Kalhana biography for kids
Biography for 2nd graders...
Most literary sources of the history of ancient India are religious texts, and any historical information of use has to be extracted from them.
Kalhana biography for kids
Apart from the Vedas and the Puranas, we have available to us a host of literature from Buddhist and Jain literature. The Sangam literature is the earliest that we have for South India, among other Kannada and Telugu literature.
Apart from religious texts, other texts on subjects like grammar, poetry, statecraft, philosophy etc. provide a preview of the then life and times.
Kalhana biography for kids in hindi
The purpose of these texts, however, was not history.
Very early in his book, What is History?, Edward Hallett Carr, proposes this thought, about what history is:
History consists of a corpus of ascertained facts.
The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish on the fishmonger’s slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.
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