JNUEE 2020 Question Paper Ph.D Political Studies

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Exam Date: 05-Oct-2020
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Examination: 1. Course Code - Ph.D.
2. Field of Study - Political Studies (POLH)
SECTION 1 - SECTION 1

Question No.1 (Question Id - 54)
Which among the following countries is not a common member of both SAARC and
BIMSTEC ?
(A) Bhutan
(B) Sri Lanka
(C) Nepal
(D) Afghanistan (Correct Answer)

Question No.2 (Question Id - 24)
Who coined the concept of 'Total Revolution' ?
(A) Ram Manohar Lohiya
(B) Jaya Prakash Narayan (Correct Answer)
(C) Subhash Chandra Bose
(D) E.V. Ramasamy Periyar

Question No.3 (Question Id - 8)
The notion that changing the context surrounding a text (a set of symbols) changes the
text's meaning underlies which postmodern discursive practice ?

(A) Deconstruction (Correct Answer)
(B) Delayering
(C) Power
(D) Simulacra

Question No.4 (Question Id - 37)
The term, 'Wave' in Huntington's Three Waves of Democratization broadly refered to :

(A) Transformation
(B) Transition (Correct Answer)
(C) Turbulence
(D) Tectonic shift

Question No.5 (Question Id - 69)
Ramnadan Committee is associated with which one of the following ?
(A) Status of Schedule Tribe
(B) Tribal rights
(C) Financial sources of the PRIs
(D) To decide criteria for excluding the creamy layer from OBCs. (Correct
Answer)

Question No.6 (Question Id - 52)

India under Indira Gandhi fully supported the cause of the Bangladeshis and its troops
and equipment were used to fight the Pakistani forces. The Indian Army also gave full
support to the main Bangladeshi guerrilla force, the :

(A) Chittagong Liberation Army
(B) Bangla Liberation Force
(C) Shakti Bahini
(D) Mukti Bahini (Correct Answer)

Question No.7 (Question Id - 87)
The principles concerning the provisions of grants-in-aid to the states out of the
Consolidated Fund of India are recommended by :

(A) Administrative Reforms Commission
(B) Planning Commission
(C) Public Accounts Committee
(D) Finance Commission (Correct Answer)

Question No.8 (Question Id - 30)
Who said, 'Bharat Mata is the basis of our nationality, not just India; if you delete the
word Mata, India will become the piece of land only' ?

(A) Shaheed Bhagat Singh
(B) Chander Shekhar Aazad
(C) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(D) Deendayal Upadhyaya (Correct Answer)

Question No.9 (Question Id - 13)
According to Thomas Aquinas man's ultimate happiness consists in :
(A) Emotional pleasure
(B) Some loving desire
(C) Moral values
(D) Contemplating God (Correct Answer)

Question No.10 (Question Id - 49)
In International Relations, Post-Modernism is characterised by which of the following ?

(A) A range of challenges to the assumptions of 'modernity'. (Correct Answer)
(B) An attempt to present an all-embracing explanation of International Politics.
(C) An attempt to persuade policy makers to adopt a more rational view of the
world.

(D) A programme of constructive reforms to make the world a much happier place.

Question No.11 (Question Id - 96)
Which one of the following is not a key component of the concept of governance ?

(A) Accountability
(B) Transparency
(C) Communicability (Correct Answer)

(D) Predictability

Question No.12 (Question Id - 19)
Which among following is an incorrect combination ?

Thinkers Books

(A) Plato - Crito
(B) Aristotle - Metaphysics and Theology (Correct Answer)
(C) Machiavelli - Discourses on Livy
(D) Hobbes - De Cive

Question No.13 (Question Id - 34)
Who among the following was the longest ruling dictator in the world ?
(A) Paul Biya (Correct Answer)
(B) Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
(C) Ali Khamenei
(D) Hun Sen

Question No.14 (Question Id - 29)
Which among the following is/are key principle/s of Gandhi's Satyagraha ?
(A) Infinite capacity for suffering
(B) Ahimsa
(C) Truth
(D) All of the above (Correct Answer)

Question No.15 (Question Id - 41)
Why did Realism challenge the academic supremacy of liberal thought after the First
World War ?

