1. To know about sanskritization M.N. Srreenivas made his study in ...........
Correct : B. Coorgs
2. Caste is an ............... group
Correct : C. Endogamous
3. Caste system is often regarded as a ..........
Correct : C. Closed society
4. who wrote the book “Religion and society among the Coorgs”
Correct : D. M.N. Sreenivas
5. The term Brahminisation means?
Correct : C. Sanskritlization
6. .......... refers to the changes brought about in Indian Society and culture as a result of over
150 years of British rule
Correct : A. Westernisation
7. .................. is a process which indicates the adoption of the modern ways of life and values
Correct : B. Modernisation
8. Who wrote the book Social change in modern India
Correct : A. M.N. Sreenivas
9. ................. is a broader term and it can subsume in itself the narrower process of
brahminisation
Correct : D. Sanskritization
10. Who critcied the concept of modernisation?
Correct : B. M.N. Sreenivas
11. ........... defends the concept of modernisation?
Correct : A. Yogendra Singh
12. Who wrote the book Indian Social System?
Correct : C. Ram Ahuja
13. Who introduced the modern secular education in India?
Correct : D. British
14. Who coined the term Dominant Caste?
Correct : D. M.N. Sreenivas
15. When a special role is given to the father’s sister, it is known as ............
Correct : B. Amitate
16. ............... usage is found among many primitive tribes
Correct : A. Couvade
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 ......
Correct : B. Family
18. The kin is not referred to directly but he is referred to through another kin is called
Correct : B. Tecknonymy
19. Who use the word Tecknonymy in Antropology for the first time?
Correct : A. Tylor
20. The word tecknonymy has been came from ......................
Correct : A. Greek
21. ................. means that the two kin should remain away from each other
Correct : C. Avoidance
22. The term uncle is a ................ system.
Correct : A. Classificatory system
23. Who established the Sathya Sodhak Samaj?
Correct : A. Jyothi Rao Phooley
24. Who lounched the movement against the Brahmin Supermacy
Correct : D. Rajaram Mohan Roy
25. When did the Caste Disabilities Removal act established?
Correct : C. 1872
26. M.N. Sreenivas considered the term modernisation is more .............
Correct : A. Subjective
27. ....... refers to the unprecedented growth and expansion of industries
Correct : C. Industrialisation
28. The word Harijan means ..................
Correct : A. Children of god
29. Caste and occupation are two structural Criteria which we could use to define the term
Correct : D. Backward class
30. Untouchables who are now known as ...................
Correct : A. Scheduled caste
31. Who use the Marxian theory while analysing the Indian class structure in agrarian relation
Correct : A. A.R. Desai
32. ................ who own but do not cultivate land
Correct : C. Landlords
33. ................ who look upon agriculture as a business proposition
Correct : D. Rich famers
34. ............ who cultivate their own land and hire labourers only for certain operations or at
certain points of time
Correct : C. Middle peasants
35. Who described communalism as the Indian version of fascism?
Correct : B. Nehru
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
Correct : A. secularism
37. Who put forward the word secularism?
Correct : D. George Jacob Holyoake
38. ..................... refers to the process of growth and expansion of cities
Correct : B. Urbanisation
39. The word ................ is used for the untouchables ill-treated and humiliated castes
Correct : C. Dalit
40. ................. is one who is culturally, socially, economically and politically supressed and
exploited in the name of religion
Correct : C. Untouchables
41. Who called the name Harijan was given to the Untouchables
Correct : D. Ghandhi
42. The word secularism is came from ....................
Correct : C. Latin
43. Who made the classic study India as a secular state
Correct : D. Donald Eugene smith
44. The main thrust of the new economic policy is .
Correct : B. liberalization
45. .Who started liberalization?
