UGC NET/JRF EXAM, DEC.-2024 POLITICAL SCIENCE (Paper-II)

'Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (1901) is a book by Dadabhai Naoroji, and early Indian Nationalist leader and intellectual. In the Naoroji argues that the British colonial rule was responsible for the poverty in India, the British were draining India's wealth through taxation, trade and the salaries of British officials. He also argued that they were not investing enough in India's development.

The following pairs are not matched correctly:
C. First Nuclear test explosion by France - February 13, 1960. The test, codenamed 'Gerboise Bleue' (Blue Gerbil), took place in the Sahara Desert in Algeria, which was then a French Colony.
D. First nuclear test explosion by China- October 16, 1964. The test, Codenamed '596' was a fission device using enriched Uranium. It was detonated at the Lop Nur test site in Xiujiang province.

The correct chronological order of following leader's assassination:
C. SWRO Bandaranaike - September 25, 1959
A. John F. Kennedy -  November 22, 1963
B. Zia ur Rahman -  May 30, 1981
D. Olof Palme - February 28, 1986
E. Yitzhak Rabin - November 4, 1995

The correct statements about representative democracy are as follows:
A. It offers a practicable form of democracy for large countries.
B. It established a link between the government and the governed.

'The Disc of India' was written by India's first PM Jawaharlal Nehru. He wrote the book during his imprisonment at Ahmednagar Fort between 1942 and 1945. It's about wide-ranging exploration of Indian philosophy, history, culture and civilization.

Women's movement in the United States developed strong over the years. Some of its basic facts include:
A. The Seneca falls convention, held in 1848, marked the birth of the US women's rights movement.
B. The 19th Amendment of US Constitution granted the vote to American women in 1920.
C. The National women's suffrage association was setup in 1869.
D. A feminist writer Simon de Beauvoir published the book 'The Second Sex'

The term 'Possessive Individualism' was coined by the political philosopher CB Macpherion. He explored this concept in his book ‘The political Theory of Possessive individuals: Hobbes to Cooke (1962).

Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving non-consecutive terms from 1885 to 1889 and then from 1893 to 1897. He was the first Democrat elected after the civil war and the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms until Donald Trump.