Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Indian popular culture is best understood as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Indian popular culture includes cinema, television, sport, music, food, festivals and digital media.
• Option A is correct because these forms emerge through interactions among institutions, markets and everyday life.
• Indian popular culture is internally diverse across caste, class, religion, region and language.
• Cultural Studies examines both pleasure and power within these forms.
• Option A is correct because these forms emerge through interactions among institutions, markets and everyday life.
• Indian popular culture is internally diverse across caste, class, religion, region and language.
• Cultural Studies examines both pleasure and power within these forms.
వివరణ:
Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Which factor most clearly prevents Indian culture from being treated as a single homogeneous formation?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Indian cultural life is shaped by multiple and unequal social identities.
• Option B is correct because caste, religion, region, language and class produce distinct experiences and cultural forms.
• These differences may overlap and interact rather than operate separately.
• Cultural analysis should therefore avoid reducing India to one unified cultural essence.
• Option B is correct because caste, religion, region, language and class produce distinct experiences and cultural forms.
• These differences may overlap and interact rather than operate separately.
• Cultural analysis should therefore avoid reducing India to one unified cultural essence.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Bollywood is best described as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Bollywood commonly refers to the Mumbai-based Hindi-language commercial film industry.
• Option C is correct because the term does not include every Indian film industry.
• Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi and other cinemas possess distinct histories and institutions.
• Bollywood is important to studies of nation, music, stardom, gender and globalization.
• Option C is correct because the term does not include every Indian film industry.
• Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi and other cinemas possess distinct histories and institutions.
• Bollywood is important to studies of nation, music, stardom, gender and globalization.
వివరణ:
Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Regional cinema is significant to Indian Cultural Studies because it:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Regional cinemas engage with local languages, landscapes, memories and political issues.
• Option D is correct because they complicate the assumption that Hindi cinema represents all Indian experience.
• Regional cinema may also circulate nationally and globally.
• Its analysis reveals relations among language, region, market and cultural identity.
• Option D is correct because they complicate the assumption that Hindi cinema represents all Indian experience.
• Regional cinema may also circulate nationally and globally.
• Its analysis reveals relations among language, region, market and cultural identity.
వివరణ:
Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Which statement best describes the cultural role of Indian television?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Indian television circulates serials, news, reality shows, religious programmes and advertisements.
• Option A is correct because these formats shape ideas about family, gender, religion, citizenship and consumption.
• Viewers may accept, negotiate or resist televised meanings.
• Television is therefore both an industry and an everyday cultural institution.
• Option A is correct because these formats shape ideas about family, gender, religion, citizenship and consumption.
• Viewers may accept, negotiate or resist televised meanings.
• Television is therefore both an industry and an everyday cultural institution.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Cricket in India is most accurately studied as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Cricket in India operates through sport, national identity, sponsorship, broadcasting and celebrity culture.
• Option B is correct because matches can become spectacles of belonging and commercial exchange.
• Access, representation and participation are also shaped by class, gender and region.
• Cultural Studies examines cricket as more than athletic competition.
• Option B is correct because matches can become spectacles of belonging and commercial exchange.
• Access, representation and participation are also shaped by class, gender and region.
• Cultural Studies examines cricket as more than athletic competition.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Festivals are important objects of cultural analysis because they:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Festivals connect religious practice with performance, public space, consumption and collective identity.
• Option C is correct because they can involve markets, media, tourism and political representation.
• Their meanings differ across caste, class, gender, region and generation.
• Festivals may also become sites of conflict, negotiation and cultural change.
• Option C is correct because they can involve markets, media, tourism and political representation.
• Their meanings differ across caste, class, gender, region and generation.
• Festivals may also become sites of conflict, negotiation and cultural change.
వివరణ:
Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Food culture in India is best understood as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Food carries meanings involving purity, community, status, memory and belonging.
• Option D is correct because Indian food practices vary across region, caste, religion, class and migration history.
• Restaurants, television and digital platforms also transform food culture.
• Cultural analysis studies both everyday eating and the hierarchies attached to it.
• Option D is correct because Indian food practices vary across region, caste, religion, class and migration history.
• Restaurants, television and digital platforms also transform food culture.
