![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His vast body of work, written across a long career, ranges from ancient to regional to international histories and includes a history of the independence struggle as well as an extensive (if controversial) series which he edited and contributed to called The History and Culture of the Indian People. Majumdar – as he is better known – is not just a major historian of the past century but also one of its intriguing figures. Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (1888-1980), or R.C. “‘History is past politics’, is likely to be substituted soon by a new phrase,” writes Majumdar. Majumdar’s Historiography of Modern India, originally published in 1970, which lists problems with the historiography of the Indian historians of his time, caused by factors like a need to “ trace the course of progress towards liberty” or an “ inadequate knowledge of data” or to cater to “the policy of a political party”. ![]()
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