Daily Questions Challenge for IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam (09 February 2016)

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1. Which of the following, literally means ‘Wondering Dervishes’?

(a) Kubrawiyya order
(b) Qalandariya order
(c) Chisti order
(d) Shattariya order

2. Match the following Place Ruler

(1)Nagpur     a) Bhosle
(2)Baroda     b) Sindia
(3) Indore     c) Gaikwad
(4)Gwalior    d) Holkar

(a) 1 - a 2 - b 3 - c 4 - d
(b) 1 - a 2 - c 3 - d 4 - a
(c) 1 - b 2 - d 3 - a 4 - c
(d) 1 - c 2 - a 3 - b 4 - d

3. Consider the following statements.

1) Treaty of Rajpurghat with Lord Lake (British) signed with Bhosle.
2) Dalhousie was the Architect of Third Anglo-Maratha War.

Which of the above statements is / are true.

(a) Neither 1 nor 2
(b) 1 only
(c) 2 only
(d) Both 1 & 2

4. Consider the following statements.

1) Jats Revolt against the Mughal authority started from the time of Aurengzeb.
2) Churaman & Bodan Singh founded the Jat State of Bharatpur.

Which of the above statements is / are true.

(a) Both 1 & 2
(b) 1 only
(c) Neither 1 nor 2
(d) 2 only

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:: CSAT (Paper -2) ::

In the past, the richest states often grew the fastest and the poor ones slowest. But India’s record GDP growth of 8.49% per year in the five-year period 2004- 09 is a case of improved productivity and growth in customarily poor states trickling up and aggregating into rapid growth at the national level.

Nobody should call this a success of trickle-down economics. Trickle-down assumes that fast growth can be had simply by changing a few policies that benefit the rich, after which some benefits trickle down to the poor. In fact, miracle growth is globally rare precisely because it is so difficult for countries to improve the
productivity of a substantial proportion of the population. Only when productivity improvement is widespread is there enough productivity improvement from all regions and people to add up to fast growth. In other words, fast growth does not trickle down, it trickles up.

Once a country grows fast, government revenues will boom, and can be used to accelerate spending in social sectors and welfare. Miracle growth and record revenues enabled the central government to finance socialwelfare schemes, farmloanwaivers and enormous oil subsidies. This can be called the trickling down of part of the revenue bonanza into welfare and workfare. But neither welfare nor workfare could have caused the sharp acceleration of economic growth. The growth bonanza itself was sparked by state-level political and policy changes that accelerated local growth,which then rickled up to the national level.

1. What is the author’s objective in writing this passage?

(a) Advocating greater autonomy for the richest states in India
(b) Urging the government to invest in social development to facilitate economic growth
(c) Criticising traditional economic principles on which the Indian economy is based
(d) Encouraging larger states to disburse more wealth at the grassroot level

2. Which of the following is similar in meaning to the word ‘add’ as used in the context of the passage?

(a) Aggravate
(b) Result
(c) Include
(d) Compute

3. Which of the following is opposite in meaning to the word ‘sharp’ as used in the context of the passage?

(a) Blunt
(b) Expected
(c) Late
(d) Gradual

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