(A) The terms of Treaty of Versailles made another major war more likely than a
period of sustained peace.

(B) Liberal institutions like League of Nations seemed ineffectual.
(C) Liberal views of human nature seem to be discredited by the rise of brutal
regimes like Nazi Germany.

(D) All of the above (Correct Answer)

Question No.16 (Question Id - 39)
Which of the following is not a characteristic of new social movements ?
(A) They are old but have some new features like ecological, peace, gender, etc.
(B) They respond to social needs which have more recently been generated by
world development.

(C) They are single class/stratum movements.
(D) They are led by both traditional and modern elites. (Correct Answer)

Question No.17 (Question Id - 51)
The Indo-Bhutan Friendship Treaty was substantially revised in 2017 under the
Bhutanese King :

(A) Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (Correct Answer)
(B) Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal
(C) Jigme Dragpa II
(D) Jetsun Pema

Question No.18 (Question Id - 82)
Which of the following is the key task of leadership as identified by Philip Selznick ?

(A) Definition of institutional mission and role
(B) Defence of institutional integrity
(C) Institutional embodiment of purpose
(D) Merger of personal status with the institution (Correct Answer)

Question No.19 (Question Id - 10)
Who among the following has argued that the electoral system determines the nature of
the party system ?

(A) Robert Michels
(B) Joseph Schumpeter
(C) Maurice Duverger (Correct Answer)
(D) Max Weber

Question No.20 (Question Id - 55)
Which nation recently launched an observation satellite called navid satellite into orbit
above Earth ?

(A) UAE
(B) Iran (Correct Answer)
(C) Turkey
(D) US

Question No.21 (Question Id - 61)
According to the Constitution of India what is the name of our Country ?
(A) India
(B) India and Bharat (Correct Answer)
(C) India, Bharat and Hindustan
(D) India, Bharat, Hindustan and Bharat Varsha

Question No.22 (Question Id - 25)
Which among the following statements is not given by B.R. Ambedkar ?
(A) Freedom of mind is the real freedom.
(B) If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.
(C) I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women
have achieved.

(D) British rule is biggest gift of the god in the modern India. (Correct Answer)

Question No.23 (Question Id - 97)
Which one of the following is not a limitation of Judicial Control over administration ?

(A) Administrative actions are of highly technical nature.
(B) Judicial remedy is quite expensive.
(C) Judicial process is time consuming.
(D) Judiciary can by itself take cognizance of the excesses of the officials.
(Correct Answer)

Question No.24 (Question Id - 35)
Assertion A :

Globalization has led to the integration of nation states.

Reason R :

Nation states seem to have lost their sovereignty in an era of globalization.

(A) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.
(B) Both A and R are correct and R is not the correct explanation of A.
(Correct Answer)
(C) A is correct, but R is incorrect.
(D) A is incorrect, and R is correct.

Question No.25 (Question Id - 84)
Which one of the following, according to Chester Bernard, is not a condition for
acceptance of a communication by an organization member as authoritative ?

(A) Non-understanding of the communication
(B) Inconsistency with the purpose of the organization
(C) Non-conflict with the personal interest (Correct Answer)
(D) Mental and physical ability to comply

Question No.26 (Question Id - 94)
Which one of the following is a correct statement about Disaster Management Act 2005
?

(A) It introduced two-tier system at Centre and State.
(B) Prime Minister of India is the ex-officio chairperson of the National
Disaster Management Authority.

(Correct Answer)
(C) It does not define the word 'disaster'.
(D) It has a provision to establish the PM CARES Fund.

Question No.27 (Question Id - 73)
Communalism is derived from, 'commune' which is a __________ term.
(A) French (Correct Answer)
(B) Chinese
(C) English
(D) Spanish

Question No.28 (Question Id - 65)
Which one of the following is not included in the right to Freedom of Religion in article
25 ?

