1. Who was the founder of Bolshevik Communist party?

2. What is the key guide to statecraft in the realist tradition?

3. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

4. Chronologically arrange the events in the Cold War period.

A. Berlin Wall is constructed

B. Communist China joins the UN

C. Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

D. Berlin Blockade

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5. Morgenthau's principles of political realism are:

A. Politics is rooted in permanent and unchanging human nature which is basically self- centred, self-regarding and self-interested

B. Politics is an autonomous sphere of action and cannot therefore be reduced to morals

C. International Politics is an arena of conflicting self-interests

D. The ethics of international relations is situational ethics which is very different from private morality

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6. Who among the following political thinkers consider the anarchical self- help system to be a compelling factor for States to maximise their relative power positions?

7. Which among the following is not the principal aim of the UN as elaborated in its founding Charter?

8. Arrange the following events in a chronological order

A. Korean War

B. Vietnam War

C. Non-Proliferation Treaty

D. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks-I

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9. In which year the Croatia became the 28th member of the European Union?

10. Which term of nationalism was advocated by Giuseppe Mazzini?

11. Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather then wisdom, who said these words.

12. Which part of the Indian Constitution provides for the secular character of our polity?

13. Which of the following is NOT an organ of the State as presented in the Saptanga Theory in Arthashastra?

14. Who among the following political thinkers believed that Satya is the essence of Dharma?

15. According to Rawls, the correct principles of Justice are determined by?

16. What was the name of the organization founded by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar?

17. Which among the following option is NOT a foreign policy alternative according to Kautilya in his Arthashastra?

18. Which among the following statements are CORRECT about Mahatma Gandhi's idea on Ahimsa?

A. Mahatma Gandhi believed that satya led him to ahimsa.

B. He distinguished between the positive and negative meanings of satya and ahimsa.

C. Ahimsa was the manifest part of Truth.

D. Ahimsa is the means and Truth is the end.

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19. First UN Secretary General Trygve Lie was associated with which country?

20. Which of the following statements are CORRECT about the single-transferable vote system?

A. The single-transferable vote system was first proposed by Thomas Hare.

B. It is widely used in the Republic of Ireland.

C. In the States with multi-member constituencies, the representatives are elected from each constituency.

D. The voters get to cast multiple votes.

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21. Amnesty International campaigns for the protection of the -

22. According to Aristotle what was the perverted form of Aristocracy?

23. Which provision was inserted in the constitution by the 86th Constitution Amendment Act?

24. Who among the following political thinkers considered the state of nature as "war of every man against every man".?

25. Arrange in a chronological order Karl Marx's idea of historical stages of society?

A. Primitive Communism

B. Slave Society

C. Feudalism

D. Capitalism

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26. Which of the following statement are CORRECT about Rousseau's concept of the General Will?

A. Rousseau in his ' Discourse on Political Economy' stated the concept of the General Will.

B. General Will is driven towards the preservation and welfare of the whole and of every part.

C. The General Will comes from all and applies to all.

D. It embodies the free rational will of all.

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27. The first elected President of Russia was:

28. Who among the following political thinkers said " Man is born free and he is everywhere in chains"?

29. Which among the following is NOT the major law of dialectical materialism?

30. According to J.S. Mill, the rational ground for coercion of an individual is-

31. Who among the following thinkers conceptualised positive and negative freedom?

32. Who gave the idea of a constituent assembly for framing the Indian Constitution in 1934?

33. Who among the following thinkers gave the concept of 'virtu"?

34. Who among the following political thinkers considered law as 'nothing else than the command of the sovereign in the exercise of his sovereign power'?

35. Who defined citizenship as 'full membership of a community”?

36. An international organization which sets the rules for global trade?

37. Who developed the 'Gaia hypothesis'?

38. Which among the following statements are CORRECT for feminism?

A. The 'first wave' of feminism was closely associated with the women's suffrage movement, which emerged in the 1840s and 1850s.

B. The 'second wave' of feminism arose during the 1960s and expressed, in addition to the established concern with equal rights, the more radical and sometimes revolutionary demands of the growing Women's Liberation Movement.

C. Feminist politics has fragmented and undergone a process of de-radicalisation since the early 1970s.

D. Mary Wollstonecraft's 'Women's Estate' is regarded as the first text of modern feminism.

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39. The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) was established in which years?

