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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.
Indian cultural influence (Greater India) Timeline of Indian history. Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the Nanda Empire and established the first great empire in ancient India, the Maurya Empire. India's Mauryan king Ashoka is widely recognised for his historical acceptance of Buddhism and his attempts to spread nonviolence and peace across
"The light-hearted sneer 'India has had some episodes, but no history' is used to justify lack of study, grasp, intelligence on the part of foreign writers about India's past. The considerations that follow will prove that it is precisely the episodes — lists of dynasties and kings, tales of war and battle spiced with anecdote, which fill ...
History chronicle on the history of Bengal, Cooch Behar, Assam and Bihar: Jatakalankara: Astrology Sanskrit: Ganesa 1613 CE Nirṇayāmṛta: Religious Sanskrit: Allāḍanātha: 14th-16th century Yamuna valley Dayabhagatippani: Legal Sanskrit: Srinath Acharyachudamani 16th Century Dayabhagatika: Legal Sanskrit: Raghunandan Bhattacharya: 16th ...
The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (c. 1500 –900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE.
The first manuscript of A History of South India was completed in August 1947. In a preface dated 10 August 1947, Sastri acknowledges the assistance rendered by his co-faculty in the University of Madras - V. Kalyanasundaram of the Geography department in preparation of maps and T. R. Chintamani and V. Raghavan of the Sanskrit department, S. Vaiyapuri Pillai of the Tamil, M. Mariappa Bhat of ...
History of India, vol. 6: From the first European settlements to the founding of the English East India Company. —— 1906. History of India, vol. 7: The European struggle for Indian supremacy in the seventeenth century. Lyall, A. C. 1907. History of India, vol. 8: From the close of the seventeenth century to the present time.
S.R. Rao, Marine Archaeology in India, Delhi: Publications Division, ISBN 81-230-0785-X (2001) Trautmann, Thomas R.; Sinopoli, Carla M. (2002). "In the Beginning was the Word: Excavating the Relations between History and Archaeology in South Asia". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. Vol. 45, no. 4. pp. 492– 523.