(A) Freedom of conscience
(B) Right freely to profess religion
(C) Right freely to practice and propagate religion
(D) To establish and maintain institution for religious purpose (Correct
Answer)

Question No.29 (Question Id - 59)
The 2+2 ministerial dialogue in bilateral relations between India and Japan refers to
meetings attended by which dignitaries of the two countries ?

(A) Prime Minister and Defence Minister
(B) Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
(C) Prime Minister and President
(D) Foreign and Defence Minister and Secretary (Correct Answer)

Question No.30 (Question Id - 62)
Which one of the following is not mentioned in the oath or affirmation for the President
of India ?

(A) Preserve the Constitution
(B) Protect the Constitution
(C) Defend the Constitution
(D) Safeguard the Constitution (Correct Answer)

Question No.31 (Question Id - 70)
Which one of the following are correct statements about the ninth schedule of the
Constitution ?

A. It was inserted by the first amendment of the Constitution in the year 1951.

B. It is only related with land reform Laws.

C. Judicial review is possible in this schedule.

D. It was not part of the original Constitution of India.

Select the correct answer using the codes given below :

(A) A, B, C
(B) A, D
(C) A, C, D (Correct Answer)
(D) A, B, D

Question No.32 (Question Id - 28)
How many Margas are in the 'Madhyam Marga' of Buddhism ?
(A) 8 (Correct Answer)
(B) 7
(C) 5
(D) 3

Question No.33 (Question Id - 2)
In John Rawl's theory, principles of Justice were established by people who had faced :

(A) State of Nature

(B) Economic inequality
(C) Veil of ignorance (Correct Answer)
(D) Short-Sighted self interest

Question No.34 (Question Id - 36)
Which state in the US has the largest representation in the Congress ?
(A) California (Correct Answer)
(B) Florida
(C) Texas
(D) New York

Question No.35 (Question Id - 85)
The 'New Public Administration' movement is mainly against :
(A) Administrative centralization and neutrality of administration (Correct
Answer)
(B) Neutrality of administration and meritocracy
(C) Meritocracy and political orientation of administration
(D) Political orientation of administration and administrative centralization

Question No.36 (Question Id - 50)
In Medieval Europe, what was the most potent source of unity ?
(A) The Church of England
(B) The European communism
(C) Membership of NATO
(D) The Catholic Church (Correct Answer)

Question No.37 (Question Id - 33)
Nationalism as the invention of the peripheral nations is associated with :
(A) Primordialists
(B) Perennialists
(C) Modernists
(D) Neo Marxists (Correct Answer)

Question No.38 (Question Id - 66)
Which one of the following is incorrect about the Constituent Assembly of India ?

(A) It was setup under the Cabinet Mission Plan.
(B) It existed till 24 January 1950.
(C) Some of its members elected on the basis of adult suffrage. (Correct
Answer)
(D) H.V.R. Iyengar was its Secretary.

Question No.39 (Question Id - 22)
Which among the following is not related to Kautilya's Mandal System ?

(A) Ari
(B) Vijigishu
(C) Mitra
(D) Ari Akraand (Correct Answer)

Question No.40 (Question Id - 16)
According to Bentham, nature has placed mankind under two sovereign masters :

(A) God and the devil
(B) Good and evil
(C) Pain and pleasure (Correct Answer)
(D) Friend and enemy

Question No.41 (Question Id - 27)
Who said, 'an eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind' ?

(A) Ravindra Nath Tagore
(B) Jyotiba Phule
(C) Mahatma Gandhi (Correct Answer)
(D) Swami Vivekananda

Question No.42 (Question Id - 21)
Who said, 'quest for freedom and search for truth constitute the basic urge of human
progress' ?

(A) Sri Aurobindo
(B) M.N. Roy (Correct Answer)
(C) Mahatma Gandhi
(D) Vivekananda

Question No.43 (Question Id - 5)
What does 'Infra politics' denote ?
(A) Relations between sovereign states.
(B) Relationships between key decision makers.
(C) The way in which seemingly powerless people subvert the authority of the
powerful.

