INDIAN SOCIOLOGICAL THINKERS

1. Who use the Marxian theory while analysing the Indian

class structure in agrarian relation?
A. g p murdock
B. d p Mukherjee
C. Karl Marx
D. a r desai
Answer» D. a r desai

2. To know about sanskritisation M.N. Srinivas made his

study in……….
A. Mysore
B. Karnataka
C. Bengaluru
D. coorgs
Answer» D. coorgs
3. Who wrote the famous work “Social Background of Indian
Nationalism”?
A. akshay ramanlal desai
B. akshay kumar desai
C. ishwarlal pragji desai
D. govind sadashiv ghurye
Answer» A. akshay ramanlal desai

4. ……….has pointed out the different phases of Indian

nationalism
A. g s ghurye
B. Gandhi
C. Nehru
D. a r desai
Answer» D. a r desai

5. How many phases of the growth of Indian Nationalism are

identified by A R Desai?
A. two
B. five
C. four
D. three
Answer» B. five

6. Where did A R Desai born?

A. nadiad
B. kishan garhi
C. shamirpet
D. coorg
Answer» A. nadiad

7. How many stages of development of sociology in India are

identified by Ramakrishna Mukherjee?
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. six
Answer» B. three
8. Which is the first stage of the development of sociology in
India as specified by R K Mukherjee?
A. pre-professional
B. pre-academic
C. pro-professional
D. developmental and scientific
Answer» D. developmental and scientific

9. Which is the second stage of the development of

sociology in India as conceptualized by R K Mukherjee?
A. pro-professional stage
B. currently needed stage
C. professional stage
D. professional stage
Answer» A. pro-professional stage

10. Who is popularly known as the father of Indian

sociology?
A. a r desai
B. I p desai
C. m n srinivas
D. g s ghurye
Answer» D. g s ghurye

11. What is the full name of G S Ghurye

A. Gopal sadashiv ghurye
B. govind sadashiv ghurye
C. guru sad ghurye
D. guna sidh ghurye
Answer» B. govind sadashiv ghurye

12. Who wrote the famous book “Caste and Class in India”?
A. g s ghurye
B. louis Dumont
C. ketkar
D. risely
Answer» A. g s ghurye
13. Who among the following wrote the book ‘Indian Village’?
A. s c dube
B. r c dube
C. m n srinivas
D. mckim marriot
Answer» A. s c dube

14. A.R. Desai Social change refers to change

in………………….
A. function of society
B. structure of society
C. society
D. change in social institution
Answer» B. structure of society

15.Who wrote the work The Remembered Village?

A. s c dube
B. mckim marriot
C. robert redfield
D. m n srinivas
Answer» D. m n srinivas

16. Who introduces the concept of Brahmanization?

A. m n srinivas
B. Yogendra Singh
C. Robert Redfield
D. ambedkar
Answer» A. m n srinivas

17. Which was the work of Srinivas define sanskritisation?

A. remembered village
B. Indian village
C. social change in modern India
D. social system of Mysore village
Answer» C. social change in modern India

18. Who wrote the work Indian Village?

A. m n srinivas
B. mckim marriot
C. Mukherjee
D. s c dube
Answer» D. s c dube

19. Who wrote the book entitled as India’s changing

Villages?
A. veena dube
B. m n srinivas
C. s c dube
D. g s ghurye
Answer» C. s c dube

20. Which work of Dube described about the how villages

can be seen in diversifies framework?
A. India’s village
B. Indian village
C. changing village
D. Mysore village
Answer» B. Indian village

21. Which are the two stages of growth of civilization put

forwarded by Yogendra Singh?
A. indigenous and western
B. western and british
C. indian and western
D. orthogenetic and heterogenetic
Answer» A. indigenous and western

22. Who wrote the book “Social change in Modern India”?

A. milton singer
B. robert redfield
C. louis coser
D. m n srinivas
Answer» D. m n srinivas

23. Who authored the work “Remembered village”?

A. g s ghurye
B. m n srinivas
C. mckim marriot
D. irawati karve
Answer» B. m n srinivas

24. Which book of M N Srinivas mentioned the concepts of

sanskritisation and westernization?
A. social change in modern india
B. social system in mysore village
C. social structure in ancient india
D. indian village
Answer» A. social change in modern india

