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Social Structure and change in India Part 3

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1. To know about sanskritization M.N. Srreenivas made his study in ...........




2. Caste is an ............... Group




3. Caste system is often regarded as a ..........




4. who wrote the book ?Religion and society among the Coorgs?




5. The term Brahminisation means?




6. refers to the changes brought about in Indian Society and culture as a result of over 150 years of British rule




7. is a process which indicates the adoption of the modern ways of life and values




8. Who wrote the book Social change in modern India




9. is a broader term and it can subsume in itself the narrower process of brahminisation




10. Who critcied the concept of modernisation?




11. defends the concept of modernisation?




12. Who wrote the book Indian Social System?




13. Who introduced the modern secular education in India?




14. Who coined the term Dominant Caste?




15. When a special role is given to the father?s sister, it is known as ............




16. usage is found among many primitive tribes




17. The marriage assigns each mother a husband and makes her children thereby creating a special group of father mother and children, which we call ......




18. The kin is not referred to directly but he is referred to through another kin is called




19. Who use the word Tecknonymy in Antropology for the first time?




20. The word tecknonymy has been came from ......................




21. means that the two kin should remain away from each other




22. The term uncle is a ................ system.




23. Who established the Sathya Sodhak Samaj?




24. Who lounched the movement against the Brahmin Supermacy




25. When did the Caste Disabilities Removal act established?




26. M.N. Sreenivas considered the term modernisation is more .............




27. refers to the unprecedented growth and expansion of industries




28. The word Harijan means ..................




29. Caste and occupation are two structural Criteria which we could use to define the term




30. Untouchables who are now known as ...................




31. Who use the Marxian theory while analysing the Indian class structure in agrarian relation




32. who own but do not cultivate land




33. who look upon agriculture as a business proposition




34. who cultivate their own land and hire labourers only for certain operations or at certain points of time




35. Who described communalism as the Indian version of fascism?




36. has become an essential for modern democratic nation states to ensure a strong sense of identification whether the polity based on a commonsense of identity




37. Who put forward the word secularism?




38. refers to the process of growth and expansion of cities




39. The word ................ is used for the untouchables ill-treated and humiliated castes




40. is one who is culturally, socially, economically and politically supressed and exploited in the name of religion




41. Who called the name Harijan was given to the Untouchables




42. The word secularism is came from ....................




43. Who made the classic study India as a secular state




44. The main thrust of the new economic policy is




45. Who started liberalization?




46. Liberalization of economy means?




47. Which article provides a citizen of India, shall not discriminate against anyone on the basis of religion, caste, sex




48. Article gives the freedom to all religions to set up trusts and institutions and acquire property & manage their own affairs




49. is a feeling or an ideology among a section of people




50. movement initially focused on empowering delith, non brahmin?s & poor peoples