LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – APPLIED HISTORY

THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2010

    HT 3811  – HISTORIOGRAPHY

 

 

 

Date : 01-11-10                 Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

                                                                      PART A                                                 (4×5=20 Marks)

 

Answer any FOUR of the following in 100 words each.

 

1. Scope of History.
2. Political History.
3. Confucius.
4. Titus Livy.
5. Irfan Habib.
6. History and Sociology.

 

                                                                            PART B                                               (2×10= 20 Marks)

 

Answer any TWO of the following in 200 words each.

 

1. Narrate the Uses and Abuses of History.
2. Sketch the observations and Writings of Abul Fazl.
3. Write a brief note on Amir Khusrau.
4.  Highlight the contributions of Alexander Cunningham to Indian Historiography.

 

                                                                      PART C                                             (3×20= 60 Marks)

 

Answer any THREE of the following in 1200 words each.

 

1. St. Augustine’s ‘City of God’ saw ‘History as conforming to a Divine plan’-Comment.
2. Evaluate the Contributions of Sardar K.M. Panikkar.
3. Examine the life and works of Karl Marx.
4. Highlight the seminal works of K.A. Nilakanta Sastri and how it helped to

reconstruct the South Indian Historiography.

15. Discuss the features of ‘Subaltern Manifesto’ of Ranajit Guha.

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – APPLIED HISTORY

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2012

HT 3811 – HISTORIOGRAPHY

 

 

Date : 24-04-2012             Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 1:00 – 4:00

 

 

PART – A

Answer any Four of the following in about 100 words each:                                 (4 x 5 = 20 Marks)

1. Define History
2. Confucius
3. Utilitarianism
4. Alexander Cunningham
5. Positivism
6. Rajatarangini

PART – B

Answer any Two of the following in about 200 words:                                         (2 x 10 = 20 Marks)

1. Explain the significance of causation in history.
2. Examine the nature of subaltern studies.
3. Write a brief note on the works of Machiavelli.
4. Give an account of Abul Fazl’s Akbarnamah.

 

PART – C

Answer any Three of the following in about 1200 words.:                                  (3 x 20 = 60 Marks)

1. Discuss the Uses and Abuses of history.
2. Examine the growth and development of Greek and Roman historiography.
3. Evaluate the nature and significance of scientific socialism of Karl Marx.
4. Discuss the nature and development of Medieval Indian Historiography.
5. Assess the contribution of Nilakanta Sastri to South Indian Historiography.

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – APPLIED HISTORY

THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

HT 3811 – HISTORIOGRAPHY

 

 

Date : 03/11/2012            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

PART – A

 

Answer any Four of the following in about 100 words each:                                                (5 x 4 = 20 Marks)

1. Define History
2. Ibn Khaladon
3. Utilitarianism
4. Romanic Idealism
5. Rajatarangini
6. K.K. Aiyangar

 

PART – B

 

Answer any Two of the following in about 200 words each:                                                (2 x 10 = 20 Marks)

7. Examine the importance of causation in History.
8. Explain St. Augustine philosophy on History.
9. Write a brief note on the works of Machiavelli.
10. Assess the contributions of Abul Fazl to Historiography.

 

PART – C

 

Answer any Three of the following in about 1200 words each:                                 (3 x 20 = 60 Marks)

11. Describe the Uses and Abuses of history.
12. Examine the growth and development of Greek and Roman Historiography.
13. Discuss the significance of scientific socialism of Karl Marx.
14. Trace the nature and development of Medieval Indian Historiography.
15. Assess the contributions of K.M. Panikkar to South Indian Historiography.

 

 

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