Syllabus
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Course Code: HIS-C-29 Course Name: Historiography |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | History and Historiography: Discourses and Debates; History as Science and the Nature of Scientific Inquiry; History and Allied Disciplines; Knowability of the Past – Epistemological and Ontological Debates |
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| 2 | The Historiographical Method: Modern Historiography – Documentary Evidence and the Archives; Nature of Historical Facts; Objectivity in History; Causation in History | |
| 3 | Historiographical Operations-I: Preliminary Operations – Requisites of a Researcher of History; Selection of Theme; Preparation of Reading Lists/Tentative Bibliography; Survey of Literature – How to Review a Book; Drafting a Synopsis; Collection of Data: Different Techniques | |
| 4 | Historiographical Operations-II: Analytical Operations – Scrutiny of Data and its Criticism; Synthetical Operations – Determining and Grouping of Facts, Reasoning; Concluding Operations – Organization of Material, Generalization and Proposing Hypothesis; Writing Style and Strategies; Documentation | |
