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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 ...........
Mysore
Coorgs
Banglore
None of these
2. Caste is an ............... Group
Universal
Open
Endogamous
None of these
3. Caste system is often regarded as a ..........
Endogamous
open group
Closed society
social group
4. who wrote the book ?Religion and society among the Coorgs?
Max Weber
Durkheim
Page
M.N. Sreenivas
5. The term Brahminisation means?
Westernisation
Modernisation
Sanskritlization
None of these
6. refers to the changes brought about in Indian Society and culture as a result of over 150 years of British rule
Westernisation
Modernisation
Brahminisation
None of these
7. is a process which indicates the adoption of the modern ways of life and values
Industrialization
Modernisation
Westernisation
None of these
8. Who wrote the book Social change in modern India
M.N. Sreenivas
E.A.H. Blunt
Ketkar
Risley
9. is a broader term and it can subsume in itself the narrower process of brahminisation
Industrialization
Westernisation
Modernisation
Sanskritization
10. Who critcied the concept of modernisation?
Yogendra Singh
M.N. Sreenivas
Ram Ahuja
Page
11. defends the concept of modernisation?
Yogendra Singh
Ketkar
Ketkar
Gait
12. Who wrote the book Indian Social System?
Mac Iver
H. Maine
Ram Ahuja
None of these
13. Who introduced the modern secular education in India?
Portuguese
Arabians
Duch
British
14. Who coined the term Dominant Caste?
Anderson
Parker
T.N. Majundar
M.N. Sreenivas
15. When a special role is given to the father?s sister, it is known as ............
Avoidance
Amitate
Couvade
Tecknonymy
16. usage is found among many primitive tribes
Couvade
Teknonymy
Amitate
None of these
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 ......
Kinship
Family
Marriage
None of these
18. The kin is not referred to directly but he is referred to through another kin is called
Avunclate
Tecknonymy
Amitate
Joking relationship
19. Who use the word Tecknonymy in Antropology for the first time?
Tylor
Clare
Murdock
Durkheim
20. The word tecknonymy has been came from ......................
Greek
Latin
Spanish
None of these
21. means that the two kin should remain away from each other
Amitate
Avunclate
Avoidance
None of these
22. The term uncle is a ................ system.
Classificatory system
Descriptive
Kinship
None of these
23. Who established the Sathya Sodhak Samaj?
Jyothi Rao Phooley
Vivekanandan
Dayananda Saraswathi
Rajaram Mohan Roy
24. Who lounched the movement against the Brahmin Supermacy
Vivekanandan
Jyothi Rao Phooley
Dayananda Saraswathi
Rajaram Mohan Roy
25. When did the Caste Disabilities Removal act established?
1931
1879
1872
1873
26. M.N. Sreenivas considered the term modernisation is more .............
Subjective
Objective
Preferable
None of these
27. refers to the unprecedented growth and expansion of industries
Urbanisation
Modernisation
Industrialisation
Westernisation
28. The word Harijan means ..................
Children of god
Children of the state
Brahmins
None of these
29. Caste and occupation are two structural Criteria which we could use to define the term
Brahmin
Kshathriya
Vyshya
Backward class
30. Untouchables who are now known as ...................
Scheduled caste
Scheduled Tribe
Other backward class
None of these
31. Who use the Marxian theory while analysing the Indian class structure in agrarian relation
A.R. Desai
Pager
Mac Iver
Dhurkhiem
32. who own but do not cultivate land
Poor peasants
Rich farmers
Landlords
Middle peasants
33. who look upon agriculture as a business proposition
landless agricultural workers
Middle peasants
Landlords
Rich famers
34. who cultivate their own land and hire labourers only for certain operations or at certain points of time
landlords
tenants
Middle peasants
artisans
35. Who described communalism as the Indian version of fascism?
Gandhi
Nehru
Ambedkar
Balagangadhar Thilak
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
secularism
Regionalism
Communalism
None of these
37. Who put forward the word secularism?
Ram Ahuja
Abdul Ahamed
Bipin Chandra
George Jacob Holyoake
38. refers to the process of growth and expansion of cities
Industralization
Urbanisation
Modernisation
None of these
39. The word ................ is used for the untouchables ill-treated and humiliated castes
Scheduled Caste
Scheduled Tribe
Dalit
OBC
40. is one who is culturally, socially, economically and politically supressed and exploited in the name of religion
Dalith
Other backward class
Untouchables
None of these
41. Who called the name Harijan was given to the Untouchables
Nehru
Nadabai Navaroji
Ambedkar
Ghandhi
42. The word secularism is came from ....................
Portuguese
Greek
Latin
Spanish
43. Who made the classic study India as a secular state
Shankar Rao
Mac Iver
Page
Donald Eugene smith
44. The main thrust of the new economic policy is
globalization
liberalization
privatization
westernisation
45. Who started liberalization?
Manmohan Singh
A.B Vajpayee
Pranab Mukharji
Pranab Mukharji
46. Liberalization of economy means?
Market friendly state
Controlled by private sector
Dergulation of licenses
All the above
47. Which article provides a citizen of India, shall not discriminate against anyone on the basis of religion, caste, sex
Article 15
Article 17
Article 28
Article 27
48. Article gives the freedom to all religions to set up trusts and institutions and acquire property & manage their own affairs
Article 325
Article 28
Article 326
None of these
49. is a feeling or an ideology among a section of people
Regionalism
Dravida movement
Communalism
Secularism
50. movement initially focused on empowering delith, non brahmin?s & poor peoples
Dalith
Dravida
Bodomovement
Thelungana
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