1.

History- study of past events

Burckhardt: “History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in
another.”
Henry Johnson: “History, is everything that ever happened.”
Smith,V.S: “The value and interest of history depend largely on the degree in
which the present is illuminated by the past.”
Rapson: “History is a connected account of events or progress of ideas.”
NCERT: “History is the scientific study of past happenings in all their aspects, in
the life of a social group, in the light of present happenings.”
Jawaharlal Nehru: “History is the story of Man’s struggle through the ages
against Nature and the elements; against wild beasts and the jungle and some of his
own kind who have tried to keep him down and to exploit him for their own
benefit.”

2. Social Science refers any subject that deals with human behaviour.

Anthropology
- Anthropology is the study of the forms and functions of human diversity in
the present and the past. It is an intellectually exciting discipline dealing
with all aspects of human behavior — social and biological, past and present
- Study of the totality of human existence

Political Science
-history tells you about ‘what has happened in the past’
-Political Science precisely tells you ‘why did it happen?’, ‘how did it happen?’,
‘what was the notion and idea or motive behind its happening?’

Economics
- how men deals with the problem of scarcity
- the study of history and nature of the society.

Psychology
- The examination of previous events and their influence is history. It has a
beginning and an end.
-The study of the human mind in its various states, past and present, in psychology.
It is never, ending.

3.
Primary sources
- Are original documents and contemporary accounts of an event written by either
someone who experienced the event or someone who witnessed the event. (diaries,
speeches, manuscripts, letters, interviews, autobiographies, memoirs, court cases,
official records, debates, community meetings, surveys, observations, research
studies about experiments, news film footage, audio and video recordings, poems,
plays, novels, short stories, music, art, photographs, pottery, furniture,
clothing, buildings, etc.)

Secondary sources
- Are sources written about primary sources that analyze, interpret, and discuss the
primary source. ( journal articles, books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, reviews,
newspaper articles, essays, magazines, textbooks, histories, criticisms,
commentaries, CD-ROMs, videotapes, television shows, radio shows, conference
proceedings, etc.)