Correct : A. Manmohan Singh
46. Liberalization of economy means?
Correct : D. All the above
47. Which article provides a citizen of India, shall not discriminate against anyone on the basis
of religion, caste, sex
Correct : A. Article 15
48. ............ Article gives the freedom to all religions to set up trusts and institutions and acquire
property & manage their own affairs
Correct : B. Article 28
49. ............ is a feeling or an ideology among a section of people
Correct : A. Regionalism
50. ........... movement initially focused on empowering delith, non brahmin’s & poor peoples
Correct : B. Dravida
51. Which article provides a citizen of India to move freely thought out the territory of India
Correct : D. Article 19
52. Liberalization was launched in .
Correct : A. 1991
53. What are the main two sectors in Indian economy?
Correct : A. rural-non rural
54. In which year was the new scheme of firka development scheme started?
Correct : B. 1947
55. Any organisation that is under government ownership and control is called ..................
Correct : C. Public Sector
56. ................. is an ideology which states that society is divided in to religious communities those interest differ and one at times, even opposed to each other
Correct : C. Communalism
57. . ………….. was the first state to establish Panchayati Raj
Correct : C. Rajasthan
58. When was Panchayati Raj system inaugurated?
Correct : B. 1959
59. The twenty-point economic program was introduced on .
Correct : B. 1975
60. Urban development is a major area affecting .
Correct : A. Human life
61. Privatization is a approach.
Correct : A. managerial approach
62. Macaulay’s minute was in the year of .
Correct : B. 1835
63. Wood’s despatch was introduced by .
Correct : B. Sir Charles Wood
64. .All-India council for secondary education was set up in .
Correct : A. 1955
65. The first educational commission was appointed by
Correct : A. Lord Ripon
66. The economic development of a country depends upon the and ______
Correct : A. Availability of rich nature resources and efficient man power
67. What is the manifest in the increasing contribution of an urban sector?
Correct : A. To National Income
68. ……is the part of the development process.
Correct : C. Urbanization
69. The economic development is in two ways. Which is that way?
Correct : A. Urbanization and Industrialization
70. ……..act is an important land mark in the history of Indian education.
Correct : B. Charter Act
71. Who declared the medium of Indian education should be English?
Correct : B. Charles Wood
72. Which commission suggested the women education for the first time?
Correct : A. Wood’s Despatch
73. The first education commission of post independent period in India?
Correct : A. Radakrishnan Commission
74. What are the schemes introduced by the Government of India to remove unemployment?
Correct : D. All of the above
75. Privatization as the process whereby the public operations are transferred to the private
sector, who defined it?
Correct : A. Barbara Lee
76. Privatization established in .
Correct : C. 1980
77. The growth of the………. is assumed to be very important in the Indian economy.
Correct : B. public sector
78. What are the main advantages of privatization?
Correct : C. both
79. Charter act was in the year .
Correct : C. 1813
80. In which year the first five year plan inaugurated?
Correct : B. 1951
81. The first five year plans framed by …
Correct : B. Planning Commission
82. The twenty-point economic programme was introduced by?
Correct : A. Indira Gandhi
83. The first five year plans gives much importance to sector?
Correct : B. Agriculture
84. The first five year plan for the development of Indian economy came into implementation in
Correct : A. 1952
85. The history of Indian economy can be broadly divided in to phase.
Correct : B. 3
86. Urban infrastructure services are provided by .
Correct : C. Local level agencies
87. Which type of society has more possibility for individual social mobility?
Correct : D. Class based society
88. Sociological concept which is most closely related to social inequality is
Correct : D. Social stratification
89. Globalization promotes.
Correct : C. Economy
90. Social change is responsible for–
Correct : D. All the above
91. Whose theory is known as functional theory of social stratification?
Correct : C. Davis and Moore
92. An unskilled worker becomes semiskilled and skilled. What type of mobility is this ?
Correct : C. Vertical social mobility
93. Who gave the name Asiatic Society in his Classification of Societies?
Correct : D. Marx
94. The book 'The People of India' has been written by–
Correct : A. Risley
95. Who has written the book 'Races and Culture of India' ?
Correct : C. N. Majumdar
96. The network of patterned human behaviour that is the product of interaction and that at the
same time, guides interaction is called–
Correct : B. Social system
97. Who explain “the city is a relatively large, dense and permanent settlement of socially
heterogeneous individuals”.
Correct : A. Louis Wirth
98. _________ is the major feature of urban society?
Correct : B. Social heterogeneity
99. According to whom culture is the memory of the human race?
Correct : D. G.S. Ghurye
100. To which one of the following the process of Sanskritization is related?