No.

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MASTER OF ARTS (HISTORY)

Term-End Examination
June, 2021

MHI-03 : HISTORIOGRAPHY

Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100

Note : Answer any five questions in about 500 words

each. Attempt at least two questions from each
section. All questions carry equal marks.

SECTION I

1. Discuss the various types of Generalisation. How

does generalisation help in history-writing ? 20

2. Write a note on the positivist views of history. 20

3. What do you understand by oral history ?

Discuss its relationship with the mainstream
historiography. 20

4. Write a note on the Early Indian

Historiographical Traditions. 20

5. Discuss the works of any two Marxist Social

historians of the west. 20
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6. Write a note on the nationalist views of Indian

history. 20

7. What do you understand by the term

‘Subaltern’ ? Discuss the development of the
historiography associated with Subaltern
Studies in India. 20

8. Discuss the conflicting views of Indian

renaissance. 20

9. Describe the main points of Indo-Persian

historiography in the Sultanate period. 20

10. Write short notes on any two of the following in

about 250 words each : 10+10
(a) Traditional Chinese Historiography

(b) Main concepts of Postmodernism

(c) Marxist History-writing on Indian

Nationalism

(d) Race as a Political and Social Construct

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