Historian Ramachandra Guha has announced that he will not be teaching at Ahmedabad University after ABVP students raised protests saying that he was 'anti-national' and an 'urban Naxal'.
According to an Indian Express report that quoted the ABVP, the union met the univerisity vice chancellor to voice their grievances. "We said that we want intellectuals in our educational institutes and not anti-nationals, who can also be termed as ‘urban Naxals’. We had quoted anti-national content from his (Guha’s) books to the Registrar. We told him, the person you are calling is a ‘Communist’. If he is invited to Gujarat, there would be a JNU-kind anti-national sentiment," ABP secretary for Ahmedabad told the daily.
Reacting to the news, Guha said, "Due to circumstances beyond my control, I shall not be joining Ahmedabad University. I wish AU well; it has fine faculty and an outstanding Vice Chancellor. And may the spirit of Gandhi one day come alive once more in his native Gujarat."
On October 16, AU announced Guha’s appointment as the Shrenik Lalbhai Chair Professor of Humanities and director of the Gandhi Winter School at the university’s School of Arts and Sciences.
A report by Ahmedabad Mirror quoted anonymous teachers who said that Guha was 'too liberal' to teach in Gujarat.
Earlier, Guha had criticised the statue of unity. Taking to Twitter, he said, "Sardar Patel would have been appalled by the crude boastfulness of the ads in his name in today’s newspapers. That his statue is taller than any in China, America, Japan, etc. That is certainly not how the Sardar would have measured national dignity and self respect."
He, however, slammed Congress President Rahul Gandhi for his tweet on his grandmother, Indira Gandhi, whose birth anniversary was on October 31.
"Remembering Dadi today with a deep sense of happiness. She taught me so much and gave me unending love. She gave so much of herself to her people. I am very proud of her," Rahul had tweeted.
To this, Guha said, “Her people” is a phrase redolent of feudal patronage and arrogance. Indira Gandhi did not own India or Indians. “Her work” or “her job” or even “her calling” would have been more appropriate."
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