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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 nationalism is an instance of territorial nationalism, which is inclusive of all of the people of India, despite their diverse ethnic, linguistic and religious backgrounds. Indian nationalism can trace roots to pre-colonial India, but was fully developed during the Indian independence movement which campaigned for independence from ...
Books by Radha Kumud Mukherjee: [5] Indian Shipping: A History of Seaborne Trade and Maritime Activity of the Indians from the Earliest Times; Ancient Indian Education: Brahmanical and Buddhist (1947), reprinted by Motilal Banarsidass (1960). Men and Thought in Ancient India (1912) McMillan and co., reprinted by Motilal Banarsidass (1996).
According to him the origins of India's freedom struggle lie in the English-educated Indian middle-class and the freedom struggle started with the Banga Bhanga movement in 1905. His views on the freedom struggle are found in his book History of the Freedom Movement in India. He was an admirer of Swami Vivekananda and Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. [15]
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 ...
Karashima notes that Sastri's book remained the only authoritative scholarly book on the south Indian history for a number of reasons: nobody could match Sastri in bringing out a similar work; attacks from Tamil nationalists deterred historians from writing such a book; and new trends in history writing made composition of works on general ...
The BJP is spreading a false history about the Mughal empire and more to spread its Hindu nationalist vision. How India's Hindu Nationalists Are Weaponizing History Against Muslims Skip to main ...
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.