Question

How  can  history  be  written  based  on  oral  sources?

DSERT Class 10 History Ch 3 Folk History

Answer 1

Writing of history based on oral sources, especially while writing about common people in the backdrop of various ideological backgrounds, became a serious challenge for historians. They needed to understand the various events and incidents other than the lives of important personalities and battles. With no historical or documentary evidences, they attempted to stir up memories of common folks to get the details of various events. These events were related to both past and present incidents. So the historians resorted to oral descriptions to narrate the lives of ordinary people. It was a tough job especially when the western historians had written their own version of the past.