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Exam Date: 05-Oct-2020
Exam Time: 09:00-12:00
Examination: 1. Course Code - M.Phil.
2. Field of Study - Political Geography (POGP)
SECTION 1 - SECTION 1
Question No.1 (Question Id - 4)
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Which one is not a feature of the classical theories of political geography?
(A) State-centrism
(B) Attention to events at micro scales (Correct Answer)
(C) Euro-Americanism
(D) Aspiration to offer geo-strategic policy advice regarding national security threats
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Question No.2 (Question Id - 33)
Borderlands refer to :
(A) Dividing line between two nation-states.
(B) Geographical regions surrounding international borders with economic and cultural connections between people that often cross borders that mark the nation-states. (Correct Answer)
(C) Disputed lands surrounding international borders.
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(D) Lands surrounding international borders which are jointly governed by nation-states on both sides of the border.
Question No.3 (Question Id - 75)
Maps are concerned with two fundamental aspects of :
(A) Locations and Attributes (Correct Answer)
(B) Connectivity and Proximity
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(C) Distance and Direction
(D) Proximity and Distance
Question No.4 (Question Id - 28)
Methodologically speaking, which of the following is a scale of research?
(A) International
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(B) District
(C) Neighbourhood
(D) All of the above (Correct Answer)
Question No.5 (Question Id - 8)
The impact of Immanuel Wallerstein's world system theory on the field of Political Geography was :
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(A) Emergence of insights beyond the state-centrism of earlier Marxist political geography analyses
(B) De-mystification of the three-scale model analysis
(C) Emergence of a geo-historic framework
(D) All of the above (Correct Answer)
Question No.6 (Question Id - 90)
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Raja Mandala is a strategic doctrine by :
(A) Chandragupta Maurya
(B) Kalidas
(C) Kautilya (Correct Answer)
(D) Tulsidas
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Question No.7 (Question Id - 50)
Territory is associated with the spatiality of :
(A) The Greek city-states
(B) The Roman empire
(C) The feudal state
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(D) The modern state (Correct Answer)
Question No.8 (Question Id - 72)
Scale on a map is useful to understand :
(A) Direction
(B) Distance (Correct Answer)
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(C) Orientation
(D) Degree
Question No.9 (Question Id - 29)
Territorially demarcated nation-state model emerged :
(A) After the French Revolution
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(B) After the Treaty of Versailles
(C) After the Treaty of Westphalia (Correct Answer)
(D) After the First World War
Question No.10 (Question Id - 56)
The Vienna Circle was a group known for its work on :
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(A) Qualitative method
(B) Philosophical reasoning
(C) Logical positivism (Correct Answer)
(D) Cultural relativism
Question No.11 (Question Id - 57)
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Cultural relativism in social sciences refers to :
(A) The argument for not judging people's cultures as better or worse compared to one's own (Correct Answer)
(B) The belief in linkages between various cultures that apparently seem distinct
(C) A study of cultural aspects of political affairs
(D) Study of primitive communities
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Question No.12 (Question Id - 42)
Who talked about Ideological State Apparatuses ?
(A) Louis Althusser (Correct Answer)
(B) Michel Foucault
(C) Jacques Derrida
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(D) None of the above
Question No.13 (Question Id - 76)
What are the three basic structures of data used in GIS?
(A) Circle, Triangle, Line
(B) Rectangle, Square, Circle
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(C) Point, Line, Polygon (Correct Answer)
Question No.14 (Question Id - 65)
Which of the following is not a type of map projection?
(A) Mercator's projection
(B) Gothic projection (Correct Answer)
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(C) Robinson's projection
(D) Gall Peter's projection
Question No.15 (Question Id - 35)
Eurocentrism refers to :
(A) The power of the Euro currency.
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(B) A world-view that places Europe at the centre of human history, social analysis and political practice. (Correct Answer)
(C) An academic discourse that considers Europe as one of the most important players in contemporary IR.
(D) None of the above.
Question No.16 (Question Id - 84)
What are 'subsequent boundaries'?
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(A) Where cultural landscape succeeds boundaries
(B) Where cultural landscape precedes boundaries (Correct Answer)
(C) Where boundaries are imposed
(D) Where boundaries are artificial
Question No.17 (Question Id - 77)
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Which type of data are handled by GIS ?
(A) Spatial and Non-spatial (Correct Answer)
(B) Distance and Quality
(C) Oceanic
(D) None of the Above
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Question No.18 (Question Id - 52)
What does scope of research mean?
