advantages and dis advantages of literary sources of medival period of india
Advantages of literary sources are :
a. Literary sources like official records, autobiographies, chronicles pprovide a lot of detailed information .
b. They provide first hand account of the developments and events and prove to be a valuable source.
Disadvantages of literary sources:
a. Excessive information available from these sources becomes difficult for historians to use.
b. They are biased and subjective in nature.
c. Use of chronicles as a source has also posed a problem as authors have revised the chronicles making it difficult for historians to identify the existence of the first version.
a. Literary sources like official records, autobiographies, chronicles pprovide a lot of detailed information .
b. They provide first hand account of the developments and events and prove to be a valuable source.
Disadvantages of literary sources:
a. Excessive information available from these sources becomes difficult for historians to use.
b. They are biased and subjective in nature.
c. Use of chronicles as a source has also posed a problem as authors have revised the chronicles making it difficult for historians to identify the existence of the first version.