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.
In historical methodology, Heuristics refers specifically to:
The technique and search process of discovering, locating, and gathering primary source materials ✓
The logical writing of the research report
The cross-examination of internal bias in texts
The indexing of published articles
Heuristics is the process of locating and gathering primary source material before analysis begins.
The term Hermeneutics in historical and philosophical research denotes:
The theory, method, and art of textual interpretation and understanding meaning ✓
The chemical dating of ancient metals
The statistical mapping of demographic trends
The geographical survey of trade routes
Hermeneutics is the theory and method of interpreting texts to properly understand their intended meaning.
Who wrote the classic Subaltern essay Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992, analyzing popular peasant consciousness?
Shahid Amin ✓
Gyanendra Pandey
David Arnold
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Shahid Amin's Subaltern essay on Chauri Chaura examined how popular memory reshaped the 1922 incident over seventy years.
The Subaltern scholar who authored Provincializing Europe, critiquing Eurocentric historiography and historical time, is:
Dipesh Chakrabarty ✓
Partha Chatterjee
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Sudipta Kaviraj
Dipesh Chakrabarty's Provincializing Europe critiqued the Eurocentric assumptions embedded in standard historical narratives and categories.
Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World analyzing the political derivative discourse of Indian nationalism was written by:
Partha Chatterjee ✓
Ranajit Guha
Gyanendra Pandey
Sumit Sarkar
Partha Chatterjee's Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World examined Indian nationalism as a "derivative discourse" shaped by, yet resistant to, colonial categories.
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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.