(Correct Answer)
(D) The disengagement of many people nowadays from the political process.

Question No.44 (Question Id - 71)
Which of the following was meant by License Quota Permit Raj ?
(A) Centralization (Correct Answer)
(B) Decentralization
(C) Urbanization
(D) Industrialization

Question No.45 (Question Id - 89)
Which one of the following statements is incorrect in respect of Simon's decision
making theory ?

(A) Decision is as important as doing
(B) Decisions are, in final analysis, composite
(C) Administrative man maximizes (Correct Answer)
(D) There is always a means-end relationship

Question No.46 (Question Id - 91)
Which one of the following is incorrect about RTI Act 2005 ?
(A)

It provides every citizen of India with a right to get information from the public
authority.

(B) RTI application should be disposed within a period of 30 days.
(C) The applicant can appeal to the Central Information Commission against
the decision of the state Information Commission.

(Correct Answer)
(D) The Act defines the Public Authority.

Question No.47 (Question Id - 60)
The Government of India recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding for content
exchange programme between All India Radio and National Broadcaster of
which country ?

(A) Sri Lanka
(B) Nepal
(C) Singapore
(D) Bangladesh (Correct Answer)

Question No.48 (Question Id - 100)
Which one of the following events is not considered to be an indication of loss
confidence of the lower house of the Parliament ?

(A) Adjournment motion is carried. (Correct Answer)
(B) Vote of thanks on the President's address is not carried.
(C) Cut on Money Bill is passed.
(D) Censure motion is passed.

Question No.49 (Question Id - 9)
Isaiah Berlin argued that :
(A) The State can and should do more to reduce economic inequalities.
(B) The criminal justice system is an unacceptable infringement of freedom.
(C) Irrational people do not deserve freedom.
(D) 'Positive' conceptions of liberty represented a serious threat to freedom.
(Correct Answer)

Question No.50 (Question Id - 20)
Who said, 'make women rational creature, and free citizens, and they will quickly
become good wives, that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husband and fathers' ?

(A) Jane Austen
(B) Anne Mellor
(C) Elizabeth Bennet
(D) Marry Wollstonecraft (Correct Answer)

Question No.51 (Question Id - 75)
Which general election ended the period of one party dominance in Indian politics ?

(A) 1957
(B) 1962
(C) 1967 (Correct Answer)

(D) 1971

Question No.52 (Question Id - 64)
Quorum for any house of State Legislature requires :
(A) 1/10 of total members of the House or ten members, whichever is lesser.
(B) 1/10 of total elected members of the House.
(C) Only ten members.
(D) Ten members or 1/10 of the total number of members of the House,
whichever is greater.

(Correct Answer)

Question No.53 (Question Id - 74)
In an unprecedented move, under whose prime ministership, the President called for
resignation of 18 Governors who had been appointed during the previous government ?

(A) V.P. Singh (Correct Answer)
(B) Chandra Shekhar
(C) Indira Gandhi
(D) Rajiv Gandhi

Question No.54 (Question Id - 53)
India conducted joint naval exercise in the Indian Ocean along with USA, Japan and
Australia termed :

(A) Malabar (Correct Answer)
(B) Operation Samandar
(C) Sagar Parikrama
(D) Operation AusraIndia

Question No.55 (Question Id - 80)
Which of the following best describes the nature of the Market State ?
(A) Facilitator (Correct Answer)
(B) Regulator
(C) Controller
(D) Intervenor

Question No.56 (Question Id - 93)
Which one of the following is incorrect statement about PM CARES ?
(A) Prime Minister is the ex-officio trustee.
(B) Minister of Home Affairs is ex-officio trustee.
(C) It has been setup through Ordinance of the President. (Correct Answer)
(D) It accepts donations and contribution from individual and organization based in
foreign countries.

