CONTENTS:- Vol.1: Historiography: Traditions and Historians: Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Evolution and development; 3. Chinese tradition; 4. Greek Tradition; 5. Roman tradition; 6. British tradition; 7. Russian tradition; 8. French tradition; 9. German tradition; 10. American tradition; 11. Muslim tradition; 12. Muslim historians' accounts. Vol.2: Historiography: Evolution and Development: Preface; 1. Introduction; I. Development of discipline: 2. Ancient phase; 3. Historical background; 4. Archaeology and excavation; 5. Medieval phase; 6. Medieval accounts; 7. Modern phase; 8. British tradition; 9. Oxford and Cambridge trends; 10. Humanist trend; II. Standard accounts (by Western Scholars, on India): 11. Political organization of Aryans; 12. Earliest Folk Assembly; 13. Vedic and Post-Vedic Polity; 14. Aspects of later Vedic polity; 15. Gana and post-Vedic society; 16. Caste, Varna and politics; 17. State administration in Pre-Mauryan age; 18. Polity in Mauryan and Post-Mauryan ages; 19. Politics and religion in Arthashastra; 20. India and the western countries; 21. Imperial expansions. Vol.3: Historiography in India: Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Ancient phase (Hindu, Buddhist and Jain scholars); 3. Medieval phase (Muslim scholars); 4. Early medieval accounts; 5. Recorded medieval history; 6. Modern phase (Western and oriental scholars); 7. Focus of history; 8. Later trends; 9. A review. Vol.4: Historiography: theory and philosophy: Preface; 1. Introduction; I. Theory: 2. Principles and techniques; 3. Concept and scope; 4. Organised form; 5. Various forms; 6. The correlation-ship; II. Philosophy: 7. Philosophy of history; 8. Early phase; 9. Critical and scientific method; III. Various schools: 10. Prussian School; 11. Subaltern School; 12. Ranke School; 13. Annales School; 14. Michel Foucault's New Kind of School; IV. Eminent historiographers: 15. R.G. Collingwood; 16. Spengler and Toynbee; 17. Karl Marx; 18. Leopold Von Ranke; 19. Friedrich Hegel. Research methods: 20. Principles of presentation; 21. Critical method; 22. The causation; 23. The methodology; 24. Narration method; 25. Developed technique; 26. Synthetic operations; 27. Analytical operations; 28. Concluding operations; 29. Institution factor; 30. The determinism; 31. Significance of individual; 32. Historical method; 33. Oriental despotism; 34. The historicism; 35. Future trends. Vol.5: Historiography: Sources and Research: Preface; 1. Introduction; I. Sources and method: 2. Sources to know history; 3. Significant sources; 4. The credibility; 5. Significance of study; II. Coins: a big source: 6. Forms of evidence; 7. Early coins; 8. North Indian coins; 9. Towards west; 10. East and central country; 11. Muizzid Empire; 12. South Asian coins; III. Historical records: 13. Evolution of Indian history; 14. Vedic literature; 15. Hinduism : past and present; 16. Divine principles of Hinduism; 17. Hindu mythology; 18. Hindu philosophy; 19. Great saints.
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Basically, historiography is the writing of history or the study of the development of historical method, historical research, and writing. Historiography may be learned as a principled discipline which trains researchers and new comers in the area of history writing. Writing history is, in fact, communicating knowledge of the past to the new generation. It covers the ages and eras, in detail, recording events, profiling personalities and casting light on all aspects of societies, civilizations and nations, which have passed away in remote past. This encyclopaedic work on historiography covers all aspects of the subject and thus, may prove informative and useful to students, teachers and historians.
