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Previous Year Question Paper (2024) · DU & College · Reading the Archive
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This is the 2024 Semester Previous Year Question Paper for Reading the Archive — Delhi University DU & College under the UGCF/NEP framework. Free to view on Sulaksh.
Reading the Archive is a 2-credit Skill Enhancement Course (SEC) under Delhi University's UGCF 2022, taught in 2025-26 as a 1 lecture, 0 tutorial, 1 practical (2 credits) (p.1 credit table). As per the official syllabus on academicaffairs.du.ac.in, the course is organised as two parts — Unit 1 Theory (15 hours) Introduction to Primary Sources: Power and Memory in the Archive (with guided visit to National Archives of India/Delhi State Archives); and Unit 2 Practical/Projects (30 hours) with three research projects: 1) documentary archive (colonialism/nationalism — Risley/Gait Census or Champaran Indigo), 2) photography/visual archive, and 3) gender/law and the archive. Each project pairs a primary source with a historian's reading (e.g., Bernard Cohn on Census, Shahid Amin on Champaran) and includes archival visit (pp.2-3). 15 hours theory +30 hours practical; evaluation per University guidelines (p.2). Examiners penalise treating archives as neutral information; you must discuss authorship, representation, access and digitisation (Unit 1) and contextualise a chosen primary source with its secondary reading — not just summarise it. For revision, map each PYQ to its unit — middle units repeat most — and confirm your college's exact paper code before the exam, as SEC codes vary by theme (as of 12 Sept 2026).
This is the Reading the Archive - UPC 2316000002 | SEC | NOV-DEC-2024 | SET-1 | 30 marks — a Reading the Archive your semester previous year question paper.
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About this file: Reading the Archive · this semester · Nov–Dec (odd-semester). This PDF is 0.1 MB. It is one of 15 Reading the Archive this semester PYQ documents on Sulaksh — compare it with the others in the same folder to spot repeating questions.
Official: University of Delhi · DU Exam Portal · your college's Reading the Archive your semester handout.
Reading the Archive is a 2-credit Skill Enhancement Course (SEC) under Delhi University's UGCF 2022, taught in 2025-26 as a 1 lecture, 0 tutorial, 1 practical (2 credits) (p.1 credit table). As per the official syllabus on academicaffairs.du.ac.in, the course is organised as two parts — Unit 1 Theory (15 hours) Introduction to Primary Sources: Power and Memory in the Archive (with guided visit to National Archives of India/Delhi State Archives); and Unit 2 Practical/Projects (30 hours) with three research projects: 1) documentary archive (colonialism/nationalism — Risley/Gait Census or Champaran Indigo), 2) photography/visual archive, and 3) gender/law and the archive. Each project pairs a primary source with a historian's reading (e.g., Bernard Cohn on Census, Shahid Amin on Champaran) and includes archival visit (pp.2-3). 15 hours theory +30 hours practical; evaluation per University guidelines (p.2). Examiners penalise treating archives as neutral information; you must discuss authorship, representation, access and digitisation (Unit 1) and contextualise a chosen primary source with its secondary reading — not just summarise it. For revision, map each PYQ to its unit — middle units repeat most — and confirm your college's exact paper code before the exam, as SEC codes vary by theme (as of 12 Sept 2026).
Official sources: University of Delhi · DU Exam Portal · your college's Reading the Archive handout. Verify paper codes and units for your batch.
