Question

Evaluate the significance of the textual records of the medieval period.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Medieval India: Sources

Learning Goals:

Sources of history

Manuscripts

Scribes and authors

Chronicles

Different sources are used by historians to study the past, depending on;

The period of their study

Nature of their investigation

Historians and their sources

The sources used by historians in the period 700 to 1750 (the Medieval Period) were quite different from the ones used in the period of Gupta dynasty and Hashavardhana. There is definitely some continuity in the sources used by the historians of both the distinct periods. For example, for obtaining information they still relied on

Coins

Inscriptions

Acrhitecture

Textual records

But there is also significant discontinuity in the sources used by the historians of both the distinct periods. Some of the changes in the sources are as follows:

Dramatic increase in the number and variety of textual records. These slowly displaced other types of available information.

Paper became cheaper and more widely available as opposed to the earlier periods when people used to write on barks of birch trees, hides, walls of caves, etc. due to non-availability of paper.

Answer 2

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