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His book, Medieval India, has been widely used as a textbook in schools and colleges around India. [ 11 ] [ 7 ] He belonged to the group of historians, along with Romila Thapar , R. S. Sharma , Bipan Chandra and Arjun Dev, who are sometimes referred to as "left-leaning."
Indian history from Chandargupta Maurya (4th century BC) to the post-Independence period in India and Pakistan. Raj Kahini: Abanindranath Tagore: 1963 Bengali: Set in Rajputana: Kumarsambhaber Kabi: Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay: 1963 Bengali: Based on Kalidasa: Tungabhadrar Teere: Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay: 1965 Bengali: Set in Vijaynagar Empire The ...
Hindi literature is composed in three broad styles- prose (गद्य, gadya), poetry (पद्य, padya), and prosimetrum (चंपू, campū). [1] Inspired by Bengali literature, Bharatendu Harishchandra started the modern Hindi literary practices.
Bipan Chandra (24 May 1928 – 30 August 2014) [2] was an Indian historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern India.An emeritus professor of modern history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, he specialized on the Indian independence movement and is considered a leading scholar on Mahatma Gandhi.
Makers of Modern India is a non-fiction book written by Indian historian-scholar Ramachandra Guha and published by Penguin India in 2010. The book features profiles of selected personalities that laid the foundation of modern India: Ram Mohan Roy, Syed Ahmad Khan, Khuda Bakhsh, Jotirao Phule, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Tarabai Shinde, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, B. R ...
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.
Book Subject Area Topic Collection Language Author Date Reign of Reign Age Geographic Region Modern Name of Geographic Region Notes Rig Veda: Hindu hymns about various gods, scientific revelations and references to historic events. Part 1 of the four part Hindu canon. Veda/Samhita: Sanskrit: No concrete information available, but attributed to ...
From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India (2004; Second Revised and Enlarged Edition 2015) Decolonization in South Asia: Meanings of Freedom in Post-independence West Bengal, 1947–52 (2009/2012) Caste and Partition in Bengal: The Story of Dalit Refugees, 1946–1961 (2022, With Anasua Basu Raychaudhury)