UGC NTA NET/JRF Exam, INDIAN CULTURE, June-2019

Total Questions: 100

91. Match the List-I with List-II.

  List-I (Authors)  List-II (Works)
 (a) Homi K. Bhabha (i) Music and the Raj
 (b) Gayatri Spivak Chakraborty (ii) Science and the Indian Tradition
 (c) David S. Gosling (iii) The Location of Culture
 (d) Ian Woodfield (iv) In other World: Essays in Cultural Politics

Choose the correct option from those given below:

 (a) (b) (c) (d)
 A. (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
 B. (ii) (i) (iv) (iii)
 C. (iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
 D. (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
Correct Answer: D.

92. Which one of the following statements is NOТ correct about colonial science and technology?

Correct Answer: A. Wood's Despatch (1854) recommended the spread of science education in India.

93. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): Mistakes in biased historical writing are motivated and not accidental.
Reason (R): Objectivity in historical writing means absence of prejudice-'a tendency to pre-judge questions in advance of the evidence'.
In the context of the above two statements, which of the following is correct?

Correct Answer: B. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

94. Which one of the following statements regarding objectivity and bias in historical writing is NOT correct?

Correct Answer: C. Innocent misconstruals or misapprehension also forms distortion in historical writing.

95. Which one of the following statements regarding imperialist approach to the writing of Indian history is NOT correct?

Correct Answer: C. The imperialist approach of history writing did not believe in the civilizing mission of the British rule.

96. Which one of the following statements regarding nationalist historiography of India is NOT correct?

Correct Answer: D. They were quite conscious of the inner contradictions of Indian society both in terms of class and caste.

97. Which one of the followinig is NOT a literary source of Maratha history?

Correct Answer: A. Mahazar

98. Match the List-I with List-II

List-I (Historians)List-II (Their Works)
 (a) David Arnold (i) British Crientalism and the Bengal Renaissance
 (b) Stanley Wolpert (ii) Provincializing Europe
 (c) Dipesh Chakrabarty (iii) Gandhi's Passion
 (d) David Kopf (iv) Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India

Choose the correct option from those given below:

 (a) (b) (c) (d)
 A. (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
 B. (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)
 C. (iv) (i) (iii) (ii)
 D. (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
Correct Answer: A.

99. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): Colonial science can be defined as a dependent where-in the result-oriented research in applied science heavily supersedes the curiosity-oriented research in pure science.
Reason (R) : Colonial science was inextricably woven into the whole fabric of colonialism. Several colonial scientists felt uncomfortable yet they had to serve the colonial state and serve the science.
In the context of the above two statements, which of the following is correct?

Correct Answer: B. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

100. Who said the following words?

"Her (India's) influence has always fallen upon the world like that of the gentle due, unheard and scarcely marked, yet bringing into bloom the fairest flowers of the earth."

Correct Answer: D. Swami Vivekanand