Oxford Companion to Politics in India

Book:Oxford Companion to Politics in India

MCQs Framed by Nitish Kumar, 

BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY,BA POLITICAL SCIENCE (2017-20)

STATE

1. Who used the term 'congress system'
A. Rajni Kothari
B. Frankel and Rao
C. Ashutosh varshney
D. Atul kohli

2. Who said that traditions like caste and relegion adapt into the modern system of political institutions and find an enduring place within it as aspects of political modernity.
A. Achin Vanaik
B. Rudolph and Rudolph
C. KN Raj
D. Rajni Kothari

3. Who used the structural functional framework for study the congress system
A.Pranab Bardhan
B. Akhil Gupta
C. Sudipta Kaviraj
D. Rajni Kothari

4. Who identified the capitalists,the rich farmers and the buruecracy as the three dominant class, competing amd aligning with one another within a political space supervised by a relatively autonomous state.
A.Ashutosh Varshney
B. Pranab Bardhan
C.R.Guha
D. Rudolph and Rudolph

5. Who tried to periodize indian politics in demand polity and command polity
A.WH. Moriis Jones
B.Norman Palmer
C.Rudolph and Rudolph
D.Sudipta Kaviraj

6. Who symbolized public institutions as the dominance of upper and middle classe and political institutions for poor and lower classes?
A.Frankel and MSA Rao
B.Emma Tarlo
C.Rob jekkins
D.K. Mathew Kurian

7. Who used the concept of passive revolution of Gramsci in indian politics?
A.Sudipta kaviraj
B.Atul kohli
C. Partha Chatterjee
D. Ashish Nandy

8. Who characterzed civil society as the dominance of bourgeoisie capital hegomny and the political society as the voice of poor classes and urban poor?
A. Homi bhabha
B. Partha Chatterjee
C. Sudipta kaviraj
D. Sunil khilnani

ANSWERS: 1.A 2.D 3.D 4.B 5.C 6.A 7.A 8.B

CONSTITUTIONALISM

1. Who said that Hobbes may be  the largely unacknowledged mentor of Indian constitutionalism?
A. Uday S mehta
B. Rajendra Prasad
C. Subhash Kashyap
D. NOTA

2.Who used the term 'waiting room' version of history regarding JS Mill harm principle?
A. Ambedkar
B. Dipesh Chakrabarty
C. Graville Austin
D. Subash Kashyap

3. Who said that every attemt to solve the social questions by political means leads to terror
A. Ernest Barker
B. Hannah Arendt
C. JS mill
D. Homi bhabha

ANSWERS: 1.A 2.B 3.B

PARLIAMENT

1.Two nominated members from the Anglo-Indian community
A. Art. 330
B. Art. 331
C. Art. 332
D. Art. 335

2.Who chairs the Public account committee?
A. LOO
B. LOP
C. Speaker
D. Finance minister

3.When the famous Sarkaria commission on Centre-States relations formed
A. 1983
B. 1977
C. 1989
D. 1991

4. In which judgement of SC, the upper limit of reservation has fixed at 50 percent
A. Indra sawhney vs Union of India
B. Keshwanand Bharti vs State of kerala
C. Ram jawaya kapoor vs State of Punjab
D.Romesh Thapar vs State of Madras

ANSWERS: 1.B 2.A 3.A 4.A

THE ELECTION COMMISSION

1 Which committee suggested that the number of election commissioner should be three?
A. TARKUNDE COMMITTEE (1975)
B. GOSWAMI COMMITTEE (1990)
C. Both A and B
D. NOTA

2 Which articles deal with the ground rules for delimitation
A. Art 81
B. Art 82
C. Both A and B
D. Nota

3. A process by which the election commission has been used to identify areas where voter intimidation might occur,allowing election officials to be proactive in responding to the threat of violence or misconduct
A. Vulnerability Mapping
B. Red Zonning of Constituency
C. Both A and B
D. NOTA

ANSWERS: 1.C 2.C 3.A

THE PARTY SYSTEM

1. LAAKSO TAAGEPARA INDEX is indicator of the
A. Fragmentation of National party system
B. Corruption of Political Parties
C. Urban Rural Graph of political participation in any countries
D. Nota

2. The index of opposition unity showed an ____ trend in state after state over 1967-89
A. Upward
B. Downward
C. Static
D. Mixture of Upward and downward

3. How many parties are included in the united front government of 1996
A. 11
B. 12
C. 10

D. 13

4.Who did detailed research on FPTP system and said that this system inclines towards the two party system due to mechanical and psychological effect?
A. SM lipset
B. G. Almond
C. Duverger
D. Kapplan

