1. ‘Tribe is an indigenous unit speaking a common language, claiming a common descent, living in a particular geographical area, backward in technology, pre-literate, loyally observing social and political customs based on kinship.” Whose definition is this?

(a) A conference at Shillong in 1962

(b) Earth Summit at Rio in 1992

(c) Radcliffe Brown

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(d) Indigenous People Conference, Sav Paulo 1937

2. Practice of welcoming guests, by spitting on their body is practiced by

(a) Azande

(b) Onges

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(c) Sherdukpens

(d) Masai

3. Tribe may be an example of

(a) Family

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(b) Association

(c) Community

(d) Caste

4. Which among following is rightly matched?

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(a) Samoans – Radcliffe Brown

(b) Taiga – M.S.A Rao

(c) Italian-American – W.F. Whyte

(d) Hopi – Madan

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5. In which type of societies are the kings usually defied?

(a) Where literacy prevails

(b) Where much of illiteracy prevails

(c) Where people have got a religious attitude

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(d) Where religion is far advanced than the prevailing time.

6. As pointed by Lowie who among the following, held property on feudal basis?

(a) Zulu of South Africa

(b) Hopi of North America

(c) Dahomey of Uganda

(d) Gonds of central India

7. With the emergence of the agricultural society

(a) Belief in totemism grew

(b) Belief in magic grew

(c) Belief in animism grew

(d) Temples becomes a place of Gods

8. If one goes to the village of Eskimo one mostly find that all

(a) Were hunters and fisherman

(b) Used to work on the making of canoes to sail on the high sea

(c) Used to undertake different professions.

(d) Lived in the houses temporarily made by them on tree with the help of cedar.

9. Which among the following serves as a unifying element in the tribal society?

(a) Marriage

(b) Religion

(c) Economic consideration

(d) Kinship

10. ‘Ghotul’ among Murias is an example of

(a) Youthfulness

(b) Association

(c) Culture

(d) Family relation

11. Plough cultivation is being practiced by

(a) Kadar

(b)Toda

(c) Onge

(d) Munda

12. Which among the following is not correct?

(a) The todas are polyandrous

(b) Bhils are major tribe of Madhya Pradesh

(c) The Khasis are patrilineal

(d) Nairs are matrilineal

13. For a tribal of particular region Ghotul represents

(a) Form of cultivation

(b) Local non-vedic deity

(c) Youth organisation

(d) Rice beer

14. The nature of government in a tribal society varied according to

(a) The size of the tribe

(b) Powers of the chief and the procedure of his appointment

(c) Economic activities of the tribes

(d) Level of literacy of the tribe

15. A corporate group in tribal societies means

(a) Living group based on settlements

(b) Property holding group based on kinship

(c) Economic association based on redistribution

(d) Association of priests who practices witchcraft.

16. Which among the following is not a characteristic associated with tribal society?

(a) Endogamy

(b) Totemism

(c) Structural inequality

(d) Common territory

17. Which among the following is not a North­eastern Indian tribe?

(a) Kuki

(b) Khasa

(c) Sherdukpens

(d) Garo

18. Potlatch is a tribal ceremony in which property is

(a) Acquired

(b) Preserved

(c) Destroyed

(d) Strengthened in community

19. During medieval period the artisans used to carry on their trade through

(a) Expedition

(b) Markets

(c) Guilds

(d) Religious groups

20. The initiation ceremonies in primitive societies are functional because they are

(a) A ritual and dramatic expression of the supreme power and value of tradition

(b) A customary and folk expression of the supreme power and value of the tradition

(c) A traditional and religious expression of the supreme power and value of tradition

(d) A superstitions and kinship expression supreme power and value of tradition

21. Who among the following social anthropologists have done a field study of kachin of Burma?

(a) Evans Pritchard

(b) W.H.R. Rivers

(c) E. Leach

(d) Radcliffe Brown

22. Who was on the opinion that ‘the difference in mind between man and higher animal is great? It is, certainly one of degree and not of kind”?

