Historiography A History Of Historical Writing

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This book traces the evolution of historical thought, with special emphasis on recent historiography. Dealing with the historical writings in ancient world such as India, China and the West, it discusses at length the medieval and modern historiography. Delving deep into the developments in historiography during the ninteenth and twentieth centuries, it describes in detail different approaches to history such as Nationalist, marxist, subaltern, oral, communal, local and regional approaches.

Tej Ram Sharma is a Professor in the Department of History, University of Hyderabad. He has served the university for over two decades in various capacities such as Head of the History Department. Dean, School of Social Sciences, and the Member of the Executive Council. Also, Prof. Sharma has been the Co-ordinator of SAP-II, DSA-UGC. Department of History, University of Hyderabad. Prof Sharma has participated, organized and chaired many conferences and seminars of interdisciplinary nature. He has won wide acclaim for his earlier works. He has also won many prestigious awards.

The present work aims at tracing the evolution of historical thought with a special emphasis on recent historiography. The histories of the human race do not form a single 'story': what they offer are various domains of difference, different ways of being human persons and different forms of culture and social life which do not form the branches of a single developmental tree. Historiography is not alone in this. "Anthropology and psycho-analysis offer other and equally powerful registers of difference, not merely the difference of the exotic, but in psychoanalysis the knowledge that we are not a simple undivided something that we are not at one with ourselves". We need not frown upon the earlier historical writings as we find so much diversity in the concept and craft of history which has been different from country to country as well from time to time that we cannot call any country an epi-centre of history. This shows the diversity of civilizations and cultures in vogue from time to time and place to place in its understanding and writing of history. Each age had its different concept of history, which reflects on the national consciousness, and the spirit of the age in question. Each country had its pattern of history writing and each country exhibited its concern with the kind of subject matter and tradition with which it got involved from time to time.

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