Colour has a complex and diversified cu7ltural construct. Serious works on colors in its historical cont6ext is rare. The search for universal or archetypal truths in colour is ahistorical and devoid of transcultural truth, despite what many books based on pseudo-esoteric pop psychology would have us believe.
The silence of historians on the subject of colour is the result of three different sets of problems. The first concerns documentation and preservation. We see the colours transmitted to us as time has altered them from their original past. Moreover, we see them under different conditions from those know by past societies. The second problem concerns methodology. The historian must grapple with a host of factors; e.g., physics, chemistry, materials, iconography, ideology, and the symbolic meanings that colours convey. The proper method resembles that of palaeontologists studying cave paintings without the aid of texts.
The third set of problems is philosophical: it is wrong to project contemporary conceptions and definitions of colour onto past objects as judgments and values are not static and eternal. The danger of anachronism is very real. For example, the natural order of colours was unknown before the 17th century as was the notion of primary and secondary colours. however, research on colours aims is to explore to show how far beyond the artistic sphere this history of colour err in considering the artistic realms only, the lessons to be learned form colour lie elsewhere.

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অধিকাংশ  প্রতিযোগিতামূলক পরীক্ষায় Sentence completion (বাক্য সমাপ্তি) প্রায়ই থাকে। প্রশ্ন-বাক্যে এক বা একাধিক শূন্যস্থান থাকে, অপশনে থাকা শব্দ বা শব্দভাণ্ডার ব্যবহার করে তা পূরণ করতে হবে।  প্রশ্নের অপশনে থাকা শব্দভান্ডার এবং শব্দগুলির মধ্যে সূক্ষ্ম পার্থক্য বিদ্যমান থাকে। এই শব্দগুলো থেকে  বাক্যের সাথে সংগতিপূর্ণ ও উপযুক্ত শব্দ বা শব্দভান্ডার পছন্দ করে বাক্যপূর্ণ করতে হয়। 

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