MHI-3 EM 2025-26 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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MHI-03 HISTORIOGRAPHY
Course Code: MHI-03
Assignment Code: MHI-03/AST/TMA/2025-26

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 ‘microhistory’? Describe the historians and their works Related to this tradition of history-writing.
2. Discuss the distinctive features of traditional Chinese historiography.
3. Who are considered to be the founders of the Annales School of historiography? Discuss their works.
4. Describe the important features of Indo-Persian tradition of 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 Second World War. 7. Discuss the colonial historiography in India.
7. What do you understand by the term ‘History from Below’? Discuss with particular Reference to Indian historiography.
8. Write a note on the feminist historiography in India.
9. Write short notes in about 250words each on any two of the following:
10. a) Labour History
11. b) Colonial perception of caste
12. c) Ancient Indian history-writing
13. d) Objectivity in history writing