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MHI 03 MA History Ignou assignment 2024

Course : MA HISTORY
Session 2024
Submission date : 30th October 2024

SECTION-A
1. What is causation? Discuss the manner in which historians use causation to explain any historical
phenomenon. 20
2. Discuss the distinctive features of traditional Chinese historiography. 20
3. Write a note on the Annales School of historiography. 20
4. Describe the important features of Indo-Persian tradition of history-writing during the Mughal
period. 20

MHI 03 MA History Ignou assignment 2024

5. Give an analytical account of the various traditions of historiography which constitute the
Positivist tradition. 20
SECTION-B
6. What is postmodernism? Discuss the postmodernist views on history. 20
7. Write a note on the colonial historiography on Indian history. 20
8. What do you understand by the term ‘subaltern’? Discuss the two phases the Subaltern Studies in
India. 20
9. Write a note on the conflicting views on Indian Renaissance. 20

MHI 03 MA History Ignou assignment 2024

10. Write short notes in about 250 words each on any two of the following: 10+10
a) Kalhana and the Rajtarangini
b) Early Indian Historiography
c) Feminist Historiography in India
d) The Cambridge School