Question

write a note on the different sources of information that we have for the period under our study​

Answer 1

Answer:

Primary sources are original materials on which other research is based, including:

original written works – poems, diaries, court records, interviews, surveys, and original research/fieldwork, and

research published in scholarly/academic journals.

Secondary sources are those that describe or analyze primary sources, including:

reference materials – dictionaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, and

books and articles that interpret, review, or synthesize original research/fieldwork.

Tertiary sources are those used to organize and locate secondary and primary sources.

Indexes – provide citations that fully identify a work with information such as author, titles of a book, artile, and/or journal, publisher and publication date, volume and issue number and page numbers.

Abstracts – summarize the primary or secondary sources,

Databases – are online indexes that usually include abstracts for each primary or secondary resource, and may also include a digital copy of the resource.

Encyclopedias are collections of short, factual entries often written by different contributors who are knowledgeable about the topic.