Political Science

Political science is also referred to as social science that associates the dealing of governance and power, analyzing the political activities, political behavior, and the constitution and laws associated with it. In other words, it is a scientific study of the political affairs and development of the world. Modern political studies are divided broadly into three categories, namely, political theory, international relations, and comparative politics. The subdivisions of political science are administration and public policies, political economics, political methodologies, and domestic politics and its government which is often included in comparative political studies. Thus political science is a diversified subject that includes a wide range of studies such as economics, law, sociology, history, human geography, philosophy, journalism, political anthropology, social policies and psychology.  

It is a methodological study that is diversified and has and fits in many methods that are originating from psychology, cognitive neuroscience and social research. Many of the approaches are combined of positivism, rational choice theory, structuralism, post-structuralism, behaviouralism, realism, pluralism, and institutionalism. Political science is thus referred to as a social science that involves a lot of methods and techniques of studies that are dependent on broadly three kinds of sources, namely, the primary source which is related to historical documents and official records, secondary resources that involves a lot of information from the journals, articles, survey research papers, case studies, statistical analysis, experimental research and building models. Thus this entire article deals with the Indian political questions and answers. 

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Indian Politics Quiz Questions with Answers

India being one of the largest democratic countries in the world, its political affairs, developments and framework play a very crucial and vital role in shaping the socio-economic face of the country. The politics of India is a diverse subject that plays within the constitution of India that is also considered as one of the most elaborative constitutions of the world and also within the law and order system of the country. India is a parliamentary democratic republic nation whose head is the president but the prime minister plays the major role as the head of government. Though the government runs by the federal structure of governance it hasn’t been mentioned in the constitution. The Indian political system is federal in nature that consists of a dual polity structure where the center is the prime power of the center with state governance at its periphery.  The organizational powers, as well as the limitations for the functioning of both the central and state governments, have been fixed by the constitution of India which is transparent and lucid and the laws of the nation must abide by it. 

As the Indian political system is such a vast and crucial part of the functioning of the country thus it is very important to have a basic general knowledge of the subject for the preparation of many state and national level competitive examinations like SSC, Banking, UPSC, PSC and many more. Most of these examinations focus on examining the political science general knowledge of the candidates. Thus many of the national level examinations for the administrative positions in the central and state government primarily stress the political general knowledge questions. So let us look into some of the basic political gk questions of political science of India. 

1. Name the land system in which the peasants own their land by themselves and are responsible for paying their own land revenues to the government.

• Ryotwari system

• Dahasala system

• Zamindari system

• Mahalwari system

Ans. The land system is known as the Ryotwari system. It was a land revenue system that was introduced by Thomas Munro in 1918 during the British ruling era in India. It was first introduced in the district called Baramahal and was administered by Alexander Read that soon became prevalent all over southern India. It was one of the three prime land revenue systems of British rule. Under this ruling, the ownership of land was provided directly to the peasants and the government uses to collect land revenue from the peasants 50% where the land was barren and about 60% where there was irrigation.

2.  Which among the following does not exist in today’s political party system of India.

• Polarising and fragmenting the parties

• Political parties are religious or personality-oriented

• Political parties are based on ideology and give preference to the national interest

• Improper growth of political parties.

Ans.  Political parties are based on ideology and give preference to national interests.

3. Which politician described the political parties as “Modern and Modernizing Societies”.

• Indira gandhi

• Jawarharlal Nehru

• Myron Weiner

• K. Srinivasulu

Ans. Myron Weiner is a politician who described the political parties as “Modern and Modernizing Societies”. Myron Weiner is an American Political scientist who was born in New York on 11th of March in the year 1931. He was a renowned scholar of South Asia, especially in India. He did a lot of studies and worked towards ethnic conflicts, child labour, international as well as internal migrations, democratization, demography of Politics of different nations and the effect of policies and politics of developed nations. 

4. The general idea that is related to the science of policy making includes

• Inventing an idea or policy

• Practising an action

• Proposing a program

• Theory of rational choice

Ans. The theory of rational choice is the general idea that is included in the science of policy making. Rational choice theory as it is popularly known is referred to as a set of  guidelines that helps in clearing the understanding about the economic and social behaviour of a country. The theory actually indicates that an individual will do an analysis on cost-benefits before finalizing an option that could be implemented. It has also proved the fact that the rational decisions made by an individual party or organization will ultimately benefit the economy. 

5. Comparative politics primarily focuses on the comparison of which of the following:

• Political practice

• Institutional practice

• Legal practice

• Cultural practice

Ans. Comparative politics primarily focuses on the comparison of Institutional practice. There is a strong belief in the institutional approach to comparative politics that philosophy, the law as well as have honoured the study of politics, especially in the field of institutional practice. This practice primarily includes the formal features of the Government and the policies of the country. The institutional approach mostly deals with the formal characteristics of the government, the jurisdiction and the executive and the legislature of the country. It is one of the ancient and most conventional approaches that has been given the utmost importance. 

6. Under which year under the act of parliament the names of Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi islands were changed to Lakshadeep island.

• 1973

• 1974

• 1975

• 1972

Ans. Under the act of parliament, the names of Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi islands were changed to Lakshadeep island in the year 1973. The Laccadive that was also famously known as Cannanore was actually one of the three islands that fall as the subgroup island of what was earlier known as the “Cannanore island” that was named after a coastal town initially named Cannanore which is now Kannur. Later all the three subgroups of islands that were together named as Cannanore island was changed to Lakshadweep by the upper house of parliament. 

7. The residuary powers of the parliament can be exercised by the same on the following occasions:

• During the time of national emergency

• During the time of national emergency as well as constitutional emergency

• All the time of the year

• None of the above

Ans. The residuary powers of the parliament can be exercised at the same all the time of the year. The parliament has the exclusive power to form any law on any matter that is not set forth or itemized in the central or state concurrent list. This law also includes the imposition of a taxation system that is not mentioned in the state or central concurrent list.

8. The maximum term for which the members of Lok sabha can hold the office is

• 3 years

• 4 years

• 5 years

• 6 years

Ans. The maximum term for which the members of Lok sabha can hold the office is 5 years.

9. The pension of the judge of any high court is provided by the following:

• Contingency Fund of India

• Consolidated Fund of the state where the judge was last posted

• Consolidated funds of all the states where the judge has served the high courts

• Consolidated Fund of India

Ans. The pension of the judge of any high court is provided by the consolidated Fund of India.

10. The right to expel any member of the state commission can be exercised by

• President of India with the report of the supreme court

• Governor when a resolution is passed by the parliament

• President  when a resolution is passed by the parliament

• Governor with the report of the supreme court

Ans. The right to expel any member of the state commission can be exercised by the President of India with the report of the supreme court.

11. The president of India can dissolve the lower house of parliament when

• Advised by the chief justice of India

• Advised by the prime minister of India

• Recommendation of Rajya Sabha

• None of the above

Ans. The president of India can dissolve the lower house of parliament when Advised by the prime minister of India.