Match List I with List II
| LIST-I | LIST-II | ||
| (A) | Kumud Pawade | (I) | Logic of Collective Action |
| (B) | E. P. Thompson | (II) | Dominant Caste |
| (C) | M. N. Srinivas | (III) | Dalit Woman |
| (D) | Mancur Olson | (IV) | Moral Economy |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
(A) Kumud Pawade — this matches (III) Dalit Woman.
(B) E. P. Thompson — this matches (IV) Moral Economy.
(C) M. N. Srinivas — this matches (II) Dominant Caste.
(D) Mancur Olson — this matches (I) Logic of Collective Action.
Note: The lines on Mancur Olson’s book The Logic of Collective Action, in the part on theories of social movements of the chapter ‘Social Movements’, were there in the pre-rationalised NCERT, which NTA followed in 2023. This portion has been deleted from the NCERT book (2025-26), though the chapter is still there.
NCERT (2025-26): “Sanskritisation … Kumud Pawade in her autobiography recounts how a Dalit woman became a Sanskrit teacher.…” “8.2 Sociology and Social Movements … Historians like E. P. Thompson showed that the ‘crowd’ and the ‘mob’ were not made up of anarchic hooligans out to destroy society. Instead, they too had a ‘moral economy’. In other words, they have their own shared understanding of right and wrong that informed their actions.…” “4.1 Agrarian Structure: Caste and Class in Rural India … In each region, there are usually just one or two major landowning castes, who are also numerically very important. Such groups were termed by the sociologist M.N. Srinivas as dominant castes. In each region, the dominant caste is the most powerful group, economically and politically, and dominates local society.…” NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “Theories of Social Movements … Mancur Olson’s book The Logic of Collective Action argues that a social movement is an aggregation of rational individual actors pursuing their self-interest. A person will join a social movement only if s/he will gain something from it. S/he will participate only if the risks are less than the gains.…” |