Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :List IList II(i) Therigatha(a) Epigraphical source(ii) Aihole inscription(b) Literary source(iii) Hon(c) Archaeological source(iv) Harappan Pottery(d) Numismatic sourceCodes : (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

The correct code is (b) (a) (d) (c).Therigatha, the Buddhist nuns' verses: literary source.Aihole inscription: epigraphical source.Hon, the gold coin of the Deccan: numismatic source.Harappan pottery: archaeological source.The other codes misclassify at least one of these, for example treating the coin as epigraphical or the inscription as numismatic.The hon (pagoda) was the standard gold coin of Vijayanagara and the Deccan kingdoms, which is why it counts as a numismatic source.

Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below :List IList II(a) Marc Bloch(i) The Structures of Everday Life(b) Fernand Braudel(ii) Writing and Difference(c) Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie(iii) The Territory of the Historian(d) Jacques Derrida(iv) The Historian's Craft

The correct matching is a-iv, b-i, c-iii, d-ii.Marc Bloch wrote The Historian's Craft (iv).Fernand Braudel wrote The Structures of Everyday Life, the first volume of Civilization and Capitalism (i).Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie wrote The Territory of the Historian (iii).Jacques Derrida wrote Writing and Difference (ii).The first option repeats iv and gives Braudel Le Roy Ladurie's book. The third and fourth start by giving Bloch the wrong work, so only the second option matches all four.

Historical Method and Historiography Questions and Answers

Q: The names of Mark Bloch, Braudel and Lucien LeFebure are closely associated with the :

They are associated with the Annales School of Historiography.Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre founded the journal Annales d'histoire economique et sociale in 1929, and Fernand Braudel led the school after them. The Annales historians studied long-term social, economic and geographical structures, the longue duree, rather than political events alone.The Cambridge School is known for studies of Indian politics by Anil Seal and others; nationalist and Marxist historiography are different traditions.

Q: Which school of Historiography represents the dictum - “No Document No History” ?

The dictum belongs to Positivism.Positivist historiography, associated with Ranke's emphasis on what actually happened and with Langlois and Seignobos's Introduction to the Study of History (1898), held that history rests strictly on documents, and Langlois and Seignobos put it as 'no documents, no history'.Post-modernism questions whether documents give access to the past at all, structuralism looks for underlying structures, and Marxism explains history through modes of production.

Q: The segmentary state model was based on the study of................ by.................

The model was based on the study of Alur society by Aidan Southall.The anthropologist Aidan Southall developed the idea of the segmentary state in Alur Society (1956), a study of the Alur people of East Africa, where ritual sovereignty reached far but political control was limited to the core. Burton Stein later applied the model to medieval south India in Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India (1980).That is the trap in the first option: the Chola state was the object of Stein's application, not the study on which the model was originally based. Richard Fox worked on Rajput lineages, and N. Karashima wrote on Chola and Vijayanagara inscriptions and is a critic of the segmentary model.

Q: Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below the list :List IList II(a) P.E. Roberts(i) Transfer of Power in India(b) Anil Seal(ii) India under Wellesley(c) V.P. Menon(iii) Emergence of Indian Nationalism(d) P.J. Griffiths(iv) The British Impact on India

The correct matching is a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv.P.E. Roberts wrote India under Wellesley (ii).Anil Seal wrote The Emergence of Indian Nationalism (iii).V.P. Menon wrote The Transfer of Power in India (i).P.J. Griffiths wrote The British Impact on India (iv).Only one option carries all four pairs. The others go wrong at once: the first gives Roberts the British Impact book and Seal the Transfer of Power, the third gives Roberts Seal's book, and the fourth gives Griffiths the Transfer of Power, which is Menon's account as Patel's constitutional adviser.

Q: Who is the author of 'Steamboats on the Indus' ?

The author of Steamboats on the Indus is Clive Dewey.Clive Dewey's Steamboats on the Indus: The Limits of Western Technological Superiority in South Asia studies how British attempts to run steam navigation on the Indus failed against the river's shifting channels, using the case to question claims of simple Western technological superiority.Michael Adas wrote Machines as the Measure of Men on technology and colonial ideology. Hobson is known for writing on imperialism and on the Eastern origins of Western civilisation, and Dharampal for The Beautiful Tree and for work on Indian science and technology in the eighteenth century.

Q: In art history, .................. is seen as being at the forefront of nationalist responses to colonial interpretations.

