Optionals IAS Mains Political Science: Questions 63 - 70 of 398

Marginalisation of the Left Ideology in India

• Right from independence, India learnt left with regards to politics and economics.
• The left, which mainly draws from Marxist, communist and Fabian socialist traditions was the dominant force in Indian politics and academics.
• The Indian constitution too, shows dominant leftist trends.
• It gives overarching po…

Scope and Limitations of the Women՚S Movements in India

• India is developing; newly industrialized country and women here face a lot of discrimination and prejudice.
• Most of Indian citizens are still feudal in their mentality as almost 70 percent of Indian citizens still live in villages.
• But thankfully, India, right from its independence has had a vib…

Global Commons and Global Society

• Global commons are natural resources that are international in nature.
• They belong to all nations of the world collectively and are not the executive domain of any particular nation state.
• The definition of global commons was in a report called World Conservation Strategy prepared jointly by IUCN, UNESCO, UNEP and WWF…

Provisions for Constitutional Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion

• The Constitution of India guarantees every citizen certain rights and some rights to foreigners as well.
• The rights are included in Part III of the Constitution and extend from Article 14 to 32.
• These rights are considered part of the Basic Structure of the constitution and canno…

Peasant Movements and the Nationalist Ideas During the Freedom Struggle

• The British in India opted for an indirect rule of the native Indian people.
• While overall they had control over political systems over the country, they had delegated powers to their Indian representatives.
• One of the major methods of British rule was control of revenue generated…

Rise of Social Movements a Sign of Opening up of Popular Space or Decline of Representative Politics

• Since the end of the Cold War and the predominance of Neo-liberal economics around the world, we have seen a rise of social movements everywhere in the world.
• The primary reasons behind this is globalisation, improvement of communication systems and r…

Conception of Justice and the Communitarian Theorists

• Communitarian ideology started to emerge as a reaction to libertarian thought in 1970՚s.
• Primary advocates of this ideology were Micheal Sandel, Arendt Lijphart Charles Taylor and Will Kymlica.
• Opposition to libertarian thought by communitarians was primarily based on two factors.
• Firstly, communita…

Major Principles of State Centric World Views

• A state is the official administrative machinery of a country.
• What separates it from other organisation is that a state reserves the right over the use of violence.

Hans Morgenthau: Father of State centric IR models

International Relations Ideologies

• Most of …