Indian Society Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 15)

Urban areas have seen the fastest middle-class growth, closely tied to India’s broader urbanisation trend.

The middle class is often discussed as having distinct ‘lower,’ ‘core,’ and ‘upper’ tiers, based on income and consumption levels.

Growth in sectors like information technology and services created large numbers of new middle-class jobs.

India’s middle class grew substantially after the 1991 economic liberalisation opened up new jobs and consumption opportunities.

Urbanisation, migration, and economic change have contributed to a long-term shift toward smaller, nuclear family units.

A nuclear family, by contrast, consists of just parents and their unmarried children living together.

Property in a traditional joint family is usually held jointly, rather than divided among individual members.

The joint family system is a household structure where multiple generations live together, sharing property and income.

Sanskritization is often contrasted with ‘Westernization,’ Srinivas’s parallel term for adopting modern Western customs and values.

Srinivas developed these ideas through detailed fieldwork in a South Indian village, a landmark study in Indian sociology.

Srinivas also introduced the related concept of the ‘dominant caste,’ a group with significant local economic and political power.

Sanskritization describes how a lower caste group adopts the customs, rituals, and lifestyle of a higher caste.

Sociologist M. N. Srinivas developed the concept of Sanskritization to describe a specific pattern of social mobility in India.

The spiritual head of Dera Sach Khand Ballan is called the Gaddi Nashin, a title Sant Niranjan Dass has held since 1994.

The armed attack at a Dera-linked religious gathering in Vienna, Austria, took place on 24 May 2009.

Sant Sarwan Dass, the second Gaddi Nashin, led Dera Sach Khand from 1928 to 1972, emphasising education and healthcare.

The Sri Guru Ravidas Janam Asthan Mandir, which the Dera helped build, is located at Seer Govardhanpur in Varanasi, Guru Ravidas’s traditional birthplace.