Kolkata: Victoria Memorial Hall has no features in the list of tourist destinations 100 “must visit” in India, compiled by the University Grant Commission for the University.
This list was sent to the University on September 22, asking them to encourage students to visit these places as part of the Bharat Sreshtha Bharat oak scheme which is being promoted by the center.
It has a permanent pissing in the city because VMH celebrates this hundred years.
Historians feel that the reasons behind the exception can be always considered by the academic section to become the fetus of Raj.
However, they criticized this approach and said Victoria Memorial was far more than a piece of Raj-era relic and with the passage of time, it has turned into an icon that comes to someone’s mind when someone talks about Kolkata.
“This mainly got rid of me because it came from UGC and his opinion was considered serious by the academic world.
I still remember that 50 years ago, study undergraduate studies on history would begin with a visit to VMH, because Annals House Relics that gave one appropriate perspective to start as Bachelor.
There are more for VMH than just façade, which is also very beautiful, “said historian Ramkrishna Chatterjee, who is also a secretary of the Asian community publication.
The university said that they had received a list of UGC which said because active pandemics, Velsitas could begin with almost introducing students to 100 places on the list and visits can be arranged after the pandemic ended.
“We don’t consider this seriously.
Can you imagine the list does not include Qutab Minar! In fact, most of Mughal Delhi is absent from the list.
There is a greater emphasis on ancient sites that are not Muslims and English.
Such education polarization is not for Greater kindness, “VC said, did not want to be named.
Historian Arun Bandyopadhyay, former Professor of Chairman of Nurul Hasan from the University of Calcutta, said this as a “historical error”.
VMH is a “important repository of social and cultural change in modern India.
On the one hand, this center celebrates a hundred years (under the Ministry of Culture) while on the other hand, it was ignored by another branch of the center!” He said.
VMH has been labeled as one of the most visited sites in the travel literature promoted by people such as Lonely Planet, Trip Advisor and Fodor, showing the VMH curator and secretary, Jayanta Sengupta.
“We celebrate the VMH century with a lot of enthusiasm.
I don’t want to comment on the exception.
I can say that in the last pre-pandemic year, we were visited by 40 lakh,” he said.
VMH was built between 1906 and 1921.
Lord Curzon decided to build the right warning for Queen Victoria after he died in 1901 and Raj thought it was worthy to be followed up, especially because at that time, Calcutta was the capital of the Empire.
This is another problem that at the time of the warning was dumped to people, the capital had shifted to Delhi.