(A) The future career avenues that would open through the research
(B) Geographical, temporal and conceptual limits of the research (Correct Answer)
(C) The number of researchers involved in the project
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(D) None of the above
Question No.19 (Question Id - 47)
Match the books with authors.
| List - I | List - II |
|---|---|
| A. Edward Said | I. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 |
| B. Frantz Fanon | II. Orientalism |
| C. Alfred Mahan | III. The Wretched of the Earth |
| D. Friedrick Ratzel | IV. Anthropogeography |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
(A) A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV (Correct Answer)
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(B) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
(C) A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV
(D) A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I
Question No.20 (Question Id - 15)
Territory provides a relation of :
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(A) Collegiality
(B) Security
(C) Cosmopolitan connections
(D) Power (Correct Answer)
Question No.21 (Question Id - 63)
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The term Behaviorism was invented by :
(A) John B. Watson (Correct Answer)
(B) David Easton
(C) Almond and Powell
(D) John Rawls
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Question No.22 (Question Id - 92)
Which river forms a boundary between United States and Mexico ?
(A) Rio Grande (Correct Answer)
(B) Hudson
(C) Mississippi
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(D) Columbia
Question No.23 (Question Id - 83)
Who is credited with Geopolitical Structure of World System?
(A) Saul B. Cohen (Correct Answer)
(B) David Newman
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(C) Emmanuel Brunet-Jailey
(D) James Scott
Question No.24 (Question Id - 9)
The concept of territoriality essentially involves assertion of :
(A) Power
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(B) Clearly demarcated boundary
(C) Control over access
(D) All of the above (Correct Answer)
Question No.25 (Question Id - 36)
Feminism as a spatial practice :
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(A) Disrupts traditional organization of space as public versus private
(B) Reconceptualizes scale to include body as a scale
(C) Focuses on gendered production of spaces
(D) All of the above (Correct Answer)
Question No.26 (Question Id - 93)
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Who discussed centripetal and centrifugal forces ?
(A) Stephen B. Jones
(B) Richard Hartshorne (Correct Answer)
(C) Kenneth Waltz
Question No.27 (Question Id - 44)
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of neoliberalism?
(A) Liberalisation
(B) Privatisation
(C) Licensing (Correct Answer)
(D) Individualisation
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Question No.28 (Question Id - 38)
A post-colonial geography aims at :
(A) Unveiling complicity of geographical knowledge in colonial domination
(B) To prioritise experiences of those who suffered under colonialism and places where they lived and worked
(C) Both 1 and 2 (Correct Answer)
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(D) Reconfiguration of colonial maps
Question No.29 (Question Id - 88)
Who said "Command of the Sea is meant for controlling the commerce and trade on the seas"?
(A) Nicholas C. Spykman
(B) Alfred Thayer Mahan (Correct Answer)
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(C) Dennis Hart Mahan
(D) Julian Corbett
Question No.30 (Question Id - 1)
Evolutionary Darwinism influenced which one of the following theories ?
(A) Anarchist Political Geography
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(B) Post-colonial Political Geography
(C) Friedrich Ratzel's Theory (Correct Answer)
(D) Radical Political Geography
Question No.31 (Question Id - 24)
Which of the following understandings of power does not look at it as a relation of domination?
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(A) Robert Dahl's understanding
(B) Marxist understanding
(C) Hannah Arendt's understanding (Correct Answer)
(D) None of the above
Question No.32 (Question Id - 66)
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Which among the following is NOT a measure of Central tendency ?
(A) Mean
(B) Median
(C) Mode
(D) Regression (Correct Answer)
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Question No.33 (Question Id - 81)
Karl Popper is known for :
(A) Classical Inductive Methods
(B) Empirical Fabrication (Correct Answer)
(C) Deductive Methods
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(D) Quantitative Techniques
Question No.34 (Question Id - 80)
Who introduced the term 'paradigm shift'?
(A) Imre Lakatos
(B) John Mearsheimer
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(C) Thomas Kuhn (Correct Answer)
(D) Isaiah Bowman
Question No.35 (Question Id - 49)
Robert D. Sack is known for his theory of :
(A) Carceral geographies
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(B) Sovereignty
(C) Territoriality (Correct Answer)
(D) Lebensraum
Question No.36 (Question Id - 58)
Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm is connected to his thesis on :
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(A) Validity of empirical method
(B) Cultural relativism
(C) Positivism
(D) Incommensurability (Correct Answer)
Question No.37 (Question Id - 32)
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Which of the following is not a characteristic of the modern state?
(A) Have political apparatuses distinct from both ruler and ruled.
(B) Supreme jurisdiction over a demarcated territorial area.
