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The Other Side of the Moon
In his personal tribute to Tapan Raychaudhuri (EPW, 21 March 2015), Gyanendra Pandey opines that Raychaudhuri “will be remembered for his extraordinarily wide-ranging contributions to the writing and study of Indian history.” He also appreciated Tapan Raychaudhuri “for his qualities as a warm, fun-loving and deeply sensitive human being.” No one should have doubts about Raychaudhuri’s intellectual acumen and scholarship.
In his personal tribute to Tapan Raychaudhuri (EPW, 21 March 2015), Gyanendra Pandey opines that Raychaudhuri “will be remembered for his extraordinarily wide-ranging contributions to the writing and study of Indian history.” He also appreciated Tapan Raychaudhuri “for his qualities as a warm, fun-loving and deeply sensitive human being.” No one should have doubts about Raychaudhuri’s intellectual acumen and scholarship.
I would like to point to the other side of Tapan Raychaudhuri, not to malign him, but to record a historical truth. In the diary of Samar Sen, published in 2009, we find that in his entry on 5 April 1976, Sen noted that Tapan Raychaudhuri expressed the opinion that the people seemed to like the Emergency, and cautioned him that the intelligentsia would not be spared, and then advised him to give up his work, that is, stop publishing Frontier, the radical weekly being edited by Samar Sen. In his entry on the very next day, Sen noted: “About TRC [Tapan Raychaudhuri]: One of the first to support the E [Emergency] in England.”
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