pyq/2016/psir-optional-i/5

Comment on the following in about 150 words each (50 marks):

5. (a) Critically examine the Radical Humanist perspective on Indian National Movement. (10 marks, 150 words)

5. (b) Cultural and Regional differences are the enduring bases on which politics is played out in India. (10 marks, 150 words)

5. (c) ‘Article 368 does not enable Parliament to alter the basic structure or framework of the Constitution’. (10 marks, 150 words)

5. (d) The purpose of the 42nd Constitutional Amendment was to make the economic and social democracy explicitly visible. (10 marks, 150 words)

5. (e) The philosophy and administration of the distribution of powers between Centre and State is required to be re-assessed. (10 marks, 150 words)