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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