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One of the reasons for India's occupational structure remaining more or less the same over the years has been that ________________________.

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  1. investment pattern has been directed towards capital intensive industries.

  2. productivity in agriculture has been high enough to induce people to stay with agriculture.

  3. ceiling-on land holdings have enabled more people to own land and hence their preference to stay with agriculture.

  4. people are largely unaware of the significance of transition from agriculture to industry for economic development.

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

It has been one of the chief criticisms of the planning. which emphasised the capital intensive industries in place of promoting the labour intensive industries.

In the Indian economy prior to $1947$, there was virtually no ___________ in the Indian economy.

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  1. Public sector

  2. Socialist goal

  3. Agricultural development

  4. Government involvement

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The British rule lasted for two centuries before India won its independence in 1947. The sole purpose of the British economic policy was to reduce India into a feeder economy for expansion of Britain’s own modern industrial base. There was virtually no public sector in the Indian economy. 

Pre-independence India had a flourishing economy based on agriculture and handicrafts. The quality of workmanship in the field on textiles and precious stones was high leading to a worldwide base for Indian products. The British policy was to turn India into an exporter of raw materials and consumer of finished goods. This led to the disruption of the Indian economy. The British never made any attempt to calculate the national or per capita income.

The first railway train journeyed between __________ and ___________.

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  1. Mumbai, Goa

  2. Poona, Mumbai

  3. Poona, Nasik

  4. Mumbai, Thane

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The first railway line in India was constructed during the rule of Lord Dalhousie.  The first passenger train in India ran between Bombay (Bori Bunder) and Thane on 16 April 1853.The first train started from Bori Bunder in Bombay at 3:35 pm on April 16, 1853 with a 21-gun salute. It had 14 carriages.

The theory which explains the relation between fertility and mortality is known as ________.

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  1. Malthusian Theory of Population

  2. Optimum Theory of Population

  3. Theory of Demographic Transition

  4. Biological Theory of population

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Theory of Demographic Transition is a theory that throws light on changes in birth rate and death rate and consequently on the growth rate of population. Along with the economic development, tendencies of birth-rate and death rate are different. Because of it, the growth rate of population is also different.

When was the first census conducted in India?

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  1. 1905

  2. 1891

  3. 1881

  4. 1850

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The first synchronous census in India was held in 1881. Since then, censuses have been undertaken uninterruptedly once every ten year. The 1881 India wide census enumerated the total number of males as 12,99,41,851 and of females as 12,39,49,970 in a total 1881 population of 25,38,91,821.

When did India go through its second demographic transition?

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  1. After 1920

  2. Before 1920

  3. 1920

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The process of demographic transition in India is said to have set in sometime in the late 1920s and early 1930s when death rates started declining. 

When did India go through its first demographic transition?

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  1. After 1920

  2. Before 1920

  3. 1920

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Prior to 1920, India’s population was in the first stage with very high birth and high death rates. The death rate fluctuated from year to year, and as a consequence, the size of population remained almost stationary. 

What was the life expectancy in India during British rule?

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  1. 30 years

  2. 32 years

  3. 35 years

  4. 40 years

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The life expectancy in India during the British rule was 32 years. Now it is near about 50-55 minimum.

What is mortality rate?

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  1. Unit of deaths per thousand individuals per year

  2. Unit of deaths per hundred individuals per year

  3. Unit of deaths per ten thousand individuals per year

  4. Unit of deaths per ten individuals per year

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

 Mortality rate is the total number of deaths from a particular cause in 1 year divided by the number of people alive within the population at mid year.  It is usually expressed in units of deaths per 1,000 per year or it could be described as percent dead in a specific period of time.

What is life expectancy?

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  1. The approximate age of a number individuals

  2. The approximate number of death of a number individuals

  3. The approximate age of death of a number of individuals

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of its birth, its current age and other demographic factors including gender. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth (LEB), which can be defined in two ways.