Delhi University Entrance Test (DUET) 2020 Previous Year Question Paper With Answer Key
DU MPhil PhD in History
Topic: HIS MPHIL S2
1) To understand connected histories, Millenarianism was used as a concept by which historian?
( ) ( ) ?
[Question ID = 10466]
1. Muzaffar Alam/
[Option ID = 41858]
2. Irfan Habib/
[Option ID = 41859]
3. Sanjay Subrahmanyam/
[Option ID = 41860]
4. None of these /
[Option ID = 41861]
Correct Answer :
Sanjay Subrahmanyam/
[Option ID = 41860]
2) Who used the term `military labour market' to understand state formation in India :
' ' :
[Question ID = 10467]
1. William Pinch/ [Option ID = 41862]
2. Jos Gommans/ [Option ID = 41863]
3. Dirk Kolff/ [Option ID = 41864]
4. Andre Wink/ [Option ID = 41865]
Correct Answer :
Dirk Kolff/ [Option ID = 41864]
3) When was Asar us Sanadid composed?
?
[Question ID = 10468]
1. 13 century/13
th
[Option ID = 41866]
2. 16 century/16
th
[Option ID = 41867]
3. 19 century/19
th
[Option ID = 41868]
4. None of these /
[Option ID = 41869]
Correct Answer :
19 century/19
th
[Option ID = 41868]
4) The work of which two historians had a huge impact on the study of the North American frontier
(i) Tzvetan Todorov
(ii) Frederick Turner
(iii) Charles A. Beard
(iv) Eugene Genovese
(i)
(ii)
(iii) .
(iv)
:
[Question ID = 10469]
1. (i) & (iii)/ (i) & (iii)
[Option ID = 41870]
2. (ii) & (iv)/ (ii) & (iv)
[Option ID = 41871]
3. (i) & (ii)/(i) & (ii)
[Option ID = 41872]
4. (iii) & (iv)/(iii) & (iv)
[Option ID = 41873]
Correct Answer :
(i) & (ii)/(i) & (ii)
[Option ID = 41872]
5) Sumit Sarkar's critique of Subaltern Studies
[Question ID = 10470]
1. Included a critique of Said's Orientalism/
[Option ID = 41874]
2. Included a radical critique of all Marxist methods/
[Option ID = 41875]
3. Defended the position of Said's Orientalism/
[Option ID = 41876]
4. None of these /
[Option ID = 41877]
Correct Answer :
Included a critique of Said's Orientalism/
[Option ID = 41874]
6) Gyanendra Pandey's Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India
[Question ID = 10471]
1. Included `historical fieldwork'/ ` '
[Option ID = 41878]
2. Discussed the legal category of the Approver/
[Option ID = 41879]
3. Had a chapter on the `Bigoted Julaha'/' '
[Option ID = 41880]
4. All of these /
[Option ID = 41881]
Correct Answer :
Had a chapter on the `Bigoted Julaha'/' '
[Option ID = 41880]
7) Dipesh Chakrabarty's critique of Ranajit Guha
[Question ID = 10472]
1. Involves the relationship between religious belief and history/
[Option ID = 41882]
2. Involves the critique of economic determinism/
[Option ID = 41883]
3. Involves the critique of E.P Thompson/. .
[Option ID = 41884]
4. None of these /
[Option ID = 41885]
Correct Answer :
Involves the relationship between religious belief and history/
[Option ID = 41882]
8) Textures of Time by Rao, Subhramanyam and Shulman
,
[Question ID = 10473]
1. A) Involves the argument that precolonial writings in India were historical/
[Option ID = 41886]
2. B) Involves a critique of Sheldon Pollock/
[Option ID = 41887]
3. C) Involves a discussion of the Rjataragi/
[Option ID = 41888]
4. D) A and C/A C
[Option ID = 41889]
Correct Answer :
D) A and C/A C
[Option ID = 41889]
9) The World Turned Upside Down is a study of:
:
[Question ID = 10474]
1. The working classes in the French Revolution/
[Option ID = 41890]
2. The Diggers, Ranters and Levellers in the English Revolution/ ,
[Option ID = 41891]
3. AfricanAmerican slaves in the American Civil War/
[Option ID = 41892]
4. None of these /
[Option ID = 41893]
Correct Answer :
The Diggers, Ranters and Levellers in the English Revolution/ ,
[Option ID = 41891]
10) The Great Divergence is a historical comparison of the following two regions:
?
