The historiography of Indian nationalism has for a long time been dominated by
elitism colonialist elitism and bourgeois-nationalist etilism.
Both originated as the ideological product of British rule in India, but have survived the transfer of power and been assimilated to neo-colonialist and neo-nationalist forms of discourse in British and India respectively.
Elitist historiography of the colonialist or neo-colonialist type counts British writers and institutions among its principal protaganists, but has its imitators in India and other countries too. Elitist historiography of the nationalist or neo-nationalist type is primarily an Indian practice but not without imitators in the ranks of liberal historians in British and elsewhere.