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2022 · Sociology · Indian Society/Sociology of India · Perspectives on Indian Society

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2022

The categories of caste and tribe have been understood as colonial constructions. Which statements instantiate the above?

A

British anthropologists used the categories of caste and tribe to further knowledge and understanding of Indian society.

B

The character of these categories were solidified through processes of enumeration and classification undertaken during British rule.

C

These categories had no existence prior to British rule.

D

Census operations and administrative practices of the colonial regime made these categories what they are today.

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2023 · Sociology · Indian Society/Sociology of India · Perspectives on Indian Society

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2023

__________ approach was NOT propounded by B.S. Cohn as one of the approaches to study Indian civilization.

A

Administrative

B

Missionary

C

Orientalist

D

Historiographical

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2023 · Sociology · Indian Society/Sociology of India · Perspectives on Indian Society

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2023

The Ethnographic Survey of India as part of the Census 1901 was conducted to ____________.

A

Mitigate the racial and cultural issues faced by the British

B

Make suitable legislations for Indian subjects

C

Protect the primitive beliefs and usages of Indians

D

Take executive action (welfare and development)

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2024 · Sociology · Indian Society/Sociology of India · Perspectives on Indian Society

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2024

Fill in the blank with the correct option.
‘Theoretical Brahmins and empirical Shudras’ is a phrase used by __________ to castigate the Indian social sciences.

A

Sharmila Rege

B

Gail Omvedt

C

Gopal Guru

D

Kancha Ilaiah

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2024 · Sociology · Indian Society/Sociology of India · Perspectives on Indian Society

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2024

What is/are the strategy/strategies proposed by B. R Ambedkar for Dalits to overcome caste oppression?

A

Endogamy

B

Electoral mobilization

C

Reform of Hinduism

D

Civil disobedience

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2025 · Sociology · Indian Society/Sociology of India · Perspectives on Indian Society

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2025

This founder of the Lucknow Department of Economics and Sociology called upon the discipline of Sociology “to combat the tyranny of Economics”. He argued, “No choice in the economic field can be appropriate or “rational” which is inconsistent with human norms and values in political, familial and other fields of man’s institutional life.” Identify this sociologist from the following options.

A

T. N. Madan

B

P. Mukerji

C

Irawati Karve

D

Radhakamal Mukerjee

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2025 · Sociology · Indian Society/Sociology of India · Perspectives on Indian Society

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2025

Match the authors from Column I with their approaches in Column II.

Column I	Column II
Author	Approach
M   M. N. Srinivas	1   Indian sociology must be located at the intersection of Indology and sociology
N   Louis Dumont	2   Indian society is produced by the spread of Brahminical Hinduism and it has been held together by its unique cultural traditions and social institutions
O   A. R. Desai	3   Indian sociology must emphasise the field view and not the book view
P   G. S. Ghurye	4   A critical sociology of India has to undertake the study of the capitalist system as its main focus, which in turn cannot be understood without using the historical method

A

M-2; N-3; O-1; P-4

B

M-3; N-1; O-4; P-2

C

M-1; N-2; O-4; P-3

D

M-3; N-1; O-2; P-4

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2025 · Sociology · Indian Society/Sociology of India · Perspectives on Indian Society

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2025

Which of the following statement(s) about tribes is/are CORRECT?

A

G. S. Ghurye suggests that tribes are backward Hindus

B

M. N. Srinivas suggests that hill tribes of the northeast India who belong to Tibeto-Burman family identify themselves as Adivasis

C

Verrier Elwin propounded an approach of non-interference administration of the tribes

D

Verrier Elwin was the architect of the Philosophy of NEFA (North East Frontier Agency)

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2025 · Sociology · Indian Society/Sociology of India · Perspectives on Indian Society

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2025

Which of the following proposition(s) is/are part of the argument that B. R. Ambedkar makes in his Caste in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development

A

In transitioning from the open door character of the class system to the caste system, some groups closed the door; others found it closed against them

B

Classes became castes through imitation and excommunication

C

Creation of castes means the superposition of endogamy on exogamy

D

Function and function alone was the foundation upon which the whole system of caste in India was built up

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2025 · Sociology · Indian Society/Sociology of India · Perspectives on Indian Society

Humanities & Social Sciences-Sociology (XH-C6) 2025

Much before M. N. Srinivas’s concept of ‘sanskritisation’, which of the following scholar(s) framed caste as a process of imitation and social closure?

A

R. Ambedkar

B

Irawati Karve

C

Radhakamal Mukerjee

D

Herbert Risley

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2026 · Sociology · Indian Society/Sociology of India · Perspectives on Indian Society

Humanities & Social Sciences - Sociology (XH-C6) 2026

Which of the following statements correctly describe(s) the term ‘statism’ in subaltern studies?

A

Authorizing dominant values of the state to determine the criteria of history

B

Ideology according to which history is determined by the life of the state

C

Belief that history is static for the state

D

Knowledge of the past is developed through voices from the margins

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2026 · Sociology · Indian Society/Sociology of India · Perspectives on Indian Society

Humanities & Social Sciences - Sociology (XH-C6) 2026

Which of the following statements illustrate(s) the ‘field view’ of caste in Indian society?

A

Sanskritization was a process of group mobility.

B

Caste had little or no variation across regions.

C

Caste system remained unchanged over centuries in India.

D

The category of ‘dominant caste’ challenged the distribution of power in the varna system.

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