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This set of Issues in Indian Politics Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Issues In Indian Politics Set 5

Q1 | Which of the following is not a regional party of India ?
  • AIADMK
  • Telugu Desam
  • National Conference
  • BJP
Q2 | During which of the following years the Congress party has faced serious electoralreverses?
  • 1967
  • 1977
  • 1989
  • All of these
Q3 | The communist party of India was established in the year
  • 1935
  • 1950
  • 1893
  • 1920
Q4 | In which year Communist party was divided into CPI and CPI(M)
  • 1960
  • 1964
  • 1968
  • 1972
Q5 | Who among the following believed that communalism came to India with theBritish?
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Gokhale
  • Saradar Patel
  • Tilak
Q6 | What is the most appropriate meaning the term secularism in the Indian context?
  • Separation of religion from politics
  • freedom of religion
  • There shall not be any religion of the state.
  • equality of all religions
Q7 | ----- means love of a particular region or state in preference to the country asawhole
  • Nationalism
  • Regionalism
  • Ethinicism
  • None of the above
Q8 | Which of the following are the important socio-economic factors of regionalimbalance in India?
  • Capita income
  • regional location of industries
  • population below poverty line
  • All of the above
Q9 | Communalism is opposed to :
  • Secularism
  • racial conflict
  • Amity between classes
  • All of the above
Q10 | Which is the following problems most fostered regionalism in India?
  • Social
  • Economic
  • Religious
  • Both (a) and (b)
Q11 | Caste system is
  • Hierarchical
  • Segmentary
  • Marked by a dichotomy between purityand pollution
  • all of the above
Q12 | Which of the following caste groups are regarded as the so called ‘twice born’?
  • Brahmins
  • kshatriyas
  • vaishayas
  • All of these
Q13 | It can be said that a castes conceives of India basically as a federation of
  • States
  • Jatis
  • free and equal citizens
  • tribes
Q14 | Democratic socialism is a modern version of
  • Revisionism
  • guild socialism
  • Fabian socialism
  • syndicalism
Q15 | Which of the following can play a vital role in removing regional disparity?
  • Bureaucracy
  • state
  • civil servants
  • judiciary
Q16 | Political crime can be described as
  • Crime by politicians
  • politically motivated law breaking behavior by altruistic individual’s
  • crime committed in pursuit of politics
  • All of the above
Q17 | As a political strategy, communalism is opposed to
  • Nationalism
  • regionalism
  • localism
  • internationalism
Q18 | Jawaharlal Nehru once described communalism as the Indian version of
  • Fascism
  • Apartheid
  • Nazism
  • None of the above
Q19 | Who is a leading Campion of the concept of the secular state
  • Jawaharal Nehru
  • Sarvakar
  • Jinnah
  • Tilak
Q20 | ‘Free India should be a non-communal secular state’. Who insisted that?
  • Ambedkar
  • Gandhi
  • Jayaprakash Narayan
  • Nehru
Q21 | “Communalism is a social phenomenon characterized by the religion of twocommunities, often leading to acrimony tension and even rioting between them” who said it?
  • Abdul Ahammed
  • Marx
  • M. N Roy
  • None of the above
Q22 | “A caste is a group of structural or potential kinsmen.” Who said?
  • FG Bailey
  • M N Srinivas
  • Jawaharlal Nehru
  • None of the above
Q23 | Caste in India is an endogamous kinship group known as
  • Varna
  • Religion
  • Slave
  • Jati
Q24 | What was the main motive of socio-religious movements
  • To remove caste system
  • to remove poverty
  • to remove untouchability
  • to remove child marriage
Q25 | People are usually classified into upper, middle and lower classes on the basis of
  • Caste
  • Clan
  • Class
  • Occupation