(C) A bond of loyalty and homage in return for privileges and protection between the ruler and the ruled. (Correct Answer)
(D) A claim to a monopoly of coercive power.
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Question No.38 (Question Id - 99)
Senkaku Islands are located in :
(A) South China Sea
(B) Sea of Japan
(C) East China Sea (Correct Answer)
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(D) Yellow Sea
Question No.39 (Question Id - 11)
Development of modern political geography is closely linked with :
(A) French Revolution
(B) The colonial project (Correct Answer)
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(C) Development of the modern state
(D) First World War
Question No.40 (Question Id - 69)
Statistics is a :
(A) Science
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(B) Art
Question No.41 (Question Id - 73)
Geographical Information System (GIS) was first developed by :
(A) Ken Duecker
(B) Josef Stroebl
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(C) Roger Tomlinson (Correct Answer)
(D) Peter Burrough
Question No.42 (Question Id - 17)
The connection between migration and nation-states is that :
(A) Both are very modern phenomena
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(B) Both are results of wars
(C) Migration comes under a documentation regime only with the presence of the nation-states (Correct Answer)
(D) Migration helps nation-states to develop
Question No.43 (Question Id - 87)
"States take on the mobility of their populations”. The statement can be attributed to :
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(A) Friedrich Ratzel (Correct Answer)
(B) Halford Mackinder
(C) Derek Gregory
(D) John O'Loughlin
Question No.44 (Question Id - 3)
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Sir Halford Mackinder is famous for his theory on :
(A) Rimland
(B) Social Darwinism
(C) Heartland (Correct Answer)
(D) All of the above
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Question No.45 (Question Id - 27)
What does 'large scale' mean in the context of a map ?
(A) A more focussed map (Correct Answer)
(B) A map showing large expanses but less focussed
(C) A map that is printed on a very large paper
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(D) A map of a very large state
Question No.46 (Question Id - 82)
Who wrote the path-breaking article "Criticism and the Methodology of Scientific Programmes" ?
(A) Alexander De Seversky
(B) Imre Lakatos (Correct Answer)
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(C) Sigmund Freud
(D) Bertrand Russell
Question No.47 (Question Id - 23)
Which one of the following cannot be termed a critical geopolitical thinker within the disciplinary understanding of political geography?
(A) Simon Dalby
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(B) Gearoid O'Tuathail
(C) Alfred Thayer Mahan (Correct Answer)
(D) John Agnew
Question No.48 (Question Id - 48)
The period after the second world war is recognised for the discipline of political geography as :
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(A) A period of resurgence
(B) A period of marginalization (Correct Answer)
(C) A period of ascendency
(D) A period of greatness
Question No.49 (Question Id - 89)
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Who is the author of the book Victory through Air Power?
(A) Carl Von Clausewitz
(B) Antoine-Henri Jomini
(C) B.H. Lidell Hart
(D) Alexander de Seversky (Correct Answer)
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Question No.50 (Question Id - 22)
The conceptualisation of the 'heartland' is based on a classification of power that saw :
(A) Landpower as most important (Correct Answer)
(B) Seapower as most important
(C) Airpower as most important
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(D) The important place of diplomatic relations in maintaining cordial relations between states
Question No.51 (Question Id - 67)
Positivism is associated with :
(A) Observation of Phenomena (Correct Answer)
(B) Qualitative Analysis
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(C) Reading Texts
(D) Literature
Question No.52 (Question Id - 71)
Which among the following is not a GIS software?
(A) ArcGIS
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(B) ERDAS Imagine
(C) QGIS
(D) SPSS (Correct Answer)
Question No.53 (Question Id - 94)
When was the Antarctic Treaty signed ?
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(A) 1999
(B) 1947
(C) 1959 (Correct Answer)
(D) 1967
Question No.54 (Question Id - 18)
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The scale for the political geographic entity of 'region' is:
(A) Subnational
(B) Supranational (Correct Answer)
(C) Both 1 and 2
(D) Neither 1 and 2
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Question No.55 (Question Id - 79)
A Graphic representation of features on the earth's surface is called :
(A) Sketch
(B) Map (Correct Answer)
(C) Diagram
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(D) Graph
Question No.56 (Question Id - 6)
Who is famous for the seapower doctrine ?
(A) Friedrich Ratzel
(B) John Agnew
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(C) Alfred Thayer Mahan (Correct Answer)
(D) Rudolf Kjellen
Question No.57 (Question Id - 60)
Defining characteristics of Action research include :
(A) Collaboration
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(B) Mutual education
(C) Action for change
(D) All of the above (Correct Answer)
Question No.58 (Question Id - 78)
Which one of the following can be shown as a line on map ?
