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WB SET 2020

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1. The Institution of Lokayukta was created for the first time by which state? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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2. Constitutional safeguards to Civil Servants in India are ensured by (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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3. Which President of India declined to accept the advice of the Cabinet relating to the imposition of emergency in U.P. in 1997? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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4. Consider the following movements and choose the correct option which puts them in chronological order: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

(i) Swadeshi Movement

(ii) Civil Disobedience Movement

(iii) Quit India Movement

(iv) Home Rule Movement

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5. Which of the following is a feature of the Government of India Act (1935)? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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6. The Constituent Assembly of India came into existence as a result of the recommendation of (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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7. What was the procedure followed for adoption of the Constitution of India? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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8. The Directive Principles have been taken from the Constitution of which of these countries? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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9. Which of the following is not specifically mentioned in Article 19 of the Indian Constitution? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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10. The ‘Basic Structure’ doctrine, as propounded by Supreme Court Judges, limits the amending power of (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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11. Which Amendment of the Indian Constitution puts restrictions on the number of Ministers in Government? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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12. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R):

Assertion (A): Judicial Review is a process to restrain the executive or the legislature from exercising power which may not be sanctioned by the Constitution.

Reason (R): The source of the power of judicial review in India is Article 13(2) of the Constitution.

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13. The 73rd amendment of the Indian Constitution provided for which of the following? Choose the correct answer using the codes given below: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

(i) Reservation for Women

(ii) Constitution of State Finance Commission

(iii) Audit of the Accounts of Panchayati Raj Institutions

(iv) Committees for District Planning and Metropolitan Planning

Codes:

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14. Match the leaders (List-I) with associated movements (List-II) by identifying the correct code: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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15. ‘Towards Equality’ Report (1974-75) dealt with the questions of (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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16. Who characterized Indian Union as ‘federation with a centralizing tendency’? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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17. Under which section of the Representation of the People’s Act does the Election Commission issue the symbol’s order? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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18. Who among the following scholars have published works on the role of Civil Society in India’s Politics? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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19. The main argument made by Rajni Kothari in his book ‘Caste in Indian Politics’ is that (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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20. Who among the following emphasized the emergence of a ‘market polity’ in India? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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21. Who among the following is considered to be proponent of structural functional approach in Comparative Politics? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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22. Match List-I with List-II and choose the correct answer using the codes given below: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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23. The author of the book Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability is (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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24. The concept of anomie was coined by (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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25. In which writing did Max Weber present ‘types of authority’? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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26. The distinction between traditional and modern societies were derived from which sociologists? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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27. Who among the following used the Machiavellian analogy of Lion and Fox? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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28. Who advanced the idea of ‘World Systems Theory’ signifying the arrival of international capitalist order in the 1970’s? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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29. Robert Putnam’s work on ‘Social Capital’ associated with political culture is with reference to which country? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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30. At the end of Cold War, Francis Fukuyama constructed the thesis ‘end of history’ which meant the following: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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31. Liberal pluralist view of Constitution does not believe in the following: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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32. The term ‘new politics’ associated with New Social Movements means the following: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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33. Neo-Marxists view economic globalisation as (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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34. The concept ‘institution’ was replaced with the following by Gabriel Almond: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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35. Which one of the following books was authored by David Easton? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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36. Who said that Revolution meant a drastic sudden substitution of one group in charge of the running of a territorial political entity by another? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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37. Hegel viewed civil society as an embodiment of the following: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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38. The study of Comparative Politics till the end of Cold War was the following: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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39. According to Samuel Huntington, ‘Political Decay’ takes place when (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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40. Who among the following defined Political Culture as composed of attitudes, beliefs, emotions and values of society that relate to the political system and political issues? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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41. The term ‘filibuster’ means (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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42. Which one of the following identified bases of departmental organisation in terms of 4P Formula: Purpose, Process, Persons and Place? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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43. Marx, in his thoughts on bureaucracy, refuted (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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44. Which one of the following was not emphasised under New Public Management? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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45. Herbert Simon identified which model(s) of decision making? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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46. Who among the following remarked that “The essence of public administration is policy making”? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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47. Which one of the following is regarded as a bridge between Scientific Management era and Social Man era? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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48. The responsibility of conducting free and fair elections to the Panchayati Raj institutions is vested with (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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49. Atmiya Sabha was established in 1828 by (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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50. Sagar Mala project is related to (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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51. On which date Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was lunched? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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52. Match the books with respective authors: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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53. The idea of development administration as consisting of 4Ps : Plans, Policies, Programme and Projects was proposed by (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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54. The author(s) of the book In Pursuit of Lakshmi : Political Economy of Indian State is/are (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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55. Which one of the following made a distinction between ‘Traditional’ and ‘Organic’ intellectuals? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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56. Which one of the following does not make a distinction between public and private administration? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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57. Match the lists of Communitarian authors with their books and select correct answer from the codes given below: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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58. Which one of the following is closely associated with neo-functionalisms? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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59. Match the books with respective authors: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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60. The term ‘soft power’ was coined by (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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61. Hans Morgenthau’s Principles of Political Realisms: A Feminist Reformulation is a work by (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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62. Resolution 1267 of the UNSC is related to (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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63. Globalization is antithetical to (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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64. The Containment Thesis was propounded by (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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65. ‘Chennai Connect’ is related to informal summit between India and (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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66. Which of the following is not a part of India’s nuclear doctrine? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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67. Which of the following is not an element of ‘Pancha Sheela’? (WB SET 2020)

