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UPSC CDS Indian Polity — practice questions — page 18

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Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Gender, religion, caste bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Democracy promotes equality, enhances dignity, improves decisions, resolves conflicts and allows room to:Read the answer and worked solution →How many countries today claim to practise some kind of democratic politics?Read the answer and worked solution →The first step in judging democracy's outcomes is to recognise that democracy is just a:Read the answer and worked solution →The most basic outcome of democracy is a government that is accountable and:Read the answer and worked solution →Democracy is based on the idea of deliberation and:Read the answer and worked solution →A citizen's right and means to examine how a decision was made is known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Which practice would you look for to measure an accountable government?Read the answer and worked solution →In one respect democratic government is certainly better than its alternatives: it is:Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1950 and 2000, which regimes had a slightly higher rate of economic growth?Read the answer and worked solution →Among poor countries, the growth difference between dictatorships and democracies is:Read the answer and worked solution →In South Africa and Brazil, the top 20 per cent take more than what share of national income?Read the answer and worked solution →In South Africa and Brazil, the bottom 20 per cent get less than:Read the answer and worked solution →Which countries are cited as much better on income equality?Read the answer and worked solution →Democracies are based on which kind of equality?Read the answer and worked solution →In which country does more than half the population live in poverty, per the text?Read the answer and worked solution →Which country is cited for successfully negotiating differences among ethnic populations?Read the answer and worked solution →To accommodate diversity, a democracy must see that it is not simply rule by:Read the answer and worked solution →Rule by majority must not become rule by majority community in terms of religion, race or:Read the answer and worked solution →Democracy stands superior to other governments in promoting dignity and:Read the answer and worked solution →The passion for respect and freedom is described as the basis of:Read the answer and worked solution →Most societies across the world were historically:Read the answer and worked solution →The dilemma about democracy is that it is seen as good in principle but not so good in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the democratic outcomesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the democratic practicesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the outcome numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the democratic valuesRead the answer and worked solution →Democracy or dictatorshipRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the outcomesRead the answer and worked solution →

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Questions
  1. Answer
    54
    Question
    Per cent literacy among Indian women
  2. Answer
    76
    Question
    Per cent literacy among Indian men
  3. Answer
    919
    Question
    Child sex ratio India fell to
  4. Answer
    1976
    Question
    Year of the Equal Remuneration Act
  5. Answer
    5
    Question
    Per cent women in state assemblies, less than
  6. Answer
    10
    Question
    Lakh elected women in local bodies, more than
Instructions
Type the number only.
_Source: syllabus Democratic Politics II, Chapter 4, Gender, Religion and Caste._

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Gender, religion, caste bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Believes in equal rights for women.
    Item
    Feminist
  2. Clue
    Rule by father, men valued more.
    Item
    Patriarchy
  3. Clue
    Girls per thousand boys.
    Item
    Sex ratio
  4. Clue
    Religion as basis of community.
    Item
    Communalism
  5. Clue
    State with no official religion.
    Item
    Secular
  6. Clue
    Marriage, divorce, inheritance.
    Item
    Family laws
  7. Clue
    Scheduled Castes.
    Item
    Dalits
  8. Clue
    Scheduled Tribes.
    Item
    Adivasis
  9. Clue
    Committee on Muslim population.
    Item
    Sachar
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Democratic Politics II, Chapter 4, Gender, Religion and Caste._

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Democracy promotes equality, enhances dignity, improves decisions, resolves conflicts and allows room to:

  1. Correct mistakes
  2. Punish dissent
  3. Delay decisions
  4. Avoid elections
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Correct answer: A. Correct mistakes

1. These make it better than dictatorship. 2. Democracy allows room to correct mistakes. 3. These were the points from Madam Lyngdoh's class. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics II, Chapter 7, Outcomes of Democracy._

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