Apr 06
There is a raging debate over the fact that whether history is an art or science. History as an Art: Those who believe that history is an art advocate the following opinion :— 1) According to Rickman, “History deals with sequence of events, each of them unique while science is concerned with the routine appearance of things and aims at generation and the establishment of regularities, governed by laws.” 2) Colingwood says, “Events of history are the things which the historian looks, not at, but through, to discern the thought within.” 3) Some scholars are of the view that history is neither pure science nor pure art. In other words, a blending of the two. When it ...








