D.D. Kosambi Contribution to Marxist Historiography

Abstract

D.D.Kosambi is a one of greatest Indian Marxist historian, trend setter, prolific writer, an extraordinaire scholar, his works on different areas of lndology, Kosambi was far from being an ivory tower scholar, and his intellectual activity was deeply rooted in and greatly inspired by needs of the people around him. He was the first among the pioneer of the Marxist school of thought. He was a brilliant and innovative Mathematician, apart from his more popular work on numismatics and genetics, Kosambi worked on path geometry, exploring the foundations of general relativity.He also worked on statics infinite dimensions, computing and probabilistic,number theory. He successfully applied mathematics to history. D.D.Kosambi and shifting paradigm in Marxist school of Indian historiography. Remarkably, even Marxist historian, who holds up D.D .Kosambi as a model, In the Marxist scheme of history, the Soviet was the ideal state and Marxist is an ideal philosophy and polity