Shankar Goyal
29 books
Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, the great nationalist leader and the first Prime Minister of India, is famous for his contribution to historical, political and socio-economic thought. The multifaceted dimensions of his thought include various other fields of national life. The contributors of this volume – L.L. Mehrotra (New Delhi) Professor B.G. Gokhale (America), L.S. Rathore, S.R. Goyal, A.C. Angrish, S.R. Bhansali (all Jodhpur) and numerous others ...
The present monograph by Dr. Shankar Goyal seeks to study problems of ancient Indian history and culture with a new approach. As Dr. Goyal’s main area of interest is historiography, the present work includes several articles on the problems of historiography in which he has analysed the perceptions of earlier scholars thoroughly in the light of his own. Further, he has studied the new source materials which is coming to light every year. Dr. Goyal is extremely ...
The Gupta period was admittedly the classical or Golden period of Indian history when ancient Indian culture saw efflorescence in almost all aspects of life, including architecture, sculpture and painting. The art of this period has been a subject of study since the beginning of indological studies in modern times. The present monograph is the recent-most effort in this direction, but with a difference in approach and treatment. Firstly, it contains the fruits of ...
Reconstructing Indian History for S.R. Goyal is a stimulating survey of different periods and aspects of Indian history and culture in four volumes. This is a unique volume containing research articles dedicated to the multi-faceted historiography of Professor S.R. Goyal who, at the ripe young age of 70, is one the most eminent historians of the country today. With more than a hundred articles, a large number of photographs and a carefully chiselled intellectual ...
In the era of independence India has produced a large number of eminent historians. They are easily divisible into two categories - those who carried on the indigenous tradition of the pre-independence period, and those who developed the theory and tools of Marxist approach to Indian historiography. In the present work its author Dr. Shankar Goyal has studied eminent historians of both the schools. From amongst those who represent the flowering of the Indian ...
The present volume is a study of some of the major problems of ancient Indian history and culture in the light of new discoveries and approaches which make it imperative of us to re-examine the contours of our ancient past afresh.
The present volume gives emphasis on the new orientation which is being given to study of these periods. For example, it provides a detailed study of the middle class in medieval India, social legislation and public reaction in modern India, status and empowerment of women in modern India, and also Itihasa-Darsana, Marxist view of history and Nehru's universalistic view of history. Some old topics which have not lost their appeal such as medieval paintings, ...
Rajasthan is famous throughout the world for its heroic sons and daughters. Its history is full of glorious tales of their sacrifices and heroic deeds. But it is also full of problems and interesting episodes. The culture of Rajasthan, though an integral part of the great Indian cultural world, has also its distinctive features. The present volume seeks to re-study the history and culture of this region in the light of the new material which is being constantly ...
Recent Historiography of ancient India is the doctoral dissertation of Dr. Shankar Goyal, one of the leading authorities on ancient Indian historiography. It is a pioneer work which seeks to delineate the development of historiography of the political history of ancient India in the modern period, specially in the post-1947 decades. Divided into thirteen chapters it discusses the approaches of modern historians to the pre-Maurya and Maurya dynasties, the ...
In recent decades the popularity of the political history of declining very fast in India as well as in other countries. Therefore in order to revitalise their discipline some political historians, both in India and the West, are pleading that now the concept of political history should be modified. They argue that now historians should cease to give emphasis only on the ‘deeds’ and ‘dates’ of the kings and should make a study of the political aspect of ...
The study of ancient Indian coins is now a well-established discipline with a history of about two centuries behind it. But strangely no monograph on its historiography has so far been published. The present full-length monograph on this subject is thus a pioneering study. It critically examines all the important works and research articles published during the last two hundred years. Divided into eleven chapters it begins with the progress of the study of the ...
In recent decades the popularity of the political history is declining very fast in India as well as in other countries. Therefore in order to revitalize their discipline some political historians, both in India and the West, are pleading that now the concept of political history should be modified. They argue that now historians should cease to give emphasis only on the ‘deeds’ and ‘dates’ of the kings and should makes study of the political aspect of ...
The present research work on Harsha by Dr. Shankar Goyal will blaze, we believe, a new trail in the historiography of ancient Indian political history, for it looks upon the history of the age of Harsha not form the traditional’ what and when happened approach’ but from multidisciplinary integral standpoint in which main political developments and events are put in their proper context by an analysis of their determining influences- social, economic, ...
The history of early India, from the earliest times to the end of the Maurya dynasty, has attracted the attention of modern scholars from the beginning of the Indological studies. The period incorporates what is generally described as ‘traditional’ history and also the age of the warring janapadas and of the Nanda-Maurya empire. For this vast span of time the sources available to historians are usually of uncertain date, diverse in nature, quite often ...
Harsha is decidedly the most-well-documented monarch of ancient India. Since the nineteenth century he has attracted the attention of modern scholars and has been the subject of numerous monographs and hundreds of research papers. The present work, however, is different, not another ordinary text-book on him. Firstly, it gives a detailed and critical account of the history of history-writing on Harsha. In other words, it delineates and critically examines various ...
In recent years the study of political history of ancient India has perceptibly declined. This problem has been critically analysed in the theme-paper written for this monograph by Professor S.R. Goyal, an eminent historian of international repute. In it he has shown that it is the political history of ‘traditional’ type that has declined, that the decline of ‘traditional’ political history has taken place in the West also and that scholars of this ...