01453pab a2200181 454500008004000000100001900040245008100059260000900140300001600149362001000165520089800175650002001073650001201093773003401105909001001139999001701149952010501166180718b2005   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aThapar, Romila  aDecolonising the past: historical writing in the time of Sachin - and beyond  c2005  ap.1442-448.  a2 Apr  aThe decades of the 1950s and 1960s were a watershed in the writing of history. Narratives of the past continued to be written as they are to this day, and there continues to be a valuable gathering of new evidence. But the more challenging trend has been to pursue answers to questions that relate to why and how something happened rather than merely when and where. actions and events had multiple causes and the priorities among these have to be justified by the evidence as well as by logical argument. There is also a need to integrate a variety of facets in constructing a historical context. History was an explanation of what happened in the past, an attempt to understand the past, and of basing this understanding on `critical enquiry', incorporated into what is also called the `historical method'. Historical understanding also has to be viewed as a `process in time'. - Reproduced.  aIndia - History  aHistory  aEconomic and Political Weekly  a64733  c64733d64733  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 40, Issue no: 14pAR65185r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR