How will the information historians get from old newspapers
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How will the information historians get from old newspapers be different from that found in

police reports?

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Information is essential for writing history of a time which can be gathered from various

sources. Apart from official documents in the archives, historians gather information also from

old newspapers, diaries of people, accounts of pilgrims, autobiographies of important

personalities and booklets etc. Information found in newspapers is varied, based on incidents

that have happened across the country whereas; the police reports are limited and localized.

Because of this fact sometimes the information historians get from police reports is not as

useful as it is from old newspapers. However for any incidence the newspaper may not quote

all the reasons behind this and biased as per the thinking of reporter while in police records we

could find some evidences for an incident and unbiased reports.

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