5. Alliances in indias elections after 1990s show the influence of
A. Ideological compatibility
B. Territorial compatibility
C. Manifesto compatibility
D. All of the above

ANSWERS: 1.A 2.A 3.A 4.C 5.B

CASTE AND POLITICS

1.Who identified six different features of the hindu caste system
A. GS ghurye
B. MN srinivas
C. G. Austin
D. Rajni kothari

2.Who aporoached the hindu caste system from a structuralist perspective and took as ideology and hierarchy is the core element it the ideology of caste
A. Rajni Kothari
B. Louis Dumont
C. MN Srinivad
D. Rudolph And Rudolph

3. Who used the term caste patriotism in refrence to the rise of non-brahmin movements in southern provinces
A. GD ghurye
B. Louis dumont
C. MN srinivas
D. Kothari

4. Caste was experiencing a horizontal consolidation due to modern technology
A. MN srinivas
B. Rudolph and Rudolph
C. GS ghurye
D. Ashish Nandy

5. Who argued against the popoular notion that Democratic politics was helping traditional institutions like caste to re-establish their legitimacy and famously said It is not politics that gets caste ridden but it is caste that gets politicised.
A. Rudolph
B. Robert hardgrave
C. Rajni kothari
D. MN srinivas

ANSWERS: 1.A 2.B 3.C  4.D 5.C

GENDER AND POLITICS

1.
i)The National federation of Women A. CPI
ii) AIDWA  B.CPM
iii)DURGA WAHINI  C.VHP
iv)RASHTRIYA SEWIKA SAMITI  D.RSS

A. ABCD
B. ACBD
C. BCAD
D. BDAC

2. The character of urban feminist movement in india was primarily focused on
A. Political participation of women in Loksabha
B. On violence against women
C. Economic participation of women
D. All of the above

ANSWERS:. 1.A 2.B

REGIONALISM AND SECESSIONISM

1.Who explained regional or self determination movements in India are said to have followed an inverse U curve
A. Atul kohli( democracy and discontent)
B. Pranab bardhan
C. Rudolph
D. Kothari

2.The demos enabling features of indian federalism , explain 'the survival of India as the world's largest multi cultural, multi-national democracy.
A. Alfred Stepan
B. Sanjay baruah
C. Kanchan Chandra
D. Paul brass

3. India is a
A. Demos enabling coming together federation
B. Demos constraining coming together federation
C. Demos enabling holding together fedrration
D. Demos constraining holding together federation

4. USA is a
A. Demos enabling coming together federation
B. Demos constraining coming together federation
C. Demos enabling holding together fedrration
D. Demos constraining holding together federation

5. Who coined the term patronage democracy and declared elections are 'auctions for the sale of government services'.
A. Sunil khilnani
B. Atul kohli
C. Partha Chatterjee
D. Kanchan Chandra

ANSWERS: 1.A 2.A 3.C 4.A 5.D

POLITICS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY

1. In India 'each caste forms a seperate little nation,which has its own ethos,customs,laws and government.The national spirit of the Hindus is trapped within caste. Their country is their caste'.
A. James mill
B. John Strachey
C. Alexix de Tocqueville
D. JS Mill

2.The Indian model of containing diversities, a model that allows distinct ingredients to retain their individualitity, according to Sunil khilnani called
A. Melting pot
B. Salad bowl
C. Mixer Grinder
D. Mixed Veg

3.Rabindranath Tagore and the Consciousness of Nationality, written by
A. Bhikhu parekh
B. Charles taylor
C. Isiah berlin
D. Homi bhabha

4. Hindi Nationalism, a book written by
A. Alok Rai
B. Amartya Sen
C. Kanchan Chandra
D. S. Khilnani

5. Why ethnic parties succeed, a book written by
A. Kanchan Chandra
B. Sudipta Kaviraj
C. Ashutosh Varsney
D. R. Kothari

ANSWERS: 1.C 2.B 3.C 4.A 5.A

THE HINDU NATIONALISTS AND POWER

1. Who said," we want to create an Indian fever just as there was a China fever not too long ago."
A. Pranab Mukherjee
B. Murasoli maran
C. Murli Manohar joshi
D. Nirmala Sitharaman

2.Who wrote the book, Hindu nationalism
A. Sunil khilnani
B. Christopher jafffrelot
C. Praveen Togadia
D. MS golwalkar

ANSWERS: 1.B 2.B

POLITICAL PARTIES

1.The first non-congress government at centre in 1977 is the conglomeration of
A. Jana Sangh
B. Bhartiya lok dal
C. Socialist party
D. Congress(O)
E. AOTA

