Chapter 1 - Sources of History
1. (A) Choose the correct option from the given options and complete the statements.
(1) The National Archives of India is situated at ________.
(a) Pune
(b) New Delhi
(c) Kolkata
(d) Hyderabad
Ans: Option (b) – New Delhi
(2) The ________ is included among the Audio-Visual media.
(a) Newspaper
(b) Television
(c) All India Radio
(d) Periodicals
Ans: Option (b) – Television
(3) ________ is not included in physical sources.
(a) Coins
(b) Ornaments
(c) Buildings
(d) Proverbs
Ans: Option (d) – Proverbs
(B) Identify and write the wrong pair.
Person
Jal Cooper
Kusumagraj
Anna Bhau Sathe
Amar Shaikh
Speciality
– Philatelist
– Poet
– A people’s bard
– Art collector
Ans: Amar Shaikh – Art Collector
Reason: Amar Shaikh was a Lok Shahir (Powada singer).
2. Write short notes on
(1) Written Sources
Ans:
(i) Any historical document written by hand, typed, or printed is called a written source.
(ii) The following are included in written sources: Newspapers, Periodicals, Diaries, Reference books, Correspondence, documents in the Archives, Government Gazettes, Postage Stamps, and encyclopedias.
(2) Press Trust of India
Ans:
(i) Since 1953, the Press Trust of India has been an important source of primary details of all important events and of articles on important subjects.
(ii) The Press Trust of India has provided reports, photographs, and articles on financial and scientific issues to newspapers. PTI has now started its online service.
(iii) During the 1990s, PTI started using satellite broadcast’ technology instead of teleprinters to send news all over the country.
(iv) This material is important for writing the history of modern India.
3. Explain the following statements with reasons.
(1) The postal department tries to preserve the heritage and integrity of Indian culture through postage stamps.
Ans:
(i) Postage stamps reveal a lot to us about changing times due to the variety in the sizes of the stamps, the novelty in their subjects, and their color schemes.
(ii) The Postal Department issues postage stamps on a wide variety of themes.
(iii) It issues stamps like political leaders, flowers, animals, birds, an event, or the silver, golden, or diamond jubilees or centenary, bicentenary, and tercentenary of different events.
(iv) It is therefore a valuable repository of history.
(v) Thus, the postal department tries to preserve the heritage and integrity of Indian culture through postage stamps.
(2) Audio-visual media are an important source for writing the history of modern India.
Ans:
(i) ‘Audio-visual’ means possessing sound and visual content, for example, films and television.
(ii) We have channels like History Channel and Discovery Channel that broadcast footage of historical events in multimedia.
(iii) With the help of satellites, live coverage of all political, social, and cultural events is possible across the globe. This helps to create an accountable repository for future reference as well.
(iv) Video libraries possess a vast storage of historical information in audio-visual mode, which becomes handy in writing the history of modern India.