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UPSC CDS Politysecularism — practice questions

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Dalits barred from entering temples is an example of:Read the answer and worked solution →Secularism accepts religion as a response to human suffering, so it is:Read the answer and worked solution →Put positively, secularism promotes freedom within religions and equality:Read the answer and worked solution →A state governed directly by a priestly order is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Sixteenth century England was not theocratic but favoured which established church?Read the answer and worked solution →Which country today has Sunni Islam as its official state religion?Read the answer and worked solution →In the American model, separation of religion and state means:Read the answer and worked solution →Under the western model, the state cannot give financial support to:Read the answer and worked solution →Ataturk translates as:Read the answer and worked solution →Who is called the philosopher of Indian secularism?Read the answer and worked solution →Nehru said a secular state protects all religions but does not adopt any as the:Read the answer and worked solution →Nehru did not believe in God, yet for him secularism did not mean:Read the answer and worked solution →For Nehru, secularism meant complete opposition to:Read the answer and worked solution →Indian secularism arose in the context of deep religious ___ that predated western ideas.Read the answer and worked solution →Tolerance is not enough for secularism because tolerance is compatible with:Read the answer and worked solution →Unlike France, India has no prohibition on wearing religious markers like turbans and veils in:Read the answer and worked solution →Indian secularism is compatible with state-supported religious reform; the Constitution therefore bans:Read the answer and worked solution →Religious minorities in India have the right to establish and maintain their own:Read the answer and worked solution →The Indian state is secular because it is neither theocratic nor has it:Read the answer and worked solution →The concept that lets the Indian state engage with or disengage from religion as needed is:Read the answer and worked solution →A ramp for wheelchair users at a cinema shows that minority rights are:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Indian modelRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the dominationsRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real termRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the secularism wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Western or IndianRead the answer and worked solution →Which kind of stateRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Secularism bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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Dalits barred from entering temples is an example of:

  1. Charge of minoritism
  2. Intra-religious domination
  3. Inter-religious domination
  4. Theocratic government
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Correct answer: B. Intra-religious domination

1. The domination happens inside one religion. 2. Secularism opposes this too. 3. It is intra-religious domination. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 8, Secularism._

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Secularism accepts religion as a response to human suffering, so it is:

  1. Not anti-religious
  2. Anti-religious
  3. A religion itself
  4. Only for atheists
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Correct answer: A. Not anti-religious

1. Loss and suffering are part of life. 2. Religion, art and philosophy respond to them. 3. Secularism is therefore not anti-religious. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 8, Secularism._

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Put positively, secularism promotes freedom within religions and equality:

  1. Between the rich and the poor
  2. Between and within religions
  3. Only between nation states
  4. Only within joint families
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Correct answer: B. Between and within religions

1. It is a normative doctrine. 2. It targets both kinds of domination. 3. So equality between and within religions. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Political Theory, Chapter 8, Secularism._

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