From the free UGC NET History Mock Test 10 — Unit 10: Historical Method, Research, Methodology, and Historiography unit-wise mock test — real question, real answer, real explanation.
The study and critical analysis of administrative records, charters, and official state documents to verify their authenticity is known as:
Diplomatics ✓
Paleography
Sigillography
Archives Management
Diplomatics critically examines official charters and administrative documents to establish their authenticity and legal validity.
What does the auxiliary historical discipline of Sigillography (or Sphragistics) study?
Seals attached to official documents and charters ✓
Ancient coin weights and alloys
Stone boundary pillars
Monumental tombs
Sigillography (sphragistics) is the study of seals attached to official documents and charters.
In research methodology, a working proposition or tentative assumption formulated to guide an empirical investigation is termed a:
Hypothesis ✓
Historiographical thesis
Theoretical axiom
Empirical deduction
A hypothesis is a tentative, testable proposition formulated to guide historical or scientific investigation.
What is meant by the term Ethno-archaeology in modern historical research?
Studying living human communities, their material culture and practices to interpret archaeological remains ✓
Excavating prehistoric burials
Deciphering tribal languages
Radiocarbon dating of organic bone fibers
Ethno-archaeology studies living communities' material culture to better interpret archaeological evidence from the past.
The postmodernist critique of objective historical narrative, arguing that history is essentially a literary construct or linguistic discourse, was forcefully presented in Metahistory by:
Hayden White ✓
Michel Foucault
Jacques Derrida
Roland Barthes
Hayden White's Metahistory argued historical narratives are essentially literary constructs shaped by rhetorical and linguistic choices.
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Itihaaskar — UGC NET/JRF & UPSC History Optional notes by Parveen Malik (B.Tech. (CSE), M.A. (History), History JRF). Also spelt Itihaskar.