[Question ID = 10475]
1. Northwest Europe and East Asia/
[Option ID = 41894]
2. Northern Africa and East Asia/
[Option ID = 41895]
3. Central Europe and West Asia/
[Option ID = 41896]
4. None of these /
[Option ID = 41897]
Correct Answer :
Northwest Europe and East Asia/
[Option ID = 41894]
11) E.P. Thompson's concept of Moral Economy was written in which context?
. . " " ?
[Question ID = 10476]
1. The 19 century peasant rebellions in Vietnam /
th
19
[Option ID = 41898]
2. The late 18 century Haitian Revolution /18
th
[Option ID = 41899]
3. Late 18 century food riots in England/18
th
[Option ID = 41900]
4. All of these /
[Option ID = 41901]
Correct Answer :
Late 18 century food riots in England/18
th
[Option ID = 41900]
12) What is the book theArt of Not Being Governed about?
?
[Question ID = 10477]
1. The Narodniks in the Russian Revolution/ [Option ID = 41902]
2. The Jacobins in the French Revolution/ [Option ID = 41903]
3. Stateless communities in South East Asia/ [Option ID = 41904]
4. American Indian communities/ [Option ID = 41905]
Correct Answer :
Stateless communities in South East Asia/ [Option ID = 41904]
13) Le Roy Laduri'sMontaillouuses the following as historical evidence:
::
[Question ID = 10478]
1. Fournier's Register, a set of Inquisition Reports/ ,
[Option ID = 41906]
2. The diaries of Menocchio, the miller/ ( )
[Option ID = 41907]
3. The diaries of Christopher Columbus/
[Option ID = 41908]
4. None of these /
[Option ID = 41909]
Correct Answer :
Fournier's Register, a set of Inquisition Reports/ ,
[Option ID = 41906]
14) Who wrote Myth and Reality?
?
[Question ID = 10479]
1. Arnold Toynbee/
[Option ID = 41910]
2. Will Durant/
[Option ID = 41911]
3. H.G. Wells/
[Option ID = 41912]
4. D.D. Kosambi/
[Option ID = 41913]
Correct Answer :
D.D. Kosambi/
[Option ID = 41913]
15) Who is the author of the book The Millenial Sovereign?
?
[Question ID = 10480]
1. Sanjay Subhramanyam/
[Option ID = 41914]
2. Clifford Geertz/
[Option ID = 41915]
3. Afzar Moin/
[Option ID = 41916]
4. Sheldon Pollock/
[Option ID = 41917]
Correct Answer :
Afzar Moin/
[Option ID = 41916]
16) Which historian used the phrase `moral economy' to denote cultural rules that express such obligations and
entitlements:
" "
:
[Question ID = 10481]
1. Immanuel Wallerstein/
[Option ID = 41918]
2. E. P. Thompson/..
[Option ID = 41919]
3. James C. Scott/ .
[Option ID = 41920]
4. Maurice Dobb/
[Option ID = 41921]
Correct Answer :
E. P. Thompson/..
[Option ID = 41919]
17) Fawa'id alFu'ad is related to whom:
:
[Question ID = 10482]
1. Isami/
[Option ID = 41922]
2. Hamid Qalandar/
[Option ID = 41923]
3. MinhajusSiraj/
[Option ID = 41924]
4. None of these /
[Option ID = 41925]
Correct Answer :
None of these /
[Option ID = 41925]
18) Which of the following is the correct relation between the two?
Assertion (A) : John Locke offers a strong defence of the principle of private property.
Reason (R) : Locke's theory of social contract favours `limited government.'
?
A:
R: ''
[Question ID = 10483]
1. Both (A) and (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation for A./(A) (R) (R), (A)
[Option ID = 41926]
2. Both (A) and (R) are correct; but R is not the correct explanation for A./(A) (R) ; (R), (A)
[Option ID = 41927]
3. (A) is correct but (R) is wrong./(A) (R)
[Option ID = 41928]
4. Both (A) and (R) are wrong./(A) (R)
[Option ID = 41929]
Correct Answer :
Both (A) and (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation for A./(A) (R) (R), (A)
[Option ID = 41926]
19) Who wrote "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature"?
" " ?
