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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.
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.
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 ...
Comprehensive History of Modern Bengal 1700–1950, Volume III, Kolkata: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 2019, pp. 338–386. "Indian Unity and the Caste Question: Nationalist Readings of History" in S. Bhattacharya (Ed.) Rethinking the Cultural Unity of India, Kolkata: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, 2015, pp. 324–354.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
His thesis on de-industrialization of India under the British rule remains forceful argument in Indian historiography. [citation needed] To quote him: India in the eighteenth century was a great manufacturing as well as great agricultural country, and the products of the Indian loom supplied the markets of Asia and of Europe.