MHI-03 HISTORIOGRAPHY
SOLVED ASSIGNMENT 2020-2021
Course Code: MHI-03
Assignment Code: MHI-03/AST/TMA/2020-21
Total Marks: 100
| Title Name |
MHI-03 History Solved Assignment 2020-21 |
| University | IGNOU |
| Service Type | Solved Assignment (Soft copy/PDF) |
| Course | MA(History) MHI |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Semester | 2020-2021 Course: MA(History) MHI |
| Session | 2020-21 |
| Short Name | MHI-03 (ENGLISH) |
| Assignment Code | MHI-03/AST/TMA/2020-21 |
| Product | Assignment of MA(History) 2020-2021 (IGNOU) |
| Submission Date | July 2020 Session Students 31st March 2021 January 2021 Session Students 30th September 2021 |
| Price | RS. 60 |
SECTION-A
1. What is objectivity? Discuss the historiographical tradition which believed in the
possibility of complete objectivity. 20
2. Write a note on the Greco-Roman traditions of history-writing. 20
3. Discuss the important features of Indo-Persian tradition of history-writing under the
Mughal rule. 20
4. What do you understand by ‘microhistory’? Discuss the historians and their works
related to this tradition of history-writing. 20
5. Who are considered to be the founders of the Annales School of historiography?
Discuss their works. 20
Section-2
6. Discuss the features of feminist historiography in India. 20
7. Write a note on the basic constituents of communalist view of Indian history. 20
8. What do you understand by the term ‘History from Below’? Discuss with particular
reference to Indian historiography. 20
9. Write a note on the post-War Marxist historiography in the West. 20
10. Write short notes in about 250 word each on any two of the following: 10+10
a) Kalhana and the Rajtarangini
b) Causality in History
c) D.D. Kosambi and Indian Historiography
d) Colonial Perception of Caste.
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