Setting in parallel history and stories of India seems at first aporetic, and many historians might be shocked by our endeavour to confront and associate two genres which seem to be antinomic, opposing a faithful representation of the past on the one hand, and personal testimonies or fiction which may be subjective, biased, or present a distorted vision of the past on the other hand. The aim of this volume is thus to confront genres and points of view. The slash in the title can be interpreted as a rupture or a gap between history and fiction, episteme and imagination, the real and the unreal; conversely as a relation of inclusion when real stories are traces used by historians, or when a work of fiction is strewn with historical references or allusions; narrative fiction, although unreal, may contribute to shedding new light on the historical background and act as a counterpoint to the historian’s voice, and the slash, in this case, may be seen either as a filter mediating other points of view, or a prism refracting different views which deconstruct official discourse. The plural in 'stories' versus the use of the singular for 'history' serves an opposition between grand history and minor stories, historiography representing events that did happen, and the undecidability and multiplicity of a hybrid genre fluctuating between pure fantasy and referential reality.