HIST/VI/11 Student's Copy
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6th Semester
HISTORY
ELEVENTH PAPER
Historiography
Pre-revised
Full Marks 75
Time 3 hours
PART A—OBJECTIVE
Marks 25
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
SECTION—A
Marks 10
Tick the correct answer in the brackets provided 1×10=10
1. Who was the first historian to use AD (from Christ's birth) in chronology?
Herodotus
Bede
Polybius
2. Who is the author of the book, What is History
R. G. Collingwood
E. H. Carr
Benedetto Croce
/436 1 Contd.
3. Who wrote the book, A Study of History
Herodotus
E. H. Carr
Arnold Toynbee
4. Who said 'History is past politics and politics is present history'?
John Seeley
Herodotus
R. G. Collingwood
5. The main purpose of a researcher should be
to produce original ideas
to add to existing knowledge
Both and
6. Questionnaire is
one way to collect data
not useful in research
not necessary in historical research
7. Thucydides was the contemporary of
Strabo
Voltaire
Herodotus
8. History of the Peloponnesian Wars was written by
Herodotus
Thucydides
Polybius
HIST/VI/11 2 Contd.
9. Indian Feudalism was written by
R. S. Sharma
D. D. Kosambi
Romila Thapar
10. Who divided Indian history into the Hindu, Muslim and British periods?
James Mill
Vincent Smith
R. C. Majumdar
SECTION—B
Marks 15
Answer any five of the following questions 3×5=15
1. What do you understand by the term 'subjectivity'?
2. What do you understand by 'causation' in history?
3. Discuss the relation of History with Archaeology.
4. What is the relationship between History and Geography?
5. Write a note on literary sources.
6. What is an archive?
7. Who was Auguste Comte?
8. What is the Communist Manifesto
9. Who is Romila Thapar?
10. What do you mean by subaltern studies?
HIST/VI/11 3 Contd.
PART B—DESCRIPTIVE
Marks 50
The questions are of equal value
1. What is historiography?
OR
Discuss the nature and scope of history.
2. Discuss the relationship of History with Economics and Political Science.
OR
Discuss the relationship of History with literature and the natural sciences.
3. What are the sources of history?
OR
What is the importance of evidence in historical writing?
4. What do you know about medieval Western historical writings?
OR
What are the chief features of Graeco-Roman historiography?
5. What are the main ideologies contained in imperialist historiography?
OR
Discuss the influence of Marxist historiography on Indian history writing.