{"id":1407,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/do-you-subscribe-to-the-view-that-the-modern-constructs-of-the-upsc-psir-2018-2801\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:26","slug":"do-you-subscribe-to-the-view-that-the-modern-constructs-of-the-upsc-psir-2018-2801","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/do-you-subscribe-to-the-view-that-the-modern-constructs-of-the-upsc-psir-2018-2801\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you subscribe to the view that the modern constructs of the state and politics are pre-eminently Euro-Centric and not indigenous and appropriate for the analysis of non-western societies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 qualified yes \u2192 modern state a European, Westphalian creation \u2192 imported onto a pre-modern base R2 state and politics as Western categories \u2192 misfire outside the West \u2192 but reworked, not junked<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">European state: sovereignty, monopoly of violence, Westphalia \u2192 imported institution \/ Alavi\u2019s overdeveloped state, no indigenous bourgeoisie \u2192 modernization theory charged with Eurocentrism \u2192 borrowed categories fail locally \/ Riggs&#039;s prismatic society: form vs practice \u2192 West on rule of law, developing societies on identity \u2192 Pye\u2019s communal, loyalty-based process \u2192 Kothari: caste as the axis of mobilisation<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">the same scholarship reworks the categories rather than discarding them \u2192 Chandhoke against universal models, for the specificity of colonial history \u2192 vocabulary can travel once adjusted<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">rk) Euro-centric in origin, misleading if applied mechanically fie 22 serviceable once indigenised, not to be abandoned<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[43],"pyq_marks":[38],"pyq_topic":[70],"pyq_paper":[69],"class_list":["post-1407","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-43","pyq_marks-10-marks","pyq_topic-state-in-comparative-perspective","pyq_paper-paper-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1407\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}