established at the instance of the Minister of State hailing from Assam commenced functioning in the Library wing of the Guwahati University. Over a period of time the Centre's, like the academic body have become Institutions of significance. The Government of India has entered in to Cultural Exchange Programmes with many Countries of the World for exchange of Historians and exchange of views between them. The ICHR was formed as a Literary and Charitable Society, a fully funded Autonomous Body of the Ministry of Education with the historians R.S.Sharma the then Head Department of History, Delhi University, nominated as its first chairman,ICHR, Satish Chandra, J.S. Garewal and M.N. Prasad, the then the Director of the National Archives of India at the helms. The present Chairman of ICHR Professor Sudershan Rao is an eminent Historian. Some of the notable Historian members/functionaries of the Indian Council have been Irfan Habib, Sushil Kumar (scholar), Tapan Raychaudhuri, and Barun De. ==Review of the Functioning of ICHR== Since the ICHR has continued to be fully funded by the Government of India and all the administrative and Fiscal policies of the Government are applicable to its affairs the Government of India carries out a periodical review of the functioning of ICHR. The first review of the ICHR was ordered in 1981, the second in 1999, and the third in March 2011. The report of the Review Committee of March 2011 can be perused from; http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/document-reports/Report-ICHR.pdf 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indian Council of Historical Research」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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