Q1. What is the major difference between the ideologies of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and MK Gandhi? a) Bankimchandra wanted to emulate the colonisers superior civilization as a necessary step towards recovering the lost glory of the past, but Gandhi regarded the two civilizations as incompatible and maintained that western-educated Indians can at best replace the British rule in words but not in spirit b) Bankimchandra wanted to restrict the freedom struggle exclusively to the upper class, but Gandhi wanted to make it more inclusive and mass-based movement c) Bankimchandra asserted that India should never try to free itself from English rule, but Gandhi emphasised upon Swadeshi movement and Home Rule d) Gandhi preferred the simple peasant life and sympathised with the lower castes, but Bankimchandra despised the peasantry Q2. What is the major theme of Raja Rao s Kanthapura? a) Kanthapura answers Gandhi s call to go back to the teeming millions of peasants and rural population uncontaminated by the corrupting influences of Western civilization b) Kanthapura, written and published in France, is an account of Rao s life and experiences in that country c) Kanthapura is simultaneously a representation and a critique of the Gandhian discourse of nationalism d) Kanthapura is the literal representation of Gandhian philosophy as espoused by him in his autobiography Q3. What are the major initiatives taken by Moorthy after his return to Kanthapura? a) Widow remarriage, upliftment of lower castes, and abolition of practice of Sati
b) Popularising the use of charkha to weave khadi, opposition to caste system, and non-violent anticolonial resistance c) Abolition of child marriage, dowry system and untouchability d) Spreading education, self-governance, and women emancipation Q4. Which three essays by Tagore were published together as Nationalism (1917)? a) An Indian Folk Religion, East and West and The Spirit of Freedom b) My Reminiscences, Patriotism and Bankim Chandra c) Nationalism in India, Nationalism in Japan and Nationalism in the West d) The Spirit of Japan, The Sunset of the Century and Realisation in Action Q5. What, according to Tagore, is/are the defining feature(s) of a nation-state? a) Tagore believed a nation-state is a political and economic union of people, in which the whole population assumes unity when organized for a mechanical purpose of creating maximum economic profit, and thus is inherently connected with the capitalist mode of economy b) Tagore believed that a nation disregards the human tendency for altruism and selfsacrifice, and instead forces aggressive competition and greed of material prosperity c) Tagore believed that a man s position within the national machinery only reverses the natural relation between man and machine and curtails his freedom rather than enhancing it d) All of the above Q6. What was Frantz Fanon s basic argument in the section The Pitfalls of National Consciousness, published in The Wretched of the Earth (1961)?
a) Fanon argued that the middle class which leads a country to independence fails to reorganise the means of production of that country, so economic dependence and exploitation by the colonial metropolis continues even after political independence b) Fanon believed that the scramble for Africa was not a competition between colonizers to divide Africa s resources, but it was a competition between African states to gain more resources c) Fanon, like Achebe, wanted to present the African perspective to the outside world as well as engage with fellow Africans to expose the fault lines that were already present within the precolonial African society, making it an impossible point of return postindependence d) Fanon, like Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, wanted to emulate the colonisers superior civilization as a necessary step towards recovering the lost glory of the past Q7. What did Homi Bhabha mean by the concept of mimicry? a) Through this concept Bhabha seeks to study the experiences of blacks across Africa, the Caribbean and the USA around a set of humanist values that were supposedly held by blacks the world over b) Mimicry, refers to the partial imitation of the colonisers language, dress, politics, and cultural attitude by the colonised subjects c) Mimicry represents the hitherto silent other which has now started speaking back, disrupting the realm of politics in radical ways: thus women, natives, minorities, deviants, subalterns, now claim to speak as others d) This concept challenges the essentialist theory of diaspora: in the context of race, ethnicity, or culture, essentialism suggests the practice of various groups deciding what is and isn't a particular identity.
Q8. What was James Clifford s major argument against Bronislaw Malinowski s study of natives of Papua New Guinea in their original setting? a) James Clifford criticised Malinowski s study because it presented the Papuan islanders as a group of people absolutely isolated from the outside world. Clifford argued that Malinowski creates this illusion of isolation by leaving out details about how he himself had travelled to that distant location, or communicated with the natives b) James Clifford called Malinowski s study biased because the latter had failed to take into account the altering identity, language, and culture of the indentured slaves who had returned to their native homelands c) James Clifford called Malinowski s study essentialist because the latter had failed to take into account the ambiguous way in which colonizer and colonized regard one another. d) James Clifford called Malinowski s study biased because the latter had failed to take into account the effects of centuries of imperialism which had impacted the culture and language of the natives Q9. What is the major difference between Diogenes the Cynic and the Stoics regarding the understanding of the term cosmopolitanism? a) Diogenes understood cosmopolitanism as the opposition of Greek city-states to the metropolis, while Stoics understood the term as the Greek city-states constituting the metropolis, much like Indian federation of states b) Diogenes understood cosmopolitanism as belonging to only a particular Greek citystate rather than to a nation, while Stoics understood the term as the belonging to a Greek nation rather than to separate city-states
c) Diogenes the Cynic was called so because he did not believe in the concept of democracy, but Stoics believed that Greece would be able to maintain sovereignty over their states even after granting voting rights to its people d) Diogenes claim of being a cosmopolitan or a citizen of the world meant that he had abdicated all rights and obligations towards his state or country, but Stoics understood cosmopolitanism not as a renouncement of commitments but rather as an enhanced sense of commitment not just towards their own state but also towards the rest of the human community in the world Q10. Walcott s poem A Far Cry from Africa was written to a) lament against the continued physical, cultural and linguistic oppression of the natives of Caribbean in the hands of British, Spanish and French colonizers b) make an appeal from the Caribbean natives to international institutions like the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to take action against the atrocities meted out by British, Spanish and French colonizers c) show solidarity towards the Kenyan freedom fighters against the British atrocities during the Mau Mau uprising of the 1950s d) lament the fate of the Caribbean natives who had to forcefully migrate to other parts of the world under the fear of persecution