MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641022902 A) filed by Christ University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, on Feb. 26, for 'historiographic narrative analysis framework: a model for systematic extraction of historical knowle.'
Inventor(s) include Sayant Vija Y; and Anupama Nayar CV.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The current invention is titled Historiographic Narrative Analysis Framework (HNAF): A Model to Systematically Extract Historical Knowledge from Fictional Narratives and suggests a systematic and replicable methodological system of analysing fictional and narrative texts as a valid source of historiography. Traditional historiography relies primarily on archival documents and empirical records, which often marginalize everyday experiences, emotional histories, subaltern perspectives, and cultural memory, particularly in colonial and postcolonial contexts. HNAF addresses this limitation by integrating principles of historiography, narrative theory, and memory studies into a unified analytical framework. The framework operates through four sequential analytical phases: (i) identification of historically verifiable signifiers embedded in fictional narratives, including events, locations, institutions, legal frameworks, and socio-political contexts; (ii) analysis of narrative mediation strategies such as emplotment, narrative voice, and temporality through which historical realities are re-constructed in fiction; (iii) mapping of long-term social structures, cultural continuities, and collective mentalities in accordance with the concept of lo.ngue duree; and (iv) consolidation, validation, and classification of extracted historical knowledge into stable historiographic categories, including memory-based, affective, subaltern, cultural, and narrative historiography. The invention demonstrates its applicability through case studies showing how fictional narratives can be transformed into structured, verifiable, and comparable historiographic data. HNAF provides a scalable and adaptable system suitable for applications in historiography, literary and postcolonial studies, memory studies, cultural heritage documentation, pedagogy, and computational historical analysis. By redefining fiction as an active site of historical knowledge production rather than a supplementary interpretive resource, the framework establishes a novel methodological paradigm for interdisciplinary historical research."
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