The past few decades of Indian history have witnessed an evolving nature. The themes introduced include oral histories; art and architecture; social and cultural histories and micro-level histories. Historians today focus on small regions or periods. These interventions made historical reconstructions all-encompassing (comprehensive) and have brought into the limelight a few actors; regions; and practices that were overpowered by a few dominating tropes. One such new trend is the regional histories, unlike national histories.