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| Tradition in Modernity： The Raj and the Creation of an Orthodox Indian Historiography |
| Wang Lixin |
| (College of History and Culture， Center of Indian Studies， Central China Normal University， Wuhan 430079) |
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Abstract The Orthodox Indian Historiography constructs a “traditional” historical space through the narrative of Aryan civilization， whereas the New Indian Historiography constructs a “modern” historical space through a new historical narrative starting with the Mughal Empire. New Indian historians such as Thomas Metcalf interpret Orthodox Indian Historiography as an ideological fiction of the Raj. By tracing the historical-sociological lineage of Orthodox Indian Historiography， this work shows that the knowledge construction of Orthodox Indian Historiography is closely related to the modern transformation of world historical space and the history of colonial modernity in India from the mid-18th century. The traditional historical space constructed by the Orthodox Indian Historiography is essentially the invention of colonial modernity， rather than the objective presentation of the pre-modern history of India. The Orthodox Indian Historiography， for its part， constitutes one of the intellectual tools on which the British-Indian colonial statecraft depends， and thus should be regarded as part of the history of the British-Indian colonial rule： it is a colonial intellectual project.
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Received: 24 July 2023
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