Marxist Historiography: Marxist Historiography: An Assessment, the Beginning of Marxist Writing- Dutt՚s India Today and the Three Categories of Colonial Phase

Marxist Historiography: an Assessment

• The Marxist interpretation derived from historical philosophy of Karl Marx, the dialectical materialism.
• This school aimed at the study the relationship between social and economic organization and its effects on historical events.
• The Marxist historians tried to look at the alteration of India during the time of colonialism.
• They observed colonialism as a part of the development of …

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Marxist Historiography: Post Independent Marxist Historians- D. D. Kosambi, R S Sharma, Romila Thapar, Bipan Chandra, Irfan Habib

Post Independent Marxist Historians

In the post independent Marxist historian were D. D. Kosambi, R. S. Sharma, Romila Thapar, Bipan Chandra, Sumit Sarkar, Sushobhan Sarkar, Sunil Sen, Hiran Mukherjee, K. N. Panikkar, and Irfan Habeeb.

D. D. Kosambi

• Famous for his ‘paradigm shift’ in Indian studies.
• According to Romila Thapar, Kosambi believed that the ‘society is bind together by bonds of production’. Thus, he defined h…

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