Self Evaluation
  Lecture 32: Issues in Modernization in India – I (From Skepticism to Conversion)
 

Q.6. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sri Aurobindo, B.R.Ambedkar, M.K.Gandhi and many reformists followed a:

(A)   Conservative model

(B)   Mixed model combining the spiritual and introspective development of the East, and the materialist development of the West

(C)   Kantian model of development and growth and findings of empirical studies

(D)   Tolstoy’s model of universal love


Q.7. The interpretation of Buddhism that Ambedkar developed is:

(A)   Mahayana

(B)   Hinayana

(C)   Navayan

(D)   None of the above


Q.8. Ambedkar is blamed for:

(A)   Politicizing Buddhism and making it socially relevant

(B)  His advocacy of modernization and urbanization

(C)  Arguing for building an egalitarian society

(D)   Not knowing the important works of Buddha


Q.9. The opposition to present form of development and modernization comes mainly from:

(A)   Those bearing the risks and cost of development more than the benefits of it, such as fishermen, tribals, small and marginal farmers

(B)   Visionaries who see the unsustainability of development and common ruin of the mankind if the present development trends continue

(C)   Those whose life resources depend on continuity of tradition

(D)   All of the above


Q.10. Srinivas argues that the rigidity and immobility of caste is a:

(A)   Myth

(B)   Reality

(C)   Empirical fact

(D)   Historical experience