 Not only the tales were emotionally charged verses with distinct impressions of caste-chauvinism but also they oft-contradicted each other, suffered from dating inaccuracies and failed to be corroborated by archaeological evidence.However Basu and others followed a romantic nativist school and considered them as a treasure trove of indigenous social history, wherein "history" did not merely mean a linear chronology of dynastic rulers and the state but rather the entirety of local caste-societies ("samaja") with its own mythologies, traditions and material achievements, as experienced by the masses and reflected in "kulapanjikas".Material from different "kulapanjikas" were assimilated to form a history of the broader Bengali society.