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Trends in Historical Thought and Writing
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Trends in Historical Thought and Writing
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1. ....................is an Indian historian and is the author of ‘Swadeshi Movement’.
2. ................. New Science (1725) offered an interpretation of history that turned on the idea of a universal human nature and a universal history .
3. .................. received Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2009 for his contributions to academia.
4. ..............was the founder of the Mughal Empire in India (1526)
5. The Archaeology of Knowledge is a book by the French philosopher ................
6. The philosopher of science ...............stimulated analytic philosophers' interest in historical knowledge in his essay, “The Function of General Laws in History” (1942).
7. ...............has been reputed as the Father of Experimental Science"."
8. In Marxist theory, the civil sense of the term Subaltern was first used by the Italian Communist intellectual ............ , possibly as a synonym for the proletariat.
9. Oswald Spengler was a …………..philosopher and mathematician.
10. In 1814, ...............entered the University of Leipzig, where his subjects were Classics and Lutheran theology.
11. In 1978 ....................published The Poverty of Theory which attacked the structuralist Marxism.
12. ‘The Use of History’ was written by ...........
13. The first comprehensive history of India entitled History of British India (1818), was written by ......................
14. ................ preferred form of government was constitutional monarchy, which existed in France before Louis XIV .
15. ...................has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy'.
16. "Who is the Author of what is History?"
17. ‘History of the Greco-Persian Wars’ is the work of ...................
18. ................. is a Joint-editor of Baromash, a biannual Bengali literary journal published from Calcutta.
19. Nature of History was written by ................
20. In ‘On Realism in Art’ Roman ............... argues that literature does not exist as a separate entity.
21. The history of sexuality was treated in depth by the French philosopher ................ in his final work, the multi-volume Histoire de la sexualité.
22. .............wrote ‘The French Revolution: A History’ (3 volumes, 1837), as a historical study concerning oppression of the poor, which was immediately successful.
23. ............... is the the famous author of the monumental classic Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan.
24. Johann Gottfried Herder argues for the historical contextuality of human nature in his work,Ideas for the Philosophy of History of Humanity (1791).
25. Geist is a central concept in ................ The Phenomenology of Spirit .