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History is the only discipline dating back to the very dawn ofcivilization, maintaining its unbroken hold on human mind.Of late, however, it is passing through an existential crisisbeing confronted with powerful projection of the past inelectronic media and intense attacks mounted by thepostmodernists rejecting its claim to authenticity andobjectivity. It is time professional historians should do someself-introspection so as to evolve required responses bysensitizing the student and teacher community in India to themakeover of history from its unidimensional grand narrativecharacter to a multi-dimensional meta-narrative perspectiveon the past and adopting new methods of studyHistoriography of India. The eternal and irreconcilabledichotomy between the past in the absolute and its relativecharacter in representations done down the ages constitute thefundamental and fascinating theme uniting this book.