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ENTRANCE TEST-2025
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Total Questions : 60
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1. Who has described post-colonialism as 6. Which of the following is not correct regarding SDR?
‘Tricontinentalism’? (A) SDR is the currency of IMF

(A) Ranajit Guha (B) SDR is the unit of account and not a currency
of IMF
(B) Partha Chatterjee
(C) The currency value of the SDR is determined
(C) Edward Said by summing the values in U.S. dollars.
(D) Robert Young (D) The SDR currency value is calculated daily
2. According to Gayatri Spivak, which among the (except on IMF holidays or whenever the IMF
is closed for business)
following is the ‘source book of post colonial theory’?
7. The Global Hunger Index—2024 placed India under
(A) The Wretched of the Earth the category of:
(B) Orientalism (A) Low
(C) Black Skin White Masks (B) Moderate
(D) Can the Subaltern Speak? (C) Alarming

3. Who used the term ‘Subaltern’ for the first time? (D) Serious
8. Who among the following has criticized globalization
(A) Gayatri Spivak
as a ‘necessary myth’?
(B) Antonio Gramsci (A) David Held
(C) Homi Bhabha (B) Joseph Stiglitz
(D) Frantz Fanon (C) Paul Hirst & Grahame Thompson
4. Which of the following is wrongly listed as associated (D) George Ritzer

with Homi J. Bhabha? 9. Who is associated with the framework of Elite VS
Mass Culture in analyzing state politics in India?
(A) Hybridity
(A) Rajni Kothari
(B) Third Space
(B) Iqbal Narain
(C) Mimicry (C) Myron Weiner
(D) Occident (D) Morris Jones
5. The ‘peace clause’ in WTO was established in: 10. Indian federalism has been characterized as
‘Cooperative Federalism’ by:
(A) Bali Ministerial Conference in 2013
(A) Morris Jones
(B) Nairobi Ministerial Conference in 2015
(B) Granville Austin
(C) Geneva Ministerial Conference 2011 (C) Ivor Jennings
(D) Abu Dhabi Ministerial Conference 2024 (D) D. D. Basu

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a of India’s Act East Policy articulated by
11. The Bodo Movement is associated with which of the 16. The 4C’s
following Indian states? Prime Minister Modi are:
(A) Nagaland (A) Culture, Community, Custom and Cooperation
(B) Manipur (B) Culture, Commerce, Connectivity and Capacity
(C) Mizoram building
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(D) 9th Schedule (B) Human Needs Theory

13. Which of the following is not the principle of (C) Structural Violence Theory
Panchsheel? (D) Relative Deprivation Theory
(A) Mutual non-aggression 18. The concept of Protracted Social Conflict was given
(B) Peaceful coexistence by:
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which of the following countries? 19. The absence of violence, according to Johan Galtung,
(A) Russia is referred to as:
(B) Tajikistan (A) Peace
(C) Turkmenistan (B) Negative Peace
(D) Uzbekistan (C) Positive Peace
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21. Who among the following philosophers is not 27. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is applicable to
associated with the decline of Political Theory? the following, except:
(A) Alfred Cobban
(A) Genocide
(B) Dante Germino
(B) War crimes
(C) Peter Laslett
(D) John Rawls (C) Rape
22. Who among the following contractual thinkers doesn’t (D) Ethnic Cleansing
influence Rawl’s theory of justice ? 28. Which among the following is not a part of G-4
(A) Thomas Hobbes advocating permanent membership in UNSC?
(B) John Locke
(A) India
(C) J. J. Rousseau
(B) Australia
(D) Kant
23. Who has equated Taxation with forced labour? (C) Brazil
(A) John Rawls (D) Germany
(B) Robert Nozick 29. Who among the following is the chief exponent of the
(C) Michael Sandal Functional Approach to Ideology?
(D) Will Kymlicka (A) C.W. Frohlich
24. The notion of Unencumbered Self was introduced
(B) Daniel Bell
by Michael Sandal to criticize:
(A) Bentham (C) Leon Dion
(B) Rawls (D) Francis Bacon
(C) Nozick 30. Which among the following is wrongly listed as a core
(D) Will Kymlicka theme of classical liberalism?
25. The Membership of the United Nations is referred or (A) Natural rights
mentioned in which part of the Charter?
(B) Social Darwinism
(A) Article 1
(B) Article 2 (C) Economic Management
(C) Article 4 (D) Utilitarianism
(D) Article 5 31. Which among the following has been characterized
26. Which among the following principal organs of UN is as a ‘philosophy of human imperfection’?
not located/headquartered in/at New York?
(A) Classical Liberalism
(A) General Assembly
(B) Modern Liberalism
(B) Security Council
(C) Trusteeship Council (C) Conservatism

