HISTORY

ABSTRACT
EVALUTING INDIAN ANCIENT WOMEN HISTORIAN-AN INDIAN CASE STUDY
History is important because it helps us to understand the
present. If we will listen to what history has to say, we can come to a sound understanding of
the past that will tell us much about the problems we now face. Historians do all different
kinds of things, as there are many different types of historians. In the simplest terms, they
study and interpret history and then relay that information to everyone else. Many historians
have some kind of specialty: A specific area of study in which they are experts .investigating
historiography is a rigorous discipline that requires as a first step discovering how societies
record and authenticate. Indian historians have contributed hugely in the domain of Indian
history and its documentation. Indian historians have many facts of research, not only in
history, but also art and subjects of humanities. They establish many theories through their
extensive looks. They often took part in various social programmes and welfare
organizations. Not much is known about the truly history of India. But there is some
information resources from the Indian subcontinent about its earliest periods are discovered
some famous historians.
Romila Thapar is one of the most authoritative historians on
ancient India, who has empirically argued against and burst various myths related to ancient
India propagated by what she calls syndicated Hindutva forces. Her writings have falsified
almost all historical hypotheses used by these forces to forge a communal identity. Her new
book the Past as Present: Forging Contemporary Identities through History is a compilation
of essays and papers on myths about two Hindu epics- Ramayana and Mahabharata. She
discusses how a process to indoctrinate children and university students by communalizing
the textbooks and syllabus began; and also examines persisting myths about race, caste
language, social order and cultural.
Romila Thapar, has herself created incorrect myths on History of Vedic Age India by
factually false writing and making (there was a typo here) assertions that even in Late Vedic
Age, Vedic people were not aware of Idea of towns and there is no evidence available in late
Vedic texts that supports the he distinguished historian is one of the few historians in India
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who actually write History. Internationally and academically, she is very highly regarded.
Only in India, she is criticized by some groups, apparently for writing a rationalist form of
History that doesn't suit the needs of Hindu nationalists and religious heads. The various
Hindu stake-holders wish history to be a glorified form of their religion, country and kings.
They wish it to sync with the glorious religious texts. That isn't the case. Whoever shows the
audacity to write an accurate version is called a Leftist.
Thapar is critical of what she calls a communal
interpretation of Indian history, in which events in the last thousand years are interpreted
solely

in

terms

of

notional

continual

conflict between

monolithic Hindu and

Muslim communities. She says this communal history is extremely selective in choosing
facts, deliberately partisan in interpretation and does not follow current methods of analysis
using multiple, prioritized causes. Essays written by Thapar over fifty years of committed
research explode the myth that India has had no sense of history or historical consciousness, a
myth carefully built up by colonial historians influenced by 18 century European concepts of
history, which emerged from the social context and philosophical thinking of north-west
Europe. The researcher research her writing style, interpretation regarding ancient India and
also other historians who contributing regarding to the ancient history.
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