Test: How, When & Where- 1

History is the study of past events.
People know what happened in the past by looking at things from the past including sources (like books, newspapers, and letters) and artifacts (like pottery, tools, and human or animal remains).

History was considered synonymous with dates since history is the study of man's past chronological recorded events.
Dates serve as mark periods in history. They are often difficult to remember because they seem so random and obscure unless we can relate them to something specific.

Histories began with the rule of the first Governor-General, Warren Hastings,
and ended with the last Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten. 

History is a record of people, places, events of the past arranged in chronological order and not of the present.

Historians were fascinated by dates
Dates were considered very important because history is recorded chronologically. They also serve to mark periods in history.

In the early years of the nineteenth century documents were carefully copied out and beautifully written by calligraphists – that is, by those who
specialised in the art of beautiful writing.

The picture shows brahmans offering shastras to Britannia.
It tries to suggest that Indians willingly gave over their ancient texts to Britannia, the symbol of British power, as if asking her to become the protector of Indian culture.

• James Rennell, (born Dec. 3, 1742, Chudleigh, Devon, Eng.—died March 29, 1830, London), the leading British geographer of his time.
• Rennell constructed the first nearly accurate map of India and published  A Bengal Atlas (1779), a work important for British strategic and administrative interests.
• He is most known for his Bengal Atlas of 1779 and Memoir of a Map of Hindoostan (1782).

Time does not have to be always precisely dated in terms of a particular year or a month

Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime and are kept to show the function of that person or organization.

Therefore, an archive is a place where manuscripts are placed.