(a) Herbert Spencer

(b) Charles Darwin

(c) Julian Huxlay

(d) William Wallace

23. What is the percentage of tribal population] in India according to 1991 census?

(a) 7.0

(b) 7.6

(c) 7.8

(d) 15.0

24. Who among the following proposed the | scheme of ‘National Parks’ with regard to Tribal development in India?

(a) Hulton

(b) G.S. Ghurye

(c) Vernier Elwin

(d) T.N. Madan

25. G.S. Ghurye described Indian tribes as a

(a) Scheduled tribes

(b) Backward Hindus

(c) Adimjatis

(d) Adimanav

26. Dancing in moon light, that is ‘Thabal Chongba’ is performed by

(a) Garos of Assam

(b) The tribes of Manipur

(c) Todas of Nilgiri Hills

(d) Kol of east U P

27. Dormitory for girls named as ‘yo’ is present in which tribals?

(a) Konyak Naga

(b) Regma Naga

(c) Khasis

(d) Garos

28. The pastoral community is generally larger than that of the hunters. The reason is that

(a) Enough food supply is available to them

(b) Fertility rate among than is higher

(c) They generally form large group

(d) It is Conducive to their geographical condition

29. In an agrarian society who are living by telling the lands of others on a crop sharing basis?

(a) Cultivators

(b) Share croppers

(c) Land lords

(d) Absentee land lords

30. Which among the following is not a characteristic of agrarian society?

(a) Minimal division of labour

(b) Simple life

(c) Formal social control

(d) Formal social relation

31. For which community does the land become more valuable?

(a) Pastoral community

(b) Hunting and gathering community

(c) Shifting cultivating community

(d) Agricultural community

32. With which invention did the evolution of an agrarian society begin?

(a) Plough

(b) Fertilisers

(c) Hoe (d) Sickle

33. Which among the following is not a prerequisite of the animal society?

(a) Cultural bond

(b) Sexual instinct

(c) Symbolic communication

(d) Protection from predators

34. In the ancient time to whom did land belong?

(a) Whole village

(b) Cultivator

(c) Landlord

(d) The king

35. According to Max Weber, what is necessary for industrial society is

(a) Political organisation

(b) Economic transaction

(c) Better mode of transportation and communication

(d) Bureaucratic organisation

36. Who has made distinction between ‘militant’ and ‘industrial’ societies?

(a) F. Tonnies

(b) Malinowski

(c) H. Spencer

(d) L.T. Hobhouse

37. What has the industrialisation done to women?

(a) Their position has lowered due to petty jobs in factors

(b) They have become subject to exploitation at the hands of factory owners

(c) They joined factors and thus were liberated from the seclusion

(d) Women become jealous of man’s success at factories

38. The way to achieve industrial harmony is

(a) By the exercise of state power

(b) By periodically raising the wages of workers

(c) Through activity of labour union

(d) Through mutual understanding between the management and the workers

39. Emile Durkheim feels that solidarity in industrial society is based on

(a) Mechanical solidarity

(b) Organic solidarity

(c) Division of work

(d) Production and wages

40. Who among the following is author of the book ‘Class and Class Conflict in Industrial society”?

(a) Raymond Aron

(b) Daniel Bell

(c) Ralph Dahrendorf

(d) Karl Marx

41. The fundamental characteristic of an industrial society is

(a) Break up of joint families

(b) Emancipation of women

(c) Mechanised means of production

(d) Lack of faith in religion

42. Modern society is governed by

(a) Convention and tradition

(b) Rule of law

(c) Divine law

(d) Physical force applied by police

43. The book “Coming of the Post-Industrial Society” is written by?

(a) Alwin Toffler

(b) Daniel Bell

(c) Alan Touraine

(d) Erwin Goffman

44. Techno structure is the characteristic of the

(a) Industrial society

(b)Post industrial society

(c) Irrigation society

(d)Hydraulic and automatic society

45. Which of the following were the reasons for the emergence of post-industrial society?

1. Emergence of new classes

2. Emergence of new technologies

3. Emergence of new moral order

4. Emergence of new political power

(a) 1,2, 3 and 4

(b) 1 and 2

(c) 2 and 3

(d) 1, 2 and 3

46. ‘Post-industrial society’ will see social- conflict between those who control the institutions of economic and political decision-making and those who have been reduced to a condition of dependent participant.” Identify the writer?

(a) Alvin Toffler

(b) A. Touraine

(c) D. Bell

(d) Karl Mannheim

47. Which among the following statement regarding Agrarian society is incorrect?

(a) Agrarian society place a high value on inherited status

(b)The social order in agrarian society is more or less fixed

(c) It is a close-knit society despite economic disparity

(d)Even the slightest economic disparity among people in agrarian society is reflected in their style of life

48. Who has categorised Indian tribes into three racial divisions namely: Proto – Australoids, Mongoloids, Negrito?

(a)Guha

(b) Hulton

(c) Ghurye

(d) Risley

49. Which tribe of Karnataka was adept in catching and training elephants?

(a) Kannada

(b) Kodagu

(c) Okka

(d) Jenu-kuruba

50. Which among the following groups of tribes is pastoralist?

(a) Kadar, Toda, Naga, Khasi

(b) Toda, Gujjar, Bakarwal, Gaddi

(c) Dafla, Garo, Toda, Bakarwal

(d) Kuki, Kadar, Jorwa, Bakarwal

Answers

1(a)

2. (d)

3. (c)

4. (c)

5.(d)

6. (c)

7.(d)

8.(a)

9.(d)

11-(b)

11.(d)

12. (c)

13. (c)

14. (b)

15. (b)

16. (d)

17. (b)

18. (c)

19. (c)

20. (a)

21(c)

22. (b)

23. (c)

24. (c)

25. (b)

26. (b)

27. (a)

28. (a)

29. (b)

30. (d)

31(d)

32. (c)

33. (a)

34. (a)

35. (d)

36. (c)

37. (c)

38. (d)

39. (b)

40. (C)

41.(c) 42. (b) 43. (b) 44. (b) 45. (b)

46. (b) 47. (d) 48. (a) 49. (d) 50. (b)