List of top History Questions on History Writing and Historiography of Ancient India

Given below are two statements one is labelled as
Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as
Reason (R).
Assertion (A):
Ranajit Guha began the subaltern school of thought in Indian Historiography in 1980's.
Reason (R):
Subaltern approach takes the position that the entire tradition of Indian historiography has an elitist bias & the role of the common mass has been neglected or ignore
D.

Who said 'study the historian before you begin to study the facts':

Which historical work doesn't use Waqa'i reports of the proceedings as sources for constructing Mughal history:

Who was Alexander Cunningham, and what was his contribution to Indian archaeology?

Identify the wrong pair in the following:
(i) Raigadala Jevha Jag Yete — Vasant Kanetkar
(ii) Tilak ani Agarkar — Vishram Bedekar
(iii) Sashtang Namaskar — Acharya Atre
(iv) Ekach Pyala — Annasaheb Kirloskar

Explain the following statement with reasons
Foucault called his method, ‘the archaeology of knowledge’.

Write short notes on
Sthalakosh

The Sanskrit text of ‘Hitopadesh’ was translated into German by ..............

Match the following and identify the correct pair:
(i) Leopold von Ranké — The Secret of World History
(ii) Michel Foucault — Archaeology of Knowledge
(iii) Karl Marx — Das Kapital
(iv) René Descartes — Reason in History

The first Chief Minister of Maharashtra was ...............