Entrance Examination February 2015 M.Phil Ph.D. (Regional Studies)
Part A Multiple Choice: Please select the right answer Marks: 25

1. The Mathematician who wrote about Indian Civilization

D. D. Kosambi

S. Radhakrishnan

Jagdish Chandra Bose

Homi J. Bhabha

2. Stage Two of Rostow' s model of development is

Stagnation

Steep growth

Take Off

Acceleration

3. Dependency theory is associated with the work of

John Maynard Keynes

Karl Gunnar Myrdal

Andre Gunder Frank

Amartya Sen

4. When one firm is predominant in an industry, it is called

Blue chip company

Oligopoly

Free market

Monopoly

5. The recent cyclone Hudhud battered which City

Krishnapatnam

Visakhapatnam

Paradip

Nellore

6. India's level of urbanisation in 2011 Census is around

23%

42%

51%

30%

7. The state in 2014 that proposed a change in the names of 12 of its cities is

Gujarat

Uttar Pradesh

Karnataka

Maharashtra

8. "Green Revolution" is associated with

Paulo Freire

Vandana Shiva

Norman Borlaug

Madhav Gadgil

9. Most of the Jute grown in India is in

Odisha

West Bengal

Uttar Pradesh

Assam

10. The state with the longest coastline is

Kerala

Tamil Nadu

Karnataka

Andhra Pradesh

11. Heat Island is a term associated with

Volcanoes

Equator

Deserts

Cities

12. One of the below is a well known urban planner

Ernest Burgess

Patrick Geddes·

Auguste Cornte

Michael Paul Todaro

13. Provinces in the Mughal period were known as

Nadu

Dastur

Mahal

Subah

14. Chorology is associated with the discipline of

History

Environmental Studies

Geography

Cultural Studies

15. Khasi tribes live predominantly in the following state

Tripura

Meghalaya

Nagaland

None of the Above

16. Areal differentiation is a concept used with reference to

Fluvial cycles

Region

Megalopolis

Conurbation

17. One of the following is associated with Subaltern studies

Ranajit Guha

Irfan Habib

Rajani Kothari

T. K. Oommen

18. The book titled "The Production of Space" is written by

Manuel Castells

Henri Lefebvre

Slavoj Zizek

Michel Foucault

19. The term Sanskritization is coined by

M. N. Srinivas

Karl Marx

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Sumit Sarkar

20. Identify a prominent person associated with children's rights

Anna Hazare

Kai lash Satyarthi

Binayak Sen

Thomas Kocherry

21. The book titled "Homo Hierarchicus" is written by

Louis Dumont

R. Guha

Fernand Braudel

Verrier Elwin

22. The author ofthe book "Argumentative Indian" is

Amartya Sen

John Milton

Irfan Habib

Romila Thapar

23. One among the following is noted for her work on Dalit feminist studies

Gail Omvedt

Urvashi Butalia

Sharmila Rege

Hannah Arendt

24. In the year 2013, floods damaged and caused widespread destruction in

Devprayag

Hariprayag

Saraswatiprayag

None of the Above

25. In 1984, one of the worst Industrial disaster that occurred in India was

8 ursting of Koyna dam

Release of Methyl isocyanate

Accident at a Nuclear power plant

A plane crashed killing all passengers aboard




Please turn to PART B now.
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PartB Marks 50
Your answers are expected to be coherent and must include examples.
Write your arguments thoughtfully, and cite literature that you may have read in your courses at the Masters degree
Address the question with an explicit viewpoint ofyour own, and provide evidence in support of your views
Please write your Hall Ticket Number on the answer book.


I. Answer any TWO of the following: (2x15=30)

How does contemporary regional politics challenge the idea of Indian nation? Give examples in support of your argument.

"India is a land of continuity and change." Discuss this statement with examples.

Identify major environmental problems of India with examples.

"There is a North-South divide in gender relations in India." Discuss with examples.



II. Write Short Answers: or Explain any FOUR of the following:



Write Short Answers: Secularism

Write Short Answers: Right to Information Act

Write Short Answers: Ethnography

Write Short Answers: Case Study Method

Write Short Answers: Sense of Place

Write Short Answers: Smart Cities