Question No.57 (Question Id - 72)
Rudolphs introduced the notion of 'Bullock Capitalists' in the wake of :
(A) White Revolution
(B) Blue Revolution
(C) Yellow Revolution
(D) Green Revolution (Correct Answer)

Question No.58 (Question Id - 43)

Who among the following was an important figure in the development of liberal
perspective on International Politics ?

(A) Thomas Hobbes
(B) Hugo Grotius (Correct Answer)
(C) Niccole Machiavelli
(D) All of the above

Question No.59 (Question Id - 99)
Which one of the following is not a function of the Committee on Subordinate Legislation
?

(A) To evolve a systematic pattern of the terms of delegation
(B) To improve the methods of publicity of the rules
(C) To lay down rules and regulations on the tables of the House (Correct
Answer)
(D) To achieve uniformity in rule making process

Question No.60 (Question Id - 4)
Michel Foucault argued that :
(A) Harsh punishments are necessary to make people obey the law.
(B) If people were more conscious of their rights they could eradicate power
inequalities forever.

(C) Power is a quality reserved for government institution.
(D) Power is inherent in all social relations and is, therefore impossible to
eradicate even though its abuses should always be attacked.

(Correct Answer)

Question No.61 (Question Id - 83)
The principle of span of control has come under revision due to :
(A) Higher degree of unionism among employees
(B) Increasing resort to automation and mechanization (Correct Answer)
(C) High level of education among public employees
(D) Obedience and loyalty generated by conduct rules

Question No.62 (Question Id - 81)
The most logical criterion to distinguish a line function from staff is :
(A) The authority relationships
(B) The functional relationships (Correct Answer)
(C) The grouping of functions
(D) The departmentalization

Question No.63 (Question Id - 76)

(A) A - I, B - II, C - IV, D - III
(B) A - II, B - I, C - IV, D - III (Correct Answer)
(C) A - I, B - IV, C - II, D - III
(D) A - II, B - I, C - III, D - IV

Question No.64 (Question Id - 63)
Which one of the following is/are correct statement about the Governor ?

A. The Governor shall hold office during the pleasure of the President.

B. Oath or affirmation by the Governor is in the Schedule Third.

C. Governor has no legislative powers.

D. Discretionary powers of the Governor are mentioned in the Constitution.

Select the most appropriate answer using the codes given below :

(A) A, B
(B) A, B, C
(C) A, B, D
(D) A, D (Correct Answer)

Question No.65 (Question Id - 88)
Who among the following pioneered the empirical approach in looking for the principles
of Public Administration ?

(A) L.D. White
(B) F.W. Taylor (Correct Answer)
(C) Luther Gulick
(D) Lyndall Urwick

Question No.66 (Question Id - 3)
Deliberative democracy involves :
(A) Politicians consulting their ministerial colleagues before taking decisions.
(B) Every major political decision being taken after a referendum.
(C) Extensive public debate before politicians taking decisions. (Correct
Answer)
(D) Citizens consulting family and friends before voting.

Question No.67 (Question Id - 31)
Which of the following is/are new institutional approach/es in comparative politics ?

(A) Rational Choice Institutionalism

(B) Structural Institutionalism
(C) Sociological Institutionalism
(D) All of the above (Correct Answer)

Question No.68 (Question Id - 32)
Which of the following country coloinized a large part of the Latin American continent
before it gained independence ?

(A) France
(B) Spain (Correct Answer)
(C) US
(D) UK

Question No.69 (Question Id - 56)
The SHADE (Shared Awareness and Deconfliction) mechanism is likely to check sea
piracy in Indian Ocean. The pact is signed between India and which two other nations ?

(A) Vietnam and Thailand
(B) Sri Lanka and Pakistan
(C) Singapore and Indonesia
(D) China and Japan (Correct Answer)

Question No.70 (Question Id - 98)
Which one of the following does not hold 'good' in relation to the idea of good
governance ?

(A) Rule of law
(B) Care for disadvantaged
(C) Equality of opportunity (Correct Answer)
(D) Tolerance and broadmindedness

Question No.71 (Question Id - 86)
Which one of the following is not a role for the civil services in a developing country ?

