Social Institutions: Continuity and Change-2

The English word ‘caste’ is actually a borrowing from the Portuguese word ________, meaning ________________.

• 'casta', pure breed

• Race

• Creed

• Kinship

Theoretically, the caste system can be understood as the combination of two sets of principles, one based on ________________________and________ and the other on _________________and_____________________.

• difference and separation

• wholism and hierarchy.

• region, language

• ecological habitat.

First begun in the _________s, the census became a regular ______________ exercise conducted by the British Indian government from 1881 onwards.

• 1860 ten-yearly

• 1868 10 yearly

• 1935 5 yearly

• 1928 2 yearly

The 1901 Census under the direction of _______________was particularly important as it sought to collect information on the–______________________.

• Herbert Risley social hierarchy of caste

• M.N.Srinivas social hierarchy of caste the social order of precedence in particular regions

The ________________________ was passed which gave legal recognition to the lists or ‘schedules’ of castes and tribes marked out for special treatment by the state.

• Special amendment act - 1940s

• Government of India Act of 1935

• The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950

• Scheduled Caste Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989,

________________ and the conditions of______________in the cities made it difficult for the caste-segregated patterns of social interaction to survive.(Think outside the book(box)

• Urbanisation …. collective living

• Development activity of the state ….. growth of private industry

• Liberal ideas ……... individualism and meritocracy,

• All of the above

Post Independence, ________________against the untouchables remained quite strong and was not absent from the city, though not as extreme as it could be in the village.

Sanskritization term coined by?

• D N Dhanagare

• M N srinivas

• Durkhiem

• D P mukherji

In which family, the wife goes and lives in the house of her husband.

• Patrilocal

• Patrilineal

• Joint family

• Bilateral

Father of Indian Sociology?

• Karve Irawati

• G S ghurye

• Srinivas

• Comte