LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – APPLIED HISTORY
THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2010
HT 3811 - HISTORIOGRAPHY
Date : 01-11-10
Time : 9:00 - 12:00
Dept. No.
Max. : 100 Marks
PART A
(4x5=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
(2x10= 20 Marks)
Answer any TWO of the following in 200 words each.
7. Narrate the Uses and Abuses of History.
8. Sketch the observations and Writings of Abul Fazl.
9. Write a brief note on Amir Khusrau.
10. Highlight the contributions of Alexander Cunningham to Indian Historiography.
PART C
(3x20= 60 Marks)
Answer any THREE of the following in 1200 words each.
11. St. Augustine’s ‘City of God’ saw ‘History as conforming to a Divine plan’-Comment.
12. Evaluate the Contributions of Sardar K.M. Panikkar.
13. Examine the life and works of Karl Marx.
14. 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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