THE PRESENT VOLUME is a collection of fifteen papers presented at the Seventh Annual Conference of the Institute of Historical Studies held at Bangalore in November, 1969. Its publication was long overdue, but one factor or another had stood in the way and delayed it by seven years. First, we had to wait for a few years for papers relating to three or four States. Since we wanted to bring out a comprehensive study of historical writings on the nationalist movement in India, we required papers on all the major States. Second, from 1971 to 1974 we were too pre-occupied with the publication of the monumental Dictionary of National Biography volumes to devote any attention to any other publication. There were other factors too, including financial difficulties, which need not be mentioned here. One result of this long gap between the presentation of papers and their publication is that the papers could not include much of the material published on the nationalist movement during the last seven years. Anyway, while editing the papers, we have tried to bring them up to date as far as possible. But since the papers deal largely with historical writings in different Indian languages, it has not been possible to incorporate new material to the extent one would have wished for. Still, it may be claimed this is a fairly exhaustive study of all the historical writings in English and in Indian languages on the nationalist movement. It will not be before at least another decade when the present study may be deemed to be out of date.
The Volume, it must be understood, is not a history of the freedom struggle in India. It is an attempt to study the historical writings on the nationalist movement, including a survey of the source material available in different parts of the country and in different languages. It is, therefore, a study in historiography on the nationalist movement. Although much has been written on the different phases of the nationalist movement from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present day, this is the first attempt to study this huge mass of literature in a collective manner, to assess the historical worth of the writings on the nationalist movement produced so far, and to indicate the gaps still left in studies on the nationalist movement. From that point of view the present Volume is the first attempt of its kind in Indian historiography.
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