(A) Taxes on professions, trades,
callings and employment
(B) Capitation Taxes
(C) Adulteration of foodstuffs
and other goods
(D) Corporation Tax
19. Which one of the following state-
ments is correct for the First
Report of the Ethics Committee
of the Parliament ?
(A) Matters like criminalisation
of politics, political parties and
electoral reforms, Code of Con-
duct were dealt with
(B) Procedural aspects of enfor-
cing the Code of Conduct were
dealt with
(C) Such matters as, disorderly
proceedings in legislatures, co-
operation with presiding officer
in the legislature and enforcing
discipline were dealt with
(D) Matters like behaviour of
political parties and good
governance were dealt with
20. Match List-I with List-II and
select the correct answer using
the code given below the lists
List-I
(School of Historiography)
(a) Imperialist School
(b) Cambridge School
(c) Nationalist School
(d) Marxist School
List-II
(Views on Communalism)
1. The inhabitants of the sub-
continent are prone to reli-
gious appeal as they are
superstitious
2. Communalism is a false con-
sciousness.
3. It is a result of conscious
British policy of divide and
rule.
4. Communalism is a product
of the ambition of elite
groups
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) 3 4 1 2 liberation movements and work-
(B) 1 2 3 4 ing class movement worldwide.
(C) 3 2 1 4 Reason (R) : Both the working
(D) 1 4 3 2 (B) The literacy rate in India in
21. Who among the following
theorists is associated with neo-
PD/August/2007/305
realism in international rela-
tions ?
(A) Kenneth Waltz
(B) Hans Morgenthau
(C) Reinhold Niebuhr
(D) John Ruggie
22. Based on the census 2001, con-
sider the following statements :
1. Female/male ratio in India
in the year 2001 is more than
that in the year 1951.
2. After Delhi and Chandigarh,
Pondicherry has the highest
population density amongst
all the States and Union
Territories.
Which of the statements given
above is/are correct ?
(A) Only 1
(B) Only 2
(C) Both 1 and 2
(D) Neither 1 nor 2
23. Who defined the State as a
human community that (suc-
cessfully) claims the monopoly of
the legitimate use of physical
force within a given territory ?
(A) Benito Mussolini
(B) Max Weber
(C) Thomas Hobbes
(D) Niccolo Machiavelli
24. Which one of the following is not
an antipoverty programme of
Govt. of India ?
(A) IRDP (B) NREP
(C) RLEGP (D) CRSP
25. How is the Federal Constitutional
Court in Germany constituted ?
(A) By appointments by the
Federal President
(B) By appointments by the
Federal Chancellor
(C) By election of half number
of judges by the Bundestag and
half by the Bundesrat
(D) By election by the Joint
Committee of Parliament
26. Based on the census 2001, which
one of the following statements
is not correct ?
(A) The literacy rate in Hima-
chal Pradesh is higher than that
in Karnataka
the year 2001 is about 35 times
that in the year 1951
(C) The literacy rate in Daman
and Diu is the minimum
amongst the Union Territories
(D) In Assam, population of the
Scheduled Tribes is nearly double
than population of Scheduled
Castes.
27. Which of the following electoral
reforms is not implemented yet ?
(A) Bye-election to be held with-
in 6 months from the occurrence
of vacancy
(B) Registration of political
parties with the Election Com-
mission
(C) Debar Income Tax defaul-
ters from contesting elections
(D) Increase in security deposit
and number of proposers
Directions (Q. 2832)The
following five items consist of two
statements : One labelled as the
Assertion (A) and the other as Reason
(R). You are to examine these two
statements carefully and select the
answers to these items using the
codes given below :
Codes :
(A) Both A and R are indivi-
dually true and R is the
correct explanation of A.
(B) Both A and R are indivi-
dually true but R is not the
correct explanation of A
(C) A is true but R is false
(D) A is false but R is true
28. Assertion (A) : Education is the
fundamental right of every child
between the age of 6 and 14
years.
Reason (R) : One out of every
four children in India does not
go to school.
29. Assertion (A) : If different
cultures are unequally valued, it
affects the freedom of their mem-
bers.
Reason (R) : The self is consti-
tuted, at least partly, in and
through its culture.
30. Assertion (A) : In his colonial
thesis, Lenin argued that there is
a close bond between national
class movement and national
movements in the colonies are
directed against a common
enemy i.e., imperialism.