V-26 EDtrance Examination -June 2011
M.A. (political Science)
Hall Ticket No.
Time: 2 Hn. Markl: 100
(;enerallDitructionl
I. All answers shall be written in English
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This Question Paper is in three Parts, i.e., Part.A, Part·R, and P.rt-e

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Part-A consists of 30 objective type questions carrying 30 marks. Candidates must answer ALL questions from Part-A. Mention answers in the parentheses against eacb question

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Part·B consists ofTHREE passages. Eacb passage carries JO marks. Candidates sbould answer all the questions given below the passages. Eacb question carries 2 marks. Mention answers in the parentheses against eacb question

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Part-C consists ofTEN sbort essay type questions. Candidates sbould answer any TWO questions from this Part. Eacb question carries 20 marks

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Answers to questions in all parts should be written in this booklet itself.

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After you complete answering, return the booklet to the invigilator

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Read the instructions given at the beginning ofeacb Part carefully

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Write the question number and the question before you commence answering the one you cboose

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This booklet contains 22 pages


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M.A. (political ScieDee)
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Part-A (Objeetlve Type) Ma.....:30
Answer 011 questions.
Mention the correct answer (either A. B. C or intheparenthesesprovidedagainst each
question.
1/3 rd ofa mark will be dedu1:tedfor everyincorrect answer.

I. In which of the following countries residuary powers rest with the national government?
A. India and USA
B. India and Canada
C. Canada and Australia
D. USA and Nigeria
2. Which one ofthe following is not common feature offederalism in USA and India?
A. Distribution of powers between the Union and States
B. The existence ofSupreme Court
C. Two sets ofjudicial organizations
D. Written Constitution
3. In a parliamentary fonn of government, ministers are appointed by
A. The head of the state at his discretion
B. The bead ofthe government
C. The bead ofthe state on the recommendation ofthe head ofthe
government

D. The legislature
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4. Supreme Court ofindia is different from its counterpart in the USA
A. In its role as the guardian ofthe Constitution
B. In its advisory role
C. In its role as the supreme authority in the judicial field in the country
D. In its writ jurisdiction
5. Which among the following are the features of a parliainentary system of govemment?
A. Ministers are drawn from assembly
B. Government is fonned as a result ofassembly election
C. Government is responsiblc to the assembly
D. Government is responsible to the head of stale
Answer:
A.
B.
C.
D.

6. The Legislative Council in a state in India can be created or abolished by the
A. President on the recommendation ofa Governor of the stale
B. The parlian,ent
C. Thc parliament after the stale assembly passes a resolution to that effect
D. Governorofthestateontherecommendation ofthecouncil ofministers

7. During passing of budget in the Parliament 'Guilotine' is applied to those demands which are
A. Discussed and approved
B. Discussed but not approved
C. Discussed and reduced
D. Not discussed for want oftime
8. The Chairman ofthe Public Accounts Committee ofthe Parliament is
A. Speaker of Lok SOOha
B. Prime Minister ofIndia
C. President ofindia
D. Chairman ofRajya Sabha
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9. Which ofthe following is not an AIIlndia Service?
A. Indian Foreign Service
B. Indian Administrative Service
C. Indian Forest Service
D. Indian Police Service
10. The principle of 'span ofcontrol' means
A. An employee should receive orders from one superior only
B. The Dumber ofsubordinate employees that an administrator can effectively direct
C. The control or supervision of the superior over the subordiMle
D. The number ofpeople being controlled
11. Which among the following is the basic difference between Public Administration and Private Administration
A. Different environments
B. AccoUDt keeping and sudit
C. Organizational structure
D. Techniques ofmanagement
12. The regulatory authority for insurance sector in India is:
A. TRAJ
B. SEBI
C. IRDA
D. TAMP
13. India's Forest Rights Act is enacted in the year
A. 2004
B. 2006
C. 2008
D. 2010
14. The right to propagation in India is legally enshrined for
A. Christians
B. Muslims
C. Jews
D. All religions
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15. Laski said the price to be paid for our liberty is
A. Eternal vigilance
B. Surveillance
C. Resistance
D. Civil disobedience
16. The right to temple entry for Dalits is
A. Political right
B. Economic right
C. Social right
D. Cultural right
17. Who is the author ofthe book, 'The Power Elite'?
A. Roberto Michels
B. Genato Mosca
C. C. Wright Mills
D. Vilfredo Pareto
18. Marx understands class in terms of
A. ownership of means of production
B. control over labour power
C. exercise of state power
D. dominance of cultural sphere
19. Who authored the book "My Country My Life"
A. L.K. Advani
B. Manmohan Singh
C. Amartya Sen
D. P.V. Narasimha Rao
20. Unique Identification Card means
A. . Idehtity card to all individuallndian Citizens
B. Identity card given to Police
C. Identity card given to Prisoners
D. Multipurpose household card for householders
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21. Match List-I and List-IT and choose !be conecl answer from !be options given below: List-I List-IT
I. Loksabha Speaker a. S.H. Kapadia
2.
Chief Justice of India b. Murali Manohar Joshi

