…………….. is a process through which a historian tries to know what is not known to him, on the basis of available materials.

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• The historian has to take up …………….to know the unknown with the help of the information already received from the available records.
• “The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use – these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants”.who said
• …………. is an element of historical method, attempted to fill the gaps which a historian finds in his collected materials for the reconstruction of history.
• The historian is expected to use ……………..only when he has no other reliable sources available.
• "The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact."Who said?
• Who says that a historian is required to perform three functions which include scientific, imaginative and literary?
• Herodotus is a ………… Historian.
• Marc Bloch was a medieval …………..historian.
• Who is author of ‘The Historian’s Craft ‘?
• "The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present."