Tag: sources of modern history

All States of India have museums that depict the characteristics and display the cultural and social heritage of the State. They enable us to understand history.  Apart from the Government Museums, some private collectors also setup their own museums. They are based on distinctive subjects.

The Postal Department issues postage stamps on a wide variety of themes like political leaders, flowers, animals, birds, an event, or the silver, golden, diamond jubilees or centenary, bicentenary, tercentenary of different events.

The coins from 1950 to those used at present, the metals used for making them, their different shapes, the diversity of subjects on them together help us to understand the important contemporary issues in India. For example, coins to convey the message of population control and coins communicating the importance of agriculture and of farmers.

Television, films and internet, all of them are considered to be audio-visual sources since they combine pictures or moving visuals along with sounds to deliver information.

Monuments include samadhis, graves, veergala. They all provide insights about that period looking at them, we come to know about the development of architecture, the economic conditions, the quality of art.

Indian government issued the 'Jal Copper' stamp in 1977. Jal Copper was an internationally acclaimed philatelist, i.e. an expert on the subject of 'postage stamps'. 

The coins made by different rulers using metals like gold, silver, copper are important source of history. From these coins we learn about the rulers. Different rulers have different type of coins.

The government of India started the Film and Television Institute of India at Pune in 1960 with the purpose of providing public education.

The Vedas and post Vedic literature form an important source of ancient Indian history. It includes Brahmanas, the Upanishads, the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata, the Jain and Buddhist literature, plays, poems, stone and pillar inscriptions, travelogues of foreign travellers etc.