3.
Chief Election Commissioner c. Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quarsbi

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Chainnan, Public Accounts Committee d. Meira Kumar


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A. d ac b
B. c b da
C. d b ca
D.d ca b
22. AccordingtotheConstitution ofIndiawhich of!befollowingis NOT a Money Bill?
A. Bill that imposes fines and penalties
B. Imposition and abolition of taxes
C. Bill that deals with regulation of borrowing of money by Government of India
D. Bill that deals with the custody ofthc Consolidated Fund ofIndia

23. Cbairpe=n of United Progressive Alliance is:
A. Sushma Swaraj
B. Sonia Gandhi
C. Manmohan Singh
D. Rajiv Gandhi
24. Judicial Review means
A. Intervention of Courts in social, economic and religious matters
B. To strike down a decision or a law made by government ifit is not in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution
C. AuthorityofSupremeCourt ofIndiatoreviewthejudgements ofHigh Courts
D. Thepower ofthePresidentoflndia toseekadvisefromtheChiefJustice of Supreme Court of India

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25. Which amoDg the following countries was NOT a member ofLeague of Nations?
A. USA
B. Great Britain
C. Germany
D. Soviet UniOD

26. 'Treaty of Versailles' followed:
A. Second World War
B. Opium Wars
C. Hundred Years War
D. First World War

27. 'Bretton Woods Twins' refers to
A. ILO and UNESCO
B. EU and NAFI'A
C. WORLD BANK and IMF
D. OAlTandWTO
28. The present Secretary General of United Nations is
A. UTbant
B. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
C. Kofi Annan
D. Ban Ki-Moon
29. 0-20 refers to
A. Group of pennanent member stales of the Security Council
B. Group of western industrialized countries
C. A grouping ofdeveloped and emerging economies
D. Poor countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America

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30. Which leader had to step down following 8 popular revolt in 2011?
A. Hosni Mubarak
B. AsifAli Zardari
C. Hamid I<arzai
D. Sheik Hasina Wazed

