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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Historiography !!!

         When in college I first saw the word historiography I didn't have slightest idea that it will be so interesting and complex and easy in a way. In simple words Historiography means the evolution the true story of the history itself, history of history writing. History is a very interesting subject but historiography is little bit more fascinating, how throughout the time  different history scholar and historian analyzed different event in the past based on the facts and sources but problem is facts and sources information are same but the way of looking into things is different for every creative mind, we all see sky or ocean but they influence every one of us differently same with historians. Historians are all human beings controlled by their mind beliefs surroundings and other important influences of the society they belong. So objectivity is ompossible in history, we try to be objective but in the matter of practice we all fail to do that. Every mind is somehow being chained by the belief religion social structure and the family values, its very hard to be impartial in that case, so the history according to different minds reflect a different character, thus history of history writing is so complex, but it gets easy when you found the one link to all differences that is the psychological background of a person, mind controls all of us, as long we will not turn into mindless creature psychology will play a very important role in our history, because history is made by people and also written by people.
          The book 'What is History' by E.H Carr was great for basic study and clear understanding of this particular subject the book by R.G Collingwood 'The Idea of History' was also a great help, but to understand different schools of historiography its important to read books on same subject by different historians and scholars only then any student can get the idea of influence of different psychological state in different writings obviously which requires a lot of reading but its fun to see or read different analysis of same events by different scholars, it helps to build my own mindset about a historical event or idea. 





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