|
PAPER I:
Q.1. Answer any one of the following (in
about 250 words)
(a) Regardless of distance in time, there were
lots of similarities between Lord Curzon and
Jawahar Lal Nehru, Discuss.
(b) How did the Government of India Act, 1935
mark a point of no return in the history of
constitutional development in India ?
Q. 2. Answer any two of the following (in
about 250 words each) :
(a) What was the attitude of Indian
Industrialists towards the Indian National
congress in the pre-independent era ?
(b) Critically assess Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru's
views on Indian Nationalism.
(c) Characterise the main features of Indian
Renaissance.
Q. 3. Write about the following (not
exceeding 20 words each)
(a) Kalhan
(b) Panini
(c) Yakshagana
(d) Natyasastra
(e) Tabaqat-i-Nasiri
(f) Madhura Vijayam
(g) Panduranga Mahatmya
(h) Prithviraj Raso
(i) "The Insider"
(j) Ali Sardar Jafri
(k) Aruna Roy
(l) Dr. J.C. Danial
(m) Balwant Gargi
(n) Dr. Jayant Narlikar
(o) Shashi Tharoor
Q. 4. Answer any two of the following (in
about 125 words each)
(a) Bring out the prospect of development of
alternative energy sources of India.
(b) Blue Revolution has definite advantages in
India but is not free from environmental
aspects. Discuss.
(c) Why do the rivers of west coast not from a
delta ?
Q. 5. Write notes on the following (in about
250 words each)
(a) Mixed economy
(b) Winter rains in India
(c) New Moore Island
(d) National water Grid
(e) Hussain Sagar
Q. 6. Answer any one of the following
questions (in about 250 words).
(a) What is right to life and personal
liberty ? How have the courts expanded its
meaning in recent years ?
(b) On what grounds can a member be disqualified
from either House of Parliament ?
Q. 7. Answer any one of the following
questions (in about 250 words).
(a) What is the 'strategic partnership'
between India and United States of America ?
What are its implications for both the partners
?
(b) Discuss economic backwardness as a major
challenge of Indian democracy. Can democracy and
development go together smoothly ?
Q. 8. Answer any two of the following
questions (in about 150 words each).
(a) How would you differentiate between the
passage of a Constitution Amendment Bill and of
an Ordinary Legislative bill ?
(b) How does the Inter-state Council establish
co-ordination between states ?
(c) Is the 'High Courts' power to issue 'writs'
wider than that of the Supreme Court of India ?
Q. 9. Answer the following questions (in
about 20 words each).
(i) Explain the following terms.
(ii) Dissolution of the House
(iii) Adjournment of the business of the house.
(b) What is Consolidated Fund of India ?
(c) To what extent can the president withhold
his assent to Bill already passed by the
parliament ?
(d) What is India's 'Look East' Policy ?
(e) What is meant by 'empowerment of women' in
India ?
Q. 10. Answer any one of the following
questions (in about 250 words).
(a) What are the social and economic
consequences of abolishing child labour in India
?
(b) Explain the implications of the
implementation of intellectual property clauses
in our patent law regime after joining the WTO.
Q. 11. Answer any two of the following (in
about 125 words each).
(a) Explain full convertibility of Indian
Rupee.
(b) What are the linkages to be developed under
the knowledge Revolution for Rural India Plan ?
(c) What do we understand by the 'Doha Round' of
talks ?
Q. 12. Answer any two of the following (in
about 125 words each).
(a) Explain the Social Constraints in
bringing about gender equality in Indian
Society.
(b) What are the problem related to
rehabilitation of the mentally challenged
persons in India ?
(c) Bring out the issues involved in
implementing compulsory primary education in
India.
Q. 13. Write about the following (in about 20
words each)
(a) Business Process Outsourcing
(b) Female Foeticide
(c) RCI
(d) UNIDO
(e) S. Chandrashekhar.
PAPER-II :
Q. 1. Write any two of the following (in about
150 words each) :
(a) US policy on Iran's nuclear programme.
(b) Terrorism sources in Pakistan and
Afghanistan.
(c) Crippling the king in Nepal
Q. 2. Asnwer the following (in about 20 words
each):
(a) Simla Agreement
(b) Indo-Israel Co operation in the field of
agriculture.
(c) Pakistan role in Srilanka.
(d) Indo-US military cooperation.
(e) Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
Q. 3. Write about the following (in about 20
words each) :
(a) Contribution of the NRIs to GCC
countries
(b) Future of Indians in Fiji.
(c) Indian's in the House of Lords, UK.
(d) Contribution of Indian's in Silicon valley
(e) Exodus of persons of Indian origin from
Uganda.
Q. 4. Anwer any one of the following (in
about 250 words each) :
(a) Discuss the importance of World Trade
Organisation of Indian Economy in the light of
various opportunity and challenges at the global
level.
(b) Describe the main sources of industrial
finance in India. How could India be benefited
from recent developments in international
finance ?
Q. 5. Answer any two of the following (in
about 150 words each) :
(a) Discuss the role of public sector during
the post-reform period of Indian economy.
