V n datta biography

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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.

Born in , Datta had an illustrious career as an outstanding academic and public intellectual, and belonged to independent India's first.

Vishwa Nath Datta was a distinguished Indian writer, historian and professor emeritus at Kurukshetra University.

Datta was born into an illustrious family of Amritsar as the son of the leading businessman [who owned the Shankar Das Vishwa Nath Company among others] and Urdu-Persian poet Padma Shri Brahm Nath Datta Qasir.

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VN Datta had an illustrious career as an eminent academic and public intellectual of independent India's first generation of historians, who were trained in the.

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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