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1401	Bihu is a major harvest festival of which state?	Anthropology Diversity in India	Easy
1402	Santali, spoken by the Santhals, belongs to which language family?	Anthropology Diversity in India	Medium
1403	In a hilly region with very heavy rainfall and frequent flooding, which house design is most likely?	Anthropology Diversity in India	Medium
1404	Which statement about the languages of India's tribal communities is correct?	Anthropology Diversity in India	Hard
1405	Which constitutional article deals with the specification of Scheduled Tribes?	Anthropology Indian tribes	Easy
1406	The largest concentration of tribal communities in India is found in the	Anthropology Indian tribes	Easy
1407	The ghotul, where young Muria Gond boys and girls learn songs, dances and social duties, is an example of a	Anthropology Indian tribes	Medium
1408	Autonomous District Councils in parts of Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura and Assam are provided for under the	Anthropology Indian tribes	Medium
1409	A tribal village collects mahua flowers, tendu leaves and firewood, and also cultivates small plots. Loss of …	Anthropology Indian tribes	Hard
1410	The Ol Chiki script is used to write which language?	Anthropology Major tribes and PVTGs	Easy
1411	The Hul rebellion of 1855–56 was led by which community?	Anthropology Major tribes and PVTGs	Easy
1412	Which of these is a criterion used to identify a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group?	Anthropology Major tribes and PVTGs	Medium
1413	A tribe of central India speaks a Dravidian language, has the Muria and Maria among its subgroups and once ru…	Anthropology Major tribes and PVTGs	Medium
1414	Which group of communities consists entirely of PVTGs?	Anthropology Major tribes and PVTGs	Hard
1415	The Chipko movement, in which villagers hugged trees to prevent felling, is an example of a	Anthropology Social movements	Easy
1416	The Ulgulan of 1899–1900 in the Chotanagpur region was led by	Anthropology Social movements	Easy
1417	Sharecroppers in Bengal organised to demand two-thirds of the harvest instead of half. This movement is best …	Anthropology Social movements	Medium
1418	Which feature distinguishes a social movement from a one-time street protest?	Anthropology Social movements	Medium
1419	The Satyashodhak Samaj founded by Jyotiba Phule and the Self-Respect Movement led by Periyar are both example…	Anthropology Social movements	Hard
1420	Who coined the term Sanskritisation?	Anthropology Caste and social stratification	Easy
1421	Status that a person gets by birth, such as caste membership, is called	Anthropology Caste and social stratification	Easy
1422	A caste group lower in the local hierarchy gives up meat and liquor and begins to wear the sacred thread to c…	Anthropology Caste and social stratification	Medium
1423	In a village, a barber family serves the same landowning families every year and receives a fixed share of gr…	Anthropology Caste and social stratification	Medium
1424	A caste in a village is numerically the largest, owns most of the land and controls the panchayat, though it …	Anthropology Caste and social stratification	Hard
1425	The process of social change brought about by over 150 years of British rule in India was called Westernisati…	Anthropology Colonialism, modernisation and globalisation	Easy
1426	The growing interconnection of economies and cultures across the world through trade, media and technology is…	Anthropology Colonialism, modernisation and globalisation	Easy
1427	Colonial forest laws affected many tribal communities mainly by	Anthropology Colonialism, modernisation and globalisation	Medium
1428	An international pizza chain in India introduces paneer and tandoori toppings to suit local tastes. This is a…	Anthropology Colonialism, modernisation and globalisation	Medium
1429	Which statement best distinguishes modernisation from Westernisation?	Anthropology Colonialism, modernisation and globalisation	Hard
1430	The Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, known as PESA, was passed in	Anthropology Anthropology and development	Easy
1431	Which law recognises the rights of forest-dwelling communities over forest land and resources?	Anthropology Anthropology and development	Easy
1432	Nehru's Panchsheel for tribal development emphasised that tribal people should develop	Anthropology Anthropology and development	Medium
1433	A government builds a school in a tribal village, but attendance is poor because classes are held during the …	Anthropology Anthropology and development	Medium
1434	A dam submerges forest villages, and families receive only cash compensation and are moved to a town. Why mig…	Anthropology Anthropology and development	Hard
1435	Which bone is considered the most reliable for determining the sex of an adult skeleton?	Anthropology Forensic and public-health anthropology	Easy
1436	Which is the most common fingerprint pattern in human populations?	Anthropology Forensic and public-health anthropology	Easy
1437	In an unidentified skeleton, the ends of the long bones are not yet fused to the shafts and some permanent te…	Anthropology Forensic and public-health anthropology	Medium
1438	A man with blood group O claims to be the father of a child with blood group AB. What can be concluded?	Anthropology Forensic and public-health anthropology	Medium
1439	A vaccination drive in a village fails because people believe illness is caused by angry spirits. Which step …	Anthropology Forensic and public-health anthropology	Hard
1440	In Durkheim's view, the solidarity of industrial societies, based on interdependence of specialised roles, is…	Anthropology Industrial society and cultural diversity	Easy
1441	The feeling of factory workers that they have no control over their work or its product was described by Marx…	Anthropology Industrial society and cultural diversity	Easy
1442	Workers from several states living in an industrial city form associations based on their home region and lan…	Anthropology Industrial society and cultural diversity	Medium
1443	A policy that allows different cultural groups to keep their languages and festivals while participating equa…	Anthropology Industrial society and cultural diversity	Medium
1444	Which change is most typical of family life when people move from villages to industrial cities?	Anthropology Industrial society and cultural diversity	Hard
1445	Which layer of the microsporangium wall nourishes the developing pollen grains?	Biology/Biological Studies/Biotechnology/Biochemistry Flower structure and gametophytes	Easy
1446	The exine of a pollen grain is mainly made of which substance?	Biology/Biological Studies/Biotechnology/Biochemistry Flower structure and gametophytes	Easy
1447	How many mitotic divisions of the functional megaspore nucleus are needed to form a typical 8-nucleate embryo…	Biology/Biological Studies/Biotechnology/Biochemistry Flower structure and gametophytes	Medium
1448	In a typical angiosperm embryo sac, which cells lie at the micropylar end along with the egg?	Biology/Biological Studies/Biotechnology/Biochemistry Flower structure and gametophytes	Medium
1449	If the nucellus cell of a plant has 24 chromosomes, how many chromosomes will be present in the egg cell and …	Biology/Biological Studies/Biotechnology/Biochemistry Flower structure and gametophytes	Hard
1450	Transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of another flower on the same plant is called	Biology/Biological Studies/Biotechnology/Biochemistry Pollination	Easy