1.
Which of the following statement is correct with regard to Raja Rammohan Roy?
2.
Which of the following books described state power in India as occupying a continuum with “centralisation and concentration” at one end and “decentralisation and pluralism” on the other?
3.
Which of the following does not figure in Almond & Verba’s classification of Political Cultures?
4.
Which one of the following is a transformationalist view of globalization:
5.
Which one of the following is not a text related to Classical Realism?
6.
Which among the following can be associated with Aurobindo’s beliefs?
7.
“I do not wish them (women) to have power over men; but over themselves.” These words are attributed to which of the following thinkers?
8.
Atul Kohli links his “crisis of governability” thesis to which of the following reasons:-
9.
Communitarians argue that:-
10.
Hanafi, Hanbali, Shafii and Maliki are Islamic:-
11.
Positive Liberty implies that:-
12.
Identify the incorrect pair
13.
Rousseau’s idea of “perfectibility’ entails which of the following ideas?
14.
“If I was asked to name any particular article in this Constitution as the most important- an article without which this Constitution would be a nullity— I could not refer to any other article except this one.” – Ambedkar was referring to which 15) 16) 17) article?
15.
The thought that the ‘advent of technology and industrialisation is the basic cause of human misery in modern society’ can be attributed to which of the following thinkers?
16.
The “Block Vote System” is also known as:-
17.
“He is the head of the state but not of the executive. He represents the nation but does not rule the nation”. Who among the following made this comment about the President of India?
18.
Deliberative democracy is the idea that:-
19.
Article 371 A of the Indian constitution provides special protections to which of the following states:-
20.
Who defined Development Administration as “action-oriented, goal-oriented administrative system”?
21.
Who among the following termed the four different bases of an Organisation as Four (4) 'P's?
22.
Who among the following describes India as a “polycentric hierarchy”?
23.
Who among the following is considered to have inaugurated the liberal-reformist modernisation of India?
24.
Who among the following identified the Indian state as interchangeably “weak” and “captured”?
25.
Who coined the terms, “Party of Consensus” and “Parties of Pressure”?
26.
In which of the following years was the Central Vigilance Commission established by the Government of India?
27.
The institution of Ombudsman was first established in 1809 by which of the following countries?
28.
Who coined the phrase, “iron law of oligarchy”?
29.
What is the correct sequence of Morton Kaplan’s model of systems analysis?
i. Balance of Power
ii. Loose Bipolarity
iii. Tight Bipolarity
iv. Universal International SystemDeselect Answer
30.
Frederick W. Taylor's concept of "Mental Revolution‟ stands for:-
31.
The philosophy of “dependent origination” can be attributed to which of the following traditions?
32.
Identify the correctly matched answer:-
| A. Geneva Protocol | i) Reduces Strategic Arms |
| B. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty | ii) Limits spread of Nuclear Weapons |
| C. INF Treaty | iii) Bans use of Chemical Weapons |
| D. START I Treaty | iv) Bans two categories of land-based missiles |
Deselect Answer
33.
M.M. Punchhi Commission was constituted to review which of the following:-
34.
The Duverger-Riker model tries to establish link between which of the following:-
35.
“Life is not determined by consciousness but consciousness by life”. The line relates to:-
36.
Which of the following is false for Marx:-
37.
“Each of them by himself may not be of good quality, but when they all come together is possible that they may surpass— collectively as a body, although not individually-the quality of the few best…and when they all meet together, the people may thus become something in the nature of a single person…”. In these lines,:-
38.
Match the following
| Thinker | Types of Realism |
| a. Kenneth Watlz | i. Offensive Realism |
| b. John J. Mearsheimer | ii. Neo-classical Realism |
| c. Fareed Zakaria | iii. Classical Realism |
| d. Hans Morgenthau | iv. Neo Realism |
Deselect Answer
39.
Match the following:
| a. Theory of two wheels | i. Kabir |
| b. Doctrine of Mandala | ii. Buddhism |
| c. Syncretism | iii. Manu |
| d. Dharmasastra | iv. Kautilya |
Deselect Answer
40.
Match the authors with their works
| A James Scott | i Perception and Misperception in International Relations |
| B Robert Jervis | ii Seeing Like a State |
| C Ernest Gellner | iii The Great Transformation |
| D Karl Polanyi | iv Nations and Nationalism |
Deselect Answer
41.
Structural-Functionalism is primarily:-
42.
Structural-functionalism by Almond and Powell was an application of:-
43.
The core elements common to both classical and structural realism are:-
44.
Which environmental Convention was adopted for the protection of Ozone layer:-
45.
M.K.Gandhi wrote editorials for the first time in which one of the following journals ?
46.
Rawls introduces the ‘veil of ignorance” because:-
47.
Match the thinkers with their ideas:
| Idea | Thinker |
| a. Application of Vedanta to the everyday life of the common man | i. M.K.Gandhi |
| b. Application of the criteria of reason and social utility to sacred texts | ii. Pandita Ramabai |
| c. Criticism of modernity | iii. Swami Vivekananda |
| d. Advocacy for the admission of Women to Medical Colleges | iv. Rammohan Roy |
Deselect Answer
48.
