• Amna Ehsan

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• Dr Zafar Iqbal

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The postmodern school of New Historicisim with its critical and dialogical reasoning
highlights the silencing of the untold. The present study delineates how the White Mughals is
beautifully reflecting the postmodern tendencies of writing Meta- history. The theortical
framework of the study is based on the postmodern notion of Historiographic Metafiction to
analyse the text of William Dalrymple’s The White Mughals as this work deals with the rewriting
of Anglo-Indian history of two faded glories during the late Eighteenth century. To analyze the
text, this study has drawn out the theoretical stance as advocated by Linda Hutcheon as her
postmodernist approach deal with a range of theoretical methodologies including postmodern
debates on the construction of history and cultural concern relating to the representation of
‘truth’ and ‘meaning’ in human archeology. This research is significant for its postmodern
perspective to ‘defamiliarize’ the canonical aspects of the text. It deconstructs the existing
ideology of writing traditional histories and it encapsulates all the forms of ‘defferance’ and
‘deviance’. This research paper investigates that how the postmodern discourse of Dalrymple
blurs the ideological notion of “Fact and Fiction” in the White Mughals- a fragmentary note of
Indian social history of unplanned intermingling of cultures that led towards ‘Chutnification’.

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