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Part-B Marb:30
Read canjidly lire passages and answer lire qutsllons givtn btlow each passage.
Mention lire CO"ecl answer (ellher A. B. C orD) In lire brackels provltkd agalnsl each qutsllon.
Each passage carries 10 marks. Each quesllon carries 2 marks. JIJ" ofa mark will bt deducledfor every Inco"ecl answer In Ihls parI.
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Read the following passage:
Take a tamarind seed or the tiny seeds of a papaya fruit or the still tinier seed of an amrod fruit. In that insignificant looking little thing is encased something mysterious. Put the seed in the moist earth. It sprouts and grows and becomes the big amrod or tamarind or other tree with all its spreading branches, leaves, flowers and fruits with the flavour and all the qualities of shape, colour and substance appertaining to it. All this is packed into the tiny seed with absolutely insured perfection.
Take the egg ofa hen. Break it and see what there is in it sticky fluid with a little yellow part. You see nothing particular in it. Yet the egg, kept wann for a few days under proper conditions provided by the mother-bird brooding over it or in an artificial incubator, out emerges a living, moving thing which grows with wings and feathers, the colour, manners and voice of the bird to which it belongs. How does all this happen as if to order? Take the microscope and examine the fluid in the egg. You will see nothing ofthe peacock or the parrot in it. Yet it knows exactly what to become and it becomes that.
All this is wonderful. And if we knew what is in a mother's womb where the human egg is laid and protected from harm, we could see that a tiny bit of living maller, no bigger than a pinhead is that out of which this wonderful bemg, man, comes to be, with all his organs and his most marvellous memory and knowing mind. All this most wonderful potentiality was carefully packed and encased in that little human egg which was only as small as a full-stop in a printed page.
If in school and college we learnt not only to read and to compute but were also trained how to think and marvel at all this that goes on without fuss or jolt, quietly, sweetly, harmoniously as a song is sung, then we prepare ourselves for true religion and ordered reverential life. Science is not the enemy ofreligion but a preparation for it.
Science 'explains' all these wonders, that is, puts things in proper order ofcause and sequence up to a point. When we proceed to examine the fundamentals of things and go deep down in that examination, we go beyond science into the region of metaphysics. The border linc between science and religion is what we call metaphysics. Metaphysics is mainly negative. It furnishes the reason -why -for religion.
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The great advance of science fills up the territory of science with more and more known points, but this docs not take us across the border. If we take up any book of physics, we find the preliminary chapters giving some definitions which students commit to memory. The words used arc simple, but it is not easy to understand the full meaning of those definitions. This is because these deal with things on the border line. What is cause and what is effect'? What is a in science? These seem to be pretty simple, but really arc not so easy to grasp as they appear. Physical phenomena follow certain sequences. These sequences arc set out by men of science as a result of numerous observations, observations being planned for the purpose. Planned observations arc called experiments.
Men of science have seen and recorded causes and effects. After laborious observation and experiment and careful analysis, they have put down many rules according to which these events take place. The catalogue of sequences or causes and effects, that is, the series of laws of nature discovered by men of science closely resembles a very intelligent guess of the rules of the game ofcricketmade by observationofanumber ofmatches. The sequences observedbyscientistsarc simplified and yet more simplified. The greater the simplification of the code of science, the greater the joy and satisfaction of the scientist. But all the same they are just classified observations, says the metaphysician. They do not explain. The Organizer and Conductor of the game of nature is not available for questioning. Hence we gel 10 fancy that the game goes on by itselfand we deny His very existence.
The discoveries of science and our increased knowledge of the material world arc no answers to the call of religion. 1bere is behind the world of material phenomena a Mystery that calls for awe and I'(,vercnce and faith as distinguished from inquiry. Man's attitude towards this mystery that hides behind the phenomenal world is what is called Religion.
I. This passage is about
A. Biology
B. Politics
C. Mystery
D. Science and religion relationship
2. According to this author, science is a study of
A. Causes and effects
B. Morals
C. Seeds and eggs
D. Experiments
3. According to this passage, religion involves openness toward
A. Holy books
B. Priests
C. Rituals
D. Mysteries in Nature
4. The 'organizer and conductor' mentioned above refers to a
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A. Metaphysician
B. Scientist
C. Jesus Christ
D. God
S. Metaphysics is the study of
A. Laws of nature
B. Meanings of concepts
C. Material benefits
D. Cricket matches
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Read the following passage:
A new study is raising questions about when ancient human ancestors in Europe learned to control fire, one of the most important steps on the long path to civilization. A review of 141 archaeological sites across Europe shows habitual use of fire beginning between 300,000 and 400,000 yelllll ago, according to a paper in the Proceedings ofthe National Academy ofSciences. Most archeologists agree that the use of fire is tied to colonization outside Africa, especially in Europe where temperatures fall below freezing, wrote Wil Roebroeks ofLeiden University in the Netherlands.
Yet, while there is evidence ofearly humans living in Europe as much as a million years ago, the researchers found no clear traces of regular use of fire before about 400,000 yelllll ago. After that, Neandertba1s and modem humans living in Europe regularly used fire for warmth, cooking and light, they found. "The pattern emerging is a clear as well as a surprising one," they said, considering these ancient people were living in the cold European climate. Their results raise the question of how early humans survived cold climates without fire. The researchers suggest a highly active lifestyle and a high-protein diet may have helped them adapt to the cold, adding that the consumption of raw meat and seafood by hunter-gatherers is well documented. Before that period, there is a single site in Israel with earlier evidence of regular fire use, the researchers noted, and there are sites in Africa indicating sporadic fire use.
