Which among the following is correct regarding the Force Theory of the origin of the State?
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Correct answer: (A) Force was the sole factor responsible for the origin of the State
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Question 102
“The State is a necessary evil.” This statement refers to the
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Correct answer: (B) Individualist theory of State
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Question 103
Who among the following political thinkers was the first exponent of the liberal theory of State?
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Correct answer: (A) John Locke
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Question 104
Identify the correct group of the prominent exponents of the Social Contract theory of the origin of the State.
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Correct answer: (C) Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau
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Question 105
Who said, “The State is nothing more than a machine for the oppression of one class by another”?
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Correct answer: (A) Marx
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Question 106
Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
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Question 107
Who among the following thinkers advocated that sovereignty vested in the General Will?
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Correct answer: (C) Rousseau
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Question 108
Which among the following is characterized by independence in its relations with other agents, both domestic and foreign?
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Correct answer: (A) Sovereignty
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Question 109
Name the thinker often credited with first using the concept of the State to refer to a territorial sovereign government in his book, and the title of the book.
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Correct answer: (B) Jean Bodin—The Six Books of the Republic
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Question 110
Who made the statement, “Behind the sovereign which the lawyer recognizes, there is another sovereign to whom the legal sovereign must bow”?
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Correct answer: (C) Dicey
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Question 111
Who among the following political philosophers rejected the concept of sovereignty?
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Correct answer: (C) Harold J. Laski
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Question 112
Poona Pact is associated with whom among the following leaders?
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Correct answer: (C) B. R. Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi
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Question 113
Communal representation was introduced for the first time in India by
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Correct answer: (B) Morley-Minto Reforms, 1909
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Question 114
Which among the following factors is responsible for communalism in India?
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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
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Question 115
The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019 creates which of the following Indian-administered Union Territories?
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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
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Question 116
“Caste is the principal basis of community and political mobilization.” This statement supports which among the following?
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Correct answer: (C) Casteism
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Question 117
The Government of India appointed the Kaka Kalelkar Commission to determine the criteria for the identification of
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Correct answer: (B) Socially and educationally backward classes
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Question 118
The main argument made by Rajni Kothari in his book, Caste in Indian Politics, is that
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Correct answer: (A) Caste organizations helped in advancing democratic politics through interest aggregation
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Question 119
Mandal Commission is officially known as
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Correct answer: (A) Socially and educationally backward classes commission
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Question 120
The formation of political parties and allotment of tickets during the election on caste lines leads to