Reading History Cinematically Study of Cinema as Source of History Writing in Contemporary India 1947 2000

Abstract

From the time of Herodotus to this very time of pandemic newline(COVID-19) ridden world, history as an area of study and as a tool of newlinenarrative or as a subject of records has been on a continuous accelerated newlinejourney. Though it may not be in the curriculum of the academic world newlineit has been in the center of political desires or scholarly pleasure. newlineSimultaneously the very question about the nature of history or what is newlinehistory has been asked and answered by the scholars since the beginning newlineof history writing. If we look at the histories before the 19th century we newlinefind that all the history written so far was with the purpose of newlineknowledge sharing or kind of didactic and related to storytelling. newline