The Analytical Research on early turkish rule in Northern India A comparative assessment of the British and Indian Historiography during the 20th century

Abstract

newline istory is the study of past events considered together, newlineespecially events of a particular period, country, or subject. newlineHistoriography is the interpretations of historians in developing newlinehistory as an academic discipline and by extension is anybody of newlinehistorical work on a particular subject. The present work traces how newlineuniversalization of history has been contested in India and will newlinehighlight the attempts made to formulate a paradigm of writing an newlineauthentic history. Current study focuses over the characteristic and newlinedevelopment of the 20t h century historiography on early Delhi newlinesultanate which is achieved by studying the changing trends and newlinetraditions of writing scientific historiography initiated by the British newlinehistorian and further developed and reorganized by Indian historians newlineduring the 20t h century. One of the important characteristics during newlinethis period begins with the political history writings. The investigation newlinepays emphasis on the historical works of British and Indian historians newlineon the political structure and institutions of early Turkish rule. It newlinestudies the historiography on the central govt. system, nature of state, newlinekingship and procedure of succession, mobility and military slaves of newlineearly Delhi sultanate. Another characteristic of writing is the newlinedescription about military system of early Turkish Sultans. The primary newlinehistorian of Delhi sultanate Ziuddin Barni tells about the military newlinesystem of Sultans in his book Tarikh-e-Firozshahai, as the army of newlineearly Turki sultans was the strongest pillar of the government. This newlineapproach of writing military history of the Indian sub continent was newlinecountered by Indian historians during the middle of 20t h century. The newlineIndian Muslim historians who started writing explanation of medieval newlinemilitary setup began to feel uneasy with the martial tone of their newlinematerial. The discussion also includes the economy of early Turkish newlinerule. Historiography on this aspect remained an isolated phenomenon newlinetill 1970 except individual work of s