ABSTRACT
This chapter recalls the teaching style and personalities of a few prominent teachers of History in the colleges and universities of Calcutta in the early 1970s. Teaching History in the classrooms then could not escape the political turbulence of the times, the teacher and the taught both had to engage with the urgent social and political questions that were being raised. Learning History, therefore, did not remain confined to the purely academic. By the ’80s the turbulence had died down, a political consensus of sorts had been manufactured, and History turned more professional.
