What do Dates Mean to Us?


 
 
Concept Explanation
 

What do Dates Mean to Us?

Importance of Dates: History is certainly about changes that occur every time. It is about finding out how things were in the past and how things have changed. As soon as we compare the past with the present we refer to time, we talk of before and after.

·   All historical questions refer us back to notions of time. But time does not have to be always precisely dated in terms of a particular year or a month.

·   People in India did not begin drinking tea one fine day; they developed a taste for it over time. There can be no one clear date for a process such as this. Similarly, we cannot fix one single date on which British rule was established, or the national movement started, or changes took place within the company and society. All these things happened over a stretch of time.

·   why do we continue to associate history with a string of dates

  • History is a record of significant events that have occurred over a period of time or on a particular day in the past.
  • History is a subject which deals with past events , such as when a battle was fought, period of dynasties, when a king was crowned, birth of any religion and various other changes , etc.
  • History is also important to  know the exact date and year of any particular event.
  • Hence, we continue to associate history with a string of dates , since details of any such events which have been occurred in the past cannot be determined without referring to the specific dates.so , in other words we can say that history is synonymous with dates.
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