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: 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; the present can and does influence our knowledge of the past because past events do not any longer exist anywhere except in mind of the historian, who has now become both subject and object. He reconstructs or reenacts the past in his own mind and in doing so super imposes at least some of his ideas on past events. Talking about the Asoka’s renunciation of war, the historian cannot resist the temptation of evaluating Ashoka in the light of present potential danger to peace because of nuclear weapons. The historian would fail to achieve his main goal of narrating an event as it really happened. ADVERTISEMENTS: