Part I. Ancient Indian Historiography 1. Historical Sense in Ancient India, Idea of Bharatvarsha in Indian Tradition 2. Itihasa-Purana Tradition in Ancient India; Traditional History from the Vedas, Epics and Puranas 3. Jain Historiography and Buddhist Historiography Part II. Medieval Indian Historiography 4. Historical Biography of Banabhatta and the Kashmir Chronicle of Kalhana 5. Arrival of Islam and its influence on Historical Tradition of India; Historiography of the Sultanate period – Alberuni’s –Kitab-ul-Hind and Amir Khusrau 6. Historiography of the Mughal Period – Baburnama, Abul Fazl and Badauni Part III. Orientalist, Imperial and colonial ideology and historian 7. William Jones and Orientalist writings on India 8. Colonial/ Imperialist Approach to Indian History and Historiography: James Mill, Elphinstone, and Vincent Smith 9. Nationalist Approach and writings to Indian History: R.G.Bhandarkar, H.C Raychoudhiri, and J.N.Sarkar Part IV. Marxist and Subaltern Approach to Indian History 10. Marxist approach to Indian History: D.D.Kosambi, R.S.Sharma, Romilla Thaper and Irfan Habib 11. Marxist writings on Modern India: Major assumptions 12. Subaltern Approach to Indian History- Ranjit Guha
