Research Methodology in History

The need for following the correct and standard research methodology is increasingly felt when more and more research works and learned monographs are coming out on history dealing with social, economic, cultural and other varied aspects of life, and thus the writing of a critical, unbiased and authentic history is the need of the hour. It has been well said in this book that the life breath of history is interpretation, which also gives a definite viewpoint to a work of history. It lays that objectivity, if carried to an extreme, results in dry and lifeless cataloguing of events and subjectivity, if carried to an extreme, results in a highly biased work often divorced from reality, and that an ideal work would be one that combines subjectivity with objectivity in due proportion without upholding the one at the cost of the other.