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Perspectives on Indian History, Historiography, and Philosophy of History

Author: G. P. Singh

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9788124604878

The volume is a collection of papers on certain aspects of Indian history, historiography and culture. The papers are fundamental, insightful and path-breaking to some extent. Combining literary, archaeological, scientific and other perspectives, they cover a range of subjects stretching from ancient to modern India. The volume deals with the Greek historians, the Indian epic and Puranic tradition of historiography, colonial and cultural expansion of the Aryans, the early history of north-west India, society, trade and commerce in ancient India, economic, political and cultural contacts of India with other parts of Asia in ancient and medieval periods, and the 1857 War of Independence in India. It takes up some very interesting and new subjects like role of Brahmanas in the anti-Alexander movement in north-west India and the concept of national integration in ancient India. It explores the sources of history of Uttar Pradesh and the antiquity of Ayodhya and historicity of Rama in an interesting study. The volume will be of immense use to historians and scholars of philosophy.

After the Last Post

Author: Benjamin Zachariah

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-07-22

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 3110643405

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This book is about the production and consumption of history, themes that have gained in importance since the discipline's attempts to disavow its own authority with the ascendancy of postmodern and postcolonial perspectives. Several parallel themes crosscut the book’s central focus on the discipline of history: its intellectual history, its historiography, and its connection to memory, particularly in relation to the need to establish the collective identity of ‘nation’, ‘community’ or state through a memorialisation process that has much to do with history, or at least with claiming a historicity for collective memory. None of this can be undertaken without an understanding of the roles that history-writing and history-reading have been made to perform in public debates, or perhaps more accurately in public disputes. The book addresses a discomfort with postcolonial theories in and as history. Following are essays that examine the state of the discipline, the art of reading and using archives, practices of tracking the history of ideas, and the themes of history, memory and identity.

Turning Points in Historiography

Author: Q. Edward Wang

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1580460976

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Examining turning points in historical thought in a variety of cultures, the essay here deal with reorientations in historical thinking in the pre-modern period since Antiquity, mainly in ancient Greece and China and in medieval Christian Europe.

Different Types of History: Project of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, Volume XIV Part 4

Author: D. P. Chattopadhyaya

Publisher: Pearson Education India

Published:

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 8131786668

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Different Types of History: Project of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, Volume XIV Part 4 is part of the prestigious ninety-six volume Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization being published under the aegis of Professor D.P. Chattopadhyaya. Focussing on the historical writings of or on India and its philosophies, as well as the perceptions of India by others and by ourselves, this volume brings together a wide range of fields, perspectives, methodologies and modes of inquiry to critically engage with the vast and multifaceted discipline that is History. D. P. Chattopadhyaya is a Padma Vibhushan awardee, and is founder-chairman of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research.

A Companion to Global Historical Thought

Author: Prasenjit Duara

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-01-21

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 1118525361

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A COMPANION TO GLOBAL HISTORICAL THOUGHT A Companion to Global Historical Thought provides an overview of the development of historical thinking from the earliest times to the present, directly addressing issues of historiography in a globalized context. Questions concerning the global dissemination of historical writing and the relationship between historiography and other ways of representing the past have become important not only in the academic study of history, but also in public arenas in many countries. With contributions from leading international scholars, the book considers the problem of “the global” – in the multiplicity of traditions of narrating the past; in the global dissemination of modern historical writing; and of “the global” as a concept animating historical imaginations. It explores the different intellectual approaches that have shaped the discipline of history, and the challenges posed by modernity and globalization, while illustrating the shifts in thinking about time and the emergence of historical thought. Complementing A Companion to Western Historical Thought, this book places non-Western perspectives on historiography at the center of discussion, helping scholars and students alike make sense of the discipline at the start of the twenty-first century.

Approaches to History

Author: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

Publisher: Primus Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 9380607172

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History as a social science is arguably more self-reflective than associated disciplines in that family. Other social scientists seem to see little reason to look beyond the paradigm they are developing in the present times. Historians on the other hand, tend to depend on the cumulative process of the development of their craft and the fund of accumulated knowledge. Yet, while this is acknowledged in the practice of research, Historiography in itself as a subject of study has rarely found its place in the syllabi of Indian universities. Knowledge of Historiography is taken for granted when a scholar plunges into research. In an attempt to address this lacuna, the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) has planned a series of volumes on Historiography comprising articles by subject specialists commissioned by the ICHR. The first volume in the series, Approaches to History: Essays in Indian Historiography brings to the readers the first fruits of that endeavour. While the essays encompass areas of research presently at the frontiers of new research, scholars will also find the bibliographies accompanying the essays of significant appeal.

The Greatest Farce of History

Author: Gopal Chowdhary

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

Published: 2014-03-04

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1482819252

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The book seeks to analyse the faultlines and subversion in the ancient history of India in the praxis of social domination and systematic marginalization and obliteration of traditional political elites or traditional Kshatriya that social elites (Priestly class or caste) of ancient India achieved, just to maintain their socio-political domination and hegemony. This rather myopic act led to the balkanization of socio-political scape of mediaeval Indiaresulting into subjugation, plunder and foreign invasions and rule for one thousand years. Through the case study of Krishna and Mahabharata period, the book tries to illuminate the so called Dark Age of the Indian history. Despite the numerous archaeological proves found in the form of Painted Grey Ware (PGW) associated with Mahabharata period and Black Red Ware (BRW) with different shades, associated with Krishna and Yadavas which tally with details of different scriptures and epic, nothing seems to be happening in this regard. This very fact seems to underline the continued saga of subversion and domination that seemed to have been ingrained in the post-Krishna-and-Mahabharata period. Once the deification and mystification of great historical personality and period such as Krishna and Mahabharata was started just to negate the socio-political revolutions ushered into, it seems to have continued and institutionalized.

History at the Limit of World-history

Author: Ranajit Guha

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780231124195

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The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims buttressed by a distinctly Western philosophy of history. Guha offers a critique of such historiography by taking issue with the Hegelian concept of World-history.

Philosophy in History

Author: Richard Rorty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1984-11-08

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780521273305

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Lectures delivered as a series at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-83.

Perspectives in Indian History

Author: Atul Kumar Sinha

Publisher: Anamika Pub & Distributors

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9788179750766

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Papers Collected In The Volume Pertain To The Social, Political, Economic, Religious, Cultural As Also To The National Movement. Contains 49 Papers Of Which 21 Are In English And The Rest In Hindi.