Answer the following questions in brief,
1. How does the study of the monuments help the historians?
2. The study of history help us to make the present world a better place to live in. How?
3. How do skeletal studies help us to identify gender differences?
What are the literary sources of Indian history?
5. Explain historical literature with an example.
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Answer:
1). The study of the monuments helps the historians to write the history of the past kings, rulers and emperors who have ruled the kingdom
3). The biological sex of an adult skeleton can be determined with 95% accuracy by measuring the hip bones alone, 83% accuracy by the skull, and 80% accuracy by the long bones (femur & tibia). Women know all about being 'born in the wrong body'.
4). Literary and Archaeological records are the two main categories that give evidences of Ancient Indian History. The literary source includes literature of Vedic, Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, and other literature along with other foreign accounts.
5). Literary sources are divided into three categories; religious, secular and foreign accounts.Literary sources inform us about the political, social , economic , religious and cultural life of our ancestors. Most of the ancient manuscripts are religious in nature. Besides the religious literature there also exists a vast body of secular literature on the subject of mathematics, medicines and science. Many learned people were traveling around the world during the ancient and medieval period. These people were making account of what they saw in these foreign territories. For instance, Greek , Roman and Chinese travelers came to India and they left behind accounts of things that they saw.