• Cultural analysis studies both everyday eating and the hierarchies attached to it.
వివరణ:
Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Language politics in Indian culture concerns:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Language politics concerns which languages receive institutional authority and public visibility.
• Option A is correct because education, administration, media and employment assign unequal prestige to languages.
• English, Hindi and regional languages occupy different positions in different contexts.
• Language can become a resource of mobility as well as a site of resistance.
• Option A is correct because education, administration, media and employment assign unequal prestige to languages.
• English, Hindi and regional languages occupy different positions in different contexts.
• Language can become a resource of mobility as well as a site of resistance.
వివరణ:
Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Dalit cultural assertion primarily seeks to:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Dalit cultural assertion centres experiences historically excluded or distorted by dominant culture.
• Option B is correct because literature, autobiography, performance and activism challenge caste hierarchy.
• Such cultural production claims dignity, agency and control over representation.
• It also preserves counter-memory and critiques institutional inequality.
• Option B is correct because literature, autobiography, performance and activism challenge caste hierarchy.
• Such cultural production claims dignity, agency and control over representation.
• It also preserves counter-memory and critiques institutional inequality.
వివరణ:
Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Tribal representation becomes problematic when media:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Tribal and indigenous communities are internally diverse and historically dynamic.
• Option C is correct because primitive or exotic stereotypes deny political agency and contemporary realities.
• Such images can conceal displacement, extraction and struggles over land.
• Ethical representation should include community perspectives and historical context.
• Option C is correct because primitive or exotic stereotypes deny political agency and contemporary realities.
• Such images can conceal displacement, extraction and struggles over land.
• Ethical representation should include community perspectives and historical context.
వివరణ:
Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Indian youth culture is shaped most directly by:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Indian youth cultures develop through institutions, peer groups, media and changing economic conditions.
• Option D is correct because music, fashion, work, education and digital platforms influence identity.
• Youth culture differs across class, caste, gender, region and language.
• It may combine global trends with local cultural forms.
• Option D is correct because music, fashion, work, education and digital platforms influence identity.
• Youth culture differs across class, caste, gender, region and language.
• It may combine global trends with local cultural forms.
వివరణ:
Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Statement I: Indian popular culture can reproduce caste and gender hierarchies.
Statement II: Popular media can also provide resources for resistance and alternative representation.
Statement II: Popular media can also provide resources for resistance and alternative representation.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because films, television and advertising may repeat dominant stereotypes.
• Statement II is correct because popular media can also circulate counter-narratives and marginalized voices.
• Cultural forms are therefore contradictory rather than uniformly oppressive or liberating.
• Option A correctly evaluates both statements.
• Statement II is correct because popular media can also circulate counter-narratives and marginalized voices.
• Cultural forms are therefore contradictory rather than uniformly oppressive or liberating.
• Option A correctly evaluates both statements.
వివరణ:
Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Statement I: Regional cinema is culturally insignificant because only Bollywood represents Indian society.
Statement II: Regional cinemas often address linguistic, local and subnational identities.
Statement II: Regional cinemas often address linguistic, local and subnational identities.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is incorrect because Indian cinema consists of many important regional industries.
• Statement II is correct because regional films engage with language, locality, memory and region-specific conflicts.
• Their circulation can also cross regional and national borders.
• Therefore, option B is correct.
• Statement II is correct because regional films engage with language, locality, memory and region-specific conflicts.
• Their circulation can also cross regional and national borders.
• Therefore, option B is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Assertion: Cricket can become a vehicle of nationalism in India.
Reason: Media narratives often connect sporting victory with collective national pride.
Reason: Media narratives often connect sporting victory with collective national pride.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because cricket frequently becomes a symbolic performance of national belonging.
• The Reason is correct because media coverage links teams, flags and victory with national pride.
• This representational process explains how sport acquires nationalist meaning.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
• The Reason is correct because media coverage links teams, flags and victory with national pride.
• This representational process explains how sport acquires nationalist meaning.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Assertion: Globalization necessarily eliminates regional and local culture in India.
Reason: Global cultural forms may be localized, translated and combined with regional practices.
Reason: Global cultural forms may be localized, translated and combined with regional practices.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is incorrect because local cultures do not simply disappear under globalization.
