University of Hyderabad M. Phil History Entrance Examination Model Question Paper 2017
Name of the University : University of Hyderabad
Exam : Entrance Examinations
Degree : M. Phil.
Subject : History
Document Type : Model Question Paper
Year : 2017
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Instructions
1. The Question Paper Contains Two Parts (Part-A And Part-B)
2. Part – A Has Four Questions, Out Of Which Two Should Be Answered. Each Question Carries 20 Marks
3. Part – B Has Six Questions, Out Which Two Should Be Answered. Each Question Carries 20 Marks
4. Before You Start Writing Your Answers, Please Check That This Question Paper Does Not Have Any Unprinted Or Torn Or Missing Pages Or Items
History
Part – A
1. What is scientific about history?
2. How is it that the same set of facts can lend themselves to variable interpretations?
3. Is objectivity a desirable goal in history writing?
4. In what way can the historian’s background influence the history that he/she is writing?
Part – B
1. Analyse the differences and similarities between the Indus Valley culture and the Vedic culture.
2. Describe the socio-economic life in Ancient India as depicted in Arthasastra and
3. How feudal was Indian feudalism? Relate your answer to the historiographical perspectives on feudalism in India.
4. In what way Akbar’s Mansabdari system had been a salient feature of a centralized empire?
5. What difference did Gandhi’s intervention make to the politics of Indian nationalism?
6. To what extent \vere the social and religious reform movements of the 19th century inspired by Western ideological influences?
History – 2016 :
Part-A :
Section I : Marks 25 :
Any ONE of the foltowing questions in about 500 words.
What is history? unearthing new facts or providing new explanations?
How is history different from other social sciences?
Section2 :
Marks 2xl0 =20
Write short essays of 200 words each on TWO of the following questions. Each question carries
l. what extent were religious movements’ vehicles for social protest in early India?
2. Discuss the various factors responsible for the decline of the Mauryan Empire.
3. Discuss the chief contributions of the Satavahanas to the art and cultu.re of the Deccan.
4. write a riote on the Mughal -Maratha relationship post Sivaji.
5. Juction of the Mansabdari system explains the centralisation of the empire under elabrate
6. eithher Shah Suri be considered a forerunner of Akbar? Discuss.
7. It rs a colonial economy difftrent from a capitalist economy and is there such a thing :, rlonial Mode of Production’?
8. Well were the Indian intellectual discourses in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries a: the position of women in Indian society?
9′ Fluid V.D. Sarvarkar’s perspective on nationalism differ from those of his Cr rpOraries.
Part B : Marks 10×3:30
Write brief notes on any TEN of the following concepts. Each note should not exceed 25 woeds
l. Vishti
2. Jati
3. Prasasti
4. Shramanas
5. Madad i mash
6. Zatand,Sawar
7. Sulh-i-kul
8. Poligar
9. Montage
10. Patriarchy
11. Enlightenment
12.Dyarcby
History 2015 :
Part-A :
Section-l :
Marks 30
Answer any ONE of the following questions in about 500 words.
1. Write an essay on ideology and history writing.
2. What role does interpretation play in the writing of history?
Section-II :
Marks 2x 15 = 30
Write short essays of 200 words each on TWO of the following questions. Each Question carries 15 marks.
1. Discuss the economic basis of the Harappa civilization
2. Discuss the origin and chief characteristics of caste in early lndia.
3. Critically analyse the reasons for the origin of Buddhism and Jainism during the sixth century BC.
4. Write a brief note on the rise of bhakti movement in medieval lndia. Do you see any link between the socio-economic conditions and the religious movements?
5. Was the eighteenth century a period of decline and stagnation in lndia? Discuss critically.
6. Was the Decline of Mughals laid down in its inceptions itself-Elucidate
7. How did the post-1857 British Colonial state reorganize the lndian polity?
8. Do you think nationalists neglected the issue of social reform as part of the national movement?
9. Commercialisation of agriculture was boon to the rich peasantry under colonial rule- Discuss
Part B : (Marks5x3=15)
Concepts – write brief notes on any FIVE of the following. Each note should not exceed 5O words.
1. Kaliyuga
2. Orientalism
3. Sreni
4. Nagaram
5. Buranjis
6. lqtas
7. Historical materialism
8.. Power
9. Liberalism
10. Economic nationalism