Indian Polity Online Quiz

Q 4 - Indian Constitution intervened in Hindu religious practices in order to abolish the untouchability; in reference to this statement, which one of the following is the best explanation?

A - India is not a pure secular state

B - In India, minority is given preferences over majority

C - State should ensure that some members do not dominate other members of the same religious community*

D - It violates the fundamental rights of Hindus

Answer : C

Explanation

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Q 5 - What is the total strength of members in Rajya Sabha (i.e. Upper House of the parliament)?

Answer : A

Explanation

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Q 6 - Which among the following statements is incorrect?

A - Punjab and Haryana share a common High Court at Chandigarh

B - North Eastern states of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, and Arunachal Pradesh have a common High Court at Guwahati

C - Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have a common High Court at Hyderabad

D - Recently three new High Courts have been set up in Meghalaya, Manipur, and Tripura

Answer : B

Explanation

North Eastern states of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, and Arunachal Pradesh have a common High Court at Guwahati.

Q 7 - What is the percentage of Muslims in India�s as per 2011 Census?

Answer : B

Explanation

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Q 8 - In which of the following years, the government of India had amended the Child Labor Prevention Act, banning employment of children under 14 years of age as domestic servant or as a worker in dhabas, restaurants, tea shops, etc.?

Answer : A

Explanation

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Q 9 - Which one of the following statements correctly refers to the horizontal distribution of powers?

A - It distributes the power between the different organs of governments

B - It refers to separation of the subject on which concerned government has received the power to rule

C - It creates a system of checks and balances of the powers

D - Judiciary performs the role of supervisor in this system. It can check the legality of the functioning of executive and also examine the constitutionality of the laws made by the legislatures

Answer : A

Explanation

Under horizontal distribution of power, different organs of the government, such as legislature, executive and judiciary are placed at the same level to exercise different powers.

Q 10 - At present, there are how many languages in the 8^th scheduled of the Constitution?

Answer : C

Explanation

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Q 11 - Which one of the following statements is incorrect with regard to the Chipko Movement?

A - The movement was carried out during 1990s, in some parts of Uttarakhand

B - The movement was initially carried out by the villagers to protest against the practices of commercial logging that the government had permitted

C - The movement was for the protest and to protect the trees, for which the villagers used a novel tactic i.e. they used to hug the trees to prevent them from being cut down; this method became popular as Chipko Movement.

D - This movement was for the protection of the biodiversity of the Himalayan region.

Answer : A

Explanation

The movement was carried out during 1970s, in some parts of Uttarakhand.

Q 12 - Which one of the following political concepts was debated by the political thinker Karl Marx as a crucial right?

Answer : A

Explanation

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Q 13 - Which one of the following statements correctly explains the concept of apartheid system?

A - It describes system of discrimination in America between Blacks and Whites

B - It promotes disparities and segregationist policies

C - It describes system of equal distribution of resources and opportunity in South Africa after independence

D - A type of democratic governance

Answer : B

Explanation

Apartheid was a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination practiced between 1948 and 1991 in South Africa.

Q 14 - Which among of the following statement/s do/does distinguish Indian secularism from the Western secularism?

a) The government has power to make law to provide equal right to all citizens even in the religious matter

b) Indian secularism deals not only with religious freedom of individuals but also with religious freedom of minority communities

c) A secular state should interfere in religion to bring about social reform

d) State will not provide aid to educational institutions of religious minorities but it can interfere in its affairs to regulate its conducts as per the policies of the government with regards educational institutions

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