WBCS Exam Main Optional question Paper on Anthropology (Paper II) - 2018

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2018

ANTHROPOLOGY - PAPER - II

Time Allowed - 3 Hours                                                                                                              Full Marks : 200

If the questions attempted are in excess of the prescribed number, only the questions attempted first up to the prescribed number shall be valued and the remaining ones ignored.

Answers may be given either in English or in Bengali but all answer must be in one and the same language

GROUP-A

Answer any three Questions :

1. Briefly state the 6th schedule. Give an account of ethnic, linguistic and economic distribution of tribal populations of India.      20+20

2. Define Jajmani systems. Enumerate briefly the theory of the origin of caste system. State the salient features of caste system of India.     10+15+15

3. Define Demography and state its relationship with Anthropological demography. Enumerate the different factors that affect fertility. Assume the total population of females of the age group 20-24 was 25000 in 2007 in a city. The women of the same age group gave birth to 2500 babies in the same year. Calculate age specific fertility rate (ASFR).   10+20+10 

4. Make a critical appraisal of the ethnic classification made by H.H. Risley, B.S Guha and S.S.Sarkar. Describe the distributions of Hb variants in Indian population.      30+10

5. Write Short Notes on any two of the following :

a) Constitutional provisions of  SCs and STs in India.

b) Sacred complex.

c) Village studies in India.

d) Folklore and Identity.               20+20

GROUP-B

Answer any two Questions :

6. a) Enumerate the perspective of Biomedical Anthropology in the understanding of non-communicable diseases.

    b) What do you mean by critical Medical Anthropology ?         30+10

7. Give an account of the tribal development programmes in post colonial India.       40

8. State the Mesolithic Cultural Phase in Middle Ganges Plain and adjoining regions of North-Central India.

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