Question

what are the limitations in the study of ancient Indian history​

Answer 1

Answer:

Puranic Literature: Limitations

Most of the ancient literature is religious in nature, and those which are claimed to be history by Indians, i.e., puranic and epic literature, contain no definite dates for events and kings. In the Puranas and epics, we find genealogies of kings and sometimes their achievements.

Answer 2

The limitations in the study of ancient Indian history are as follows -

• The availability of the recorded data is very less about the ancient Indian history. The less availability has occured for the following reasons -

1. The scripts like the Indus civilization script, is still unreadable, so a major amount of recorded data becomes unusable.
2. The Nalanda University with huge amount of ancient scrolls and other essential historical data, was burnt into a major fire accident. So, a lot of data was just wasted.

• The Indian history is much more dependent on it's religious epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata. These epics have only the description of "possibly happened" incidents but there are no date mentioning. So these epics cannot be used for solid historical research purposes.
• The majority of the recorded historical data is based upon the religious aspects and the availability of the historical facts is much lesser. That's why, the study of Indian ancient history becomes much more difficult and limited.