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

Total Questions: 100

81. Which one of the following statements regarding Dr. B.R. Ambedkar is NOT correct?

Correct Answer: C. Dr. Ambedkar put himself outside Brahmanical culture, but not however outside Hindu society.

82. Which one of the following statements about 'Shahr-Ashob' is NOT correct?

Correct Answer: D. A great number of these poems were written about the decline of Agra city.

83. Which one of the following plays was NOT authored by Bharatendu Harishchandra?

Correct Answer: D. Ashadh Ka Ek Din

84. Which one of the following statements is NOT correct about Allama Iqbal?

Correct Answer: D. The Secrets of the Self, is Allama Iqbal's first poetical work in Urdu.

85. Which one of the following statements regarding Rabindranath Tagore is NOT correct?

Correct Answer: D. Similar to Gandhiji, Tagore defended the Varnashrama Dharma.

86. Who said the following words?

"Before Asia is in a position to cooperate with the culture of Europe, she must base her own structure on a synthesis of all the different cultures which she has."

Correct Answer: D. Rabindranath Tagore

87. Who wrote the following words about Gandhiji?

"The difference in our standpoints and temperaments make the Mahatma's field of work one which my conscience cannot accept as its own. That is a regret that will abide with me always."

Correct Answer: C. Rabindranath Tagore

88. Which Bengali poet, writer and musician is known as 'national poet of Bangladesh' and one who fought in the World War I?

Correct Answer: D. Qazi Nazrul Islam

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

  List-I (Authors)     List-II (Works)
 (a) Partha Chatterjee (i) Lying on the Post-Colonial Indifference
 (b) Tapti Guha-Thakurta (ii) History at the Limits of World History
 (c) Rukmini Bhaya Nair (iii) Monuments, objects, Histories: Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India
 (d) Ranjit Guha (iv) Text of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal

Choose the correct option from those given below:

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

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

Assertion (A): Non-Europeans in colonial India had to remain content with lower jobs. Entrepreneurship was not lacking but whoever dared to venture forth, soon realized that the road to scientific and technological development lay through politics.
Reason (R) : The State involvement made colonial science more utilityoriented.
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)