Group –A (Big questions)
1. Give a brief account of the different forms of marriage found in tribal India. Illustrate your answer with suitable examples.2. Discuss the internal structure and.function of dormitories present among the tribal people in India. Bring out its importance
3. Define and classify tribal economy of India.
4. what do you understand by tribal Law ? Answer with example from any one Indian tribe known to you.
5. Critically discuss the trends of urbanization in India. Discuss the implications of growing importance of mega cities.
6. “Land and forest are the twin problems of the tribals”. Explain with suitable examples.
7. What do you understand by agrarian class structure ? Discuss with suitable exampes how land reforms and agricultural development may influence agrarian relations.
8. Health is not the exclusive domain of medical science. Explain with suitable examples the contribution of anthropology in this context.
9. Critically discuss the various structural constraints in the context of exucational development of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in India. Suggest suitable measures.
10. Give a brief account of the neolithic culture m India.
11. Discuss the distribution of broad linguistic elements in the tribal population of India.
12. Give an outline of the basic structure of the Indian population.
13. Discuss the problem of displacement of the tribal population in response to development in India.
14. Write a brief account of mesolithic culture in India. 15. Discuss salient features of Indian caste system with suitable examples.
16. Give an account of geographical distribution of scheduled tribes of India.
17. State briefly the constitutional safe-guards for tribal population in India.
18. Give a brief account of the lower palacolithic culture of India.
19. Briefly outline the distribution of the linguistic divisions of Indian
20. Discuss the theories of the origin of caste system in India.
21. “Contributions of anthropology in understanding political movements of the tribes of India” — enlist and analyse.
22. When did the Indus Valley Civilization flourish ? What was its geographical distribution ? Indicate its significant features.
23. The population of India has crossed the one billion mark. What are the causes of this growth ?
24. Discuss the problem of marketing of agricultural produce in Indian Villages.
25. Discuss the importance of forests in the life of primitive tribes.
26. Write a brief account of Neolithic culture in India.
27. Discuss salient features of Varna and Jati in Indian casl system with suitable examples.
28. Give an acount of the economic characteristics of schedule tribes in India.
29. Discuss Risley’s racial classification of Indian population
30. Discuss why neolithic culture is often referred as “Neolithic Revolution”. Examine the important features of neolithic period in this context.
31. What do you understand by jai iani system ? Examine the nature of economic interdependence under this system.
32. What is agrarian class structure ? Discuss the agrarian class structure of an Indian village.
33. Define caste. Discuss the characteristic features of the Indian caste system.
Short Notes:
1) Australopitheinae 2) Autosomal dominant inheritance in man 3) Polygamy and Polyandry
4) Primitive Economy 5) ABO blood group as racial criteria. 6) Recent theories of human origin
7) Anthropoid Apes 8) Neolithic revolution 9) Genetic counseling 10) Birth rate and death rate
11) The concept of culture 12) Food collection in hunter-gatherer stage 13) Mutation 14) A1, A2 BO blood groups 15) Cranial capacity. 16) Social control, 17) Cromagnon 18) Mesolithic 19) Barter and ceremonial exchange, 20) Witchcraft. 21) Java man 22) Marriage 23) Madrasian culture 24) Case study method 25) Senescence.
GROUP –B (Big questions)
1) Bring out tne characteristics features and tool types of the Mesolithic period.
2) What are the different methods used in Anthropology ? Give a critical appraisal of field method in Anthropological study.
3) Briefly discuss the Concept of socia stratification. Do you think that caste should be studied as an element of Indian civilization or as an aspect of social stratification ? Explain.
4) The spatial distribution of houses in a village often reflects the social cleavages in a society. Explain with examples. Also discuss how house type and settlement pattern may be influenced by environment.
5) Explain how far economic value of children influences fertility.
6) Elu date the role of ethnicity in the concept of nation state. Illustrate your answer with suitable examples.
7) Explain the importance of Anthropology of religion in the global context.
8) Give a brief account of Malthusian Theory of population. Is it acceptable ? Discuss.
9) Give an outline of Sheldon’s system of classification of human physique by external body form.
10) Explain whether developmental projects are inimical or not for tribal societies. Argue for your case.
11) Fertility in a logical phenomenon and its determinants are essencially socio-cultural — Explain.
12) Discuss the role of witchcraft in primitive society with special reference to the zande
13) What do you understand by sustainable development ?, “In the relationship between development and environment, adjustment is the need, but conflict is generally the outcome.” —Examine.
14)What is social stratisfication ? Discuss the different elements of social stratification.
15) Define economic Anthropology ? Briefly discuss with suitable example in what way anthropological knowledge could be utilised to improve the present status of economic Anthropology in a rural society.
16) Give a critical appraisal of biological consequences of population control and family welfare in human society.
17) How and why democracy and economic development are related to each other. Explain.
18) Point out important features of Iron Age in India. Discuss how iron influenced the life of people.
19) Discuss the importance of socio-demographic studies in relation to Physical Anthropology. Give a brief account of the techniques to be used for collection of data on socio-demography during a short period of field work.
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