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(A) Floodplain
(B) City
(C) Country
(D) River (Correct Answer)
Question No.59 (Question Id - 68)
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Range is a method of measuring :
(A) Peakedness
(B) Central Tendency
(C) Skewness
(D) Dispersion (Correct Answer)
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Question No.60 (Question Id - 40)
A ghetto is:
(A) A suburban neighbourhood
(B) An extreme form of residential concentration (Correct Answer)
(C) A prison
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(D) None of the above
Question No.61 (Question Id - 45)
Citizenship is a relationship :
(A) Between an individual and a government
(B) Between a community and a state
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(C) Between an individual and a state (Correct Answer)
(D) None of the above
Question No.62 (Question Id - 51)
Which of the following is not a part of a research proposal in social science research ?
(A) Research questions
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(B) Scope
(C) Bibliography
(D) Findings (Correct Answer)
Question No.63 (Question Id - 98)
What is the extent of territorial waters from a State's coastal baseline ?
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(A) 12 nautical miles (Correct Answer)
(B) 24 nautical miles
(C) 100 nautical miles
(D) 15 nautical miles
Question No.64 (Question Id - 85)
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Functional Classification of Boundaries is concerned with :
(A) relationship between boundary line and cultural landscape (Correct Answer)
(B) relationship between landforms and boundary line
(C) relationship between two adjacent regions
(D) None of the above
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Question No.65 (Question Id - 74)
Geographic Positioning System was first developed by the :
(A) Defence Department of the USA (Correct Answer)
(B) Russia
(C) Germany
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(D) United Kingdom
Question No.66 (Question Id - 16)
The idea of 'territorial trap' is found in the work of :
(A) Alfred Thayer Mahan
(B) Gerard O'Toal
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(C) John Agnew (Correct Answer)
(D) Friedrich Ratzel
Question No.67 (Question Id - 37)
Which of the following is a spatially organised form of governance ?
(A) Democracy
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(B) Republicanism
(C) Federalism (Correct Answer)
(D) None of the above
Question No.68 (Question Id - 62)
Snowball sampling is a type of :
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(A) Random sampling
(B) Non-random sampling (Correct Answer)
(C) Both 1 and 2
(D) Neither 1 nor 2
Question No.69 (Question Id - 5)
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The three epochs of history defined by dominant dramas and mobilities of power that Mackinder classified are :
(A) Pre-modern, Modern and Post-modern
(B) Pre-historic, Ancient and Modern
(C) Pre-Columbian, Columbian and Post-Columbian (Correct Answer)
(D) None of the above
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Question No.70 (Question Id - 100)
Durand Line is the border between :
(A) Afghanistan-Iran
(B) Pakistan-Iran
(C) Afghanistan-Pakistan (Correct Answer)
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(D) India-Pakistan
Question No.71 (Question Id - 54)
Inductive reasoning is a process of :
(A) Moving from a generalised principle known to be true to establishing a specific case as true.
(B) Forming generalisations based on specific instances that are observed. (Correct Answer)
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(C) Using statistical data in research.
(D) Doing field-work in research.
Question No.72 (Question Id - 30)
Which of the following is not a characteristic of Feudalism?
(A) Overlapping and divided authority
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(B) Attachment of power to land ownership
(C) Political power more local and personal in focus
(D) Rule by a single sovereign head (Correct Answer)
Question No.73 (Question Id - 55)
Which of the following is not a primary source ?
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(A) Documents found in archives
(B) Fiction literature
(C) Research papers (Correct Answer)
(D) Oral narratives
Question No.74 (Question Id - 97)
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What is the length of India's coastline ?
(A) 8000 kms.
(B) 7000 kms.
(C) 7516 kms. (Correct Answer)
(D) 6897 kms.
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Question No.75 (Question Id - 25)
What is the third dimension of power as identified by Steven Lukes ?
(A) Power as domination
(B) Power as the capacity for agenda-setting
(C) Power as shaping perceptions of people (Correct Answer)
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Question No.76 (Question Id - 59)
Ludwig Wittgenstein famously discussed the duck-rabbit illusion :
(A) To show various aspects of a research problem
(B) To distinguish perception from interpretation (Correct Answer)
(C) To discuss prejudice in social science research
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(D) None of the above
Question No.77 (Question Id - 61)
Which of the following is a sampling bias in survey research ?
(A) Self selection bias
(B) Non-response bias
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(C) Prescreening bias
(D) All of the above (Correct Answer)
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