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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
How are capitalism and colonialism linked?
Concept: Understanding Colonialism
Read the source and answer the question:
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Urban luxury manufacturers like the high-quality silks and cotton of Dacca or Murshidabad must have been hit first by the almost simultaneous collapse of indigenous court demand and the external market on which these had largely depended. Village crafts in the interior and particularly, in regions other than eastern India where British penetration was earliest and deepest, probably survived much longer, coming to be seriously affected only with the spread of railways. (Sarkar : 1983 : 29) |
When the British took over states and towns of India, some of them lost their courts, artisans, and court gentry. Give any one reason.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
| "For Indian nationalists, the issue of economic exploitation under colonial rule was a central issue." |
How did Indian nationalists promote industrialization in the early years of independence?
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
Which of the following is true for a model of South Asian colonial city?
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
Assertion (A): Urbanization in the colonial period saw the prosperity of indigenous industries.
Reason (R): There was emergence of new colonial Cities.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
How were labourers recruited and appointed by the colonial administrators in the tea gardens?
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
How did the planters in the tea plantation live?
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
Assertion (A): Urbanisation in the colonial period saw the formation of new urban centres.
Reason (R): These urban centres were designed to functions as trading posts alone.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
Using an example, show how the treatment of Indian plantation labour was different from the way Colonial administration treated their own labour back home.
Concept: Urbanisation and Industrialisation
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)
Read the source and answer the following question.
Do you think sanskritisation is a gendered process? Give a reason for your answer.
Concept: Different Kinds of Social Change
Elucidate the phenomena of modernity.
Concept: How Do We Approach the Study of Sanskritisation, Modernisation, Secularisation and Westernisation
