A Hand Book of Historical Writing

The present work A Hand-Book of Historical writing' is a collection of various types of critically written articles. The major portion of the book is devoted to the History of Awadh a kingdom which was raised from a subaha to a kingdom, by English East India Company and later annexed by lard Dalhousie on the basis of misrule, disorder and curruption due to weak and irresposible' rulers. Most of the topics of the book deal with, activities, political, economic and other interests of the Begums, despite the their exploitations by the British, Rest of the topics are related with different subject matter of history, throwing analytical light on them.

It is an original, thought provoking and interesting work, which will be very useful for the new researchers, and will be appriciated by both academic and non-acedemic section of the society.

Name Dr. (Miss) K. Sreenivasa Santha

Date of Birth 2nd June 1934, Anantpur, Andra Pradesh.

Education M.A., Ph-D. in History

Modern India M.A. in Ancient Indian History Culture and Archeology 1959, B.H.U.

Published Work Begums of Awadh. K. Sreenivasa Santha Comes from an illustrious family of Anantpur. (A.P.). She started her career from Mahila Mahavidyalaya, B.H.U. as lecturer in 1961 & retired as Head of the Department History, B.H.U. in 1994. She was a devoted teacher and supervised several Ph-D. theses, and Published several re-search papers in reputed journals of India. She was a memeber of Indian Historical Record Commission and various other important committees of National Standing.

Besides her mother tongue Telegu, she has knowledge of Tamil, Urdu, Persian, Hindi, English languages. She has founded Sharda Memorial Trust' in the sacred memory of her elder sister Dr. K. Sharda in 1994, for the promotion of educational interest among the new generation. She is devoted to studies, and has a good knowledge of Astrology and India Philosophy and Religion.

The Present work is the fruit of some of the vital and basic clues and pointers which discovered in the extensive and intensive research on Begums of awadh Kingdom-a Kingdom which was first raised from a subah to a kingdom by the English East India Company and later annexed by Dalhousie on the basis of misrule, disorder and impoverished thereby, due to "weak and irresponsible rulers". This policy was the culmination of wellesely's policy of annexation through the subsidiary alliance. The conquest and defeat of a country is a political affair and arises out of ambition, capability, expediency and sometimes sheer brutal and animistic instinct. But the basic clues and pointers of a certain nation which loom large in my study, is that the English who based on the glory of a civilised, constitutional and superior pax Brittanica, who presumed itself as the setters of an example- as in the case of French revolution- failed to be as such in reality.

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