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UPSC CDS Fundamental Rights — practice questions — page 6

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Which of these is NOT a way of acquiring Indian citizenship named in the text?Read the answer and worked solution →Which UN office was created to help refugees and stateless people?Read the answer and worked solution →India gave refuge to the Dalai Lama and his followers in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Supporters of global citizenship point to help for tsunami victims as a sign of what?Read the answer and worked solution →India defines itself as which kind of nation state?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the ways inRead the answer and worked solution →Pop Marshall's rightsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the citizenship factsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the strugglesRead the answer and worked solution →Which rightRead the answer and worked solution →Which countryRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Citizenship bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A constitution whose preamble says its people desire peace for all time is popularly called the peace constitution. Which country's is it?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Article of the Japanese Constitution renounces war as a sovereign right of the nation?Read the answer and worked solution →Who called the Constituent Assembly a nation on the move, throwing away the shell of its past?Read the answer and worked solution →Who protested against curtailment of press freedom by the colonial state early in the nineteenth century?Read the answer and worked solution →Which infamous colonial law, opposed by the national movement, sought to deny freedom from arbitrary arrest?Read the answer and worked solution →Indian liberalism differs from classical western liberalism because it is always linked to what?Read the answer and worked solution →The western idea that state and religion must stay out of each other's affairs is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Indian secularism lets the state intervene in or abstain from religion depending on which promotes liberty and equality. This is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Affirmative action began in the USA after the 1964 Civil Rights Act. How much earlier had India entrenched it constitutionally?Read the answer and worked solution →The Constitution of India Bill of 1895 was the first non-official attempt at what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which 1928 report reaffirmed that every person of either sex aged twenty-one could vote?Read the answer and worked solution →Special provisions for the North-East under Article 371 anticipate which concept?Read the answer and worked solution →Article 371A gives special status to which North-Eastern State?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did the Constitution reject separate electorates based on religion?Read the answer and worked solution →Who said the main objective was to evolve one community in India, forgetting majority and minority?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is NOT one of the three main criticisms of the Indian Constitution described?Read the answer and worked solution →Who complained in the Constituent Assembly that they wanted the music of Veena or Sitar but got an English band?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which of these is NOT a way of acquiring Indian citizenship named in the text?

  1. By birth
  2. By descent
  3. Registering
  4. Buying it
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Correct answer: D. Buying it

1. Citizenship comes by birth, descent, registration. 2. Naturalisation and inclusion of territory also count. 3. It cannot be bought. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 6, Citizenship._

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Which UN office was created to help refugees and stateless people?

  1. High Commissioner for Refugees
  2. Security Council of the UN
  3. Trusteeship Council of UN
  4. Economic and Social Council
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Correct answer: A. High Commissioner for Refugees

1. Stateless people cannot work or educate children legally. 2. The UN appointed a High Commissioner for Refugees. 3. The problem is large and growing. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 6, Citizenship._

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India gave refuge to the Dalai Lama and his followers in which year?

  1. 1962
  2. 1959
  3. 1947
  4. 1971
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Correct answer: B. 1959

1. India prides itself on sheltering the persecuted. 2. The Dalai Lama arrived in 1959. 3. Many others remain stateless for years. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 6, Citizenship._

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