KINDS OF HISTORY Hist . is a magnificent mansion.

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KINDS OF HISTORY Hist . is a magnificent mansion. Travelyan aptly describes it as dwelling place of all subjects. It is like a joint family. 1. Political History Seeley : “Hist. is past politics and politics is present history”. Political hist. is the story of kings, queens, courtiers, …. It is about the kings’ conquests, wars, and treaties. About their deeds and misdeeds. Also about the rise and the fall of kings and their kingdoms, empires… Voltaire, Machiavelli, Macaulay … 2. Constitutional History It is an important branch of pol.hist. Still it attains an independent discipline. It deals with the state organization i.e. the Constitution of the Government. 3. Parliamentary History It is a subsection of Constitutional History dealing with one particular political institution. – the Parliament. The Parliamentary govt. provides a unique experience to people in democratic countries as India. The study of History of England is impossible without the study of its Parliamentary Hist.. 4. Legal History It is an off-shoot of Constitutional and Parliamentary hist. Yet, it differs from them in many ways. It is the hist. about the Parliamentary enactments, their interpretations, and applications. The codified laws of Hamurabi of Babylon, Manu of India, and Napoleon of France …are the considerable significance to legal historians. 5. Military History MH narrates the story of Military operation. It deals with warfare in every form and aspect; technical, tactical and strategic. It also covers military engineering, ballistics, logistics and military transport. The military historians are not merely concerned with military planning but also the impact of wars on fate of the nations and life of the people. Thucydides’ The history of the Peloponnesian war is a classic example of MH. Outstanding works have been written on the South Indian Rebellion, the Great Indian Mutiny, the American Civil War and the First and the Second World Wars. At present, MH includes land, naval and aerial warfare. 6. Diplomatic History The hist. of relations between sovereign states. i.e. International Hist. i.e. the study of inter-state relations. It has assumed importance esp. after the First World War. External relations between states are maintained by ambassadors, trained experts and practitioners of diplomacy. The diplomatic historians should always have an eye on the developments on the world stage. They have to deal with the legal, political, cultural and economic issues. 7. Social History Trevelyan, the well known author of SH of England, defined it