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MHI-03 HISTORIOGRAPHY
Course Code: MHI-03
Assignment Code: MHI-03/AST/TMA/2024-25
Total Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. The assignment is divided into two Sections ‘A’ and ‘B’. You have to attempt at least two questions from each section in about 500 words each. All questions carry equal marks.
Section A
- What is objectivity? What role does the interpretation play in history-writing?
20 marks - What do you understand by ‘microhistory’? Describe the historians and their works related to this tradition of history-writing.
20 marks - Discuss the distinctive features of Greco-Roman historiography.
20 marks - Who are considered to be the founders of the Annales School of historiography? Discuss their works.
20 marks - Describe the important features of Indo-Persian tradition of history-writing during the Sultanate period.
20 marks
Section B
- Write a note on the Marxist historiography in the West after the Second World War.
20 marks - Compare the colonial historiography in India with the nationalist historiography.
20 marks - What do you understand by the term ‘History from Below’? Discuss with particular reference to Indian historiography.
20 marks - Write a note on the feminist historiography in India.
20 marks - Write short notes in about 250 words each on any two of the following:
- (a) Generalisation
- (b) Different Views on Indian Renaissance
- (c) Early Indian history-writing
- (d) Postmodernism and History-writing
10+10 marks
MHI-06: EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL STRUCTURES IN INDIA THROUGH THE AGES
Course Code: MHI-06
Assignment Code: MHI-06/AST/TMA/2024-25
Total Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. The assignment is divided into two Sections ‘A’ and ‘B’. You have to attempt at least two questions from each section in about 500 words each. All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION A
- What are the historical tools used for writing the history of ancient India? Discuss.
20 marks - Comment on the nature of the society in the Paleolithic period.
20 marks - What do rituals reveal about the nature of society in the Vedic period? Elaborate.
20 marks - Comment on the socio-religious and intellectual ferment that marked the rise of Buddhism and Jainism.
20 marks - Discuss what is meant by the early medieval society?
20 marks
SECTION B
- Comment on the nature of rural society in peninsular India.
20 marks - Discuss the origin and rise of the Rajputs with reference to the researches of B. D. Chattopadhyaya and N. Zeigler.
20 marks - Comment on the nature of overseas migration during the colonial period.
20 marks - Did colonialism shape the perceptions of caste? Discuss.
20 marks - Comment on the participation of women in the national movement.
20 marks
MHI-08: HISTORY OF ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT: INDIA
Course Code: MHI-08
Assignment Code: MHI-08/AST/TMA/2024-25
Total Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. The assignment is divided into two Sections ‘A’ and ‘B’. You have to attempt at least two questions from each section in about 500 words each. All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION A
- Do you agree that the nature of the landscape influences the pattern of human settlements? Elaborate with reference to the Indian subcontinent.
20 marks - Write a note on the human-natural resource use practices of pre-agricultural societies.
20 marks - Ecological impacts of Colonial interventions on Indian natural resources have been the prime concerns of environmental historians.
20 marks - Discuss the pattern of agrarian expansion in the Indian subcontinent.
20 marks - Discuss the introduction of bronze in Indian history and examine the significance of this process.
20 marks
SECTION B
- Write a note on the significance of conservation of the environment.
20 marks - How did the Industrial Revolution and its spread shape the colonial power’s perception of the environment?
20 marks - Pre-Colonial water management systems were very different from the colonial water management systems. Elaborate.
20 marks - Is there an inevitable contradiction between ‘environment’ and ‘development’? Discuss.
20 marks - Discuss the salient features of Gandhi’s non-industrial model of development.
20 marks
MHI-09: INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT
Course Code: MHI-09
Assignment Code: MHI-09/AST/TMA/2024-25
Total Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. The assignment is divided into two Sections ‘A’ and ‘B’. You have to attempt at least two questions from each section in about 500 words each. All questions carry equal marks.
Section I
- Compare the views of the Marxist and Subaltern Studies historians on Indian nationalism.
20 marks - Write a note on economic nationalism with special reference to Indian thinkers.
20 marks - Discuss the ideologies and activities of the revolutionary nationalists during the 1920s and 1930s.
20 marks - Write a note on the Non-cooperation movement.
20 marks - Write short notes in about 250 words each on any two of the following:
- (a) Modernist theories on nationalism
- (b) Swadeshi movement
- (c) Political Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi
- (d) Political mobilisation in the Princely States
10+10 marks
Section II
- Describe the various forms which the popular protests took between 1945 and 1947.
