Sushil Kumar (scholar)
Wing Commander (Dr) Sushil Kumar is a Gandhian scholar who was bestowed the honour of inaugurating The World Peace Congress at Bangalore, India.[1]
Sushil Kumar, a former Director of Indian Council of Historical Research, an autonomous body of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India has been the Chairman, Association of Historians ever since his retirement from the Indian Council of Historical Research.
While serving in the Indian Air Force he was researching on History. While he was the Director, Indian Council of Historical Research Kumar researched on Socio-Legal History. Realizing that the State of Haryana, originally his mother- state, is rich in History but historical research or dissemination thereof is neglected thereat, for whatever reasons; Kumar chose a parcel of Land in 1989 as the place for his residence after his retirement from the Services of the Union of India. He planned to set up the Center for Historical Research, Haryana in Village Naggal Sodian, Tehsil Kalka, District Ambala.
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. Dr Kumar's avowed aim has been to research on the socio-Legal History, Military History and contemporaneous political History. His ground level endeavours have been helping the citizens and his fellow denizens to accentuate the contextual role of Pinjore, Haryana.
Kumar is an alumnus of JNU, New Delhi Jawahar Lal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.[2] 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.
Books in English
(This is a partial list)
- Kumar, Sushil, and O. P. Rahlan. Essays on History and Reinterpretation. New Delhi: Om Publications, 2000. ISBN 9788186867297 (Held in 26 US and Canadian libraries)[3]
- Kumar, Sushil, and S. Gajrani. Culture and Society in India. Faridabad, India: Om Publications, 1999. ISBN 9788186867198
- Kumar, Sushil, and S. Gajrani. Culture, Religion and Traditions in India. Faridabad, India: Om Publications, 1998- .
References
- ↑ World Peace Congress 2008
- ↑ http://www.jnu.ac.in/aaj/AlumniMember.asp?searchStr=S
- ↑ WorldCat
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