(A) Helping the people to improve their quality of life
(B) Helping the people to participate in public programmes
(C) Helping the people to keep abreast of changes in social life in the
developed countries

(Correct Answer)
(D) Improving the efficiency of delivery systems in public administration

Question No.72 (Question Id - 6)
What did Robert Puntam's study of Northen Italy reveal ?
(A) An alienated population which despised authority of all kinds.
(B) A long established tradition of civic engagement. (Correct Answer)
(C) That the political culture of the North was identical to that of the South.
(D) All the above

Question No.73 (Question Id - 38)
Who among the following advocated 'Four I's' as the basis of party formation ?
(A) Maurice Duverger

(B) Robert Michels
(C) Geovanni Sartori
(D) None of these (Correct Answer)

Question No.74 (Question Id - 7)
Which one of the following is an incorrect pair ?
Ideas Thinkers

(A) The End of History - Fukuyama
(B) The End of Ideology - Daniel Bell
(C) The Clash of Civilisations - S. Huntington
(D) The New World - Robert Nozick (Correct Answer)

Question No.75 (Question Id - 68)
Which one of the following is an incorrect pair ?
Authors Books

(A) Fali S. Nariman - God Save Hon'ble Supreme Court
(B) Nanabhoy Palkhivala - We, the Nation : The Lost Decades
(C) Granville Austin - Working in a Democratic Constitution :
A History of the Indian Experience
(D) Zia Mody - Landmark Judgments that Changed India
(Correct Answer)

Question No.76 (Question Id - 77)
The Naga demand for secession was made by :

(A) Angami Zapu Phizo (Correct Answer)
(B) Adinno Phizo
(C) T.R. Zeliang
(D) Neidonuo Angami

Question No.77 (Question Id - 58)
Under the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), India has been given the exclusive right over the
rivers of :

A. Chenab

B. Ravi

C. Beas

D. Satluj

Select the most appropriate answer using the codes given below :

(A) A, B, C
(B) B, C
(C) B, C, D (Correct Answer)
(D) A, B, C, D

Question No.78 (Question Id - 78)
Cycle is the symbol of which of the following party/parties ?
(A) Samajwadi Party

(B) Telugu Desam Party
(C) Samajwadi Party and Telugu Desam Party (Correct Answer)
(D) Samajwadi Party and Asom Gana Parishad

Question No.79 (Question Id - 11)
According to Plato, justice is when a soul is ruled by its :
(A) Rational part (Correct Answer)
(B) Respect for paying law
(C) Spirituality
(D) Desire for social service

Question No.80 (Question Id - 67)
Who is the Patron in Chief of National Legal Service Authority ?

(A) Chief Justice of India (Correct Answer)
(B) Senior most Judge of the Supreme Court
(C) Attorney General of India
(D) Minister of Law and Justice

Question No.81 (Question Id - 57)
India has Kalapani and Susta territorial dispute with :
(A) Bangladesh
(B) Bhutan
(C) Nepal (Correct Answer)
(D) Myanmar

Question No.82 (Question Id - 47)
What did Edward Said's Orientalism argue ?
(A) Europeans have tended to define themselves in opposition to the 'oriental'
other.

(Correct Answer)
(B) European culture is superior to Eastern culture.
(C) Over the centuries European commentators and politicians have tried hard to
appease militant Islam.
(D) Oriental writings reject Euro-centric dominance.

Question No.83 (Question Id - 42)
What does Raison d'état mean ?
(A) The state ought to act reasonably at all times.
(B) The national interest. (Correct Answer)
(C) Citizens need to be given very good reasons for obeying the state.
(D) Hobbes 'State of Nature'.

