Book excerpt: INDEX UNIT 1 GENERALISATION UNIT 2 CAUSATION UNIT 3 OBJECTIVITY AND INTERPRETATION UNIT 4 HISTORY, IDEOLOGY AND SOCIETY UNIT 5 GRECO-ROMAN TRADITIONS UNIT 6 TRADITIONAL CHINESE HISTORIOGRAPHY UNIT 7 HISTORIOGRAPHICAL TRADITIONS IN EARLY INDIA UNIT 8 MEDIEVAL HISTORIOGRAPHY – WESTERN UNIT 9 MEDIEVAL HISTORIOGRAPHY — ARABIC AND PERSIAN UNIT 10 MEDIEVAL HISTORIOGRAPHY: INDO-PERSIAN UNIT 11 LOCAL HISTORY UNIT 12 POSITIVIST TRADITION UNIT 13 CLASSICAL MARXIST TRADITION UNIT 14 THE ANNALES SCHOOL UNIT 15 RECENT MARXIST APPROACHES UNIT 16 POSTMODERNIST INTERVENTION UNIT 17 GENDER IN HISTORY UNIT 18 RACE IN HISTORY UNIT 19 COLONIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY UNIT 20 NATIONALIST APPROACH UNIT 21 COMMUNALIST TRENDS UNIT 22 MARXIST APPROACH UNIT 23 THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL UNIT 24 HISTORY FROM BELOW UNIT 25 SUBALTERN STUDIES UNIT 26 ECONOMIC HISTORY UNIT 27 PEASANTRY AND WORKING CLASSES UNIT 28 CASTE, TRIBE AND GENDER UNIT 29 RELIGION AND CULTURE UNIT 30 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY