1. What is the prominent factor which caused to emergence of village society in India
Correct : A. agricultural economy
2. …………..is the major feature of rural society
Correct : B. homogeneity
3. Which is the living system end with the emergence of agricultural society
Correct : A. nomadic mode of collective living
4. What are the three types of agricultural production techniques as mentioned in history
Correct : D. hoe culture, plough culture & tractors and fertilizers.
5. What is one of the institution among the institutions related to the term family, which are
identified by Rivers
Correct : A. clan
6. Self sufficiency is the major characteristics of ………………
Correct : C. rural society
7. Which is the land settlement system established by Lord Cornvallis in 1793
Correct : B. permanent land settlement system.
8. To know about sanskritisation M.N. Srinivas made his study in..........
Correct : D. coorgs
9. Which was the land revenue introduced by Cornwallis in 1793 through Permanent
Settlement Act.
Correct : A. zamindari system
10. When did the Caste Disabilities Removal act established?
Correct : C. 1850
11. Which were the provinces where the permanent land settlement system introduced?
Correct : D. bengal, bihar, orissa and varanasi
12. Who were recognized as the owners of land in permanent land settlement system
Correct : B. zamindars
13. What was the main intension of British people to introduce land revenue system in India
Correct : C. collect the revenue for their profit
14. Who introduced Ryotwari Land settlement system in India?
Correct : A. thomas munro
15. When did the Ryotwari Land settlement system introduced in India?
Correct : D. 1820
16. Who established the Sathya Sodhak Samaj?
Correct : B. jyothi rao phule
17. What is known as a living system followed by a family after the marriage husband and
wife lives in wife’s family?
Correct : C. matrilocal
18. Who use the Marxian theory while analyzing the Indian class structure in agrarian
relation?
Correct : D. a r desai
19. What is the peculiarity of Asiatic feudal economy?
Correct : A. lack of private property
20. ................ who own but do not cultivate land
Correct : B. landlords
21. Indian rural economy was a ……………….economy
Correct : D. mixed
22. ………..is the process of destruction of the old handicraft industry without commensurate
the growth of modern industry.
Correct : C. de-industrialization
23. Who wrote the famous work “Social Background of Indian Nationalism”?
Correct : A. akshay ramanlal desai
24. ……….has pointed out the different phases of Indian nationalism
Correct : D. a r desai
25. How many phases of the growth of Indian Nationalism are identified by A R Desai?
Correct : B. five
26. What is the peculiarity of the first phase of Indian nationalism?
Correct : A. social base is very narrow.
27. When did the first phase of the emergence of Indian nationalism?
Correct : C. 1885
28. When did the second phase of the emergence of Indian nationalism?
Correct : B. 1885-1905
29. When did the third phase of the emergence of Indian nationalism extended?
Correct : A. 1905-1918
30. When did the fourth phase of the emergence of Indian nationalism?
Correct : C. 1918-1934
31. When did the fifth phase of the emergence of Indian nationalism?
Correct : D. 1934-1939
32. What is the peculiarity of second phase of Indian nationalism?
Correct : A. social base is extended
33. What is the factor which influences the social base of the second phase of Indian
nationalism?
Correct : B. intellectuals and educated middle class
34. Which phase of Indian nationalism characterized by the emergence of terrorist
movement?
Correct : D. second phase
35. Where did A R Desai born?
Correct : A. nadiad
36. When did the work Social background of Indian Nationalism published?
Correct : C. 1948
37. How many stages of development of sociology in India are identified by Ramakrishna
Mukhejee?
Correct : B. three
38. Which is the prominent work written by Abul fazal influence the emergence of sociology
in India?
Correct : C. jizhiya
39. Which is the first stage of the development of sociology in India as specified by R K
Mukherjee?
Correct : D. developmental and scientific
40. Which is the second stage of the development of sociology in India as conceptualized by
R K Mukherjee?
Correct : A. pro-professional stage
41. ……….is the stage characterizes period of the data collection, description, and
explanation which are of sociological importance but not yet used for the consolidation of
a distinct branch of knowledge.
Correct : B. protoprofessional
42. Who is popularly known as the father of Indian sociology?
Correct : D. g s ghurye
43. What is the full name of G S Ghurye
Correct : B. govind sadashiv ghurye
44. Who wrote the famous book “Caste and Class in India”?
Correct : A. g s ghurye
45. Patrick Geddes was a …………..sociologist
Correct : D. scottish
46. Who is known as the doyen of Indian sociologists?
Correct : B. g s ghurye
47. Which is an approach relate phenomena to the context?
Correct : C. contextualization
48. Which is the prominent view relate to contextualization?
Correct : D. field view
49. What is the primary advantage of field view as compared to book view?
Correct : A. field view reflect the reality
50. When did the indigenization of social sciences started?
Correct : B. post-colonial era
51. ………….assumes that historically Indian society and culture are unique.
