(A) Textbook of historiography : 500 BC to AD 2000 / by E. Sreedharan

Index references, index and bibliography.

Preliminaries -- Greek historiography -- Historiography in the Hellenistic period -- Roman historiography -- Ancient Chinese historiography -- Medieval Christian historiography -- Medieval Muslim historiography (West Asian tradition) -- The impact of the renaissance on historiography -- The impact of the scientific revolution: Bacon and Descartes -- Vico: the new science of history -- The eighteenth century enlightenment and its influence on historiography -- Enlightenment historians -- The romantic reaction against rationalism -- Romantic - nationalist - literary historiography -- The Berlin revolution in historiography: Niebuhr and Ranke -- Positivism in history: Auguste Comte, Henry Thomas Buckle and Karl Marx -- The twentieth century I -- The twentieth century II -- Postmodernist challenge to history -- Postmodernism and history: Part I - The philosophical turn -- Part II - The linguistic turn -- Part III - Postmodernist historian theory versus conventional history -- Ancient Indian historiography -- Medieval Indo-Muslim historiography: I: The Sultanate period -- II: The Mughal Period -- Indology and the recovery of Indian History -- British imperialist (colonial) historiography of India -- Indian Nationalist historiography -- Some modern Indian historians -- The Marxist phase -- Subaltern studies