40. Which approach of Comparative Politics focuses on the 'interests of actors"?

41. Which country joins SAARC in 2007?

42. In Australia which system decides election to the House of Representatives.

43. Which among the following thinkers argued that there is a wide gap between the global poor and rich?

44. In which year was the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women adopted?

45. The Energy Conservation Act in India was passed in which year?

46. The concept of 'bounded rationality' was given by-

47. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

48. Who is the author of the book 'Administrative Behaviour"?

49. Which among the following statements are CORRECT about policy formulation process in India?

A. All policies must have the approval of the cabinet.

B. Legislators are concerned with central political tasks of policy formulation.

C. Administrative agencies are delegated with discretionary authority known as 'the rule making process.

D. The Judiciary has no power to modify policies.

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50. Which among the following statements are CORRECT about policy evaluation process in India?

A. The office of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India is regarded as an arm of the Parliament.

B. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has broad authority to audit the operation and finance of the governmental activities.

C. The CAG provides adequate funds for government activities.

D. The CAG ensures the accountability of the executive to the parliament.

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51. The eighth schedule of the Indian constitution is related to

52. How many days of work is guaranteed to rural households under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)?

53. Chronologically arrange the following events related to SAARC.

A. SAARC Energy Centre was created through Dhaka Declaration.

B. Interim unit of SAARC Disaster Management Unit has been set up in Gandhinagar.

C. Ambassador Mr. Md. Golam Sarwar of Bangladesh assumed office of Secretary General of SAARC.

D. The first meeting of SAARC Inter-Governmental Expert Group on Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development Goals was held in Colombo.

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54. Who among the following political thinkers considered democracy to be "the tyranny of the majority"?

55. The headquarter of UNESCO is located in

56. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

57. Match the LIST-I with LIST-II

58. The salient features of hybrid regimes are:

A. They suffer weaknesses in political culture and in the functioning of government.

B. The government pressure on opposition party and candidates are common.

C. Civil society and rule of law are weak.

D. Once elected, the government shows full sense of constitutional restraints.

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59. An attempt to integrate historical and political science research methods in seeking to explain a specific outcome is called-

60. Who among the following thinkers highlighted the myths about men being 'just warriors' and women being 'beautiful souls' to be saved?

61. Who among the following thinkers said, "The nation..... is an imagined political community- imagined; both as, inherently limited and sovereign...."?

62. Which of the following has Veto power in the security council?

63. Where was the SAARC established?

64. Chronologically arrange the following initiatives in monitoring of the international environment.

A. United Nations Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm

B. Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer

C. Kyoto Protocol to the UNFCCC

D. Brundtland Commission Report

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65. Which of the following Court decisions declared the 'Right to Privacy' to be a fundamental right?

66. Which of the following statements are CORRECT about the Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of India?

A. The Original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is dealt with in Article 132 of the Constitution.

B. Under Article 131 of the Constitution, the functions of the Supreme Court are purely federal in character.

C. It is confined to disputes between different units of the federation

D. The Original Jurisdiction concerns to any dispute between the Government of India and one or more State.

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67. Chronologically arrange the amendments to the Indian Constitution.

A. Added Schedule IX

B. First Schedule was amended to tranfer certain territories implementing the Indo-Pakistan agreements.

C. Mizoram was made a State

D. Amended the Preamble

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68. Sri Vijayapuram is the capital of which union territory of India?

69. Who among the following adopted an 'open door' policy?

70. Arrange the following events related to India-Pakistan relations in a chronological order.

A. Operation Gibraltar

B. Kargil War

C. Karachi Agreement

D. Indus Water Treaty

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71. Which provision in the Indian Constitution provides for procedural safeguards against arbitary arrest and detention?

72. In which year did the Supreme Court decide that the citizens of India have the Right to Negative Vote by exercising NOTA?

73. Which provision of the Indian Constitution ensures free and fair elections of the Panchayat?

74. Arrange the following amendments to the Constitution in a chronological order.

A. Incorporation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli as Union Territory

B. Abolition of Election Tribunals

C. Abolition of Privy Purse

D. Reducing the age for voting rights from 21 to 18 years

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75. Which amendment to the Indian Constitution sought to implement economic justice and equality of opportunity assured by the Preamble vide Article 38 (2)?