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68. India became a member of the United Nations in (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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69. Which of the following is not correct? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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70. Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD) is a strategic dialogue between India and (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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71. What is Gujral Doctrine? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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72. The Rohingya refugees from Myanmar mainly hail from the (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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73. ‘Project Mausam’ aims at (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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74. India’s maritime security policy is aimed at which of the following objectives? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

(i) Protecting India’s sea-borne trade and commerce.

(ii) Monitoring the activities of external powers in the Indian Ocean region.

(iii) Protecting the Indian fishermen from foreign security forces.

(iv) Resolving transboundary river disputes with Bangladesh and Pakistan

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75. Doklam Plateau is a disputed land between (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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76. Which is the nodal agency to secure India’s critical information infrastructure and enhance its cyber security? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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77. What is the full form of Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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78. Who has introduced the idea of ‘dictatorship of four classes’? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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79. Which one of the following books was not written by Karl Marx? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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80. Which of the following book(s) was/were written by Frantz Fanon? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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81. By Satyagraha, Gandhi meant (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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82. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India submits his report relating to the accounts of the Union Government to (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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83. Tagore’s Nationalism is based on his lecture-tour in (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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84. Aristotle’s Nichomachaen Ethics primarily explores (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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85. Who among the following considered Hobbes a spokesman of bourgeois morality? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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86. St. Augustine’s chief political views find expression in his concept of (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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87. Which of the following books was not written by M. N. Roy? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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88. Theorists who believe that ‘state is an association of associations’ are best described as (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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89. By the ‘Modern Prince’ Gramsci meant (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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90. Nehru wrote Whither India? in support of (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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91. Identify the odd pair from the below: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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92. Who among the following Sultans, tried to curb the powers of Amirs and Ulemas? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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93. Which of the following books was written by Machiavelli? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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94. In which chapter of Mahabharata are the duties of the king enunciated? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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95. Who wrote City of God? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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96. The monthly magazine Rashtra Dharma was started by (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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97. “It is better to be . . . Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied”. — Who said this? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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98. Who gave the concept of ‘graded inequality’? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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99. Rawls arranges the principles of justice in ‘lexical priority’ in this order: (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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100. Who among the following mooted the idea that India was a ‘soft state’ and was ill-equipped to carry out its promises? (WEST BENGAL SET 2020)

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