History’ and the Imperialistic Record of Indian History

Pages:162-163
Jaiveer Singh1, Sudhir Narayan Singh2 (Research Scholor, Singhania University, Singhania,1 Department of English, TITS, Bhiwani2)

Such subversion is possible by disregarding the assumptions of ‘purity and ‘unity’ and by problematising the assumptions of western traditions of fiction and historiography. It is the third position of which is by participating in an ancient Indian tradition of re-writing the epics. These writers have used different forms to re-write these ‘histories.’ So, when Raja Rao re-writes a sthalapurana in Kanthapura or Shashi Tharoor the Mahabharata in The Great Indian Novel or Allan Sealy the history of Anglo-Indians in trotternama-the Novelist thus participates in a tradition of re-writing history which is neither ‘Against History’ nor an act of ‘Dis/Mantling narrative as claimed by Tiffin.