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Changing Trends in Historical Writing: A Critical Analysis of Modern Historiographical Approaches

Author(s) Dr. Satish Kundlikrao Kharat
Country India
Abstract Historical writing is no longer a single, political, elite and document-based method, but rather a plural field that studies structures, identities, environments, memories, networks and digital traces. This paper discusses the critical changes that have given rise to modern historiography from Rankean professional history to Marxist, Annales, social, cultural, postmodern, post-colonial, gender, global, environmental and digital history. It calls for these approaches to be viewed as not as an alternative to one another, with one new school taking over for everyone that was closed. Rather, in the modern historical practice criticism, selective borrowing, and methodological recombination have developed. While documentary verification is still necessary, historians are now aware that archives are socially produced, narratives are constructed, categories are historically contingent, and silences are emblematic of an imbalance of power. The paper employs critical narrative reviews of seminal work and recent scholarships to examine and contrast the explanatory power, source preferences, ethics and limitations of each major approach. Three original figures and three tables bring together the transformations and point to a future model, one that is archival, reflexive, inclusive in approach to sources, multi-scalar in its approach to explanation, transparent of digital processes, and accountable to the public. The analysis suggests that the future of historical writing lies neither in the narrow positivism nor in the free relativism, but in an integrated approach to historical writing, which is based on evidence and interpretation, ethics and methodological openness.
Keywords historiography, historical writing, postcolonial history, gender history, global history, digital history.
Published In Volume 6, Issue 4, July-August 2024
Published On 2024-08-10
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i04.85536
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