I admire your effort.  My personal view is that scholars are spending too
much time reacting to ideas or reviewing than
creating in-depth research. Western concept of history is  person related,
who ruled,who wrote, who built etc.  The
Indian concept of history is the record of the society  (ref.
अर्थशास्त्र).   So India didn't have court historians but
court poets who created literature.  Now this literature is  thrown out as
mythology, because it is too good to be true.
Some of the literature is mixed with the cosmological models (eternity of
time, rebirth) which are not fully understood.
Recreation of India's history through literature is the task.   We tried to
do this for high school students in our book
Evolution of Indian Culture. But it needs more in-depth  multi-disciplinary
research for the future.  I do agree that
this is a harder task and extremely multi-disciplinary.  But, a thorough
understanding of the evolution of society  over time is only possible with
data from India. I will read your essay next week.Best regards, Bijoy Misra

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