Deck 6: Anthropology and Social Issues in India

Question 1

In opinion of M N Srinivas …………is the microcosm of Indian society and civilization

A)village
B)caste
C)urban
D)rural

Answer 1

village

Question 2

……………. is the process of treating all the religion in India as equal and neutral.

A)democracy
B)secularization
C)equalization
D)homo equals

Answer 2

secularization

Question 3

Who opined that villages are semi-autonomous

A)s c dube
B)andre beteille
C)m n srinivas
D)g s ghurye

Answer 3

s c dube

Question 4

Who studied Shamirpet village in Madhya Pradesh

A)a m shah
B)m n srinivas
C)s c dube
D)mckim marriot

Question 5

M N Srinivas opined that all changes in society are reflected through the transformation in …………

A)institution
B)caste structure
C)social structure
D)village structure

Question 6

What is the base of social change in the opinion of M N Srinivas?

A)cultural mobility
B)caste mobility
C)structural mobility
D)social mobility

Question 7

Who is the prominent Anthropologist studied the Juang tribe in Chottanagpur

A)g s ghurye
B)irawati karve
C)n k bose
D)surajith chandra sinha

Question 8

Evolutionary growth of tribal societies occurring through the intensity of the relationship between ………………

A)tribal communities and non-tribal societies
B)tribal communities and wider societies
C)western societies and tribal communities
D)tribal communities and other tribal societies

Question 9

Who advocated that India would be truly independent only when the poorest of its people become free of human suffering?

A)jawhar lal nehru
B)rabindranth tagore
C)mahatma gandhi
D)jayaprakash narayanan

Question 10

Which one of the following program was launched in the year of 2000?

A)national rural livelihood mission
B)the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act
C)pradhan mantri awaas yojna- gramin
D)pradhan mantri gramodaya yojana

Question 11

Which among the following is the method to estimate the poverty line in India?

A)tax method
B)income method
C)census method
D)sampling method

Question 12

Women and children under the age of five are food insecure population due to?

A)unemployment
B)unequal distribution
C)malnutrition
D)poverty

Question 13

Which one of the social group is volunerable to poverty?

A)other backward caste
B)scheduled caste
C)marginalized
D)minority

Question 14

Where is the contradiction of tradition and modernity ends up in opinion of Mukherjee?

A)conflict & synthesis
B)conflict & contradiction
C)conflict & contravention
D)assimilation & accommodation

Question 15

Who coined the term subaltern?

A)georg simmel
B)antonio gramsci
C)ambedkar
D)david hardiman

Question 16

Which is the work of Gramsci firstly mentioned the term subaltern?

A)media and cultural studies
B)the antonio gramsci
C)prison notebooks
D)the southern question

Question 17

When did the term subaltern get popularized?

A)with the development of colonial studies
B)with the british administration
C)post- independence period
D)modern period

Question 18

Where is the birthplace of David Hardiman?

A)nadiad
B)chandannagar
C)ganeshgudi
D)rawalpindi

Question 19

Which is the work of Hardiman applied the subaltern perspective?

A)histories for the subordinate
B)the coming of devi
C)peasant resistance in india
D)subaltern studies

Question 20

How Ambedkar called Dalits?

A)antya
B)scheduled caste
C)untouchables
D)aadhya

Question 21

Why Ambedkar called Dalits as Antya?

A)they are arranged in lower part of hierarchy
B)they coming from last
C)they live at the end of village
D)they live in outskirts of village

Question 22

……………refers to the inability of an individual to secure basic needs even in social surroundings of general prosperity

A)relative poverty
B)case poverty
C)absolute poverty
D)poverty