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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 ...
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 ...
[The] modern [study of] history was born in the nineteenth century, conceived and developed as an instrument of European nationalism. As a tool of nationalist ideology, the history of Europe's nations was a great success, but it has turned our understanding of the past into a toxic waste dump, filled with the poison of ethnic nationalism , and ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Early Nationalists, [3] also known as the Moderates, [4] were a group of political leaders in India active between 1885 and 1907. Their emergence marked the beginning of the organised national movement in India. Some of the important moderate leaders were Pherozeshah Mehta and Dadabhai Naoroji. [5]
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 ...
2. The nationalist model of reform and development lost legitimacy. Thus studying the politics of social change became the subject of feminist inquiry. The authors clearly distinguish between doing women's history and feminist historiography in early India. [4] The latter, they argue, recognizes that every aspect of social reality is gendered.