EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Primary sources may include diaries, letters, interviews, oral histories, photographs, newspaper articles, government documents, poems, novels, plays, and music. The collection and analysis of primary sources is central to historical research.

Detailed explanation-2: -Primary sources are the evidence of history, original records or objects created by participants or observers at the time historical events occurred or even well after events, as in memoirs and oral histories.

Detailed explanation-3: -A primary source is a first-hand record of an event or topic created by a participant in or a witness to that event or topic. Primary sources can be a document, letter, eye-witness account, diary, article, book, recording, statistical data, manuscript, or art object.

Detailed explanation-4: -What are Primary Sources? Primary sources convey first-hand experience of the event or time period you’re studying. Secondary sources convey the experiences of others, or “second-hand” information; they often synthesize a collection of primary sources.