Indian Historiography Misunderstood:

It is most essential and useful to understand the history of fixation of ancient Indian chronology by the British scholars. Their notions of history writing were different from those of the Indians. Chronology is a must for historiography according to them. They could not understand why the Indian historiographers did not mention the dates of even important events in ancient Indian history, in spite of their definite knowledge about them. Some of them wrongly attributed this to the lack of historical sense in Indian Seers (ancient scholars) and missed the right path to understand the Indian historiography. Once on a wrong path, they became a prey to their self-posed conjectures and prepared a chronology based on those baseless ones. India, the area of which was many times that of their motherland England, was by that time captured and ruled by them. The success created in them a superiority complex. It not only prohibited them from understanding Indian historiography but also forced the chronology thus prepared by them to be taught in the Indian educational institutions. Today, even after more than forty years of independence, the same chronology is being taught in our country. But the modern scientific researches have proved that chronology to be incorrect and an atmosphere for its reassessment prevails among the Indian scholars now. Let us try to understand the history of fixation of this chronology.

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