25. Which is the predecessor of the concept sanskritisation

as founded by M N Srinivas?
A. westernization
B. modernization
C. brahmanization
D. elite emulation
Answer» C. brahmanization
26. Which is the approach applied by S C Dube in his study
of villages?
A. structural
B. structural-functional
C. functional
D. indological
Answer» B. structural-functional

27. Who was known as Marxologist?

A. a r desai
B. d p mukherjee
C. I p desai
D. karl marx
Answer» B. d p mukherje

28. Who is the author of the work Modern Indian Culture: A

Sociological Study
A. d p mukherjee
B. r k mukherjee
C. m n srinivas
D. a r desai
Answer» A. d p mukherjee

29. Who presented modernization as a process can never be

achieved by a mere imitation?
A. m n srinivas
B. yogendra singh
C. max weber
D. d p mukherjee
Answer» D. d p mukherjee

30. How D P Mukherjee classifies tradition?

A. high, middle and low
B. little and great tradition
C. primary, secondary and tertiary
D. indian and western
Answer» C. primary, secondary and tertiary
31. Mukherjee intended by primary tradition?
A. ancient culture in india
B. medieval culture in west
C. modern culture in india
D. primitive and authentic to indian culture
Answer» D. primitive and authentic to indian culture

32. What is meant by secondary tradition?

A. the culture emerged with muslim contact
B. the culture emerged with british contact
C. the culture evolved with western contact
D. the culture emerged in india
Answer» A. the culture emerged with muslim contact

33. What are the three principles influence the traditions?

A. smriti, dharma and artha
B. jana, varna and jati
C. sruti, smriti and anubhava
D. parambarya, believe and contact
Answer» C. sruti, smriti and anubhava

34. Who is an Indian sociologist who strongly criticizes the

tight compartmentalization of social sciences?
A. Dhurjati Prasad Mukherjee
B. andre betteille
C. m n srinivas
D. Robert k Merton
Answer» A. Dhurjati Prasad Mukherjee

35. …………….is the major base used by A R Desai to analyze

Indian social structure
A. social
B. economy
C. institution
D. class
Answer» B. economy
36. ………………work of Ghurye tried to make a
reconstruction of a very orthodox traditional and age old
characteristics of caste in India.
A. Indian sadhus
B. the scheduled tribes of india
C. caste, class and occupation
D. caste and race in india
Answer» D. caste and race in india

37. In opinion of M N Srinivas …………is the microcosm of

Indian society and civilization
A. village
B. caste
C. urban
D. rural
Answer» A. village

38. Who opined that villages are semi-autonomous

A. s c dube
B. andre beteille
C. m n srinivas
D. g s ghurye
Answer» A. s c dube

39. Who studied Shamirpet village in Madhya Pradesh

A. a m shah
B. m n srinivas
C. s c dube
D. mckim marriot
Answer» C. s c dube

40. M N Srinivas opined that all changes in society are

reflected through the transformation in …………
A. institution
B. caste structure
C. social structure
D. village structure
Answer» B. caste structure
41. What is the base of social change in the opinion of M N
Srinivas?
A. cultural mobility
B. caste mobility
C. structural mobility
D. social mobility
Answer» D. social mobility

42. Match an item in List-I with an item in List-II.

List – I(Books) List – II(Thinkers)

a. Modernisation of Indian Tradition 1. Y. Singh

b. When a great Tradition Modernises 2. M. Singer
c. Caste in Modern India 3. M.N. Srinivas
d. Caste, Class and Power. 4. Andre Betille

Codes:
 abcd
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 3 2 1 4
(D) 2 1 4 3
Answer: (A)

43. Who has stated that in India, direction of change is

represented in a linear evolutionary form from
‘traditionalization’ towards ‘modernization’?
(A) M. N. Srinivas
(B) S.C. Dube
(C) Milton Singer
(D) Yogendra Singh
Answer: (D) Yogendra Singh

44. Which of the following statements is incorrect with

regard to D.P. Mukherjee?
(A) He uses the dialectical approach.
(B) He combines Marx’s, Dilthey’s and Vedanta’s
approaches.
(C) Traditions can be distinguished between primary,
secondary and tertiary.
(D) Modernity can be understood independent of tradition.
Answer: (D)Modernity can be understood independent of
tradition.