Not so sure of the late date for controlling rite is Harvard archaeologist Richard W. Wrangham, author ofthe book "Catching Fire-How Cooking Made Us Human," who argues that learning to cook food -perhaps as much as two million yelllll ago -improved nutrition enough for a burst of evolution promoting development of a bigger brain and, eventually, leading to modern humans. Wrangharn suggested that the lack of earlier evidence of rite could merely mean that, over time, the burned bones or ashes had been destroyed or dispersed. But Villa, in a telephone interview, said that there is evidence of burned bones in a South African cave from a million
years ago, Uso burned bones do preserve."
"This paper represents very clearly the archaeological conclusions to what Wit Rocbroeks has elegantly called a case of 'science friction' resulting from the clash between archaeological and biological evidence," Wrangharn wrote in an e-mail. "So either way we have a lovely puzzle," he said
Questions:
I. The passage is primarily concerned about
A. What fire is used for in Europe
B. When the usage of fire began in Africa
C. When the usage of fire began in Europe
D. The link between the usage of fire and cold climatic conditions
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2. The pessage suggests which ofthe following as having belped early humans survive cold climates? Choose correct answers from the options given below:
A. A highly active lifestyle
B. Fur of animals
C. A high-protein diet
Answer:
A. a,c
B. a,b
C. b,c
D.
3. The 'archaeological' evidence according to Wrangham in the last paragraph of the passage refers to
A. Excavated sites
B. Stone tools
C. Manuscripts
D. Burned bones
4. Which of the following wOrds does NOT mean 'sporadic' {last line in para 2)1
A. Erratic
B. Random
C. Regular
D. Infrequent
5. According to the passage, about 400,000 years ago there were traces of usage offrre in the following places. Choose correct answers from the options given below:
A. Europe
B. Africa
C. Israel
Answer:
A. a,c
B. a,b
C. b,c
D.
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Read the following passage:
Despite a 12 per cent rise in the population ofbig cats in the country, Madhya Pradesh popularly known as the 'Tiger State' witnessed a decline in their numbers resulting in loss of this coveted status to Karnataka, according to the latest tiger census report. The big cat population has dropped to 257 in the latest tiger census from 300 tigers in 2006 in Madhya Pradesh. "The decline in the tiger population in the State is mainly due to the loss of 24 tigers allegedly due to poaching in Panna tiger reserve which had as many striped animals in the year 2006," a forest official told PTJ today. Efforts are underway to revive the big cat population in Panna. Three tigresses and a tiger had been translocated to it from others parks since last year and the exereise has seemed to payoffwith two felines giving birth to five cubs last year.
The famous Kanha Tiger Reserve too had lost more than 25 tigers. In 2006, it had 89 tigers which had now dipped to 60, according to the latest census, he said. Reports regarding tigers' deaths had been trickling in from Kanha for more than two years. Forest officials contend that it was mainly due to territorial fights among them. The 2006 tiger census report had recommended the Slate government that Kanha buffer zone needs lo be extended South-West to increase the big cat habitat. This was implemented in toto. officials said.
Now, Kamataka has witnessed an increase of tigers laking its big cat populalion to 300, according the recent All India Tiger Estimation Exereise for 2010. And MP, which is unhappy having lost the 'Tiger State' tag, has shol ofT a letter to the Wildlife Institute of India in this regard. "I am of view lhat the tiger population was more than whal has come out in the latest
big cat census given that we 100 have an internal mechanism to monitor striped animals.
Principal Chief Conservator (Wildlife) H S Publa said. "Something has gone amiss. We have sent a leller requesting the Wll 10 check their data base," he said. To press his point, Mr. Pabla said that there were 424 beats (areas having big cat) to monitor the liger population in the state in 2006 which has risen to 495 now. "This shows that there has been an increase in the tiger populalion in lhe State," he added. lalest census report thaI the tiger population has gone down in Kanha too docsn't appear to be correct as we send monthly reports to National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) on the number of tigers in the reserve," Mr. Pabla said. He said thaI their live reserves including Kanha were ranked high among the best managed reserves in the country.
I. Which of the following would be an apt title for the passage?
A. MP loses 'Tiger State' tag to Karnataka
B. The rise in the number oftigers in Kamataka
C. Why is the number oftigers in MP dwindling?
D. Anomalies in the tiger census report
2. What is the officials' contention regarding the declining number of tigers in
Kanha?
A. Poaching
B. Territorial fights between the tigers
C. Mismanaged conduct of the census
D. Migration of tigers into surrounding areas
3. 1be 2006 tiger census report had recommended Ihe MP stale government 10
A. Increase the number of sanctuaries in the stale
B. Bring tigers from outside to the state
C. Give some tigers to other states
D. Extend the Kanha buffer zone
4.According to the passage, what is a
A. A sound in music
B. Areas having big cats
C. A sound made by a stroke or blow
D. One's assigned or habilual round
S. In which .181e the Panna and Kanha liger reserves are located?
A. Andhra Pradesh
B. Jammu and Kashmir
C. Madhya Pradesh

D. Kamalaka
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Marks: 48
Write siron essays on any TWO ofthe following: Each question carries 20 marks Answer to each question should be in abouJ three pages. for writing answers is
provitkdfrom pages 17-22. Please write on both sitks ofthe sheets provitkd
I. What ere the objectives ofthe South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Assess its role in promoting economic cooperation in South Asia.
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Describe the causes for the failure ofthe League ofNations.

3.
What ere the objectives behind reservation policy? Do you support reservations for minorities in India? Give reasons.

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What is a coalition? Explain the reasons for the emergence of !'DaHtion politics in India.

5.
Explain the differences between Machiavelli's notion of virtu and Aristotle's understanding ofvirtue.

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What according to Rousseau is the genJ!ral wiln Distinguisb it from the will of all.

7.
"The Constitution of India is said to be 'federal' in nature and unitary in spirit." Comment.

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Whatisa party system?Comparetheparty systems ofIndia and the USA.

9.
What ere the methods ofjudicial control over public administration in India?

10.
"Rural development programmes in India sutTer from lack of coordination and a sound appraisal system." Comment.


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