History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET July 2018 History
Regarding history writing by Leopold von Ranke, which one of the following is not true?
ARanke broke with the Enlightenment model of history as a teacher with teaching goals.
BRanke's advice to historians was to refrain from explaining historical facts by means of mechanical cause-effect models.
CRanke believed that historical imagination could be used if documents were not available for history writing. ✓ Correct
DRanke's conception of history and his historical method were objective and free from value judgement.
Correct answer: (C) Ranke believed that historical imagination could be used if documents were not available for history writing. — The statement about using historical imagination is not true, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The statement about using historical imagination is not true, so that is the answer.
★Ranke did not believe that imagination could be used when documents were not available.
★He was a German historian who insisted on proper research on documents.
★He held that imagination has no place in history writing.
★So this statement is wrong.
★He broke with the Enlightenment model, avoided mechanical cause-effect, and aimed at objective, value-free history.
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