• The Reason is correct because global forms are often adapted through language, music, food, fashion and media.
• Such interaction may produce hybrid or glocalized cultural practices.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
• The Reason is correct because global forms are often adapted through language, music, food, fashion and media.
• Such interaction may produce hybrid or glocalized cultural practices.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Consider the following statements about Indian digital culture:
1. Social media can expand cultural participation.
2. Algorithms influence visibility.
3. Digital access is equal across all regions and classes.
4. Online spaces can reproduce caste and gender discrimination.
Which statements are correct?
1. Social media can expand cultural participation.
2. Algorithms influence visibility.
3. Digital access is equal across all regions and classes.
4. Online spaces can reproduce caste and gender discrimination.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because digital platforms enable creation, circulation and discussion.
• Statement 2 is correct because algorithms rank content and shape visibility.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because access differs by infrastructure, language, class, gender and region.
• Statement 4 is correct because offline inequalities can continue in digital spaces.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because algorithms rank content and shape visibility.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because access differs by infrastructure, language, class, gender and region.
• Statement 4 is correct because offline inequalities can continue in digital spaces.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Consider the following statements about food culture in India:
1. Food can express religious identity.
2. Food practices may be shaped by caste.
3. Globalization produces no changes in cuisine.
4. Migration can transform culinary traditions.
Which statements are correct?
1. Food can express religious identity.
2. Food practices may be shaped by caste.
3. Globalization produces no changes in cuisine.
4. Migration can transform culinary traditions.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because food rules and rituals may express religious belonging.
• Statement 2 is correct because caste can regulate cooking, commensality and ideas of purity.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because global media, markets and restaurants reshape cuisine.
• Statement 4 is correct because migrants adapt dishes to new ingredients and contexts.
• Hence, option B is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because caste can regulate cooking, commensality and ideas of purity.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because global media, markets and restaurants reshape cuisine.
• Statement 4 is correct because migrants adapt dishes to new ingredients and contexts.
• Hence, option B is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Bollywood
2. Cricket
3. Dalit cultural assertion
4. Regional cinema
List II
I. Anti-caste representation and counter-memory
II. Hindi-language commercial film industry
III. Sport linked with media, nationalism and celebrity
IV. Linguistically and regionally specific film cultures
List I
1. Bollywood
2. Cricket
3. Dalit cultural assertion
4. Regional cinema
List II
I. Anti-caste representation and counter-memory
II. Hindi-language commercial film industry
III. Sport linked with media, nationalism and celebrity
IV. Linguistically and regionally specific film cultures
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Bollywood matches the Hindi-language commercial film industry.
• Cricket matches sport linked with media, nationalism and celebrity.
• Dalit cultural assertion matches anti-caste representation and counter-memory.
• Regional cinema matches linguistically and regionally specific film cultures.
• Therefore, option C gives the correct matching.
• Cricket matches sport linked with media, nationalism and celebrity.
• Dalit cultural assertion matches anti-caste representation and counter-memory.
• Regional cinema matches linguistically and regionally specific film cultures.
• Therefore, option C gives the correct matching.
వివరణ:
Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Festival
2. Food culture
3. Youth culture
4. Digital culture
List II
I. Identity expressed through taste, ritual and everyday consumption
II. Networked participation shaped by platforms and algorithms
III. Public ritual combining community, spectacle and commerce
IV. Generational practices involving music, fashion and leisure
List I
1. Festival
2. Food culture
3. Youth culture
4. Digital culture
List II
I. Identity expressed through taste, ritual and everyday consumption
II. Networked participation shaped by platforms and algorithms
III. Public ritual combining community, spectacle and commerce
IV. Generational practices involving music, fashion and leisure
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Festival matches public ritual combining community, spectacle and commerce.
• Food culture matches identity expressed through taste, ritual and everyday consumption.
• Youth culture matches generational practices involving music, fashion and leisure.
• Digital culture matches networked participation shaped by platforms and algorithms.
• Thus, option D is correct.
• Food culture matches identity expressed through taste, ritual and everyday consumption.
• Youth culture matches generational practices involving music, fashion and leisure.