[Question ID = 10484]
1. Jean Baudrillard/
[Option ID = 41930]
2. Fredric Jameson/
[Option ID = 41931]
3. Douglas Kellner/
[Option ID = 41932]
4. Richard Rorty/
[Option ID = 41933]
Correct Answer :
Richard Rorty/
[Option ID = 41933]
20) Of the undermentioned modern scholars, who has suggested that the secular governing principles of the state must
be privileged over religious beliefs in a multireligious society?
?
[Question ID = 10486]
1. Akeel Bilgrami/ [Option ID = 41938]
2. Daud Ali/ [Option ID = 41939]
3. Cynthia Talbot / [Option ID = 41940]
4. Catherine B. Asher/. [Option ID = 41941]
Correct Answer :
Akeel Bilgrami/ [Option ID = 41938]
21) Which among the following historians has talked about "regional identity that merged linguistic and political affiliation"
under the Kakatiyas?
" " ?
[Question ID = 10487]
1. Deryck O. Lodreick/ [Option ID = 41942]
2. Herman Kulke/ [Option ID = 41943]
3. Richard Eaton/ [Option ID = 41944]
4. Cynthia Talbot/ [Option ID = 41945]
Correct Answer :
Cynthia Talbot/ [Option ID = 41945]
22) Which one of the following steps was not taken by Mir Kasim immediately after becoming the Nawab of Bengal?
?
[Question ID = 10488]
1. Shifting the capital from Murshidabad to Munger/
[Option ID = 41946]
2. Abolishing the system of dastak/
[Option ID = 41947]
3. Reorganising the bureaucracy by including men of his own choice /
[Option ID = 41948]
4. Remodelling his army to enhance its skill and efficiency/
[Option ID = 41949]
Correct Answer :
Abolishing the system of dastak/
[Option ID = 41947]
23) Which of the following Bengal nawabs collected revenue directly through ijaradars ?
?
[Question ID = 10489]
1. Aliwardi Khan/
[Option ID = 41950]
2. Murshid Quli Khan/
[Option ID = 41951]
3. Shujauddin/
[Option ID = 41952]
4. Sarfaraz Khan/
[Option ID = 41953]
Correct Answer :
Shujauddin/
[Option ID = 41952]
24) Which of the following historians has written about the Guhilas in Mewar during eleventh to thirteenth century?
?
[Question ID = 10490]
1. Nandini Sinha Kapur/ [Option ID = 41954]
2. Cynthia Talbot/ [Option ID = 41955]
3. Ramya Sreenivasan/ [Option ID = 41956]
4. Herman Kulke/ [Option ID = 41957]
Correct Answer :
Nandini Sinha Kapur/ [Option ID = 41954]
25) The Prayaga pillar contains inscriptions giving information about
?
[Question ID = 10491]
1. Chandragupta Maurya and Samudragupta/ [Option ID = 41958]
2. Ashoka and Samudragupta/ [Option ID = 41959]
3. Damodargupta and Harsha/ [Option ID = 41960]
4. Ashoka and Chandragupta Vikramaditya/ [Option ID = 41961]
Correct Answer :
Ashoka and Samudragupta/ [Option ID = 41959]
26) The portrait representation of Asoka has been discovered from:
:
[Question ID = 10492]
1. Kanaganahalli/ [Option ID = 41962]
2. Sanchi/ [Option ID = 41963]
3. Sanganakallu/ [Option ID = 41964]
4. Sannati/ [Option ID = 41965]
Correct Answer :
Kanaganahalli/ [Option ID = 41962]
27) In 'Milind Panha' we find the debate between the king Milind and which one of the Buddhist priest.?
' ?
[Question ID = 10494]
1. Ashvagosha / [Option ID = 41970]
2. Ananda / [Option ID = 41971]
3. Nagasena / [Option ID = 41972]
4. Devadatta/ [Option ID = 41973]
Correct Answer :
Nagasena / [Option ID = 41972]
28) Who was associated with Nagri Movement?
?
[Question ID = 10496]
1. Raja Shivprasad/
[Option ID = 41978]
2. Mahatma Gandhi/
[Option ID = 41979]
3. Jawaharlal Nehru/
[Option ID = 41980]
4. Prem Chand/
[Option ID = 41981]
Correct Answer :
Raja Shivprasad/
[Option ID = 41978]
29) Who has shown that English language had acquired a huge demand even before Macaulay's Minute and Bentinck's
Resolution of 1835?