Match the following and mark the correct answer:-
| A. J. Ann Tickner | i) Post-colonial feminism |
| B. Cynthia Enloe | ii) Reformulation of Morgenthau's Six Principles |
| C. Sandra Whitworth | iii) "Where are the Women‟? |
| D. Chandra Mohanty | iv) Feminist Critical Theory |
Deselect Answer
49.
Match the words with their meaning:
| a. Matsyanyay | i. The law of abnormal times |
| b. Apaddharma | ii. Intending conqueror |
| c. Vijigshu | iii. Cosmic law |
| d. Riti | iv. Law of fishes |
Deselect Answer
50.
“Greatest benefit to the least advantaged” is associated with which of the following?
51.
IMG
Match the word in list I with The authors in list II
| LIST -I | LIST -II |
| a. Hindu-pad-padshahi | i. V. D. Savarkar |
| b. Wheel of history | ii. Pandita Ramabai |
| c. Tuhfat-ul Muwahhiddin | iii. Raja Rammohan Roy |
| d. The High Caste hindu Women | iv. Rammanohan Lahia |
Deselect Answer
52.
Who among the following considered democracy as nothing more than periodic elections and ordinary citizens, beyond the act of voting, should have no role in shaping policy?
53.
Who among the following suggested that „nationalism can be attributed to the rise of the industrial age‟?
54.
Who among the following said, “caste system is not merely division of labour, it is also division of labourers.”?
55.
Who among the following used models and assumptions drawn from economics to analyse political behaviour?
56.
Who among the following laid stress on the “imagined qualities of nationalism”?
57.
Who among the following wrote the classic essay, “Science as a vocation”?
58.
Who among the following states, “Public policy is whatever governments choose to do or not to do”?
59.
Who among the following scholars conceptualises Indian constitution as a ‘seamless web’?
60.
Who among the following described India as quasi-confederacy?
61.
Who among the following questioned the claim that Public Administration is a science?
62.
Who among the following introduced the concept of ‘Zone of indifference’ in an organisation?
63.
Who among the following is not a liberal thinker?
64.
Washington Consensus refers to:-
65.
The emergence of Public Administration as a discipline is associated with which of the following:-
66.
Which of the following is not true of Rousseau?
67.
Which of the following is not true of Marx’s view of the state:-
68.
Which of the following is not the basic principle of Hans J. Morgenthau’s Realism?
69.
Which of the following treaties ended the thirty years war:-
70.
Which of the following pacts resulted in a compromise between Ambedkar and Gandhi on the issue of separate electorates?
71.
Which of the following is not included in the list of essential elements (Prakriti) of a state as identified by Kautilya?
72.
Which of the following does not constitute a central idea of the „Instrumentalist‟ school of ethnicity?
73.
Which of the following is not a feature of Ram Manohar Lohiya‟s concept of „Sapta Kranti‟?
74.
Which of the following statements is not true of Hobbes?
75.
Which of the following statements best describes the scientific character of Comparative Politics?
76.
Which of the following statements are correct with respect to the Global Commons:-
i. These are areas not under sovereign jurisdiction.
ii. They have an environmental dimension.
iii. They are owned by nation-states.
iv. The high seas, deep ocean floor and outer space come within this category.Deselect Answer
77.
Which of the following propositions is not found in Classical Realism?
78.
Which of the following propositions is not given by the theorists of Complex Interdependence:-
79.
Which of the following authors gave the concept of the ‘Tragedy of Commons’:-
80.
Which of the following was not a distinctive feature of the dharmasastra tradition in India
81.
Which of the following is true:-
82.
Which of the following level of analysis is not discussed by Waltz in his book Man, The State and War:-
83.
Which of the following is true?
84.
Which one of the following is true about the First World War:-
i. It was the first modern, industrialised total war.
ii. It was fought between 1939-1945
iii. It began between European States and fought on European Battlefields.
iv. It is also known as the Great War.Deselect Answer
85.
Who gave the ‘domino theory’ about the geopolitical consequences of the victory of Vietminh during the cold war:-
86.
Who first described Congress hegemony in India in terms of one-party dominance?
87.
According to Foucault power-knowledge relationship is:-
88.
According to the “Hind Swaraj” the major obstacle to Indian Self-government is:-
89.
According to Kautilya „Danda‟ is the symbol of:-
90.
According to Pradeep Chhibber, “weak associational life” in India results in:-
91.
According to L. Rudolph and S. Rudolph, caste in India fosters democracy for all of the following reasons except one. Identity the exception.
92.
According to Aristotle, the state is the highest association because:
93.
The terms ‘Command Polity’ and ‘Demand Polity’ were coined by which of the following political thinkers:-
94.
The Saptanga theory of state is described in which of the following texts?
95.
The Ninth Schedule to the Constitution was added by which of the following amendment:-
96.
The theory of "just war‟ can be attributed to which of the following:-
97.
J.Mill’s harm principle states that:-
98.
The notion of “Administrative man” was coined by:-
99.
Who is the author of the book, “Silent Spring” ?
100.
Makkali Gosala belonged to which of the following traditions of Indian thought?