(b) Examine the effects of globalisation on
poverty removal in India.
(c) What are the implications of gender
disparities in India.
Q. 6. Answer the following (in about 20 words
each) :
(a) What is Philips curve ?
(b) What is Hundi ?
(c) What is twin deficit ?
(d) What is the main difference between free
trade area and common market ?
(e) What is forward currecy market ?
(f) What is Laffer curve ?
(g) What is Eurobonds ?
(h) What is Disguised unemployment ?
(i) What are nifty junior ?
(j) What is Agri-Trade ?
(k) What is CEMA bloc ?
(l) What is rolling settlement ?
(m) What is Difference between Green Box
Subsidies and Blue Box subsidies ?
Q. 7. Write about the any two of the
following (in about 150 words each) :
(a) G-8 Summit n Russia.
(b) Expanding role of Amnesty International.
(c) Role of European Parliament.
Q. 8. Write about the following (in about 20
words each) :
(a) Trade through Nathu La Pas
(b) Outer space Treaty
(c) Withdrawal of Japanese Troops from Iraq
(d) Maastricht Treat
(e) Cuba and Castro
Q. 9. Write about the following by expanding
and exlaning the objectives (in about 20 words
each) :
(a) ICJ
(b) INTELSAT
(c) IBRD
(d) WMO
(e) WHO
Q. 10. Write any one of the following (in
about 250 words each) :
(a) Explain how Nanoscience and Nantechnology
have revolutionized modern technology.
Q. 11. Answer any two of the following (in
about 150 words each) :
(a) What do you understand by optical
computing? Why is optical computing envisaged to
have much better performance than that of
eletctronic Computing ?
(b) Write a note on Bio-refinery versus Fossil
fuels.
(c) What are normal osmosis and reverse osmosis
? Why has reverse osmosis become popular in
India today ?
Q. 12. Anwer all the five, (in about 20 words
each) :
(a) What do you understand by a search
engine in computer ?
(c) Expand the following
(i) CAD :
(ii) CAM :
(iii) CIM :
(c) Explain what is Thin Film Memory in
computers
(d) Write a short note on Artificial
Intelligence.
(e) Who are called Hackers in computer world ?
Q. 13. (a) In an a opinion survey
regarding a proposed civil measure to be
introduced, altogether 2878 persons took part of
which 1652 were males. 1226 persons voted
against the proposal of which 796 were males.
1425 persons voted for the proposed measure. 156
females were undecided in their opinion.
(i) Put the above information in a neat
statistical table. From the table, calculate-
(ii) the percentage of those voting for the
proposal among the males.
(iii) the percentage of those voting for the
proposal among the males.
(c) Present the following information using a
suitable diagram :
State PercentageMale LiteratesFemale (2001
Census)
Kerala 94.20 87.86 90.72
Maharasthra 86.27 67.51 77.27
Tamil Nadu 82.33 64.55 73.47
West Bengal 77.58 60.22 69.22
Q. 14. (a) From the following frequency
distribution of 260 housewives of a locality
according to their TV-watching habit-
(i) draw the graph of culmulative frequencies of
less than type :
Hours per week watching T.V. Number of
housewives
5-9 13
10-14 39
15-19 60
20-24 75
25-29 42
30-34 27
35-39 4
Total 260
(ii) the median of the distribution :
(iii) number of housewives spending at most 18
hours per week watching TV.
(b) The following table shows the average
percentage of family expenditure, as also
percentage increase in price in 2005 compared to
2000, for the major heads of expenditure for the
urban middle class families in a State in India.
Calculate the percentage increase in cost of
living the this segment of population in 2005
compared to 2000
Head of expenditure % of family expenditure %
increase in price in 2005 compared to 2000
Food 25 32
Clothing 18 25
Fuel & Electricity 16 30
House Rent 15 200
Miscellaneous 26 45
Total 100 -
Q. 15. Answer the questions :
(a) A union leader complained : that the owners
of this factory have adopted a policy of
gradually decreasing the wages of its workers is
amply evident from the fact that the average
monthly wage of the workers has dropped down to
Rs. 2,530 in January, 2005. Comment on the
validity o the arugument.
(b) As high as 45% of the under-5 children,
brought to the outdoor clinics of 4 major
State-run hospitals in Kolkata last year, were
found to be victims of malnutrition. Incidence
of malnutrition among the under-5 children in
the city must, therefore, by alarmingly high.
Explain why you support the argument, or
disagree with it.
(c) In a community support project, the average
grants (in Rs.) received by the male and the
female beneficiaries were 5,200 and 5,800
respectively, while the average grant received
by the beneficiaries was 5,560. What percentage
of beneficiaries were females ?
(d) The amounts of rainfall (in mm) in a town
on 10 consecutive days are as follows :
8.5, 0, 6.8, 3.2, 4.8, 10.5, 76.2, 9.4, 0, 1.2
Use a suitable measure to throw light on the
central tendency of the data.
|
