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ii) மேற்கண்டவற்றின் ஆங்கில மூலங்கள் வரலாற்று மாணவர் வசதிக்காகக் கீழே தரப்படுகின்றன.
History is a reconstruction of elements of the past in the mind of a human being of a later generation... In principle there will be multiple histories of any given period, each congruent to the mental world, social purposes, and sources available to the person who creates it.
Since the recreation of the past takes place in the mind of the individual historian which has been shaped by his personal experi- ence and world view the unbiased hstorian is an unattainable idea.
By the very nature of the historical discourse there can be no final truth - Gary Bechman "The Limits of Credulity” Journal of the Amercian Oriental Society 125.3
It needs rarer genius to restore the past than to foretell the future - Anatole France
(History) is always a created ideology with a purpose, designed to control individuals or motivate societies, or inspire classes .. to strengthan the purpose of those who possessed power... and reconcile those who lacked it.
- J.H. Plumb (1969) The death of the past (quoted by Beckman). "Most History is guessing and the rest is prejudice
- Will and Ariel Durant
"We are the present of man, passing judgement on his own corporate past. What we cannot do, is to continue playing with his- torical research and yet shirk the responsibility of judging the actions we narrate: saying this wise, that foolish; this courageous, that cow- ardly; this well done, that ill"
-R.G.Colingwood (1999 Posthumous: Ed by W.H. Dray and another) The Principles of history and other writings in philosopy of History. Oxford; OUP Those who disregard the past are bound to repeat it.
- George Santayana.
5. முன்பத்தியிற் கண்டவற்றைக் கருதும் பொழுது சாத்திரி யாரும் பண்டாரத்தாரும் பிற்காலச் சோழர் வரலாற்றை எழுதிய பின்னர் கடந்த 50 ஆண்டுகளில் இத்துறையில் ஆய்வு செய்த பல அறிஞர்கள்
