UGC NET History Practice Question

Who is considered a pioneer of Indian Environmental History, authoring This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India alongside Madhav Gadgil?

Ramachandra Guha ✓

Mahesh Rangarajan

Richard Grove

Madhav Gadgil

Ramachandra Guha, with Madhav Gadgil, wrote This Fissured Land, a pioneering work of Indian environmental history.

In bibliographic citations, what does the Latin abbreviation ibid. (ibidem) indicate?

In the same place / work previously cited in the immediately preceding footnote ✓

In another work by the same author

Cited elsewhere in the appendix

See the following page

"Ibid." (ibidem) refers to the same source cited in the immediately preceding footnote/reference.

What does the citation abbreviation op. cit. (operato citato) stand for?

In the work cited previously (by the same author, but not in the immediately preceding footnote) ✓

In the original text

Without publisher location

See above chapter

"Op. cit." (opere citato) refers back to a work already cited earlier, but not immediately before, in the text.

The term Anachronism in historical writing refers to:

Placing an event, person, item, or idea in a chronological period where it does not belong ✓

Omitting crucial dates from a narrative

Translating ancient texts incorrectly

Overemphasizing economic factors over cultural ones

Anachronism means placing a person, event, or idea in a time period to which it does not actually belong.

In historical methodology, Oral History relies primarily on which technique to gather historical evidence?

Audio-recorded interviews, oral testimonies, personal narratives, and recollections of living individuals ✓

Deciphering folk inscriptions on temple walls

Analyzing folk poetry in printed anthologies

Translating colonial police diaries

Oral History gathers evidence through recorded interviews, testimonies and personal recollections of living witnesses.

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