ditional History was never hesitant in acknowledging the reality of the past and believed in the existence of partial truth though not absolute truth. Postmodernists on the other hand question the very existence of reality. To them non-existence of absolute truth is equal to the non-existence of partial truth. Thus the very function of History is debatable in the postmodernist era.
             Believed to be a postmodernist discovery but in reality an already known fact, History is at risk on account of three reasons: " the fallibility and deficiency of the historical record on which it is based; the fallibility and selectivity inherent in the writing of history; the fallibility and subjectivity of the historian."( Himmelfarb 159) After all historical records are man made and thus prone to faults and errors. It does seem that traditional historians in their endeavour to give an objective account of the happenings in society refrained from passing personal judgments. They sought to instill the spirit of their times in th
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