2. When the left bloc won highest number of seats(61 MPs) in the general election
A. 1991
B. 2004
C. 2009
D. 1999

3. Which Parties in India can be called cadre based parties
A. CPI(M)
B. BJP
C. CONGRESS
D. BOTH A and B

4. Who famously articulated in 1989 in a famous journal that congress system is dead:. Long live the party system and Democratic India
A. Ashutosh Varshney
B. Kanchan Chandra
C. Sunil khilnani
D. Vernon Hewitt

5.India silent revolution, book by
A. Chrishtopher jefferlot
B. Sunil khilnani
C. Atul kohli
D. Partha chatterjee

6. Who argued in favour of fragmented party system that it stablized India Democracy
A. Sunil khilnani
B. Kanchan chandra
C. Homi bhabha
D. Dipesh chakrabartee

7. Who wrote book like The BSP in Uttar pradesh and Dalit assertion and the unfinished Revolution: The BSP in UP
A. Sudha Pai
B. Deepak Naiyyar
C. Kanchan Chandra
D. Yogendra Yadav

ANSWERS: 1.A 2.B 3.D 4.D 5.A 6.B 7.A

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

1.WHO were the first to studu contemporary social movements in systemic manner
A. MSA Rao
C. Ghanshyam Sah
C. Both A and B
D. Nota

2.farewell to the working class book by
A. Gramsci
B. Habermas
C. Andre Gorz
D. Alain Touraine

3.Kerala Sastra Sahitya parishad related to
A. Dam construction in Silent valley
B. Narmada bachao andolan
C. Malyalam Conservation
D. Self respect movement

4.Who called social movements as a non-party political formations,
A. Rajni kothari
B. Ghanshyam sah
C. MSA rao
D. EP Thompson

5.Who wrote book Reinventing Revolution in which he argues for a nuanced analysis of the connection between class,caste,gender and environment
A. Rajni kothari
B. Habermas
C. Gail Omvedt

D. NOTA

6.The unquiet woods, books by Ramchandra Guha on.
A. Chipko movement
B. Peasant movement
C. Bamboo movements of North east
D. AOTA

7. The subaltern impress in Ramchandra Guha's research on Chipko is the influence of
A. Ranjit guha( Elementary aspects of Peasant movement)
B. EP thompson( history from below)
C. James scott(  Unheroic times)
D. AOTA

8. Wada na todo abhiyan emerged from World social forum and supported by more than 3000 NGOs is making pressure for implementing
A. MDG
B. SDG
C. Agenda 21
D. AOTA

9. Market(Liberalization),Mandir/masjid and Mandal is related to nature of social movements after 1990s ,who said
A. Satish Deshpandey
B. Krishna Raj
C. Ramchandra Guha
D. Amita Baviskar

ANSWERS: 1.C 2.C 3.A 4.A 5.C 6.A 7.D 8.A 9.A

AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF INDIAN POLITICS

1.Who founded DSE
A. Rajni kothari
B. VKRV Rao
C. GS Ghurye
D. Paul Appleby

2. Who founded CSDS
A. Rajni kothari
B. VKRV Rao
C. GS Ghurye
D. Paul Appleby

3.PARLIAMENT in India and The government and politics in india,book by:
A. Morris john
B. Kothari
C. Edward shills
D. G. Austin

4.Rajni kothari in his books used the perspective of
A. David Easton
B. Gabriel Almond
C. Sydney Verba
D.Patrick Geddes

5. Who wrote books on how, over five turbulent decades, Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution continued to shape the Indian political system
A. Rajeev Dhawan
B. G. Austin
C. Upendra Baxi
D. Pratap Bhanu Mehta

6. Who in his essay,"the impossibility of constitutional justice" uses postmodern perspective
A. Rajeev Dhawan
B. Upendra Baxi
C. G. Austin
D. Pratap Bhanu mehta

7.Who said,"Caste is the vanguard of class".
A. EMS Namboodripad
B. BR Ambedkar
C. JyotiRao phule
D. MN Roy

8. SNDP( sri narayana dharm paripalan yogam) is associated with
A. Association of lower caste Irava against the oppression of Upper castes Namboodri brahamins in Malabar
B. Caste war group of South bihar
C. Nagaland freedom fighter group
D. New Telangana state movement

9.Who wrote India: the most dangerous decades (1960)
A. Selig Harrison
B. Ashutosh Varshney
C. Paul brass
D. John Strauchy

10.
i) Derivative discourse. A. Partha Chatterjee
ii) intimate enemy.         B. Ashish Nandy
iii) mimicry.                      C. Homi bhabha
iv.dominance without hegemony d. Ranjit guha

A. ABCD
B. BACD
C. CBDA
D. ABDC

ANSWERS: 1.B 2.A 3.A 4.B 5.B 6.B 7.A 8.A 9.A 10.A

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