MHI-103 · December 2025 · English
IGNOU MHI-103 December 2025 Previous Year Question Paper
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH METHODS
Structured previous year question paper for MHI-103, December 2025 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 10 · Sections: 2
Verified: 26 Jul 2026
MASTER OF ARTS (HISTORY) (MAHI)
Term-End Examination
December, 2025
MHI-103 : HISTORIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH
METHODS
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note: Answer any five questions in about
500 words each. Attempt at least two
questions from each Section. All questions
carry equal marks.
Section—A
Q1.Discuss the Rankean tradition of history- writing.
Q2.What was the contribution of the Annales school of historiography ? Discuss.
Q3.How do you understand the concept of local history ? Examine.
Q4.Does post-modernism offer a fundamental critique of the conventional mode of history writing ? Discuss.
Q5.Write short notes on any two of the following in about 250 words each : 10+10
(a) The Vedic Danastutis
(b) Environmental history (०) Tarikh-i-Firozshahi
(d) Oral history
Section—B
Q6.How was the communal historiography dependent on the colonial historiography ? Comment.
Q7.Did the historian D. D. Kosambi effect a ‘Paradigm shift’ in the Indian studies ?
Q8.Discuss the problems of writing a ‘history from below’ in the Indian context.
Q9.Is Indian history-writing gender sensitive ?
Q10.Discuss the colonial ethnology in terms of the study of tribes and castes in India.