V n datta biography

Historian V.N. Datta had been bed ridden for years, but that didn’t seem to dampen his spirit. Datta sahib—to the larger academic world—still spent his time reading history, writing history, discussing history. He was 94.

Datta belonged to the first generation of historians in Independent India who chose to delve deep into India’s history to craft the story of their country.

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His book Jallianwallah Bagh changed the narrative of General Dyer’s massacre adding conspiracy to the mix. Datta grew up ten minutes from Jallianwallah Bagh—his elder sister had heard the bullets and he walked past the bullet ridden walls for years.

“I feel that the massacre was the result of a well-planned conspiracy aimed at bringing together a crowd which could be killed by Dyer,’’ he said in an interview to his daughter Nonica Datta, also a historian at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

It was the first book on the massacre.

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