Tag: history

After 1953, the Press Trust of India has been an important source of primary details of important events and of articles on important subjects. Press Trust of India has provided reports, photographs and articles on financial and scientific issues to newspapers.

Through newspapers, we can get information about national and international affairs, politics, art, sports, literature and social and cultural affairs. Newspaper contain matters related to human life.

The Information and Broadcasting Department published INDIA 2000, an annual reference book. This reference book is created under 'Research, Reference and Training Department'.

Nataraja, massive yet elegant statue cast in bronze representing the Shiva as passionately engaged in ecstatic dance is preserved at National Museum, New Delhi. The dance the smiling Shiva is performing is the Tandava, the cosmic dance which both creates and destroys the universe.

After the arrival of the British in India, the writing of history was, naturally, profoundly affected. The historian started giving a philosophical touch to every event he described. This was termed History. Every incident was narrated in a way beneficial to the writers. For ex: the British, while writing, projected all the freedom struggles as mutiny or riots. But the Indian writers rejected them as mutiny and instead called them a struggle for independence. 

A number of objects used by our ancestors still exist. Some inscriptions from the past have been recovered. Sources like these help us to understand our history. History can also be learnt through customs and traditions, folk arts, folk literature as well as historical documents. All these are known as ‘sources of history’. Artefacts, Inscriptions, Manuscripts and Monuments are all sources of history.

All States of India have museums that depict the characteristics and display the cultural and social heritage of the State. They enable us to understand history.  Apart from the Government Museums, some private collectors also setup their own museums. They are based on distinctive subjects.

The Postal Department issues postage stamps on a wide variety of themes like political leaders, flowers, animals, birds, an event, or the silver, golden, diamond jubilees or centenary, bicentenary, tercentenary of different events.

The coins from 1950 to those used at present, the metals used for making them, their different shapes, the diversity of subjects on them together help us to understand the important contemporary issues in India. For example, coins to convey the message of population control and coins communicating the importance of agriculture and of farmers.

Television, films and internet, all of them are considered to be audio-visual sources since they combine pictures or moving visuals along with sounds to deliver information.