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The British
Historiography of South Asia: Aspects of Early Imperial
Patterns and Perceptions is basically a conceptual
anthology of British Imperial onslaught of late
eighteenth and early nineteenth century historical
knowledge. Merging the method of historical discourse
with literary rhetoric and philosophical
conceptualization, the book analyzes epistemological
topographies of method, model, subject matter,
chronology, purpose, technique, assumption, content and
idea, used in a large body of British historical
literature on South Asia. For, the concepts of
Vernacularism, Orientalism, Imperialism, Tradition,
Modernity and Identity enlighten the intellectual
paradigm. It highlights the impact of modern western
intellectual developments on the understanding of South
Asian History on the one hand, and impact of South Asian
History on the intellectual growth of Britain and Europe
on the other. In this context, it is an important
contribution to the understanding of how and why the
British reflected dissatisfaction with the state of
indigenous historical knowledge in South Asia and the
evolution of British construction of South Asian past?
Eventually, it ascertains the emergence of the concept
of 'civilization' as a of British understanding of South
Asian past.
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Dr. Muhammad Shafique is
Professor of History and Historiography at the
Department of History, Bahauddin Zakariya University,
Multan, Pakistan. Educated at the Bahauddin Zakariya
University, Multan and Quaid-i-Azam University,
Islamabad, he has been Charles Wallace Fellow at School
of Oriental and African Studies, London (2003) and
Post-Doctoral Fellow at University College, London
(2011). Muhammad Shafique has been working with a number
of educational and research institutions including
Quaid-i-Azam University, Government of the Punjab,
Education Department and Bahauddin Zakariya University,
Multan since 1995. Joining the BZU in 2000, he chaired
the Department of Philosophy (June 2012-January 2016)
and is the Chairman, Department of History at Bahauddin
Zakariya University University Multan since March 2015.
He has participated in
numerous conferences, Seminars, Workshops and Colloquia
and has contributed more than thirty research papers in
the study of theoretical and philosophical dimensions of
history and historiography with a special emphasis on
South Asia, Colonialism, British Historiography,
Regional History, Regional Ethnicities, Comparative
Civilizations and Philosophy of History which are
published in journals of national and international
repute. He is also the author of 'Ibn Khaldun: Fard,
Mua'shra aur Tamaduni Irtiqa' and Editor Journal
of Historical Studies.
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