The Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) is an organization registered under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 with the Department of Industries of Delhi Government, Delhi. ICHR is a fund-disbursing agency that supports the academic and empirical research of scholars using funds received from the Department of Higher Education in the Ministry of Human Resource Development. ICHR does not carry out any historical research of its own.
The ICHR was formed as a Society by historians R.S.Sharma, Satish Chandra, J.S. Garewal and M.N. Prasad (who was then the Director of the National Archives of India ).
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