HIST-7103 Historiography

This course aims at providing knowledge about the milestone developments of historiography in cross-cultural context. Starting from Herodotus in Greek period, it will focus on medieval western historiography, modern Muslim historiography and Modern European Historiography. History is defined as the study of an event in a particular time and space. Historiography is an essential and integral part of the discipline of history that explores what kind of history has been written so far by the historians of the past and the present. So a historian is one who writes history, while historiographer writes about the earlier written works of history and also about the nature of historical research. After completion of this course, the students will be able to conceptualize the discipline of history, the nature of historical texts, the progression of discipline through ages and various modern perspectives through which history is being produced in modern academia.