KRISHNA KANTA HANDIQUI STATE OPEN UNIVERSITY
Surya Kumar Bhuyan School of Social Sciences
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Master of Arts (Political Science)
1st Semester, 2022-2023
Courses: PGPS S1 01; PGPS S1 02; PGPS S1 03; PGPS S1 04
COURSE: RECENT POLITICAL THEORY (PGPS S1 01)
Assignments are required to be written in your own language. Copying in toto from
the Self Learning Materials will carry less score
Assignments are to be submitted in the respective study centres.
Last Date of submission of assignments is 15-02-23
Total Marks: 13
A. Answer any one from the following questions within 150 words: 1×5=5
1. Write about the significance of political theory.
2. Briefly write about the principles of entitlement as put forward by Robert Nozick.
3. Explain the features of the pluralist theory of democracy.
B. Answer any one from the following questions within 150 words: 1×5=5
1. Write about five mechanisms for making Liberal Democracy practicable.
2. Explain four features of the Marxian approach to the study of politics.
3. Explain the implications of liberalism in the social, economic and political spheres.
C. Answer any one from the following questions within 75 words: 1×3=3
1. Examine the sources of renewable energy.
2. Examine the significance of rain forests in maintaining the world’s climate.
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COURSE: WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT (PGPS S1 02)
Assignments are required to be written in your own language. Copying in toto from
the Self Learning Materials will carry less score
Assignments are to be submitted in the respective study centres.
Last Date of submission of assignments is 15-02-23
Total Marks: 13
A. Answer any one from the following questions within 150 words: 1×5=5
1. Write about the rule of philosopher king in the ideal state as proposed by Plato.
2. Write briefly about John Stuart Mill’s views on utilitarianism.
3. Write five features of the anarchist society.
B. Answer any one from the following questions within 150 words: 1×5=5
1. Briefly write about Aristotle’s views on citizenship.
2. Explain T.H.Green’s views on freedom.
3. Examine Eduard Bernstein’s views on class structure and class war.
C. Answer any one from the following questions within 75 words: 1×3=3
1. Write about ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
2. Discuss the importance of conserving .
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COURSE: INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (PGPS S1 03)
Assignments are required to be written in your own language. Copying in toto from
the Self Learning Materials will carry less score
Assignments are to be submitted in the respective study centres.
Last Date of submission of assignments is 15-02-23
Total Marks: 13
A. Answer any one from the following questions within 150: 1×5=5
1. Explain Kautilya’s views on the qualities to be possessed by the king or Swamin.
2. Write about the humanist ideology and materialism of M.N.Roy.
3. Explain Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s ideas on educational, economic and political
issues.
B. Answer any one from the following questions within 150: 1×5=5
1. Discuss B.R.Ambedkar’s movement against caste discrimination.
2. Expalin Jyotiba Phule’s views on religion.
3. Briefly write about Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s views on nationalism, non-violence,
democracy and partition of India.
C. Answer any one from the following questions within 75 words: 1×3=3
1. Write briefly about wildlife conservation efforts in India.
2. Examine the issue of sea-level rise due to climate change.
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COURSE: INDIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM (PGPS S1 04)
Assignments are required to be written in your own language. Copying in toto from
the Self Learning Materials will carry less score
Assignments are to be submitted in the respective study centres.
Last Date of submission of assignments is 15-02-23
Total Marks: 13
A. Answer any one from the following questions within 150: 1×5=5
1. Explain any five features of the Indian Constitution.
2. Examine the distinctive character of Indian secularism.
3. Write about five major pressure groups in India.
B. Answer any one from the following questions within 150 words: 1×5=5
1. Examine the trend of regionalization of the party system in India following the end
of the one-party dominance of the Congress.
2. Briefly describe the course of the language movement in Assam from 1960 to
1972.
3. Write about five features of the Constitution (74th Amendment) Act, 1992.
C. Answer any one from the following questions within 75 words: 1×3=3
1. Write briefly about the issue of river pollution.
2. Examine the issue of noise pollution.
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