1835 ?
[Question ID = 10497]
1. Robert E. Frykenberg/ .
[Option ID = 41982]
2. Gail Minault/
[Option ID = 41983]
3. Francis Robinson/
[Option ID = 41984]
4. None of these /
[Option ID = 41985]
Correct Answer :
Robert E. Frykenberg/ .
[Option ID = 41982]
30) Which of the following Christian Missionaries worked with Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore?
?
[Question ID = 10498]
1. C.F. Andrews/
[Option ID = 41986]
2. Charles Grant/
[Option ID = 41987]
3. William Carey/
[Option ID = 41988]
4. All of these /
[Option ID = 41989]
Correct Answer :
C.F. Andrews/
[Option ID = 41986]
31) Who among the following are 18 century Mughal poets?
th
A. Mirza Rafi Sauda
B. Mir Taqi Mir
C. Mir Amman
D. Amir Khusrau
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
18 ?
A.
B.
C.
D. :
[Question ID = 10499]
1. A and B /A B
[Option ID = 41990]
2. A, B and C/A, B C
[Option ID = 41991]
3. C and D/C D
[Option ID = 41992]
4. All of these /
[Option ID = 41993]
Correct Answer :
A and B /A B
[Option ID = 41990]
32) Which of the following is covered under Stridhana?
?
[Question ID = 10500]
1. agrahara/
[Option ID = 41994]
2. atnavimshi/
[Option ID = 41995]
3. yautakam/
[Option ID = 41996]
4. None of these /
[Option ID = 41997]
Correct Answer :
yautakam/
[Option ID = 41996]
33) What did Nagaraka represent in early Indian history?
?
[Question ID = 10501]
1. urban life/ [Option ID = 41998]
2. life at a port/ [Option ID = 41999]
3. village life/ [Option ID = 42000]
4. life in a capital/ [Option ID = 42001]
Correct Answer :
urban life/ [Option ID = 41998]
34) Y. Subbarayalu is well known for his research on which region?
. ?
[Question ID = 10502]
1. Andhra/ [Option ID = 42002]
2. Karnataka/ [Option ID = 42003]
3. Tamilnadu/ [Option ID = 42004]
4. Kerala/ [Option ID = 42005]
Correct Answer :
Tamilnadu/ [Option ID = 42004]
35) Who is the author of Sudras in Ancient India?
' / ' ?
[Question ID = 10503]
1. R.S. Sharma/
[Option ID = 42006]
2. B.N.S. Yadava/. . .
[Option ID = 42007]
3. Lallanji Gopal/
[Option ID = 42008]
4. B.P. Mazumdar/..
[Option ID = 42009]
Correct Answer :
R.S. Sharma/
[Option ID = 42006]
36) What is the meaning of Anjuvannam?
?
[Question ID = 10504]
1. horse traders' association/
[Option ID = 42010]
2. trade guild/
[Option ID = 42011]
3. guild of agriculturists/
[Option ID = 42012]
4. bankers guild/
[Option ID = 42013]
Correct Answer :
trade guild/
[Option ID = 42011]
37) What kind of research do the Geniza records enable?
?
[Question ID = 10505]
1. rural history/ [Option ID = 42014]
2. history of courtesans/ [Option ID = 42015]
3. administrative history/ [Option ID = 42016]
4. history of trade./ [Option ID = 42017]
Correct Answer :
history of trade./ [Option ID = 42017]
38) Which scholar's work is vital to our understanding of the public sphere:
( ) :
[Question ID = 10506]
1. Michel Foucault/
[Option ID = 42018]
2. Emile Durkheim/
[Option ID = 42019]
3. Marcel Mauss/
[Option ID = 42020]
4. JurgenHabermas/
[Option ID = 42021]
Correct Answer :
JurgenHabermas/
[Option ID = 42021]
39) Which of these statements is false regarding the `lower castes' creation of alternate and empowering histories:
` ' :
[Question ID = 10507]
1. They claimed they were peasantwarriors./
[Option ID = 42022]
2. They claimed they were the original inhabitants of the land./
[Option ID = 42023]
3. They asserted that they were subjugated by upper caste Hindus through chicanery./
[Option ID = 42024]
4. They said they were the original Brahmins./
[Option ID = 42025]
Correct Answer :
They said they were the original Brahmins./
[Option ID = 42025]
40) The `Aini Akbari' is a part of which text?:
` ' ?
