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The historiography of India refers to the studies, sources, critical methods and interpretations used by scholars to develop a history of India. In recent decades there have been four main schools of historiography in how historians study India: Cambridge, Nationalist, Marxist, and subaltern. The once common "Orientalist" approach, with its ...
Historiography is the study of how history is written. One pervasive influence upon the writing of history has been nationalism, a set of beliefs about political legitimacy and cultural identity. Nationalism has provided a significant framework for historical writing in Europe and in those former colonies influenced by Europe since the ...
Anil Seal, The Emergence of Indian Nationalism: Competition and Collaboration in the Later Nineteenth Century (1971) Gordon Johnson, Provincial Politics and Indian Nationalism: Bombay and the Indian National Congress 1880–1915 (2005) Rosalind O'Hanlon and David Washbrook, eds. Religious Cultures in Early Modern India: New Perspectives (2011)
K. N. Panikkar (born 26 April 1936, in Guruvayoor, Kerala) is an Indian Marxist historian, associated with the Marxist school of historiography. [1] [2] [3] [4]K. N. Panikkar has written and edited a number of books, including A Concerned Indian’s Guide to Communalism and the ICHR volume on Towards Freedom, 1940: A Documentary History of the Freedom Struggle.
Main currents of Indian history, ISBN 81-207-1654-X. Hindu Colonies in the Far East, Calcutta, 1944, ISBN 99910-0-001-1. Classical Accounts of India, 1960. Ideas of History in Sanskrit Literature Oxford University Press, 1961. Nationalist Historians, Oxford University Press. 1961. Sepoy Mutiny and Revolt of 1857, 1963. Historiography in Modern ...
To realise Medieval India there is no better way than to dive into the eight volumes of the priceless History of India as Told by its Own Historians which Sir H. M. Elliot conceived and began and which Professor Dowson edited and completed with infinite labour and learning. It is a revelation of Indian life as seen through the eyes of the ...
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He was the president of the Indian National Congress in the year 1909 and 1918. [6] He was seen as a 'moderate' in the Congress and was also considered very close to Gandhi. He popularized the Sanskrit phrase "Satyameva Jayate" (Truth alone triumphs), from the Mundaka Upanishad, which today is the national motto of the Republic of India. [62]