Question

What is the main limitations of official records

Answer 1

How Do We Know What We Know?

Administration Produces Records 

The British felt that all the important letters and documents must be carefully preserved. So they set up record rooms attached to administrative institutions, and institutions such as archives and museums were also established for preserving records.Those official records of the British administrative offices and government departments are an important source to learn about history; they clearly wrote down every plan, instruction, policy, decision, agreement, and investigation.

Answer 2

Answer:

Limitation of Unofficial records

• They were produced by those who were literate.

• From these, we can't understand how history was experienced and lived by the tribals and the peasants, the workers in the mines or the poor on the streets.