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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
Compare the impact of just-in-time for the company vis-à-vis the worker.
Concept: Class Based Movements
Jharkhand is one of the newly formed states of India, carved out of south Bihar in the year 2000. Describe the social movement that led to the creation of this state.
Concept: The Tribal Movements
Using an example, explain an ecological movement.
Concept: Ecological Movements
The Right to Information campaign is an example of ______.
Concept: Types of Social Movements
Differentiate between old and new social movements.
Concept: Types of Social Movements
| “…The contractors’ men who were travelling to Reni from Joshimath stopped the bus shortly before Reni. Skirting the village, they made for the forest. A small girl who spied on the workers with their implements rushed to Gaura Devi, the head of the village Mahila Mandal (Women’s Club). Gaura Devi quickly mobilised the other housewives and went to the forest. Pleading with the labourers not to start felling operations, the women initially met with abuse and threats. When the women refused to budge, the men were eventually forced to retire.” |
How are environmental movements also about economics and identity issues? Elaborate.
Concept: Ecological Movements
| A social movement requires sustained collective action over time. Such action is often directed against the state and takes the form of demanding changes in state policy or practice. Spontaneous and disorganised protest cannot be called a social movement. |
- Write any two features of a social movement.
- Give an example of a Dalit Movement.
Concept: Features of a Social Movement
