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Dr Sushil Kumar is a nationalist scholar and a military Historian of India who had inaugurated The World Peace Congress at Bangalore, India.〔() World Peace Congress 2008〕 postulating upon the need for disarmament in the world. Kumar who had researched in the Center for International Politics, Organizations and Disarmament from the School of International Studies under the guidance of world famous Professor Mohammad Zuberi, remains in the category of respected apolitical Historians of India. His forte has been Social and Military History. In December 2000 his name had figured in all the Indian Newspapers for his alleged official views as the Director Indian Council of Historical Research upon Babri Masjid controversy. The Scholar issued statement of clarification to quell the controversy which was carried by The Asian Age and other print media in India. Kumar was considered, by many as a protégé of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the then External Affairs Minister of India; whom Kumar had personally saved from the stone pelting mob at Boat Club at Raj Path during a violent agitation- protest of Sanjay Chopra/ Geeta Chopra murder case. Kumar, during his service at the ICHR Director Research and Administration had to bear the onslaught of the Leftist Parties of India who had been wielding control over the ICHR and other academic bodies in India. Unyielding to the pressures of the said cliques he fought on till his "retirement" Prior to being selected as the Director of the premier Historical Research Body in India he was extensively lecturing and researching on Indian Culture & Military Strategies. As the Director, Indian Council of Historical Research Kumar besides fending for his survival researched on Socio-Legal History. The Scholar has his roots in the State of Haryana which often terms as his mother- state. The Land of Haryana is rich in History but historical research or dissemination thereof, according to Kumar is neglected thereat. Kumar chose a parcel of Land in 1989 as the place for his permanent residence cum the place for The Center for Historical Research where he would reside after his retirement from the Services of the Union of India and would carry out the Historical Research along with avid scholars interested in the Indian Culture in the tranquility of Shivalik Foothills in Village Naggal Sodian, Tehsil Kalka, District Ambala, Haryana. On 15 August 1995 when the district of Panchkula was carved out of the District of Ambala, his piece of residential land in village Naggal Sodian came in the new district of Panchkula. In 1995 Kumar sited the Centre for Historical Research. Dr Kumar's avowed aim has been to assist research on Indian Culture, socio-Legal History, Military History and contemporaneous political History. His silent ground level endeavours have been helping the citizens, scholars and the denizens to accentuate the contextual role of Pinjore, Haryana. Kumar is an alumnus of JNU, New Delhi Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.〔http://www.jnu.ac.in/aaj/AlumniMember.asp?searchStr=S〕 He is also alumnus of GNDU, AmritsarGuru Nanak Dev University (Distinguished Alumni). He had studied for Law in Agra University, Agra University. He completed his MSc Defence Studies from Madras University Madras University. Kumar had topped the University in BA Honours in History from Punjab University Chandigarh. A soldier-scholar, Kumar has been espousing that history needs to be constantly researched and preserved by the common man, irrespective of his letters. History, he espouses ought to be didactic, and carried forward because it is the memory of the society. An unconventional approach to History and making the historian out of a common man has earned Kumar a large following. Sushil Kumar (Scholar) has written columns for The Indian Express, New Delhi http://www.indianexpress.com/news/soldiers-were-the-heroes-of-1857/29684/, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/the-forgotten-harbingers-of-1857/32777/. In one of his radio interviews, broadcast on Republic Day, Kumar exhorted the soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces, to keep books in trenches, ships and in cockpits, for a successful transition to a second career in "civvy street". ==Publications== Sushil Kumar has authored articles and Books such as “Surrender of Japan”, Nuclear Strategy for Third World Countries with focus on India, China and Pakistan, Philosophy of History, Pokhran Revisited, Rock Art: The Product of Human Imagination and Imaginable Achievements, Peace and Conflict Resolution, Yudh Hote Hi Rahenge. Why Tinker With History? Soldiers were the Heroes of 1857, The forgotten Harbingers of 1857 etc. 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「Sushil Kumar (scholar)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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