Test - 01

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Time Allowed: 3 hr. Max. Marks: 250

Instructions to Candidate

There are SEVEN questions. Candidate has to attempt FIVE questions in all.

Question no. 1 and 5 are compulsory and out of the remaining, THREE are to be attempted.

Answers must be written in the medium authorized in the Admission certificate which must
be stated clearly on the cover of this Question-cum-Answer (QCA) booklet in the space
provided. No marks will be given for answers written in medium other than the authorized
one.

Word limit in questions, wherever specified, should be adhered to.

Attempts of questions shall be counted in chronological order. Unless struck off, attempt of
a question shall be counted even if attempted partly. Any page or portion of the page left
blank in the answer book must be clearly struck off.

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1. All questions are compulsory to attempt: (100 Words) (105=50)

(a) Rousseau, profounder of popular sovereignty finally emerged as totalitarian thinker

(b) Mill's reluctance of democracy is his genuine concern for democracy, comment?

(c) Post Colonial states are facing crisis of being oversized', elucidate the statement
with special reference to globalization.

(d) Multiculturalists Critique of Human Rights

(e) Deliberative democracy and its methods

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2. Attempt all questions:

(a) 'Ambedkar wants democratic form of government which will uphold the idea of
equality'. Discuss his views on socialism and identify his suggestions for removal of
untouchability. (200 Words) (20 Marks)

(b) Marxists notion of state has tradition of addition and subtraction, examine.
(200 Words) (15 Marks)

(c) Discuss main features of Contemporary political theory with special reference to
David held, how is different from Modern political theory? Examine.
(200 Words) (15 Marks)

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3. Attempt all questions:

(a) 'Power is everywhere' and 'comes from everywhere' so in this sense is neither an
agency nor a structure, Instead it is a kind of 'meta power' or 'regime of truth' that
pervades society, and which is in constant flux and negotiation (Foucault 1998).
Discus the statement in the light of Foucault's notion of power and its modus
operandi. (300 Words) (20 Marks)

(b) What do you understand by karel vaske's conception of 'three generation human
rights'? Do you agree that Human rights are contested notion of Western and
Eastern civilization, examine. (250 Words) (15 Marks)

(c) What is Kautilya's Mandal theory? Is it a theory of foreign policy, explain in

reference of Sastgun Niti (six principles)? (250 Words) (15 Marks)

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4 Attempt all questions:

(a) Michael Sandel, criticizes Rawls's notion as notion of disembodied or unencumbered

self or subject, in opposition to his own notion of the situated self. Analyze
communitarian critic of Rawlsian Justice in the broader framework of Sandel's
critique. (200 Words) (15 Marks)

(b) Discuss the Marx's idea of alienation, how far it is correct to say 'Idea of one
dimensional man' provides better understanding of modern capitalist industrial
society? (250 Words) (20 Marks)

(c) Rawlsian theory of justice is an attempt to address the concern of odd distribution
of wealth. Examine (200 Words) (15 Marks)

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5. Write short notes on the following: (100 Words) (105=50)

(a) Feminist understanding of 'modern state' is in line of their criticism to Patriarchy

(b) Discuss sex-gender distinction in feminist theory?

(c) Hobbes starts with Individualism and liberalism but ended with totalitarianism

(d) Marxist conception of alienation is a humanitarian Crisis of modern Industrial

society, Explain.

(e) Lokean theory of property is to support emerging trends of industrial revolution

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 6. All questions are compulsory:

(a) What is Behavioral Revolution, how it has been re corrected in Post Behaviouralism?
Examine (200 Words) (15 Marks)

(b) Liberty and equality cannot co-exist together, Discuss in reference of scholars view.
(250 Words) (20 Marks)

(c) Multiculturalism could be perceived as alternative ideology of Liberalism, Examine

Examine (200 Words) (15 Marks)

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7. All questions are compulsory:

(a) What is elite theory of democracy, how are it is true to say participatory and
deliberative democracies are two sides of a coin? Examine (200 Words) (15 Marks)

(b) Discuss the different understanding of concept of human rights; is it correct to

consider it as universal human rights? (250 Words) (20 Marks)

(c) What is political theory how it is different from Political thought? Discuss Easton
understanding of decline of Political theory? Examine (200 Words) (15 Marks)

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