This is a comprehensive introduction to the key streams of modern historical thought and history-writing in the West and in India. It explores the emergence, growth, climax, and partial decline of modernity in historical thoughts and writings, particularly in Europe and India. It traces the roots of modern historiography to illuminate the transformation that has taken place in history-writing over the centuries.
This is a comprehensive introduction to the key streams of modern historical thought and history-writing in the West and in India. It explores the emergence, growth, climax, and partial decline of modernity in historical thoughts and writings, particularly in Europe and India. It traces the roots of modern historiography to illuminate the transformation that has taken place in history-writing over the centuries.
Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay is Professor of History, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He is the author of Existence, Identity and Mobilization: The Cotton Millworkers of Bombay, 18901919 (2004).
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Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Past, History, and Historiography I BACKGROUND: PREMODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY 2. Premodern Western Historiography 3. Traditional Chinese Historiography 4. Premodern Arabic Historiography 5. Representations of the Past in Precolonial India II MODERN WESTERN HISTORIOGRAPHY 6. The Beginnings: Renaissance Historiography 7. Decline and Rise of History: Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries 8. Enlightenment Historiography 9. Historicism and Positivism 10. German Historical Tradition in the Nineteenth Century 11. Romantic History in the Nineteenth Century 12. Scientific History 13. Marxist Historiography 14. The Annales School 15. Some Other Important Trends III HISTORIOGRAPHY IN MODERN INDIA 16. Colonialist Historiography 17. Nationalist Historiography 18. Indian Marxist Historiography 19. The Cambridge School 20. Subalternist Historiography 21. Some Important Themes in Indian Historiography IV CRITIQUES OF MAINSTREAM HISTORIOGRAPHY 22. Early Critiques 23. Structuralism and Post-structuralism 24. Postmodernism and History 25. Postcolonialism Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author
Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Past, History, and Historiography I BACKGROUND: PREMODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY 2. Premodern Western Historiography 3. Traditional Chinese Historiography 4. Premodern Arabic Historiography 5. Representations of the Past in Precolonial India II MODERN WESTERN HISTORIOGRAPHY 6. The Beginnings: Renaissance Historiography 7. Decline and Rise of History: Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries 8. Enlightenment Historiography 9. Historicism and Positivism 10. German Historical Tradition in the Nineteenth Century 11. Romantic History in the Nineteenth Century 12. Scientific History 13. Marxist Historiography 14. The Annales School 15. Some Other Important Trends III HISTORIOGRAPHY IN MODERN INDIA 16. Colonialist Historiography 17. Nationalist Historiography 18. Indian Marxist Historiography 19. The Cambridge School 20. Subalternist Historiography 21. Some Important Themes in Indian Historiography IV CRITIQUES OF MAINSTREAM HISTORIOGRAPHY 22. Early Critiques 23. Structuralism and Post-structuralism 24. Postmodernism and History 25. Postcolonialism Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author
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