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How has liberalisation impacted the employment patterns in India? Mention any two ways.
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In the first phase of the Green Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, the introduction of new technology seemed to be increasing inequalities in rural society. Mention two ways by which inequalities increased.
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Very often family is a site of bitter conflicts. Give two reasons to justify the statement.
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Explain the phenomenon of Modernity as given by Rudolph and Rudolph.
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Sanskritisation seems to justify a model that rests on inequality and exclusion. Explain this model.
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Who wrote the book 'Sultana's Dream'? Why is this a remarkable story?
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Assertion (A): The impact of Sanskritisation is many sided.
Reason (R): Its influence can be seen in language, literature, ideology, music, dance, drama, style of life and ritual.
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Introduction of machinery such as tillers, tractors, threshers and harvesters led to the ______.
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What is meant by 'Great Tradition?
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With an example show how being a minority group can be disadvantageous in one sense but not in another.
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Westernization gave rise to the formation of a sub-culture of Indian intellectuals. Give two characteristics of this sub-cultural group.
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The family is linked to the economic sphere. Highlight the link using any two scenarios.
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| 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.
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“It is often assumed that social reform for women’s rights was entirely fought for by male reformers and that ideas of women’s equality are alien imports.” Is this true or false? Give reasons for your answer.
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Based on the given Population Pyramids of India for the year 2026 and 2050, answer the following questions.
- What is demographic dividend?
- What do you infer, on comparing the given graphics for the age group of 55-59 and 60-64
- What, according to you, are the implications of this inference?
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“Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s brought about significant changes in the areas where it took place. The Green Revolution, as you know, was a government programme of agricultural modernisation. It was largely funded by international agencies that was based on providing high-yielding variety(HYV) or hybrid seeds along with pesticides, fertilisers, and other inputs, to farmers.”
Was Green Revolution always accompanied by positive social effects? Give reasons for your answer.
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“The structure of the family can be studied both as a social institution in itself and also in its relationship to other social institutions of society.” Elaborate.
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Kumudtai’s journey into Sanskrit began with great interest and eagerness with Gokhale Guruji, her teacher at school… At the University, the Head of the Department was a well-known scholar and he took great pleasure in taunting Kumudtai…Despite the adverse comments she successfully completed her Masters in Sanskrit…. Source: Kumud Pawade (1938)
What does Kumud Pawade’s autobiography show us about the relation between gender and caste?
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What is meant by the ‘sex ratio’? What are some of the implications of a declining sex ratio? Do you feel that parents still prefer to have sons rather than daughters? What, in your opinion, could be some of the reasons for this preference?
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In what sense can one say that ‘disability’ is as much a social as a physical thing?
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