[Question ID = 10508]
1. Tabaqati Akbari/
[Option ID = 42026]
2. Akbar namah/
[Option ID = 42027]
3. Muntakhab ut tawarikh/
[Option ID = 42028]
4. MalfuzatiTimuri/
[Option ID = 42029]
Correct Answer :
Akbar namah/
[Option ID = 42027]
41) Which of the following was not a woman's magazine in Hindi in colonial north India?
?
[Question ID = 10509]
1. Stri Darpan/
[Option ID = 42030]
2. Chand/
[Option ID = 42031]
3. Grihalakshmi/
[Option ID = 42032]
4. Saraswati/
[Option ID = 42033]
Correct Answer :
Saraswati/
[Option ID = 42033]
42) Which of these movements found a dynamic leader in Achhutanand?
?
[Question ID = 10510]
1. Self Respect Movement/ ( )
[Option ID = 42034]
2. Nationalist Movement/
[Option ID = 42035]
3. Adi Hindu Movement/
[Option ID = 42036]
4. Communist Movement/
[Option ID = 42037]
Correct Answer :
Adi Hindu Movement/
[Option ID = 42036]
43) Who first discussed `Charkhinamas'?:
`' ?:
[Question ID = 10511]
1. Hasan Basri/ [Option ID = 42038]
2. Carl Ernst/ [Option ID = 42039]
3. K.A. Nizami/. . [Option ID = 42040]
4. Richard Eaton/ [Option ID = 42041]
Correct Answer :
Richard Eaton/ [Option ID = 42041]
44) What kind of text is the Akhbar alAkhyar?
?
[Question ID = 10512]
1. Malfuzat/
[Option ID = 42042]
2. Diwan/
[Option ID = 42043]
3. Tarikh/
[Option ID = 42044]
4. None of these /
[Option ID = 42045]
Correct Answer :
None of these /
[Option ID = 42045]
45) What was the name of Abu'l Fazl's brother?
?:
[Question ID = 10513]
1. Fazlur Rahman/ [Option ID = 42046]
2. Badauni/ [Option ID = 42047]
3. Abu'l Faiz/ [Option ID = 42048]
4. Abu'l Fath/ [Option ID = 42049]
Correct Answer :
Abu'l Faiz/ [Option ID = 42048]
46) Who was the editor of Delhi through the Ages?
?
[Question ID = 10514]
1. Irfan Habib/
[Option ID = 42050]
2. John F. Richards/ .
[Option ID = 42051]
3. R.E. Frykenberg/. .
[Option ID = 42052]
4. Barbara Metcalf/
[Option ID = 42053]
Correct Answer :
R.E. Frykenberg/. .
[Option ID = 42052]
47) Delhi was not the capital of which dynasty?
?
[Question ID = 10515]
1. Tomara/ [Option ID = 42054]
2. Chauhan/ [Option ID = 42055]
3. Khalaji/ [Option ID = 42056]
4. Tughluq/ [Option ID = 42057]
Correct Answer :
Chauhan/ [Option ID = 42055]
48) Match List I with List II
(I) (II) :
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
:
[Question ID = 11283]
1. A III , B I, C IV , D II
[Option ID = 45126]
2. A IV , B III, C II , D I
[Option ID = 45127]
3. A II, B IV, C I, D III
[Option ID = 45128]
4. A II, B III, C IV, D I
[Option ID = 45129]
Correct Answer :
A II, B III, C IV, D I
[Option ID = 45129]
49) Match List I with List II
(I) (II) :
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
:
[Question ID = 11284]
1. A II, B IV, C III, D I
[Option ID = 45130]
2. A III, B I, C II, D IV
[Option ID = 45131]
3. A II, B III, C I, D IV
[Option ID = 45132]
4. A IV, B II , C III, D I
[Option ID = 45133]
Correct Answer :
A II, B III, C I, D IV
[Option ID = 45132]
50) Match List I with List II
( A) ( B) ?
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
:
[Question ID = 11285]
1. A IV, B III, C I, D II
[Option ID = 45134]
2. A III, B I, C II, D IV
[Option ID = 45135]
3. A I, B III, C IV, D II
[Option ID = 45136]
4. A IV, B II, C III, D I
[Option ID = 45137]
Correct Answer :
A I, B III, C IV, D II
[Option ID = 45136]
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