Spinning Clio : Where History and Politics Meet: Introduction to Historical Method: Index

Spinning Clio : Where History and Politics Meet: Introduction to Historical Method: Index

The Student of History UGC Net find this posting useful for Methodology in history and Philosophy of History.There is subjective questions on this part. It is a compulsory question.

In the referred link, one will find four lectures of good quality. However, those lectures/ notes are different from what one can find in B. Sheik Ali book.The notes also mention Heruistic methods, which I was not able to understand when I cleared JRF in 1992.

The articles also mention such steps which one may not find explained as such in Indian books.On the whole they are very brief but quite effective. They are good for preparing notes.However, as it is a general trend, there are questions which include some quotation about the philosophy of history and for that one should refer to B. Sheik Ali or any other book which they study for the paper.

One can also imbibe and comprehend all the four articles. They can be quite useful in writing small essays during interviews for Lecturership as it is done at many places. One can also perpare good answers for interviews because, apart from asking question on the field of your interest, generaly, the interviews also try to check the philosophical understanding of the subject. One can answer it well if one understand that what are steps that are adopting while undertaking a research in history. If one appears for University post, one can expect to get question on methodology in history. At university level, the interviewers mostly ask questions on research methodology and new trends in historiography (like, they ask about post modernism) apart from grilling you on the field on your interest.