The historian is expected to use ……………..only when he has no other reliable sources available.

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• “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
• The historian has to take up …………….to know the unknown with the help of the information already received from the available records.
• …………….. is a process through which a historian tries to know what is not known to him, on the basis of available materials.
• Herodotus is a ………… Historian.
• Who says that a historian is required to perform three functions which include scientific, imaginative and literary?
• 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."
• "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?
• The most famous thinkers associated with …………. include the linguist Roman Jakobson, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, and the literary critic Roland Barthes.