A Distinctive voice: the development of an historiography of South Asia in Australia and New Zealand

Abstract

Despite the decline in funding, staffing, and enrollments in South Asian history, important contributions continue to be made. Scholars have long since outgrown their heritage of seeing the region simply as an adjunct to imperial and commonwealth history. Australian historians explore the subcontinent on its own terms and draw on a wide variety of methodologies and conceptual frameworks to formulate their analyses. Though some of the leading practitioners were trained in London, they have come to reflect the distinctiveness of the Australasian experience and location and to become sensitive to the main currents of change on the subcontinent