To promote the scientific and secular approach to the study and writing of history, especially Indian history;
To controvert and oppose reactionary, communal, fundamentalist and chauvinistic interpretations;
To struggle against all authoritarian attempts at controlling history-writing by means of official or private patronage, censorship, persecution or threat thereof;
To encourage the study of the history of the life and conditions of the masses; and
To employ the following means towards the advancement of the above aims and objects:
hold discussions, seminars, lectures, etc.;
publish, sell and circulate documents, reports, pamphlets, monographs, journals, etc.;
raise money by collecting donations and subscriptions;
establish a library and or museum for use of members and other scholars;
purchase or hire premises for its office, library, and other activities
employ whole-time or part-time staff; and
do such other things as directly or indirectly promote the said aims and objects.
