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All quantitative restrictions on imports into India were withdrawn from:Read the answer and worked solution →Women silk spinners of Bihar lost their jobs when cheaper yarn entered from China and:Read the answer and worked solution →Women gum collectors of Gujarat lost employment due to cheaper gum imported from:Read the answer and worked solution →The great Sanskrit grammarian Panini, of the fourth century BCE, was of which origin?Read the answer and worked solution →The seventh-century Chinese scholar Yi Jing learnt his Sanskrit in:Read the answer and worked solution →The kupamanduka of old Sanskrit texts, a warning against isolationism, is a:Read the answer and worked solution →India's liberalisation policies to open the economy date from:Read the answer and worked solution →Loans from the IMF came with conditions requiring a policy of:Read the answer and worked solution →Companies that produce goods or market services in more than one country are called:Read the answer and worked solution →An economy in which products have their base in information, like software and media, is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Indian city is known as the financial capital of the country?Read the answer and worked solution →Unequal access to computers and the internet between groups is termed the:Read the answer and worked solution →By 2000, India had how many internet users?Read the answer and worked solution →At Independence in 1947, India had how many telephone lines?Read the answer and worked solution →Mobile telephone services were commercially launched in India in:Read the answer and worked solution →In September 2006 India had 123.44 million mobile phones. The country with the most, 408 million, was:Read the answer and worked solution →Nike's founder, who began by importing shoes from Japan, was:Read the answer and worked solution →Nike's production shifted in the mid-1970s from Japan to:Read the answer and worked solution →Flexible production at dispersed locations, replacing centralised mass production, is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Foreign firms mixing global products with local traditions, like McDonald's going vegetarian during Navaratri, illustrate:Read the answer and worked solution →Till the 1970s, the growth of cities was driven mainly by:Read the answer and worked solution →Suicides of traditional weavers unable to compete with power looms were reported from Sircilla in which district?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the livelihoods hitRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Nike sitesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the globalisation numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the global wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Economic or culturalRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the dimensionsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Globalisation and society bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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All quantitative restrictions on imports into India were withdrawn from:

  1. 1 April 2001
  2. 1 July 1991
  3. 1 April 1995
  4. 1 January 2005
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Correct answer: A. 1 April 2001

1. Chinese pears and Australian apples appeared in local stalls. 2. QRs on imports went on 1 April 2001. 3. This followed India's WTO commitments. _Source: syllabus Social Change and Development in India, Chapter 6, Globalisation and Social Change._

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Women silk spinners of Bihar lost their jobs when cheaper yarn entered from China and:

  1. Burma
  2. Korea
  3. Japan
  4. Nepal
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Correct answer: B. Korea

1. The imported yarn was cheaper and shinier. 2. Chinese and Korean yarn displaced them. 3. Globalisation affects people differently. _Source: syllabus Social Change and Development in India, Chapter 6, Globalisation and Social Change._

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Women gum collectors of Gujarat lost employment due to cheaper gum imported from:

  1. Sudan
  2. Kenya
  3. Brazil
  4. Egypt
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Correct answer: A. Sudan

1. They picked gum from Baval trees. 2. Cheaper gum came from Sudan. 3. Rag pickers also lost work to imported waste paper. _Source: syllabus Social Change and Development in India, Chapter 6, Globalisation and Social Change._

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