(D) ICJ (D) Socialism

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32. Who among the following thinkers has identified an 37. Who hasawritten the famous ‘Long Telegram’ that
‘epistemological break’ in Karl Marx’s writings, became the basis for America’s policy of Soviet
distinguishing between Hegelian Marx and Scientific Containment during the Cold War?
Marx? (A) John Gaddis
(A) Antonio Gramsci (B) George Kennan
(B) Louis Althusser (C) Paul Kennedy
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(B) Fabianism, Mercantilism and Marxism (C) Multipolar
(C) Fabianism, Gandhism and Marxism (D) Multiplex order
(D) None 39. The core assumption of globalists is that:
34. M. N. Roy’s theory of New Humanism revolves (A) Globalisation does not exist
around: (B) Globalisation is bad for everyone
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35. Ambedkar Jayanti is observed on: an ‘end of history’?
(A) 10 April (A) Samuel Huntington
(B) 14 April (B) Charles Krauthammer
(C) 12 April (C) Francis Fukuyama
(D) 15 April (D) John Mearsheimer
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42. Who said, ‘The fundamental difference between 46. Which among the following descriptions of Indian
International Politics and Domestic Politics lies in the federalism and the thinker is not correctly matched ?

fact that the former is anarchical,while as the latter is (A) K.C. Wheare—Quasi-federal

hierarchical’? (B) Paul Appleby—Extremely federal
(C) Morris Jones—Bargaining federalism
(A) Hans Morgenthau
(D) Granville Austin—Competitive federalism
(B) Morton Kaplan
47. The Election Commission of India functioned as a
(C) Kenneth Waltz single-member body consisting only of the Chief
(D) John Mearsheimer Election Commissioner from:
43. Which among the following is odd as far as (A) 1950-1989
Morgenthau’s description of the balance of power is (B) 1989-1990
concerned ? (C) 1990-1993

(A) A policy aimed at a certain state of affairs (D) 1995-2001
48. Which among the following committees recommended
(B) An actual state of affairs
that the three-tier panchayat system should be
(C) An approximately equal distribution of power abolished and replaced by a two-tier system?
(D) Maintenance of just equilibrium (A) Balwant Rai Mehta Committee
44. Which among the following is an instrument of the (B) Ashok Mehta Committee
Balance of Power? (C) G.V.K. Rao Committee
(A) Alliances (D) L.M. Singhvi Committee

(B) Armaments 49. Who has criticized the Drafting Committee by calling
it a Drifting Committee?
(C) Divide and Rule
(A) Granville Austin
(D) All of these
(B) B. R. Ambedkar
45. In order to be appointed as a Supreme Court judge, (C) Naziruddin Ahmad
which of the following qualifications is not required? (D) Myron Weiner
(A) He/she should be a citizen of India 50. Which among the following Amendments gave
(B) Should have been a judge of High Court for Cooperative Societies a constitutional status and
five years protection?
(A) 95th Act 2009
(C) Should have attained the age of 55
(B) 96th Act 2011
(D) Should be a distinguished jurist in the opinion of
(C) 97th Act 2011
the President
(D) 98th Act 2012

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51. Which of the following Articles of the Constitution of 56. Who among
India safeguards an individual’s right to marry a person theory of Justice from a feminist perspective?
of one’s choice? (A) Ronald Dworkin
(A) Article 19 (B) Robert Nozick
(B) Article 21 (C) Susan Moller Okin
(C) Article 25 (D) Amartya Sen
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58. The notion of hegemony based on consent generated
53. Who has described equality as a sovereign virtue?
in civil society is the contribution of :
(A) Harold Laski
(A) Antonio Gramsci
(B) Ronald Dworkin
(B) Louis Althusser
(C) John Rawls
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role of education in perpetuating and enduring
(B) Milton Friedman
capitalist domination?
(C) Robert Nozick
(A) Antonio Gramsci
(D) Fredrick Hayek
(B) Jürgen Habermas
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(C) Theodor Adorno
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