Raising caution against organised efforts to falsify historical knowledge through systematic erasure and distortions, Higher Education Minister R. Bindu attributed such efforts to a broader project to political and ideological supremacy of certain sections over the others.
Referring to the exclusion of Rabindranath Tagore’s name from the plaques at Visva Bharati University, she alleged those who upheld scientific and progressive outlook are being supplanted by those holding obscurantist views.
Inaugurating the 42nd annual session of the South Indian History Congress (SIHC) here through video-conference on Saturday, Dr. Bindu also emphasised the need to preserve the accounts of the struggle of the subaltern sections to secure social justice.