20 marks - Discuss the views of various historians regarding the relationship between nationalism and peasantry.
20 marks - Write a note on the relationship between the nationalist movement and the Dalits.
20 marks - Analyse the Gandhian strategy to fight against the colonial state in India.
20 marks - Write short notes in about 250 words each on any two of the following:
- (a) Reasons for Congress’ Acceptance of Partition
- (b) The Attitude of the Indian Capitalists towards the Congress
- (c) The Relations between Congress and Muslims from 1885 to 1914
- (d) Salient Features of the Indian Constitution
10+10 marks
MHI-10: URBANISATION IN INDIA
Course Code: MHI-10
Assignment Code: MHI-10/AST/TMA/2024-25
Total Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. The assignment is divided into two Sections ‘A’ and ‘B’. You have to attempt at least two questions from each section in about 500 words each. All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION A
- What are the markers of urban centres? Examine with reference to the historiography of urbanism.
20 marks - Discuss the main features of the city of Mohenjodaro.
20 marks - Critically examine the characteristics of early historic urban centres in the Deccan.
20 marks - Do you agree with the ‘theory of deurbanisation’ during the post-Gupta period in India? Discuss.
20 marks - Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each:
- (i) City States
- (ii) Mohenjodaro: Public Architecture
- (iii) Mandu
- (iv) Social change and urban growth during early medieval India
10+10 marks
SECTION B
- Cities of Delhi Sultanate were primarily garrison towns. Critically examine.
20 marks - How did the city layout and courtly culture of Vijayanagara reflect the dominance of Imperial control?
20 marks - Discuss the rise and decline of Surat.
20 marks - How did the concept of urban planning change during the Colonial period?
20 marks - Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each:
- (i) Gardens in Mughal Cities
- (ii) The City as the Site of Spectacle
- (iii) Health and Sanitation in the divided city
- (iv) New Risks and Contemporary Urbanism
10+10 marks
MPSE-003: WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT (From Plato to Marx)
Course Code: MPSE-003
Assignment Code: ASST/TMA/2024-25
Total Marks: 100
Note: Answer any five questions in about 500 words each. Attempt at least two questions from each section. Each question carries 20 marks.
SECTION I
- How is Political thought distinguished from political theory and political philosophy? Explain.
20 marks - Discuss St. Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of the relationship between the Church and the State.
20 marks - Comment on the following statement of J.S. Mill: “It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”
20 marks - What has been St. Augustine’s influence on western political thought? Examine.
20 marks - Elaborate upon Machiavelli’s classification of governments.
20 marks
SECTION II
Write a short note on each part of the following questions in about 250 words:
- (a) Thomas Hobbes on the rights and duties of sovereign
(b) Bentham’s political philosophy
10+10 marks - (a) J.S. Mill on Representative Government
(b) Edmund Burke’s views on Religion and Toleration
10+10 marks - (a) Immanuel Kant’s transcendental–idealist view of human nature
(b) Alexis de Tocqueville on religion
10+10 marks - (a) Plato’s methodology
(b) Hegel’s theory of state
10+10 marks - (a) Marx’s Historical Materialism
(b) John Locke on social contract and civil society
10+10 marks
MPSE-004: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT IN MODERN INDIA
Course Code: MPSE-004
Assignment Code: ASST/TMA/2024-25
Total Marks: 100
Note: Answer any five questions in about 500 words each. Attempt at least two questions from each section. Each question carries 20 marks.
SECTION I
- Discuss the inter-relationship between religion and polity in pre-modern Indian Political Thought.
20 marks - Examine Sri Aurobindo’s critique of political moderates in Indian National Movements.
20 marks - Examine the arrival of nationalism in early 19th century India.
20 marks - Examine M.S. Golwalkar’s views on negative and positive Hindutva.
20 marks - Discuss Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s views on caste system and its annihilation.
20 marks
SECTION II
Write a short note on each part of the following questions in about 250 words:
- (a) Swami Vivekananda on Nationalism
(b) Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia’s socialist thought
10+10 marks - (a) Role of Muslims in anti-imperialist movement in Colonial India
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru’s vision of secularism
10+10 marks - (a) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan on Hindu–Muslim unity
(b) E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker on Dravidian Mobilisation
10+10 marks - (a) Philosophical Foundations of Gandhi’s political perspective
(b) Jawaharlal Nehru’s Scientific Humanism
10+10 marks - (a) M.N. Roy’s Radical Humanism
(b) Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of nationalism
10+10 marks