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Scribes copied down the manuscripts by hand.

Scribes were those professionals who used to copy down the manuscripts.

  Archives were the places where manuscripts were collected

The historians use sources like coins, inscriptions, architectures, and textual records for the study of a specific period.

Minhaj-i Siraj used the term ‘Hindustan’ for the first time in the thirteenth century.

In the map drawn by al-Idrisi we find a completely different view. Here south India is shown at present North India and Sri Lanka is the island at the top.

Cartographer is one who draws a map.

al-Idrisi was an Arab cartographer.

Records are kept in our city at the archives. These records are written by the officials of the Revenue Department. The in charge of the Archives/ Deputy Director of Archives manages these records. Rare manuscripts, government records, and other valuable books, etc. are stored there. Scholars, researchers, and government officials use them.

Historians divide the past into periods on the basis of continuity. This continuity is further based on: Coins Inscriptions Architecture Textual records But they face difficulties in doing so as discontinuity exists. Textual records increased tremendously. They gradually displaced other types of available information. Thousand years of human history (or of any country or region) witnessed …

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