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Using an example, describe adivasis internal colonialism.
Concept: Caste and Tribe – Systems Justifying and Perpetuating Inequality
The 1989 Prevention of Atrocities Act revised and strengthened the legal provisions punishing acts of violence or humiliation against Dalits and adivasis. Legislation on this subject was passed repeatedly.
Do you think state action alone can ensure social change? Give reasons for your answer.
Concept: Caste and Tribe – Systems Justifying and Perpetuating Inequality
What is communalism?
Concept: The Nation-state and Religion-related Issues and Identities
Can we apply the distinction between old and new social movements in the Indian context?
Concept: Regionalism in the Indian Context
Historically, states have tried to establish and enhance their political legitimacy through nation-building strategies. They sought to secure the loyalty and obedience of their citizens through policies of assimilation or integration. Attaining these objectives was not easy, especially in a context of cultural diversity where citizens, in addition to their identifications with their country, might also feel a strong sense of identity with their community - ethnic, religious, linguistic, and so on.
Two nation-building strategies used were ______.
Concept: Cultural Communities and the Nation-state
The challenge is in reinvigorating India’s commitment to practices ______.
Concept: Cultural Communities and the Nation-state
The state is indeed a very crucial institution when it comes to the management of cultural diversity in a nation. How?
Concept: Cultural Communities and the Nation-state
What is the difference between assimilationist and integrationist policies?
Concept: Cultural Communities and the Nation-state
Why is it hard to define a nation?
Concept: Cultural Communities and the Nation-state
A nation is a peculiar sort of community. Choose of the incorrect statement about the nation.
Concept: Cultural Communities and the Nation-state
To assert a single national identity by attempting to eliminate ethno-national and cultural differences from the public and political arena will be considered as a/an ______ policy.
Concept: Cultural Communities and the Nation-state
States are often doubtful of cultural diversity. State 2 reasons for the given statement.
Concept: Cultural Communities and the Nation-state
"The main criteria for inclusion in civil society are that the organisation should not be state controlled, and it should not be a purely commercial profit-making entity.", Discuss the given statement at length.
Concept: State and Civil Society
Cultural diversity can present tough challenges. Which of the following is not a reason for challenge?
Concept: Introduction to the Challenges of Cultural Diversity
Policies promoting integration involve ______.
Concept: Cultural Communities and the Nation-state
With an example show how being a minority group can be disadvantageous in one sense but not in another.
Concept: The Nation-state and Religion-related Issues and Identities
| Rabindranath Tagore on the evils of exclusive nationalism …where the spirit of the Western nationalism prevails, the whole people is being taught from boyhood to foster hatred and ambitions by all kinds of means -- by the manufacture of half-truths and untruths in history, by persistent misrepresentation of other races and the culture of unfavourable sentiments towards them…Never think for a moment that the hurt you inflict upon other races will not infect you, or that the enmities you sow around your homes will be a wall of protection to you for all time to come? To imbue the minds of a whole people with an abnormal vanity of its own superiority, to teach it to take pride in its moral callousness and I’ll be gotten wealth, to perpetuate humiliation of defeated nations by exhibiting trophies won from war, and using these schools in order to breed in children‟s minds contempt for others, is imitating the West where she has a festering sore… |
Read the passage and show any two ways in which exclusive nationalism is practiced.
Concept: The Nation-state and Religion-related Issues and Identities
Is statehood always based on linguistic identity? Give reasons for your answer.
Concept: Regionalism in the Indian Context
A model of the South Asian colonial city
The European town…had spacious bungalows, elegant apartment houses, planned streets, trees on both sides of the street,…clubs for afternoon and evening get togethers…The open space was reserved for…Western recreational facilities, such as race and golf courses, soccer and cricket. When domestic water supply, electric connections, and sewage links were available or technically possible, the European town residents utilised them fully, whereas their use was quite restricted to the native town.
Read the source and answer the following question.
Did the model of the South Asian colonial city cater to the needs of the natives? Give a reason for your answer.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
While a few villages are totally absorbed in the process of expansion, only the land of many others, excluding the inhabited area, is used for urban development.
The growth of ______ cities accounts for the third type of urban impact on the surrounding villages.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
