Section A
1. Comments on any THREE of the following statements in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60
1. Political Theory is, quite simply, mans attempt to consciously understand and solve the problems of his group life and organization. It is the disciplined investigation of political problems. Not only to show what a political practice is, but also to show what it means. In showing what a practice means, or what it ought to mean, political theory can alter what it is (Sabine).
2. Women has always been mans dependent, If not his slave; the two sexes have never shared the world in equality (Simone de Beauvoir).
3. Western thought, one might say, has been either platonic or anti platonic but hardly ever non-platonic (Popper).
4. Socialism is a much used hat, whose original shape no one can define (C E M Joad).
2. Answer the questions below
1. Compare and contrast Kautilya and Machiavalli on statecraft. 20
2. Explain as to why Jeremy Bentham dismisses the theory of natural right as nonsense upon stilts. 20
3. Comment on the proposition that liberal constitutionalism precedes liberal democracy. 20
4. Examine in detail Marxs prescription for ending alienation and reaching the stage of de-alienation. 60
5. Critically examine Hamza Alavis Formulation of the over developed state. 60
Section B
3. Comments on any THREE of the following in not more than 200 words each: 20 × 3 = 60
1. Inter State Committee.
2. Radical Humanism
3. The Functions, duties and powers of the appropriate National Commission as laid down in clauses (5) (8), and (9) of Articles-338 of the constitution.
4. Implication of the use of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) on electoral politics.
4. Answer the questions below
1. Critically examine the arguments being advanced for review of the present system of appointment of judges to the higher judiciary of the country. 30
2. Bring out the changing educational profile of the members of the Lok Sabha over the years, up to the present (15th) Lok Sabha.
3. The OBC politics has challenged the nature of dominant caste politics in the states. Critically examine this statement and bring out your conclusion. 60
4. The environmental movements have challenged the policy and pattern of economic development in post independent India. Analyze with examples. 60