Question

. What do official records tell us?

Answer 1

Answer:

Official records do not tell what other people in the country felt, and what lay behind their actions.

Official records of the British administration serve as important source of history of this period. The British rulers believed that every instruction, plan, policy, decision, agreement, investigation should be clearly written up. This was necessary for proper study and debate about an issue.

Answer 2

The official records do not tell about the needs of people of India.

Many official records hide the truth and only show one aspect of the event.

The official records does not represent the fall outs of British administration and also do not represent the reactions and situation of indians of every sphere of society.