1Medium15 marks
Enumerate the evidence of animal domestication in Indian microlithic industry.
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56 questions from the UPSC 2022 examination.
56 questions
Enumerate the evidence of animal domestication in Indian microlithic industry.
Discuss the issues and solutions related to the Scheduled Caste and the Scheduled Tribe populations in India.
Briefly describe the anthropological perspective on development. How have anthropologists contributed in India's rural development?
Why Heath and Carter used anthropometric measurements instead of photographs of an individual to assess the somatotype ? Elaborate their method.
Write notes on the following in about 150 words each : Household and domestic group.
Write notes on the following in about 150 words each : Pedigree analysis in genetic counselling
Discuss with suitable examples the typo-technological problems in Indian palaeolithic industry with reference to environmental hypotheses.
Austroasiatic languages
Explain how British policies impacted the major resources of the tribals.
Describe briefly the proto-history of Gujarat. Discuss the significance of Gujarat proto-history in international trade.
Role of the Governor in the Fifth Schedule areas
Safeguards for linguistic minorities in India
Dharma versus Religion
How can a balance be struck between livelihood concern and environmental degradation in the context of shifting cultivation?
Compare the nature of tribal movements between North-East and Central India. Briefly mention the current status of existing tribal movements in these areas.
Compare the functioning of traditional 'Tribal Council' with that of 'Gram Sabha' under PESA.
Should we still distinguish between 'classic' and 'progressive' Neanderthals ? Discuss the controversy surrounding Neanderthal's position in human evolution.
Discuss the contemporary population problems in the light of various socio-cultural demographic theories.
What is meant by health ? Is the burden of life style diseases on the rise ? Justify your answer with suitable examples.
Westernisation and Modernisation
Discuss how the rules of descent contradict the principles of résidence in matrilineal society, mentioning suitable examples ?
Varna and Buddhism
Discuss the role of evolutionary forces in creating human diversity.
Critically examine various anthropological interpretations about the Kula Ring.
Discuss the mechanism of social control in different kinds of political systems.
Write notes on the following in about 150 words each : Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Participatory Learning and Action (PLA)
Explain the social and religious consequences of contact between tribal and non-tribal populations.
Critically evaluate the reasons of reduction in age at menarche in human females over the successive generations.
"Globalisation, on one hand has provided opportunities and on the other hand thrown challenges to Indian villages." Elucidate.
What are the arguments for excluding Narmada Man from Homo erectus category?
Discuss the views of G. S. Ghurye and Verrier Elwin on the approach towards tribal populations. What are the policies of the Government of India towards Indian tribal populations?
Discuss how anthropological knowledge of the human body may be used in designing equipments and articles of human use.
Write the historical development of field work tradition in anthropology till recent times.
Critically describe Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's argument on the origin of Indian caste system.
Assess the contributions of S. C. Dube in Indian village studies.
Make a critical appraisal of Megalithic tradition in India with special reference to North-East India.
Discuss the approaches of Leslie White, Julian Steward and Marshall Sahlins in the light of cultural evolution.
"Anthropology is the systematic, objective and holistic study of human kind in all times and places". Elaborate the argument.
Major problems of nomadic and semi-nomadic groups
Discuss different forms of primate social organisation.
Write notes on the following in about 150 words each : Radcliffe-Brown's ideas on status, role and institution
Regionalism as an opportunity and threat to national integration
Issues of tribal agricultural labourers
Illustrate the contribution of Irawati Karve to Indian Anthropology. Make a special mention of her literary contribution.
Write notes on the following in about 150 words each : Shaman, sorcerer and medicine man.
Pit-dwellers of Kashmir
Critically examine 'Indigenisation of Christianity' in India.
Discuss the historical and cultural contexts that led to superseding ethnocentrism with cultural relativism in anthropology.
Write notes on the following in about 150 words each : Mesolithic rock art in Indian subcontinent
What do you understand by blood group systems ? How is HLA system different from those based on red cell antigens ?
Describe the methods adopted by Sir Herbert Hope Risley in classifying Indian populations. What are the criticisms against Risley's classification?
Write notes on the following in about 150 words each : Genetic imprinting in human diseases.
Discuss the objectives of Integrated Tribal Development Projects (ITDPs). How far have these objectives been achieved?
Write notes on the following in about 150 words each : Stages of human pre-natal development.
Write notes on the following in about 150 words each : Debate between formalist and substantivist approaches
Write notes on the following in about 150 words each : Balanced and transient genetic polymorphism.