Correct : A. indological approach
52. ………..is an approach which helps to understand the uniqueness or specificity of Indian
social realities with the help of ancient texts
Correct : D. indological approach
53. What is another name of Indological approach?
Correct : A. textual perspective
54. ................ who look upon agriculture as a business proposition
Correct : B. rich farmers
55. Who cultivate their own land and hire labourers only for certain operations or at certain
points of time.
Correct : C. middle peasants
56. ............ 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
57. Who made the classic study India as a secular state
Correct : D. donald eugine smith
58. ................. 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 : A. communalism
59. Who among the following wrote the book 'Indian Village'?
Correct : A. s c dube
60. The concept of 'Dominant Caste' first appeared in the book……………..
Correct : C. remembered village
61. Who wrote the book ho*mo hierarchicus
Correct : B. louis dumont
62. A.R. Desai Social change refers to change in………………….
Correct : B. structure of society
63. Cultural traits are acquired through……………………
Correct : D. socialization
64. Who among the following sociologists has considered purity and pollution as the primary
characteristic of the caste system?
Correct : C. louis dumont
65. With whom among the following are the concepts Universalization and Parochialization
associated?
Correct : A. mckim marriot
66. What is the meaning of Great tradition?
Correct : A. elite culture
67. What is the meaning of Little tradition?
Correct : C. folk culture
68. Which are the two types of pollution conceptualized by Louis Dumont?
Correct : B. permanent and temporary
69. Which is a situation produced the temporary pollution?
Correct : A. child birth
70. Which is the central characteristic of caste system as mentioned by Dumont?
Correct : B. pollution
71. Under………………society is divided into several small social group called caste
Correct : C. caste system
72. The caste can be graded and arranged into a hierarchy on the basis of their …………….
Correct : D. social precedence
73. The hierarchy present in the caste system is reflected through …………..in society
Correct : A. division of labour
74. Civil and religious disabilities of caste system are reflected through ………………….
Correct : D. unequal distribution of disabilities and privileges
75. What is a major civil and religious disability practiced related with caste system?
Correct : C. restriction on taking water from public well
76. Which is known as the rule followed by the caste members should marry within their
own caste?
Correct : B. endogamy
77. Who wrote the work The Remembered Village?
Correct : D. m n srinivas
78. Who introduces the concept of Brahmanization?
Correct : A. m n srinivas
79. Which was the work of Srinivas define sanskritisation?
Correct : C. social change in modern india
80. Sanskritisation promotes…………….
Correct : B. structural mobility
81. The Indian sociologist who does not sympathize with the Marxian perspective was
……….
Correct : A. m n srinivas
82. Who among the following the prominent advocators of structural-functionalist approach
in Indian sociology
Correct : D. m n srinivas & s c dube
83. Where did Shyam Charan Dube born?
Correct : B. narsinghpur
84. S C Dube applied structural-functional approach for studying the ………………
Correct : A. indian village community
85. Which is the prominent village near Hyderabad studied by Dube
Correct : C. shamirpet
86. Which is the tribal group studied by Dube?
Correct : A. the kamar
87. Who wrote the work Indian Village?
Correct : D. s c dube
88. Who wrote the book entitled as India’s changing Villages?
Correct : C. s c dube
89. Which work of Dube described about the how villages can be seen in diversifies
framework?
Correct : B. indian village
90. Cultural approach is otherwise known as ……………….
Correct : A. civilizational approach
91. Who is the sociologist firstly designed civilizational perspective?
Correct : A. robert redfield
92. Which is the prominent approach analyzed the growth and development of society from
its original core to the modern form through assimilation or acculturation?
Correct : B. civilizational perspective
93. Which is the study of Redfield applied civilizational perspective?
Correct : C. study about mexican village community
94. ……………society is small, isolated, non-literate and socially homogeneous
Correct : A. folk
95. Through the civilizational approach Redfield analyzed…………….
Correct : D. folk-urban continuum
96. Which is the main conceptual framework made by Singer and Marriot to explain the
civilizational perspective?
Correct : C. little and great tradition
97. Which are the two stages of growth of civilization put forwarded by Yogendra Singh?
Correct : A. indigenous and western
98. Which is the conceptual framework of evolutionary model put forwarded by Surajith
Sinha for explaining civilizational approach?
Correct : B. primitive-caste-elite continuum
99. Which is the prominent approach concentrates on the idea that every system has a clear
structure which is arranged in an orderly manner and it functions for the maintenance of
system as a whole.
Correct : D. socio-cultural perspective
100. Who wrote the book “Social change in Modern India”?