POLITICAL SCIENCE & IR – PAPER I
Odisha Civil Services Mains 2024
Time: 3 Hours
|Full Marks: 250
|Full Marks: 250
GROUP A
10 × 15 MARKS
Instructions: Attempt 10 (ten) questions. Word limit: 250 words.
- Critically analyse Robert Nozick’s theory of Justice with examples.
- Critically analyse the teleological interpretation of history by Marxism.
- Kautilya has laid down some finest abstract principles of administration in his Arthashastra. Analyse these principles in relation to their contemporary relevance.
- Define Plato’s scheme of education for the ideal state with its contemporary relevance.
- M. N. Roy regards the materialism of Marxism as dogmatic and unscientific. Critically examine the statement with relevant arguments.
- Explain the Aristotelian classification of Government with its methodology.
- Discuss the dependency theory to explain the economic manipulation of Post-Colonial States.
- Discuss three types of culture explained by Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba in The Civic Culture.
- Elaborate on the core ideas of Utopian Socialism with its thinkers.
- Elaborate on the pluralist view of democracy with its relevance.
- The State is not supreme or unlimited. Explain this statement from the perspective of pluralistic sovereignty.
- Critically analyse the qualities of elites as mentioned by Gaetano Mosca.
GROUP B
05 × 20 MARKS
Instructions: Attempt 05 (five) questions. Word limit: 300 words.
- Define the concept of Court of Record. Discuss its constitutional provisions with reference to the Supreme Court.
- Define asymmetrical federalism with provisions of horizontal federalism in the Indian Constitution.
- Critically evaluate the women’s participation in the local governance of Odisha.
- Differentiate between a National political party and a State political party. Explain the entitlements of a State political party in India.
- What, according to Subhas Chandra Bose, has brought India’s downfall in the material and political spheres?
- Attempt a comparative analysis of the constitutional discretionary power of the President and the Governor in India.
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