Historiography: Indian Tradition

Max marks: 20 Time: 1 Hr

1. Complete the following sentences by choosing a correct option. 3

a. _______ was the first director general of the archaeological survey
of India.
(a) Alexander Cunningham (b) William Jones
(c) John Marshall (d) Friedrich Max Muller

b. ______ wrote “Indian War Of Independence”.

(a) Comrade Dange (b) Vinayak savarkar
(c) Ranjit Guha (d) V.K Rajwade

c. Rajtarangini is the history of Kashmir by ______

(a) Babur (b) Kalhana
(c)Ashok maurya

2. Complete the following chart. 3

James Mill The History of British India’
‘James Grant Duff
‘The History of India’
S.A. Dange
‘Who were the Shudras’

3. Answer the following questions (any 2) 6

a. What is the contribution of Swatantryaveer Sawarkar to

nationalistic Historiography?
b. Bakhar is an important type of historical documents. Why?
c. Which things are included in the description by Emperor Babur in
his autobiography?

4. Answer in brief (any2) 8

a. Write a note on nationalistic historiography.
b. What is Marxist history?
c. What is the contribution of Itihasacharya V.K. Rajwade to
historiography?