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UPSC CDS Constitution of India — practice questions — page 14

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Unlike India, which country gives Buddhism a special status?Read the answer and worked solution →To ensure equality within religious communities, the Constitution bans:Read the answer and worked solution →Unlike gender and religion, which social division is special to India?Read the answer and worked solution →Scheduled Castes are commonly known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the social reformersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the secular provisionsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the gender numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the social division wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Gender or religionRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the social divisionsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Gender, religion, caste bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Punjab and Haryana were created as separate states in:Read the answer and worked solution →Jammu and Kashmir had special status under which Article of the Constitution?Read the answer and worked solution →Which region of the former state of Jammu and Kashmir has a population almost equally divided between Buddhists and Muslims?Read the answer and worked solution →Before 1947 the ruler of Jammu and Kashmir who wanted independence for his state was:Read the answer and worked solution →The sense of Kashmiri regional identity is known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Periyar E.V. Ramasami started the self-respect movement in:Read the answer and worked solution →The DMK came to power in Tamil Nadu after the Assembly elections of:Read the answer and worked solution →The UN resolution on Kashmir recommending withdrawal, troop reduction and plebiscite was dated:Read the answer and worked solution →By 1989 Jammu and Kashmir was gripped by insurgency; Assembly elections were next held only in:Read the answer and worked solution →The first woman Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, in April 2016, was:Read the answer and worked solution →Article 370 was abolished and Jammu and Kashmir reorganised into two Union Territories on:Read the answer and worked solution →The Akali Dal was formed as the political wing of the Sikhs in:Read the answer and worked solution →Operation Blue Star, the army action in the Golden Temple, took place in:Read the answer and worked solution →Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards on:Read the answer and worked solution →The Punjab Accord of July 1985 was signed between Rajiv Gandhi and:Read the answer and worked solution →Under the Punjab Accord, which city was to be transferred to Punjab?Read the answer and worked solution →In the Punjab elections of 1992, voter turnout was only:Read the answer and worked solution →The corridor connecting the North-East to the rest of India is about how wide?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Unlike India, which country gives Buddhism a special status?

  1. Sri Lanka
  2. Pakistan
  3. England
  4. Myanmar
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Correct answer: A. Sri Lanka

1. Pakistan favours Islam and England Christianity. 2. Sri Lanka gives Buddhism special status. 3. India gives no religion special status. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics II, Chapter 4, Gender, Religion and Caste._

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To ensure equality within religious communities, the Constitution bans:

  1. Processions
  2. Untouchability
  3. Faith conversion
  4. Pilgrimage tours
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Correct answer: B. Untouchability

1. The state may intervene in religious matters. 2. It bans untouchability. 3. Discrimination on grounds of religion is prohibited. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics II, Chapter 4, Gender, Religion and Caste._

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Unlike gender and religion, which social division is special to India?

  1. Race
  2. Region
  3. Caste
  4. Class
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Correct answer: C. Caste

1. Hereditary occupation was sanctioned by rituals. 2. Caste division is special to India. 3. It rested on exclusion of outcaste groups. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics II, Chapter 4, Gender, Religion and Caste._

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