What are the various sources through which we know about happenings and events that occurred over 250 years ago?
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inscriptions ,coins, carvings , tadpatra, bhojpatra and birch bark.
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⚫ There are several sources which historians use in writing about the last 250 years of Indian history.
1. Official records of the British administration:
-The British wrote every instruction, plan, poliey, decision, agreement andinvestigation.
- When this was done, things were properly studied and debated.
- This produced an administrative culture of memos, notings and reports.
2. Preservation of important documents and letters:
-The British preserved all important documents and letters.
- They set-up record rooms attached to all administrative institutions.
-The village tahsildar's office, the collectorate, the commissioner's otfice, the provincial secretariats and the law courts had their record rooms.
-Specialised institutions like archives and museums were also set-up to preserve important records.
-Letters and memos that moved from one branch of the administration to another in the early years of the nineteenth century can still be read in the archives.
-The notes and reports that district officials prepared, or the instructions and directives that were sent by officials at top to provincial administrators are still preserved and can be read/studied.
-In the beginning of the 19th century these documents were carefully copied out and beautifully written by calligraphists.
-By the middle of the 19th century, with the spread of printing, multiple copies of these records were printed.