History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET December 2019 History
Which one of the following functions of external criticism (heuristic operations) in historical writing is not correct?
ATo establish the authorship of the document
BTo carry out interpretative criticism ✓ Correct
CTo determine the place of the document
DTo fix the time of the document, the exact date, month and year of writing
Correct answer: (B) To carry out interpretative criticism — Carrying out interpretative criticism is not a function of external criticism, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★Carrying out interpretative criticism is not a function of external criticism, so that is the answer.
★Historical evidence is derived from data by the process of criticism, of two types, external and internal.
★External criticism is concerned with establishing the authenticity of the data.
★It establishes authorship, the place and the time of the document.
★Interpretative criticism, however, belongs to internal criticism, not external.
★So the function wrongly placed under external criticism is interpretative criticism.
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