Historical sense in ancient India
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History of a society is generally studied from the chronological events recorded by the historians of that age. In first glance, it seems as if ancient Indians didn’t pay much attention to historiography as they did in the case of religious, philosophical studies.
Explanation: THE REASONS FOR THESE NOTATION
Some foreign scholars used to say that the history of India and the Indian Subcontinent didn’t begin until the Muslims invaded in the 12th century A.D.
For example, Alexander’s invasion finds no mention in Indian sources. We’ve to reconstruct his exploits entirely on basis of Greek sources.
For historiography of ancient societies, we are more depended on the coins, inscriptions and other archaeological sources.
History-writing, in its purest form, don’t extend back in time as far as these scholars liked or as far as in other ancient cultures.
When writing about a group of people who died thousands of years ago, as in ancient history, there are always gaps and guesses. It showed with ancient India too.
Colonial scholars described the Indian past as ‘oriental despotism’, arguing that it was a static society that registered no historical change, and therefore it had no use for recording the past and used only cyclic time.
One important reason for this notion is that till now, the Indus Valley Civilization language has not been deciphered and hence our sense of historiography of that age is based on the foreign sources or through materials excavated from the sites.
Printing was not known. Everything was written on soft materials like birch bark, palm leaf, paper etc.
Since the old manuscripts become fragile in course of time, they had to be manually copied.
Therefore, at the time of copying, some errors tend to creep in or sometimes even additions were made.
Many of the available sources are religious in nature. They give some idea on prevailing social conditions but hard to put it in context of time and place.
The real recording of historical events starts with the gradual advent of Muslim rulers
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