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Indian Social Structure

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Prepare for competitive exams by answering questions on the diverse Indian social structure. Topics include the historical caste system, Vedic political units, and various social reform movements. This hub offers valuable insights into the sociological framework of India.

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Indian Social Structure Questions

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What has created a divide in the society?

  1. Caste distinction

  2. Caste harmony

  3. Caste uniformity

  4. Caste similarity
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Caste distinction or caste discrimination is a process that involves dividing people into social groups known as castes mostly by birth, profession, and personality. It divides the society into four major parts. Caste system resulted in lots of discrimination and exploitation of lower caste people. The caste distinction is an evil of our society.

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Dalit, Adivasi and Muslim girls drop out of school in large numbers.

  1. True

  2. False
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A Correct answer
Explanation
Indian society has been patriarchal since inception. Female gender is considered inferior to males and males are always given preference and privileges as compared to females. Dalits, Adivasis, and Muslim girls are mostly drop out of schools due to the following reasons:
1) Social Discrimination: The caste system in our society discriminates against lower castes people and majority religion less tolerate minority religion
2) Poverty: This is the major reason why girls cannot pursue their secondary education and some cannot even complete primary education because their parent cannot afford fees and girl children are forced to work at home.
3) Lack of Good School Facilities: These communities are discriminated even by the schooling system. They are given less preference.
4) Uneducated Background: The parents mostly uneducated don't see any good in educating their children while spending money.
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The victims of untouchability are the ____________.

  1. Dalits

  2. Barbers

  3. Brahmins

  4. Politicians
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A Correct answer
Explanation
A fifth group existed outside the four-fold classification of varna system, that of the non-classified (avarnas) who did work that was and is still considered physically and ritually polluting such as cremation and the handling of dead bodies, removal and skinning of dead animals, removal and cleaning of human bodily fluids and excreta (manual scavenging), and basket
weaving. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold varna system of Hinduism and were seen as forming a fifth varna, also known by the name of Panchama. Doing anything with dead cattle or cowhides was particularly unclean in Hinduism. Under Hindu beliefs, jobs that involved death corrupted the workers' souls, making them unfit to mingle with other people. Hence, Option A is correct. Among the rest, barbers and politicians are professionals irrespective of caste, and brahmins are the highest upper caste. Hence, these are incorrect. 
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What traditions and customs are not to be followed?

  1. Caste distinction

  2. Rise to inequality

  3. Untouchability

  4. All of above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

There are some traditions and customs that are not desirable. They are not beneficial for our society such as caste distinction, inequality and untouchability. Constitution of Independent India abolished the custom of untouchability. its inhuman and unjust custom.

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What customs are banned which were present in ancient India?

  1. Sati system

  2. Child marriage

  3. Dowry system

  4. All of above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Laws have to be made to abolish unjust custom. In our country, customs such as sati and child marriage and dowry were abolished by making laws that banned them. The law that banned the use of cheating people was first enacted in Maharashtra.

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Which of the following is a major difference between the social structure of Han China and that of Classical India?

  1. The Han dynasty believed that all citizens should strive for upward social mobility while India only stressed mobility for the poor

  2. In India, social mobility was based on education while in China, social mobility was based on wealth

  3. In China, women were considered to be high on the social status ladder while in India, all women were at the bottom

  4. The social hierarchy in India was completeLY eliminated during the Classical era while Classical China retained its social hierarchy

  5. In Indian society, higher social status was awarded to merchants than in China
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Han China utilized the civil service examination system, which theoretically allowed for upward social mobility based on merit and education. In contrast, Classical India's caste system was rigid and largely prohibited social mobility between castes.

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______ are the tribes of Jharkhand.

  1. Baiga

  2. Santhals

  3. Gond

  4. Bhils
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The third largest tribes of India are the Santhal Tribe. This tribe habitation is mainly in the states of West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand and Assam. They belong to the Pre- Aryan period and were the great fighters during the British regime in India.

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Tribals in forest areas of Eastern India live in huts spread over the forest area.

  1. True

  2. False
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A Correct answer
Explanation

There are many tribes in India that live in the forest. These tribal people are referred to as Adivasi and are poorest of the rest of the communities. These tribal communities mainly survive and depend on agriculture, fishing and hunting for their food. The tribals in forest areas live in huts spread over the forest area.

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Which of the following community was the latest to be notified as national minority?

  1. lingayats

  2. Buddhist

  3. jains

  4. parsis
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C Correct answer
Explanation

2014: National minority status granted
This made the Jain community which makes for 7 million or 0.4 percent of the population as per 2001 census, the sixth community to be designated this status as a "national minority", after Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis.

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Mark out the reason which leads to different interests within the same caste people.

  1. Political pressure

  2. Economic conditions

  3. Social Environment

  4. Family pressure
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Caste system has long divided people and united them in a form of community different from another. Since people have constitutional rights and modern developmental perspective does not consider caste system as a barrier to avail opportunities it led to the emergence of different interests within the same caste people. People who earn well, have facilities to avail or have higher educational qualification have different interests and goal compared to those who do not have. The economic condition became the criteria for defining the inclination of people's interest.

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In Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) from of business all the members of a Hindu undivided family own the business _______________.

  1. Individually

  2. Separately

  3. Jointly

  4. With society
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

In Hindu Undivided Family(HUF) form of business all the members of a Hindu undivided family own the business jointly. In a Hindu Undivided Family business only the male members get a share in the business by virtue of their being part of the family. A Hindu Undivided Family is an extended family arrangement prevalent among Hindus of the Indian subcontinent. It came into existence as per Hindu Inheritance Laws of India.