D. N. Jha has invited our attention to a particular way of looking at things which is best described as the historical outlook.
Historical method is a modern creation which dates only as far back as two centuries ago.
This is an evolution and evolution is often nothing more than a hypothesis, very probable, but none the less a hypothesis. However startling it may appear, the fact is that the thought of a historian is a original and fundamental activity of human mind, which is quite independent of anything else. Principles of interpretation and the quality of interpreters change from generation to generation. Jha finds a question changing in his hands when he is working on it. He is fully justified in his claim, for it is not wrong for a historian to change his outlook or methods to answer changes which might have come over his surroundings.