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Why were the Indo-Iranians not interested much in historiographical writing? Neither pre-Islamic Iran nor pre-Islamic India seem to have any historical chronicles unlike those in Greece or China. Why is this so? Is this a case of lost texts or peculiaristic cultural attitudes?

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Why were the Indo-Iranians not interested much in historiographical writing? Neither pre-Islamic Iran nor pre-Islamic India seem to have any historical chronicles unlike those in Greece or China. Why is this so? Is this a case of lost texts or peculiaristic cultural attitudes?	204