21st Century Historiography and Indology
Historiography refers to a formal study of how history is researched, analyzed, written and interpreted, examining the methods, theories, and biases shaping historical narratives, rather than just the past events themselves. Most people will agree that history writing is not objective or accurate enough, and that ideologies, biases and prejudices are rampant, and have been allowed to run berserk. This is dangerous, antithetical and inimical to the objective pursuit of science and knowledge, and transdisciplinary approaches have also not been pursued in historiography. It is for this very reason that we have unveiled the twenty-first century school of historiography, and our publications are as follows. Summaries of our works have also been published multiple times elsewhere including other journals and blogs:
The following is the list of our publications on this subject
| 1 | Historiography by Objectives: A New Approach for the Study of History within the Framework of the Proposed Twenty-first Century School of Historiography | ELK Asia Pacific Journal of Social Studies, 2015 |
| 2 | Enunciating the Core Principles of Twenty-first Century Historiography: Some Additional Extrapolations and Inferences from Our Studies and Observations on Historiography | ELK Asia Pacific Journal of Social Studies, 2016 |
| 3 | Introducing Anthropological Historiography as an Integral Component of Twenty-first Century Historiography: The Role Played by Anthropological Historiography in the Attainment of Long-term Anthropological Goals and Objectives | IJISRT (International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology), 2018 |
| 4 | Presenting the Art and the Science of Qualified Historiography: Anchoring History-writing in the Event of Uncertainty and Unreliability of Narratives | IJISRT, July 2022 |
| 5 | Propositioning Investigative Historiography as a Niche Subfield within Twenty-first Century Historiography: Making a Case for Investigative Historiography in Twenty-first Century Social Sciences | IJISRT, August 2022 |
Indology, officially known as the mid-nineteenth century school of Indology, is also obviously utterly obsolete and antiquated. We have proposed a replacement, including a solution for the Aryan problem.
| 1 | Syncretism and Acculturation in Ancient India: A New Nine-phase Acculturation Model Explaining the Process of Transfer of Power from the Harappans to the Indo-Aryans: Part One | ICFAI Journal of History and Culture, 2009 |
| 2 | Syncretism and Acculturation in Ancient India: A New Nine-phase Acculturation Model Explaining the Process of Transfer of Power from the Harappans to the Indo-Aryans: Part Two (Important Paper) | ICFAI Journal of History and Culture, 2010 |
| 3 | The Reconfirmation and Reinforcement of the Indus Script Thesis: A Logical Assessment and Inquiry as to the Elusive and Enigmatic Nature of This Script | ICFAI Journal of History and Culture, 2011 |
| 4 | Why the Indus Script Was True Writing and Why a Larger Corpus of Texts Existed in the Indus Valley Civilization: Simple Proof Addressed to Mainstream Researchers and Archaeologists | International Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences, March 2013 |
| 5 | Alphabetic Scripts and Other Forms of Literacy in Post-Harappan India: A Logical Assessment and Inquiry as to the Origin and Extent of Literacy in Post-Harappan India | International Journal of Philosophy and Social Sciences, October 2012 |
| 6 | The Demise of the Dravidian, Vedic, and Paramunda Indus Hypotheses: A Brief Explanation as to Why These Three Hypotheses Are No Longer Tenable (Important Paper) | — |
| 7 | Bringing Indology into the Twenty-first Century: Why Rich Rewards Are in Store for Many Fields of Science with Major Implications Reaching Far Beyond Indian Shores | ELK Asia Pacific Journal of Social Studies, 2015 |