Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Understanding Partition

Question:

Which of the following statement is incorrect in reference to the oral testimonies about the partition of India according to historians?

Options:

Many historians still remain sceptical of oral history.

They also think oral accounts are concerned with tangential issues

Historians argue that the uniqueness of personal experience makes generalisation easier.

Historians argue that the uniqueness of personal experience makes generalisation difficult.

Correct Answer:

Historians argue that the uniqueness of personal experience makes generalisation easier.

Explanation:

Many historians still remain sceptical of oral history. They dismiss it because oral data seem to lack concreteness and the chronology they yield may be imprecise.  Historians argue that the uniqueness of personal experience makes generalisation difficult: a large picture cannot be built from such micro-evidence, and one witness is no witness. They also think oral accounts are concerned with tangential issues, and that the small individual experiences which remain in memory are irrelevant to the unfolding of larger processes of history.