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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 ...
The difficulty faced by any national history is the changeable nature of ethnicity.That one nation may turn into another nation over time, both by splitting (colonization) and by merging (syncretism, acculturation) is implicitly acknowledged by ancient writers; Herodotus describes the Armenians as "colonists of the Phrygians", implying that at the time of writing clearly separate groups ...
Mohammad Habib, a nationalist historian who had presented his own secular view of Indian history by challenging the historical and translation methods of European colonial historians like Elliot, criticized him for focusing "inordinately" on the political activities of Muslim rulers instead of focusing on the lives of the people and their ...
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 ...
"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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...