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Which of the four processes of cultural change pre-dates colonial rule?Read the answer and worked solution →Ram Mohun Roy attacked sati using natural rights doctrines as well as:Read the answer and worked solution →Sir Syed Ahmed Khan's interpretation of Islam emphasised the validity of free enquiry, called:Read the answer and worked solution →Sociologist Satish Saberwal sketched three aspects of the modern framework: modes of communication, forms of organisation and the:Read the answer and worked solution →Keshav Chandra Sen of Bengal visited Madras in:Read the answer and worked solution →The All-India Muslim Ladies Conference, Anjuman-E-Khawatin-E-Islam, was founded in:Read the answer and worked solution →Who opened the first school for women in Pune?Read the answer and worked solution →Phule recalled the glory of the pre-Aryan age, while Bal Gangadhar Tilak emphasised the glory of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Jahanara Shah Nawas moved a resolution at the All India Muslim Ladies Conference against:Read the answer and worked solution →Muktabai, a 13-year-old student in Phule's school who condemned a religion of privilege, wrote in:Read the answer and worked solution →Sanskritisation involves taking over the life style of a high caste, in particular a twice-born or:Read the answer and worked solution →Where non-Sanskritic castes were dominant and their influence stronger, the process is termed:Read the answer and worked solution →In Punjab, until the third quarter of the nineteenth century, the dominant cultural influence was:Read the answer and worked solution →Kumud Pawade's autobiography recounts how a Dalit woman became a teacher of:Read the answer and worked solution →Critics say sanskritisation leads to no structural change but only:Read the answer and worked solution →Srinivas defined westernisation as changes brought about by over how many years of British rule?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose essay On Liberty became a text in Indian colleges soon after publication?Read the answer and worked solution →Studies of which Kerala community show conscious efforts to westernise despite not being upper caste?Read the answer and worked solution →Ravi Varma received his first paid commission, to paint Krishna Menon's family, in:Read the answer and worked solution →In early usage, modernisation referred to improvement in:Read the answer and worked solution →In the modern west, secularisation has usually meant a decline in the influence of:Read the answer and worked solution →Caste functioning today as political pressure groups rather than a religious framework is described as:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the social reformersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the reform organisationsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the reform yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the culture wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Sanskritise or westerniseRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the processesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Cultural change bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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Which of the four processes of cultural change pre-dates colonial rule?

  1. Sanskritisation
  2. Modernisation
  3. Secularisation
  4. Westernisation
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Correct answer: A. Sanskritisation

1. The other three were responses to colonialism. 2. Sanskritisation pre-dates colonial rule. 3. It concerns social mobility within caste. _Source: syllabus Social Change and Development in India, Chapter 2, Cultural Change._

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Ram Mohun Roy attacked sati using natural rights doctrines as well as:

  1. Persian poetry
  2. Hindu shastras
  3. Roman civil law
  4. Buddhist sutras
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Correct answer: B. Hindu shastras

1. Reformers mixed modern and traditional ideas. 2. Roy appealed to the Hindu shastras too. 3. Ranade did the same for widow remarriage. _Source: syllabus Social Change and Development in India, Chapter 2, Cultural Change._

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Sir Syed Ahmed Khan's interpretation of Islam emphasised the validity of free enquiry, called:

  1. Ijtihad
  2. Taqlid
  3. Fatwa
  4. Hadith
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Correct answer: A. Ijtihad

1. He linked Quranic revelation with laws of nature. 2. Free enquiry is ijtihad. 3. Modern science informed his reading. _Source: syllabus Social Change and Development in India, Chapter 2, Cultural Change._

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