• Digital culture matches networked participation shaped by platforms and algorithms.
• Thus, option D is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
A film presents urban middle-class Hindi-speaking life as the natural image of all India while marginalizing other languages and regions. This is best analysed as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The film treats one socially specific experience as universally national.
• Option A is correct because dominant representation can erase linguistic, regional and class diversity.
• Cultural Studies asks whose experience becomes visible as normal and whose remains marginal.
• The example connects nation, language and media power.
• Option A is correct because dominant representation can erase linguistic, regional and class diversity.
• Cultural Studies asks whose experience becomes visible as normal and whose remains marginal.
• The example connects nation, language and media power.
వివరణ:
Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
A television serial portrays an upper-caste family as culturally universal while lower-caste characters appear only as servants. This most clearly illustrates:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The serial assigns authority and cultural normality to an upper-caste family.
• Option B is correct because lower-caste characters are restricted to subordinate roles.
• Repeated narrative patterns can make caste hierarchy appear natural.
• Critical analysis examines both visibility and distribution of agency.
• Option B is correct because lower-caste characters are restricted to subordinate roles.
• Repeated narrative patterns can make caste hierarchy appear natural.
• Critical analysis examines both visibility and distribution of agency.
వివరణ:
Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
A regional music video combines a local folk rhythm, global hip-hop style and lyrics about caste discrimination. This is best described as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The video combines local musical memory with a globally circulating genre.
• Option C is correct because this mixture demonstrates cultural hybridity or glocalization.
• Its anti-caste lyrics also turn popular culture into a site of resistance.
• The example shows that global influence and local assertion can coexist.
• Option C is correct because this mixture demonstrates cultural hybridity or glocalization.
• Its anti-caste lyrics also turn popular culture into a site of resistance.
• The example shows that global influence and local assertion can coexist.
వివరణ:
Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
A digital campaign led by tribal activists uses maps, oral testimony and videos to oppose displacement. This most clearly demonstrates:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The activists use digital tools to circulate community knowledge and political claims.
• Option D is correct because oral testimony and mapping support indigenous self-representation.
• The campaign challenges dominant accounts of land and development.
• Digital culture can therefore become a site of resistance despite unequal access and platform control.
• Option D is correct because oral testimony and mapping support indigenous self-representation.
• The campaign challenges dominant accounts of land and development.
• Digital culture can therefore become a site of resistance despite unequal access and platform control.
వివరణ:
Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which conclusion best integrates the study of Indian culture across media, hierarchy and globalization?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Indian Cultural Studies examines cultural forms in relation to social hierarchy, institutions and everyday life.
• Caste, religion, region, language and class shape access to representation and cultural authority.
• Globalization and digital media produce new mixtures as well as new inequalities.
• Option A provides the most comprehensive account of diversity, power and resistance.
• Caste, religion, region, language and class shape access to representation and cultural authority.
• Globalization and digital media produce new mixtures as well as new inequalities.
• Option A provides the most comprehensive account of diversity, power and resistance.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. An arena where media, traditions, markets and everyday practices interact సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. Differences of caste, religion, region, language and class సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. The Mumbai-based Hindi-language commercial film industry సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Represents regionally specific languages, histories and social conflicts సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. It circulates domestic, religious, political and consumer narratives into everyday life సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. A cultural institution linked to nation, media, celebrity and commerce సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. Combine ritual, community, identity, spectacle and economic activity సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. A field shaped by region, religion, caste, class, memory and globalization సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Struggles over recognition, education, administration and cultural prestige among languages సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Challenge caste oppression through testimony, memory, literature and collective representation సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Reduce diverse communities to primitive, exotic or timeless stereotypes సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Education, media, music, fashion, employment and digital networks సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. Assertion is incorrect, but Reason is correct సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: C. 1-II, 2-III, 3-I, 4-IV సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. 1-III, 2-I, 3-IV, 4-II సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. A dominant national representation that suppresses internal diversity సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. Caste hierarchy reproduced through narrative roles సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. Hybrid cultural production joined with social resistance సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. Digital cultural resistance and indigenous self-representation సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. Indian culture is a contested and diverse field in which caste, religion, region, language, markets and media shape both domination and resistance సమాధానం: A.