Gurukul Lutheran Theological collage and Research Institute, Madaras Subject: Historical Methodology and Historiography of the Indian Church Topic: ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF HISTORIOGRAPHIES- ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN INTRODUCTION During Ancient period to modern period, history writing as a product of political centered there true interpreting in politically. All ancient histories are introducing emperors, political wars and religious powers they oppressed powerless people however, our history and historical study is understood in a wrong way. This all-historical writings are de- humanizing in world history. historiography is important there. This paper explains origin and development of historiographies. The term Historiography can be understood in different ways and it is used in several different ways. It is sometimes used to refer to the methodology of historical research or techniques of historical writings as well as the techniques of analyzing historical writings. Often it was used in the sense of historical methodology. More often, historiography means a study of perspective that she/ he employs in research. The researcher should always take care that the perspective that they take should not becomes biased at any stage 1 Defining historiography Historiography means careful survey of writing of history throughout the age during different times. That writing of history is influenced and affected by the conditions of society about which the historian is to writ and stages through which it has progressed. Historiography also means theoretical study of history writing; however, theory of history is study of nature, philosophy and scope of history that of practice is performance of activities. According to many scholars and historians, historiography is a separate study branch of study. 2 It is more concerned with research than with general study. Thus its scop is quite different from general or regular history . It is an area of interest for researchers and not ordinary readers of history. Furay and Salevouris(1988) define historiography as “the stud of the way history has been and is written- the history of historical writing..... When you study historiography you do not 1 V. V. Thomas, Understanding Subaltern History: Theoretical Tools (Bangalore: BTESSC, 2012), 2 R.C. Gupta, Kings Historgraphy (Delhi: King books, 2003), 129. 1