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MHI-103: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH METHOD
Course Code: MHI-103
Assignment Code: MHI-103/AST/ TMA/2025-26
Total Marks: 100 Note: Attempt any five questions. The assignment is divided into two Sections ‘A’ and ‘B’. You have to attempt at least two questions from each section in about 500 words each. All questions carry equal marks
. Section-A
1.What do you understand by the term ‘micro-history’? Describe the historians associated with this tradition of history-writing and their scholarly works.
2.Discuss the characteristic features of the traditional Chinese historiography.
3.Who is regarded as the founder of the Annals School of historiography? Discuss her/his writings.
4.Describe the important features of Indo-Persian history-writing during the Mughal period.
5.What is Generalisation? Discuss.
Section-B
6.Write a note on the post-war Marxist historiography in the West after the Second World War.
7.Discuss the colonial historiography in India.
8.What do you understand by the term ‘history from below’? Discuss it in the context of Indian historiography. W
9.rite a note on the feminist historiography in India.
10.Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each: a) Labour history b) The colonial concept of caste c) Ancient Indian history-writing d) Objectivity in history-writing
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