The key names Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.Coomaraswamy's writings from the early twentieth century, such as Mediaeval Sinhalese Art, The Indian Craftsman and Rajput Painting, rejected the colonial view that Indian art was decorative or derived from Greece, and presented it as the expression of a spiritual and philosophical tradition. With E.B. Havell, he is regarded as the leading voice of the nationalist reinterpretation of Indian art.Rajendralal Mitra had earlier challenged James Fergusson's views on Indian architecture, but the key treats Coomaraswamy as the one at the forefront. Ram Raz wrote an early essay on Hindu architecture, and J.D.M. Beglar was an assistant of Alexander Cunningham in the Archaeological Survey.

Q: The concept of 'Total History' is associated with which one of the following schools of historical writing ?

'Total History' is associated with the Annales School.The Annales school, founded around the journal Annales by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre in 1929, sought an histoire totale that would combine geography, economy, society and mentalities rather than narrate politics alone. Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean is the classic example, with its three levels of time.Marxist history centres on modes of production and class struggle, Positivist history on establishing verified facts from documents, and the Subaltern school on the history of the subordinated classes in South Asia. None made 'total history' its programme.

Q: According to Church historiography, what is a chronicle ?

A chronicle is a detailed account of events in a particular place and time.In medieval Christian historiography, chronicles recorded events year by year, usually for a monastery, a city or a kingdom, set within the framework of sacred history from Creation onward. Their defining feature is the ordered record of events in time and place, often with little analysis.A biography of a saint is a hagiography or vita, and a biography of a great man is a separate genre. An account of the rise of the Church is ecclesiastical history, as in Eusebius, rather than a chronicle.

21.

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :

List I	List II
(i) Therigatha	(a) Epigraphical source
(ii) Aihole inscription	(b) Literary source
(iii) Hon	(c) Archaeological source
(iv) Harappan Pottery	(d) Numismatic source

Codes : (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

A.(b) (a) (d) (c)
B.(d) (c) (a) (b)
C.(c) (b) (d) (a)
D.(c) (d) (a) (b)

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: A

The correct code is (b) (a) (d) (c).

Therigatha, the Buddhist nuns' verses: literary source.
Aihole inscription: epigraphical source.
Hon, the gold coin of the Deccan: numismatic source.
Harappan pottery: archaeological source.

The other codes misclassify at least one of these, for example treating the coin as epigraphical or the inscription as numismatic.

The hon (pagoda) was the standard gold coin of Vijayanagara and the Deccan kingdoms, which is why it counts as a numismatic source.

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22.

The names of Mark Bloch, Braudel and Lucien LeFebure are closely associated with the :

A.Cambridge School of Historiography
B.Nationalist Historiography
C.Marxist Historiography
D.Annales School of Historiography

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: D

They are associated with the Annales School of Historiography.

Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre founded the journal Annales d'histoire economique et sociale in 1929, and Fernand Braudel led the school after them. The Annales historians studied long-term social, economic and geographical structures, the longue duree, rather than political events alone.

The Cambridge School is known for studies of Indian politics by Anil Seal and others; nationalist and Marxist historiography are different traditions.

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23.

Which school of Historiography represents the dictum - “No Document No History” ?

A.Structuralism
B.Post-modernism
C.Positivism
D.Marxism

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2018, SET Exam - 2018,

Answer: C

The dictum belongs to Positivism.

Positivist historiography, associated with Ranke's emphasis on what actually happened and with Langlois and Seignobos's Introduction to the Study of History (1898), held that history rests strictly on documents, and Langlois and Seignobos put it as 'no documents, no history'.

Post-modernism questions whether documents give access to the past at all, structuralism looks for underlying structures, and Marxism explains history through modes of production.

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24.

The segmentary state model was based on the study of................ by.................

A.Chola state, Burton Stein
B.Alur society, Aidan Southall
C.Rajput lineages, Richard Fox
D.Vijayanagar state, N. Karashima

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: B

The model was based on the study of Alur society by Aidan Southall.

The anthropologist Aidan Southall developed the idea of the segmentary state in Alur Society (1956), a study of the Alur people of East Africa, where ritual sovereignty reached far but political control was limited to the core. Burton Stein later applied the model to medieval south India in Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India (1980).

That is the trap in the first option: the Chola state was the object of Stein's application, not the study on which the model was originally based. Richard Fox worked on Rajput lineages, and N. Karashima wrote on Chola and Vijayanagara inscriptions and is a critic of the segmentary model.

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25.

Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below the list :

List I	List II
(a) P.E. Roberts	(i) Transfer of Power in India
(b) Anil Seal	(ii) India under Wellesley
(c) V.P. Menon	(iii) Emergence of Indian Nationalism
(d) P.J. Griffiths	(iv) The British Impact on India

A.a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii
B.a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv
C.a-iii, b-ii, c-i, d-iv
D.a-ii, b-iv, c-iii, d-i

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: B

The correct matching is a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv.

