Vishwa Nath Datta

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Vishwa Nath Datta
Born25 May 1926
Amritsar, India
Died30 November 2020 (aged 94)
OccupationHistorian
Alma materGovernment College, Lahore, Cambridge University, U.K.[1]

Vishwa Nath Datta (25 May 1926 – 30 November 2020) was an Indian historian.

Career[edit | edit source]

He was Professor Emeritus in Kurukshetra University and General President of the Indian History Congress, Resident Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, a Visiting Professor to a number of universities including Moscow, Leningrad, Berlin. Datta was born in Amritsar, India,[2] to the leading businessman [owning Shankar Das Vishwa Nath Company] [3] and renowned Urdu-Persian poet Padma Shri Brahm Nath Datta 'Qasir'.[4]

They lived in Katra Sher Singh near Jallianwala Bagh.[5] Datta was educated at Government College, Lahore, Lucknow University, and Cambridge University, UK.[1]

Datta is the author of several works on Indian history. In 1967, he published Amritsar: Past and Present, a history of the city of Amritsar. Two years later, on the 50th anniversary of the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre [6] , he wrote the pioneering work, Jallianwala Bagh, and later he authored a comprehensive book relating to the 130-year history of The Tribune [7] , a publication founded in 1881 by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia. His other much acclaimed publications are Maulana Azad, Maulana Azad and Sarmad, Gandhi and Bhagat Singh, Sati: A Historical, Social, and Philosophical Enquiry into the Hindu Rite of Widow- Burning.

Selected publications[edit | edit source]

  • Jallianwala Bagh. Kurukshetra [Kurukshetra University Books and Stationery Shop for] Lyall Book Depot, 1969. OCLC 133038
  • New light on the Punjab disturbances in 1919 : volumes VI and VII of Disorders Inquiry Committee evidence. Simla : Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1975. With William Hunter Hunter, Lord; India. Committee on Disturbances in Bombay, Delhi, and the Punjab. OCLC 2644032
  • Madan Lal Dhingra and the revolutionary movement. New Delhi: Vikas, 1978. ISBN 9780706906578. OCLC 5414058.
  • History of Kurukshetra. Kurukshetra: Vishal, 1985. OCLC 13330154
  • Sati: a historical, social and philosophical enquiry into the Hindu rite of widow burning. Riverdale, Md.: Riverdale Co., 1988. OCLC 18737264
  • Maulana Azad. New Delhi: Manohar, 1990. ISBN 9788185054988. OCLC 21593610

Articles[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Vishwa Nath Datta: Letters to him - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ↑ Guha, Ramachandra (13 April 2019). "Jallianwala Bagh: Revisiting the 'tipping point' under British rule". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 3 January 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ↑ "Brahm Nath Datt".
  4. ↑ "Vishwa Nath Datta: Letters to him - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved Dec 1, 2020.
  5. ↑ Datta, Nonica (14 April 2019). "A conspiracy that stirred a nation's consciousness". Tribuneindia News Service. Retrieved 3 January 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ↑ "Why the Context of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Is So Important".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ↑ "Noorani, A.G., A Historian's Tribute, Frontline. April 20, 2012".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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