50 Important MCQ about Caste System (Part-02)

 

 

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1. “Caste and Economic Frontiers” book written by – 

a) W.H. River                           

b) G.S. Ghurye

c) F.G. Bailey                           

d) Majumdar 

 

ans: (c)

 

 

2. Where did the Andre Beteille conduct his fieldwork for his study of “Caste, Class and Power” book ? –  

a) Rampura                             

b) Kishangari

c) Sripuram                             

d) Toda

 

ans: (c)

 

3. Find out name the author of the book “Caste in Modern India and Other Eassys” ? 

a) M.N. Srinivas                             

b) S.C Dubey 

c) Andre Beteile                             

d) G.S. Ghurye 

 

ans: (a)

 

4. Who among the following studied caste system from historical, comparative and integrative perspective ?  

a) D.P. Mukherjee                             

b) R.K. Mukherjee

c) M.N. Srinivas                             

d) G.S. Ghurye

 

ans: (d)

 

5. Which among the following is the open stratification ? 

a) Caste                                 

b) Religion

c) Ethnicity                           

d) Class

 

ans: (d)

 

6. Who among the following is not associated with “Attribution analysis of Caste” ? 

a) G.S. Ghurye                               

b) J.H. Hutton 

c) M.N. Srinivas                           

d) John Hick

 

ans: (d)

 

7. Who said that class relations are legitimised and sanctioned by caste system ? 

a) Max Weber                                 

b) Karl Marx

c) Andre Beteille                            

d) Raymond Aron 

 

ans: (b)

 

8. Who has given three different charateristics of caste: Stratification, Cultural Pluralism and Interation ?  

a) F.G. Bailey                             

b) Barths

c) Bereman                                

d) H.J. Nieboer 

 

ans: (c)

 

9. Which of the following is not true about caste in India ?  

a) Caste is an endogamous                  

b) Caste is hierarchical division of society based on achievement 

c) Caste system was imposed restriction on social relations.                           

d) Caste system was imposed on food habits. 

 

ans: (b)

 

10. Caste system …………………… in nature. 

a) Contradiction                           

b) Hierarchical

c) Symmetrical                             

d) Horizontal 

 

ans: (b)

 

11. Casteism mean 

a) Bias in favour of one’s own caste                            

b) Bias in favour of own caste and against other castes

c) Bias against every caste                            

d) Bias in favour of few caste 

 

ans: (b)

 

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12. A marriage of a women of a so-called lower caste status with a man of so-called hiegher caste status is referred to as 

a) Hypogamy                                        

b) Endogamy

c) Serial Monogamy                             

d) Hypergamy

 

ans: (d)

 

13. Who authored the book “Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the making of Mordern India” ? 

a) B.R. Ambedkar                            

b) Nicholas Dirks 

c) Herbert Risley                             

d) Celestin Bougle 

 

ans: (b)

 

14. Poin out the name of sociologist who wrote the book “Caste and Race in India” ? 

a) A.R. Desai                                  

b) G.S. Ghurye 

c) Louis Dumont                            

d) None of above

 

ans: (b)

 

15. Who among following holds the vciew that an “Indian Tribe” as converted to Indian caste when it loses a territorial meaning and social significance ? 

a) Max Weber                             

b) D.N. Majumdar 

c) T.N. Madan                            

d) J Hutton 

 

ans: (a)

 

16. The perpective which understands the society through conditions of subordination of people belonging to different castes is called ?  

a) Indological perpective                            

b) Civilizational perpective

c) Subaltern perpective                               

d) Conflict perpective

 

ans: (c)

 

17. Among the following which book is not written by M.N. Srinivas? 

a) India’s Changing Village                           

b) The Remembered Village 

c)  India’s Village                          

d) Social Change in Modern Village 

 

ans: (a)

 

 

18. Who among the following has thought of Indian Society as a “Caste Society” ? 

a) Andre Beteille                            

b) Louis Dumont 

c)  Murdock                           

d) None of these 

 

ans: (b)

 

 

19. Which of the following characteristics of the caste system were not emphasized by G.S. Ghurey ? 

1. Segmental division

2. Hierarchy

3. Open System

4. Achieved 

5. Pollution and Purity 

Choose the correct answer – 

a)  1 & 2 only                           

b) 2 & 5 only 

c)  3 & 4 only                          

 d) 1 & 5 only 

 

ans: (c)

 

 

20. In his famous work on the changing stratification of a Tanjore Village, Andre Beteille observed the changes in – 

a) Caste system                           

b) Class system 

c)  Power system                         

d) All of these 

 

ans: (d)

 

 

21. Which of the following is not the characteristics of a Caste –

a) Purity and Pollution                            

b) Colour and beauty 

c)  Hierarchy                           

d) Immortality 

 

ans: (b)

 

 

22. According to Weber , caste is an example of – 

a) Class                           

 b) Status 

c) Party                            

d) Authority 

 

ans: (b)

 

 

23. Which article of the Indian Constitution forbids the practice of “Untouchability” in any form ? 

a) Article 17                           

b) Article 22

c) Article 45                           

d) Article 216

 

ans: (a)

 

 

24. When a caste preponderance over others by virtue of its numerical, economic and political strength in a region, it is called – 

a)  Dependent Caste                          

b) Depressed Caste 

c)  Dominate Caste                        

d) Divergent Caste 

 

ans: (c)

 

 

25. Which of the following Sociologist are connected with the racial theory related to the origin of caste system? 

a) Nesfield and G.S. Ghurye                            

b) Herbert Risley and G.S. Ghurye 

c)  J.H. Hutton and D.N. Majumdar                          

d) Louis Dumont and Nesfield 

 

ans: (b)

