Title: Objectivity and Bias in the Study of History
Headings: Objectivity and Bias in the Study of History
Objectivity and Bias in the Study of History
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Content: Every historian has his own likes, tastes, aptitude and preferences. He may choose either political or social or economic or military or constitutional or art-history and because he or she is specially inclined towards that particular subject, he or she is likely to be affected by it. Froude’s history gives us an impression of the course of events that is entirely different. Karl Marx would pick only the class struggle, Hegel would concentrate on human spirit. Acton on freedom. ADVERTISEMENTS: The problem of selection such that the history of Europe from 1861 A.D. to 1890 A.D. is only the history of either unification of Germany or expansion of Prussian kingdom or its leader Bismark. Imagine the events of 1857 A.D. in India. The English historian think that it was the first war of Indian independence and the historian, either from Russia or America would not agree with either of these views. An element of subjectivity enters at every step in the process of investigation;