P.E. Roberts wrote India under Wellesley (ii).
Anil Seal wrote The Emergence of Indian Nationalism (iii).
V.P. Menon wrote The Transfer of Power in India (i).
P.J. Griffiths wrote The British Impact on India (iv).

Only one option carries all four pairs. The others go wrong at once: the first gives Roberts the British Impact book and Seal the Transfer of Power, the third gives Roberts Seal's book, and the fourth gives Griffiths the Transfer of Power, which is Menon's account as Patel's constitutional adviser.

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26.

Who is the author of 'Steamboats on the Indus' ?

A.Clive Dewey
B.Michael Adas
C.John Hobson
D.Dharampal

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: A

The author of Steamboats on the Indus is Clive Dewey.

Clive Dewey's Steamboats on the Indus: The Limits of Western Technological Superiority in South Asia studies how British attempts to run steam navigation on the Indus failed against the river's shifting channels, using the case to question claims of simple Western technological superiority.

Michael Adas wrote Machines as the Measure of Men on technology and colonial ideology. Hobson is known for writing on imperialism and on the Eastern origins of Western civilisation, and Dharampal for The Beautiful Tree and for work on Indian science and technology in the eighteenth century.

Discuss in Forum

27.

In art history, .................. is seen as being at the forefront of nationalist responses to colonial interpretations.

A.Rajendralala Mitra
B.JDM Beglar
C.Ram Raz
D.Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: D

The key names Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.

Coomaraswamy's writings from the early twentieth century, such as Mediaeval Sinhalese Art, The Indian Craftsman and Rajput Painting, rejected the colonial view that Indian art was decorative or derived from Greece, and presented it as the expression of a spiritual and philosophical tradition. With E.B. Havell, he is regarded as the leading voice of the nationalist reinterpretation of Indian art.

Rajendralal Mitra had earlier challenged James Fergusson's views on Indian architecture, but the key treats Coomaraswamy as the one at the forefront. Ram Raz wrote an early essay on Hindu architecture, and J.D.M. Beglar was an assistant of Alexander Cunningham in the Archaeological Survey.

Discuss in Forum

28.

The concept of 'Total History' is associated with which one of the following schools of historical writing ?

A.Marxist School
B.Positivist School
C.Annales School
D.Subaltern School

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2013, MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: C

'Total History' is associated with the Annales School.

The Annales school, founded around the journal Annales by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre in 1929, sought an histoire totale that would combine geography, economy, society and mentalities rather than narrate politics alone. Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean is the classic example, with its three levels of time.

Marxist history centres on modes of production and class struggle, Positivist history on establishing verified facts from documents, and the Subaltern school on the history of the subordinated classes in South Asia. None made 'total history' its programme.

Discuss in Forum

29.

According to Church historiography, what is a chronicle ?

A.A biography of a great man
B.A biography of a saint
C.An account of the rise of the Church
D.A detailed account of events in a particular place and time

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: D

A chronicle is a detailed account of events in a particular place and time.

In medieval Christian historiography, chronicles recorded events year by year, usually for a monastery, a city or a kingdom, set within the framework of sacred history from Creation onward. Their defining feature is the ordered record of events in time and place, often with little analysis.

A biography of a saint is a hagiography or vita, and a biography of a great man is a separate genre. An account of the rise of the Church is ecclesiastical history, as in Eusebius, rather than a chronicle.

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30.

Match List I with List II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below :

List I	List II
(a) Marc Bloch	(i) The Structures of Everday Life
(b) Fernand Braudel	(ii) Writing and Difference
(c) Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie	(iii) The Territory of the Historian
(d) Jacques Derrida	(iv) The Historian's Craft

A.a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-iv
B.a-iv, b-i, c-iii, d-ii
C.a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv
D.a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i

Exam Year(s)

MH SET - 2019, SET Exam - 2019,

Answer: B

The correct matching is a-iv, b-i, c-iii, d-ii.

Marc Bloch wrote The Historian's Craft (iv).
Fernand Braudel wrote The Structures of Everyday Life, the first volume of Civilization and Capitalism (i).
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie wrote The Territory of the Historian (iii).
Jacques Derrida wrote Writing and Difference (ii).

The first option repeats iv and gives Braudel Le Roy Ladurie's book. The third and fourth start by giving Bloch the wrong work, so only the second option matches all four.

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