Ex Give short answers for the following questions.
1. What do
you mean by historian?
2. Who is regarded as the father of history?
3. How is the north India protected by the Himalayas?
4. What is archaeology?
5. Who was Hiuen Tsang?
6. How can we classify sources of Indian history?
Answers
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Answer:
1. person who studies or who is an expert in history
2. Herodotus (c. 484 – 425/413 BCE) was a Greek writer who invented the field of study known today as `history'.
3. The altitude of the Himalayas, their sprawl and extention intercept the summer monsoon coming from the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. The Himalayas also prevent the cold Siberian air masses from entering into India
4. the study of the past, based on objects or parts of buildings that are found in the ground
5. The Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang visited India during the period of emperor Harsha. When he went back to China, he wrote a detailed description of India during the reign of Harsha in his book ‘Si-yu-ki’ or ‘Record of the Western Countries’.
6. The sources of Indian history can be classified under the following heads:
Inscriptions.
Numismatics.
Archaeology.
Literature.
Foreign Sources.
Traditions