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2nd March 2016, 11:22 AM
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| Re: Jamia Millia Islamia B.Tech Entrance Question Paper
As you have asked about the Jamia Millia Islamia B.Tech Entrance Question Paper, check below for the informationRead the passage below and answer the questions that follow (from question No.1 to 10) Cultural nationalism is a selective and partial category where imagination plays a vital role in fashioning identity. Cultural nationalism derives its strength from the past—mainly folk traditions, religion, rural dialects—in order to demonstrate cultural uniqueness and thereby stimulate national consciousness. However, when culturally reified structures collide with the process of modernisation and social reform in the attainment of political ends, cultural nationalism shows its regressive aspect. The requirements of a modern state and the aspiration of the masses are hardly compatible with a nostalgic retreat into culture. This is very relevant in anti-colonial struggles where culturally imagined unification must work side by side with mass mobilisation, the primary motive being the establishment of an independent nation-state. The emerging nation-state, consequently, witnesses rapid appropriation of workers, peasants, minorities, and the lower orders, and enlists their participation. But often we discover, as in India, that although we have a political nation-state, the nation itself is yet to be born. From this viewpoint, we can say that the intelligentsia remains separate from the subaltern and the field of writing or rhetoric remains separate from the field of political action, although nationalist ideology tends to cover up its differences. 1. The modern nation-state requires that citizens (A) retreat into culture (B) cover up differences (C) do not retreat into culture (D) highlight differences 2. The word ‘enlists’ in the passage can be replaced by (A) ‘seeks’ (B) ‘insists on’ (C) ‘negates’ (D) ‘endures’ 3. The word ‘appropriation’ in the passage means (A) ‘motivation’ (B) ‘mobilisation’ (C) ‘marginalisation’ (D) ‘monitoring’ 4. The negative side of cultural nationalism becomes evident in the (A) contestation between culturally reified structures and the process of modernisation and social reform (B) rapid appropriation of workers, peasants, minorities, and the lower or ders (C) conscious cultivation of religious identity (D) fusion of intelligentsia and subalterns 5. The word ‘regressive’ in the passage means (A) more inclusive (B) very regretful (C) less advanced (D) most regular 6. The main objective of anti-colonial struggles is the establishment of (A) consciously cultivated national identity (B) a cultural uniqueness (C) an independent nation-state (D) the nationalist ideology 7. When the writer refers to India as a nation ‘yet to be born’, it means that (A) imagination is crucial in creating identity (B) unification and mass mobilisation work in tandem (C) progress and development is very erratic (D) intellectuals remain disconnected from the marginalised 8. The word ‘compatible’ in the passage is (A) a noun (B) an adjective (C) a verb (D) an adverb 9. In the passage, the phrase ‘to cover up’ means (A) ‘to provide a cover’ (B) ‘to give a protective covering’ (C) ‘to avoid concealment’ (D) ‘to conceal’ 10. Traditions, religion, and rural dialects play a very significant role i n the formation of (A) national consciousness (B) modernisation (C) nationalist ideology (D) cultural nationalism Jamia Millia Islamia B.Tech Entrance Question Paper    For more, you can refer to the attached file; |