Which of the following statements is not true about the nationalist historical writings in the pre-independence India?
1
Nationalist historical writings gave the self-confidence, self assertion and a certain national pride to Indians in their struggle against the British.
2
Nationalist historical writings in India became a major unifying factor so far as the literate Indians were concerned.
3
Nationalist historiography before independence dealt with the ancient, medieval and modern, all the three periods of Indian history.
4
No school of nationalist historians of modern India existed before independence. It came into existence only after 1947.