POLITICAL SCIENCE AND ESSAY PAPER IN MAINS Let us have a look at the Essay questions asked in the last five years and see how it is related with Political Science syllabus. SL. NO.
YEAR ESSAY QUESTION
POLITICAL SCIENCE SYLLABUS
2009
Are we a ‘soft’ state?
Indian Foreign Policy: Determinants of foreign policy; institutions of policymaking; continuity and change.
2009
“Good fences make good neighbours.”
India and South Asia: a. Regional Co-operation: SAARC – past performance and future prospects. b. South Asia as a Free Trade Area. c. India’s “Look East” policy. d. Impediments to regional cooperation: river water disputes; illegal cross-border migration; ethnic conflicts and insurgencies; border disputes.
2010
Preparedness of our society for India’s India and the Global South: Relations with Africa and Latin America; global leadership role. leadership role in the demand for NIEO and WTO negotiations.
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India and the Global Centres of Power: USA, EU, Japan, China and Russia.
03.
India and the UN System: Role in UN Peace-keeping; demand for Permanent Seat in the Security Council. Recent developments in Indian Foreign policy: India’s vision of a new world order
2011
Creation of smaller states and the Federalism: Constitutional provisions; consequent administrative, economic changing nature of centre-state and development implications. relations; integrationist tendencies and regional aspirations; inter-state disputes
2012
In the context of Gandhiji’s views on Political Ideologies: Gandhism
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the matter, explore, on an evolutionary scale, the terms ‘Swadhinata’, ‘Swaraj’ and ‘Dharmarajya’. Critically comment on their contemporary relevance to Indian democracy.
Indian Political Thought: M.K. Gandhi Political Strategies of India’s Freedom struggle: Mass Satyagraha, Non-cooperation and Civil Disobedience Planning and Economic Development: Gandhian perspectives
2013
Political Ideologies: Gandhism Be the change you want to see in others (Gandhi)
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Indian Political Thought: M.K. Gandhi Political Strategies of India’s Freedom struggle: Mass Satyagraha, Non-cooperation and Civil Disobedience Planning and Economic Development: Gandhian perspectives
Apart from the above mentioned Essay questions, the questions such as, ‘Globalism’ vs. ‘Nationalism’ (2009), Is the Colonial mentality hindering India’s Success? (2013), Is the criticism that the PPP model for development is more of a bane than a boon in the Indian Context? (2012) etc, can never be neglected as non-Political Science topics.