merit and demerits of classical source of ancient Indian history
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(I) Advantages:-
(1) Can tell the exact or, possible timeperiod of a particular historical event.
(2) Can tell about any particular historical event or, at least can provide any hint.
(3) Very important to know about the culture, language, literature skill, ideologies etc of that particular period in history, when the certain text was written down. -etc.
(II) Disadvantages:-
(1) May be partially biased or not; so to be careful when relating to the evidence of any possible historical event.
(2) May be some type of Metaphor or, Satire. So, all characters and the events should be very carefully noted and judged.
(3) May contain silly and unthinkable mistakes/false things; as ancient literary texts often face such errors, which may have silently crawled into it through the passing of a very long time. -etc.
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The following are advantages of all tradition
It can be given anywhere and any time by adult who have some historical facts
It is less expensive compared to other source of historical information such as books and museums. this is because it does not need selling and buying of information
It does not need a person to know how to read and write
It is possible to ask questions to the oral informant so as to in-depth information
The following are disadvantages of oral traditions
Oral tradition does not go very far in the past. the transmission of information depend on the power of memories of successive generations
Oral tradition does not maintain the same value of the oral history; instead the values keeps on changing as time goes
Oral tradition may be biased. This is possible because of nature of transmission itself. oral transmission is full of exaggeration, creativity and sometimes the informant may talk of good things only.