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#	Question	Subject and topic	Difficulty
61	Why are community identities described as ascriptive?	Sociology Communities, nations and nation-states	Easy
62	What is a nation-state?	Sociology Communities, nations and nation-states	Easy
63	A government declares that only the majority community's language may be used in schools and offices througho…	Sociology Communities, nations and nation-states	Medium
64	Which statement about nations is most accurate?	Sociology Communities, nations and nation-states	Medium
65	A country recognises several regional languages officially, protects minority educational institutions, and p…	Sociology Communities, nations and nation-states	Hard
66	Which of the following belongs to civil society?	Sociology State and civil society	Easy
67	During which period were fundamental rights suspended and the press censored in India, reminding citizens of …	Sociology State and civil society	Easy
68	Citizens' campaigns for transparency in government contributed to which law passed in 2005?	Sociology State and civil society	Medium
69	Which description best defines civil society?	Sociology State and civil society	Medium
70	A government passes an order banning all public meetings and placing newspapers under prior censorship withou…	Sociology State and civil society	Hard
71	Which colonial-era city grew mainly as a port linking India to the British economy?	Sociology Structural change	Easy
72	What does de-industrialisation refer to in the colonial Indian context?	Sociology Structural change	Easy
73	Labourers were recruited from distant regions, often through deception, to work in Assam's tea gardens. This …	Sociology Structural change	Medium
74	Why did older trading towns such as Surat and Masulipatnam decline during colonial rule?	Sociology Structural change	Medium
75	A historian notes that a colonial city had separate areas for European residents and for Indians, with better…	Sociology Structural change	Hard
76	Which sociologist introduced the concept of sanskritisation?	Sociology Cultural change	Easy
77	A family starts wearing Western clothes, sending children to English-medium schools and eating with knives an…	Sociology Cultural change	Easy
78	A lower caste in a village gives up eating meat, adopts the sacred thread and follows Brahmin rituals to clai…	Sociology Cultural change	Medium
79	Why do critics say that sanskritisation does not lead to structural change?	Sociology Cultural change	Medium
80	A caste that has long faced discrimination publicly celebrates its own traditional festivals and food and rej…	Sociology Cultural change	Hard