 

 

26. Who did interaction analysis of caste system? 

a)  Louis Dumont                          

b) Surajit Singa 

c) Srinivas                            

d) D.P. Mukherjee 

 

ans: (a)

 

 

27. The word “Dalit” indicates: 

a) Struggle for power                          

b) Oppressed and exploited 

c)  Both a & b                         

 d) None of these 

 

ans: (b)

 

 

28. Who views caste as a segmentary system of Indian Society? 

a) S.C. Dube                             

b) D.P. Mukherjee 

c) M.N. Srinivas                            

d) Irawati Karve 

 

ans: (c)

 

 

29. Who divided castes into Brahmin, non Brahmin and Adi Dravida – 

a) Louis Dumont                            

b) Andre Beteille 

c) M.N. Srinivas                            

d) W.E.B. Dubois 

 

ans: (b)

 

 

30. The concept of substantialisation of caste was fully developed by – 

a)  Louis Dumont                          

b) Andre Beteille 

c) Dipankar Gupta                           

d) Srinivas

 

ans: (a)

 

 

31. In the Indian context, which statement hold true – 

i. Caste system is entering into Politics. 

ii. Caste system is declining but caste is becoming strong. 

iii. Class and caste system are overlapping. 

iv. Caste is withering away. 

a)  i                           

b) ii

c)  iii                          

 d) iv

 

ans: (a)

 

 

32. Which one of the following distinguishes a tribe from caste? 

a) Trace of descent from a common ancestor                         

b) Observances of rules of endogamy q

c) Living in a common territory                        

d) Living in upcountry regions 

 

ans: (c)

 

 

34. How is social mobility traditionally perceived in the caste system –

a)  Easy and Frequent                          

b) Difficult and rare

c)  Dependent on Education                          

d) Dependent on Economic success 

 

ans: (b)

 

 

35. What role does the concept of “Jati” play in the caste system 

a)  Economic classification                          

b) sub caste 

c)  Educational Hierarchy                          

d) Occupational segregation 

 

ans: (d)

 

 

36. Which of the following is the important distinction between caste and class ? 

a) Caste involves superiority-inferiorty feeling but class does not.                            

b) Caste is traditionally endogamous but class is not.

c) Caste permit vertical mobility but class permits horizontal mobility. 

d) Caste is divided into sub-caste while class is not divided into sub-classes.

 

ans: (b)

 

 

37. Which of the following is not a feature of caste system ? 

a) Hierarchy                            

b) Hereditary Occupation

c) Exogamous Marriage                           

d) Untouchability 

 

ans: (c)

 

 

38.  “Caste is brahmanic child of Indo-Aryan culture cradled in the land of Ganges and then transferred to other oarts of India.” – Whose statement is this ? 

a) D.P. Mukherji                             

b) M.N. Srinivas 

c) G.S. Ghurye                            

d) Louis Dumont 

 

ans: (c)

 

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39. The system of caste stratification is based on – 

a) Rebirth stratification                           

b) Chaturvarna 

c) Varnashrama System                            

d) Sept

 

ans: (b)

 

 

40. The main difference in between the Caste and the Class is that – 

a) Caste should be operates in a classless society and class should be operates in a casteless society. 

b) Caste is always remained closed and class is always open. 

c) The status given to an individual is ascribed in the case of caste, wheres in class it is achieved. 

d) The individual suffers most in the case of caste whereas in class he does not. 

 

ans: (b)

 

 

41. According to M.N. Srinivas , the real unit of Caste System is – 

a) Family                            

b) Clan

c) Sub-Caste                      

d) Verna

 

ans: (c)

 

 

42. According to Srinivas, “Sanskritization is a process by which a low Hindu caste or trail or other group change its customs, rituals, ideology and way of life in the direction of”

a) Clean caste                            

b) Untouchable caste

c) Unclean caste                            

d) Twice born caste

 

ans: (d)

 

 

43.According to whom purity and pollution is an important criteria of caste hiererchy. 

a) Andre Beteille                            

b) G.S. Ghurye 

c) M.N. Srinivas                            

 d) Louis Dumont

 

ans: (d)

 

 

44. Max Weber categorized caste as a – 

a) Closed group                            

b) Community 

c) Ethnic group                            

d) Endogamous group 

 

ans: (a)

 

 

45. Andre Beteille is the exponent of 

a) Functional view of caste                            

b) Structural view of caste

c) Cultural view of caste                               

d) Political view of caste 

 

ans: (c)

 

 

46. Who stated that caste and varna are to be understood with relationship of hiearchy and power ? 

a) Srinivas                             

b) Dumont 

c) D.P. Mukherjee                 

d) A.R. Desai 

 

ans: (b)

 

 

47. Who among the following stated that caste is nothing more than, “Systematization of Occupational differentiation” ? 

a) G.S. Ghurye                            

b) M.N. Srinivas 

c) Louis Dumont                         

d) S.C. Dube

 

ans: (b)

 

 

48. Who among the following has stated that caste is not form of strategic but it is the special form of inequality, where he identifies that hierarchy is the essential value underlying of caste system ? 

a) M.N. Srinivas                            

b) S.C. Dube 

c) Irawati Karve                            

d) Louis Dumont

 

ans: (d)

 

 

49. The word caste is derived from – 

a) India ‘Jati’                            

b) Spanish ‘Casta’

c) English ‘Caste’                    

d) French ‘Caste’

 

ans: (b)

 

 

50. Who said that caste is an “Advanced status group” ? 

a) Andre Beteille                            

b) T.K. Oomen

c) Max Weber                                

d) B.R. Ambedkar 

 

ans: (c) 

 

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