Explain the following concepts.
(1) Orientalist historiography.
(2) Nationalistic historiography.
(3) Subaltern history.
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1.Orientalism is a term that is used by art historians, literary and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian cultures (Eastern world). These depictions are usually done by writers, designers and artists from the West..
2. Historiography is the study of how history is written. One pervasive influence upon the writing of history has been nationalism, a set of beliefs about political legitimacy and cultural identity. Nationalism has provided a significant framework for historical writing in Europe and in those former colonies influenced by Europe since the nineteenth century. According to the medieval historian
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orientalist school of historiography include the thought of European who showed interest in the civilization and the country of the east as they encouraged and respect there historyto .. these scholar came to be know as orientalist
2) nationalistic historiography means that the historical writing produced or reproduced by the Indian historians highlight the Indian history from a national point of view this is called nationalistic
historiography.the early decades to the twentieth century were dominanted by an upsurge of religion nationalism
3. subaltern history is a word using by the British army to denote a subordinate office r and subaltern studies was coined by India scholar to discribe a Verity of apporches to the situation of South Asian ,in particular in the colonial and postcolonail eta