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Question
Answer the following in 25-30 words.
What is historiography ?
Solution
The writing of critical historical narrative is called Historiography. A person who writes it is known as ‘Historian’. The following steps are helpful in writing historical narrative:
- History-related information is gathered and analysed.
- The various sources are scrutinised in order to understand the references to time and space in the given information, as well as the conceptual framework utilized.
- Following an examination of historical information references, relevant questions and hypotheses are formulated.
- In short, historiography is the writing of a critical historical narrative using this method.
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