Local History in the Making: Tarikh Nigari at Qasbah Amroha (1878-1934)
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7615756
Abstract:
The article is divided into three sections. The first section provides an overview of the development of tārīkh nigārī in Urdu. The second section covers the period of 1878-1917; a period in which several family histories were written, but this was also the period which saw the first social history of Amroha, the Tārīkh-e Asgharī, as well as the Mirāt-ul Ansāb, a text on genealogy and lineage. The third section covers the period of 1917-1934; a period of contestation and polemics, during which Mahmud Ahmad Abbasi’s three volume Tārīkh-e Amroha was published and subsequently several critiques of the work that focused on the genealogy of specific families and qaumī tārīkhs were written in response to Abbasi’s work.
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