Question No.84 (Question Id - 15)
J.S. Mill said that distinction between justice and other moral obligations corresponds
perfectly to the distinction between :

(A) Perfect and imperfect obligations (Correct Answer)
(B) Strong and weak position
(C) Absolute and relative obligations
(D) Positive and negative duties

Question No.85 (Question Id - 17)
Kant says that, the basis of morality is :
(A) Concept of freedom (Correct Answer)
(B) Concept of natural law
(C) Concept absolute monarchy
(D) Concept of charity

Question No.86 (Question Id - 45)
Critical Theory is :
(A) A reaction against Marxism.
(B) Based on restatement of traditional views.
(C) A 'realist' acceptance of global exploitation.
(D) Often related to Marxist ideas. (Correct Answer)

Question No.87 (Question Id - 23)
According to Gandhi, voters should have the qualification of :
(A) Manual Work (Correct Answer)
(B) Higher Education
(C) Property Tax
(D) None of these

Question No.88 (Question Id - 90)
In the context of budgeting, the term guillotine is used with reference to :
(A) Appropriation Bill
(B) Consolidated Fund charges
(C) Voting on Demands (Correct Answer)
(D) Finance Bill

Question No.89 (Question Id - 1)
The term 'Cultural Capital' is associated with which of the following ?

(A) Muhammad Yunus
(B) Amartya Sen
(C) Robert Putnam
(D) None of the above (Correct Answer)

Question No.90 (Question Id - 48)
Why can post-colonial critiques of traditional international relations themselves be
questioned ?

(A) They overlook the difference between western and non-western cultures.
(B) They can romanticise non-western cultures. (Correct Answer)
(C) They are too nostalgic about British Empire.
(D) They are unthinkingly hostile towards Islam.

Question No.91 (Question Id - 79)
Which State/Union Territory in India recorded the highest number of NOTA votes in 2019
Lok Sabha election ?

(A) Bihar (Correct Answer)
(B) Daman and Diu

(C) Chhattisgarh
(D) Chandigarh

Question No.92 (Question Id - 12)
Who said, 'any change, big or small, sudden or gradual, partial or complete is a
revolution' ?

(A) Epicurus
(B) Cicero
(C) Augustine
(D) Aristotle (Correct Answer)

Question No.93 (Question Id - 92)
Prime Minister Ujjawala Yojana related with which one of the following ministry ?

(A) Ministry of Rural Development
(B) Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
(C) Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (Correct Answer)
(D) Ministry of Agriculture

Question No.94 (Question Id - 26)
Who said every nation has its soul which could be located in its Chiti ?
(A) M.N. Roy
(B) B.R. Ambedkar
(C) Deendayal Upadhyaya (Correct Answer)
(D) Jaya Prakash Narayan

Question No.95 (Question Id - 14)
Jean-Paul Sartre said that according to existentialism, there is no reality except than :

(A) Passion
(B) Appetite
(C) Contemplation
(D) Action (Correct Answer)

Question No.96 (Question Id - 44)
What is neo-realism ?
(A) An attempt to restate the basic idea of realism in a more 'scientific' form.
(Correct Answer)
(B) An attempt to ignore the unpleasant realities of the world.
(C) A claim that the international society is basically orderly and peaceful.
(D) A claim that individual human nature is central to an understanding of
International Politics.

Question No.97 (Question Id - 46)
Constructivists argue that :
(A) Scientific enquiry can uncover absolute truths.
(B) Material forces are much more important than ideas.
(C) The 'truth' is always socially constructed. (Correct Answer)
(D) Individuals are powerless to shape the world as they find it.

Question No.98 (Question Id - 95)
The idea of governance was evolved by the World Bank on the basis of its experiences
in :

(A) South Asia
(B) South Africa
(C) Sub-Saharan Africa (Correct Answer)
(D) West Asia

Question No.99 (Question Id - 18)
Who said, 'the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short' ?
(A) Immanuel Kant
(B) Jeremy Bentham
(C) David Hume
(D) Thomas Hobbes (Correct Answer)

Question No.100 (Question Id - 40)
'History from below' provided the basis for a political discourse to which one of the
following school ?

(A) Subaltern School (Correct Answer)
(B) Marxist School
(C) Cambridge School
(D) Nationalist School

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