UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam, INDIAN CULTURE, December-2019

Total Questions: 50

41. Which of the following statements are correct?

(a) The oldest script in the Indian subcontinent is the Harappan script
(b) The oldest deciphered script is Brahmi
(c) It is easy to draw the dividing line between history and prehistory in India.
(d) Archaeologists often use the word prehistory for the long period between the beginning of food production and the advent of iron technology.
Select the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: C. (a), (b) and (d) only

42. Which of the following are correct about the Harappan Civilization?

(a) The debates about various aspects of the Harappan Civilization reflect the potential of archaeology as a window into the ancient past.
(b) There are many theories about many aspects of the Harappan Civilization.
(c) The debates show the important role of interpretation in the discipline of Archaeology:
(d) It is necessary to acknowledge the current limits of our knowledge.
Select the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: D. (a), (b), (c) and (d)

43. Which of the following statements are correct?

(a) The materialistic aspect of Ajita Keshakambalin's doctrine connects him to the later Charvaka school.
(b) The severe criticism of Ajivikas in Buddhist and Jain texts indicates that they were posing a challenge to the dominant traditions.
(c) In the Anguttara Nikaya it is declared that when a person joins the Sangha, he becomes without Varna.
(d) A close look at the composition of the Sangha indicates that there was no presence of upper class members in it.
Select the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: B. only (a), (b) and (c)

44. Which of the following are correct statements?

(a) According to Kamasutra a good wife is dutiful and submissive.
(b) Dharmasastra literature of the period between 300-600 CE reflect a tendency towards increasing the age of marriage for girls.
(c) Vatsyayana refers to princesses and other elite learned women in the sastras.
(d) The Narada Smriti states that a man is man is liable to pay one-third of his estate or a fine for deserting a virtuous wife.
Select the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: C. only (a), (c) and (d)

45. Arrange the following Bahmani rulers of Gulbarga in Chronological order:

(a) Alauddin Hasan
(b) Aladuddin Mujahid
(c) Ismail Shah
(d) Muhammad Shah I
Select the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: B. (c), (a), (d), (b)

46. Which three of the following statements are correct?

(a) The Serampore Baptist missionaries practiced a brand of Christian and constructive Orientalism, devoting themselves to the recovery of Sanskrit science and introduction of European Science into India.
(b) By establishing a linguistic connection between Sanskrit, Greek and Latin, William Jones privileged India with an antiquity superior to that of classical west.
(c) The beginning of the Orientalist tradition led to the founding of institutions like the Asiatic Society of Bengal and Sanskrit College at Benares.
(d) The fundamental principle of early Orientalist tradition was that the conquered people were to be ruled by their own laws, as "British rule had to be legitimised itself in an Indian idiom".
Choose the correct options from those given below:

Correct Answer: D. only (a), (c) and (d)

47. Which two of the following statements are correct?

(a) Keshub Chandra Sen's chief contribution lay in re-interpretation of ancient Indian Shastras.
(b) Keshub Chandra Sen was neither a Philospher nor was a very systematic thinker but was a preacher-the greatest preacher of his times.
(c) Rabindranath Tagore felt that to foster Indianness, there was no necessity for a revolt against the intellectual and moral bondage of European Civilization.
(d) Rabindranath Tagore stood in the forefront of the Prophets of Internationalism.
Choose the correct options from those given below:

Correct Answer: A. only (b) and (d)

48. Which of the following statements regarding 'Shahr-e-ashob' are correct?

(a) It is a nostalgic genre used by the poets in Urdu language in post-revolt of 1857.
(b) These poems offer personal account and reactions of various Mughal poets to the period of Mughal decline in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
(c) A great number of these poems were writeen about the city of Agra.
(d) These poems construct 1857 as a cultural trauma through the use of powerful literary devices in urdu language.
Choose the correct options from those given below:

Correct Answer: B. only (a), (b) and (d)

49. Which two of the following statements are correct?

(a) The Brahmo Samaj proclaimed the infallibility of the Vedas.
(b) The Aligarh movement showed that the teachings of Islam cannot reconcile with the needs of the modern age.
(c) Indian Society in the nineteenth century was caught in a vicious web created by religious superstition and social obscurantism.
(d) Bankin Chandra Chatterjee and Swami Vivekanand emphasized the secular use of religion.
Choose the correct options from those given below:

Correct Answer: D. only (c) and (d)

50. Which two of the following statements regarding Muhammad Iqbal are correct?

(a) Iqbal scolded the new generation of Muslims who were inspired by European political thought but ignorant of European history.
(b) For Iqbal, religion was not a power of utmost importance in the life of individuals as well as of States.
(c) Kept out of the All-India Muslim league, Iqbal rallied behind Indian National Congress.
(d) Iqbal was resentful of efforts by M.A. Jinnah and other pro-Congress Muslims to deny Punjab their democratic voice in the All-India Muslim League.
Select the correct options given below:

Correct Answer: A. only (a) and (c)