Question

(B) Name the following.
(1) Sources of history.
(2) Written sources of history.
(3)The type of literature preserved by oral tradition form.
(4) Important sources of ancient Indian history.​

Answer 1

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1) diaries, letters, interviews, oral histories, photographs, newspaper articles, government documents, poems, novels, plays, and music.

2)Some examples of primary written sources are contemporary letters, eyewitness accounts, official documents, political declarations and decrees, administrative texts, and histories and biographies written in the period that is to be studied.

3) A folklore is a type of oral tradition, but knowledge other than folklore has been orally transmitted and thus preserved in human history.

4)

1. Literary and Archaeological records are the two main categories that give evidences of Ancient Indian History.
2. The literary source includes literature of Vedic, Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, and other literature along with other foreign accounts.
3. The archaeological source includes epigraphic, numismatic, and other architectural remains
4. The archaeological explorations and excavations have opened the great landscapes of new information.

Answer 2

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Explanation:

Ancient communities all over the world used  

various means like cave paintings, story-telling,  

singing songs and ballads, etc. These traditional  

means are looked upon as the sources of history  

in modern historiography.