The facility will concentrate on many dimensions of the fight for liberation as well as the causes and effects of the divide.
NEW DELHI: Officials have informed that the academic council of Delhi University on Friday approved a motion to establish a centre for independence and partition studies. Research into the "high voltage politics" surrounding the country's division and how the then-central government failed to contain the "germs of separatism" will be made possible by the centre, according to the statement.
According to the documents, it would also concentrate on the "central leadership's non-insistence on having the Frontier Province with India" and the "Congress Working Committee's consent to the Partition without consulting (Mahatma) Gandhi." "It (the resolution) was put out and approved by the members of Academic Council on Friday. It will now be brought to the Executive Council, a representative said.
The planned centre ought to concentrate on the various dimensions of the fight for freedom as well as the causes and effects of the divide. According to a memorandum from the committee created to establish the facility, it should eventually become a specialised resource and research hub to aid in such investigations. The institution will concentrate on research on Cyril Radcliffe's role in the divide as well as the unsung liberation fighters. The 'Radcliffe Line', a physical line defining the border between India and Pakistan's newly established dominion, was drawn by British jurist Radcliffe.
The complexity of partition will be the centre of attention in general. Numerous issues in this setting require more study. For instance, the role Radcliffe—who was hardly familiar with Indian culture, geography, and demographic patterns—played in the partition; the imperial government's game plan and strategies; the high-voltage politics that accompanied Partition; the separatist seeds that the central leadership failed to snuff out; and the manner in which the Congress Working Committee approved of the partition without consulting Gandhi. The faculty of social science will include the centre.