Secular historical narration in Indian literature first emerged only with the communist movement.

Evidence

Furthermore, it was also in the latter decades of the colonial period, especially with the rise of the communist movement and its concomitant cultural clusters, that India began to witness the gradual emergence of full-scale literary cultures that were, in many of their articulations, not only struggling against religious particularity and obscurantism, which many kinds of both personal and collective dissidence had attempted in innumerable ways in the past as well, but were also groping, for the first time in our history, towards secular historicization and non-religious narrativization of the material world. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 526

Categorization

• QUESTION: A bold periodization — ‘for the first time in our history’ is a strong claim worth scrutinizing for counterexamples.

Related

• Late colonial India newly groped toward secular historicization of the material world (similarity 0.87)
• Marxist historians made theoretical Indian history possible beyond rulers and religions (similarity 0.82)
• Secular Indian modernism conceded religious texts’ greatness in exchange for a nonreligious sphere. (similarity 0.78)