PAPER-1 Q1. Comment on the following in about 150 words each: 50 marks Idea of Natural Rights (10 marks) Aristotle’s Conception of Equality (10 marks) ‘Difference Principle’ in Rawls theory of Justice (10 marks) Difference between participatory and Deliberative Democracy (10 marks) Gandhi’s view on state (10 marks) Q2. Examine the challenges to sovereignty of […]

PAPER -1 Q1.  Comment on the following in about 150 words (50 marks) “How would I and my fellow human beings behave if we were to find ourselves state of nature, and what does this behaviour tell us about our innate predispositions?” (Thomas Hobbes) (10 marks) The Post-Behavioural Approach. (10 marks) Affirmative Action. (10 marks) […]

PAPER- 1 Q1. Comment on the following in about 150 words: (50 marks) According to Sri Aurobindo. Swaraj is a necessary condition for India to accomplish its destined goal. (10 marks) Neo-Liberal perspective of state (10 marks) Post-Modernism (10 marks) Eco-Feminism (10 marks) Hobbesian notion of Political Obligation (10 marks) Q2. Rawls’ theory of justice […]

Paper – 1 Q1. Comment on the following in about 150 words: (50 marks) John Stuart Mill is a ‘reluctant democrat’. – C. L. Wayper (10 marks) Decline of Political Theory (10 marks) Distributive Justice (10 marks) Substantive Justice (10 marks) “Nothing against the State, nothing over it, nothing beyond it.” – Mussolini (10 marks) […]

PAPER – 1 Q1. Comment on the following in 150 words: (50 marks) Resurgence of political theory. (10 marks) Pluralist theory of the State. (10 marks) End of Ideology debate (10 marks) Deliberative democracy. (10 marks) K. Gandhi’s concept of Swaraj. (10 marks) Q2. Explain Aristotle’s critique of Plato’s Idealism. (20 marks) Examine communitarian perspectives […]

PAPEPR – 1 Q1. Comment on the following in 150 words: (50 marks) Post Colonial theory of the state (10 marks) Equality of opportunity (10 marks) Liberalism as a revolutionary idea (10 marks) Ambedkar’s view on constitutionalism (10 marks) Machiavelli’s secularism (10 marks) Q2. Make a comparative assessment of Greek perspective of Justice with the […]

PAPER -1 Q1. Comment on the following in about 150 words: (50 marks) Feminist critique of the State (10 marks) Affirmative action (10 marks) Equality of outcome as a political idea (10 marks) Tools of legitimation of the State (10 marks) S. Mill’s ideas on women suffrage (10 marks) Q2. How has Rawls enriched the […]

PAPER -1 Q1. Write on the following in 150 words: (50 marks) Systems Approach (10 marks) Cultural Relativism (10 marks) “Revolution in Permanence” (10 marks) Bases of Power (10 marks) Locke’s Social Contract (10 marks) Q2. Factors like community, culture and nation weaken the hegemony of neo-liberalism today. Discuss. (20 marks) “Equality of estates caused […]

PAPER -1 Q1. Comment on the following in about 150 words: (50 marks) Normative approach in Political Science (10 marks) Multicultural perspective on rights (10 marks) State of Nature as State of War (Hobbes) (10 marks) Foucault’s concept of power (10 marks) Decline of political theory (10 marks) Q2. Success of contemporary democracies lies in […]