History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET July 2016 History
Who said, 'History is an unending dialogue between the present and the past'?
ALord Acton
BLeopold von Ranke
CE.H. Carr ✓ Correct
DG.R. Elton
Correct answer: (C) E.H. Carr — E.H. Carr said this, so the answer is E.H. Carr.
Explanation
★E.H. Carr said this, so the answer is E.H. Carr.
★Edward Hallett Carr was an English historian who lived from 1892 to 1982.
★He described history in this way in his book What Is History?
★He called it an unending dialogue between the present and the past.
★By this he meant the historian always reads the past through the present.
★So this famous saying belongs to E.H. Carr.
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