What are the difficulties historians face in using manuscripts, as discussed in the NCERT Solutions for Class 7 History Chapter 1?
In the past, historians faced a lot of difficulties in using manuscripts. Due to the lack of a printing press during those periods, the historians had to scribe the manuscripts by hand and copying the manuscripts with new changes was not an easy job. Small differences and mistakes grew over the centuries of copying until manuscripts of the same text became substantially different from one another. As a result, we rarely find an author’s original manuscript today.