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‘The USA is facing an existential threat in the form of China, that is much more challenging than the erstwhile Soviet Union.’ Explain. (150 words )
It is rightly said the 21st century is Asian century, which is being led by China and this brings China in direct confrontation with the USA which is known for its hegemony since the end of the second world war.
▪️During the period of 1940-1990, there has been a direct confrontation with erstwhile Russia, but the competition with China is different in the sense:
✅ Ideological vs Economical War: USA and USSR were locked in ideological battle China continues to be the world’s largest supplier of rare earth, used for high-technology consumer products and military equipment, accounting for roughly 90 per cent of the world’s production and a lion’s share of the United States’ imports.
✅ Bipolar vs Multipolar world: World was Bipolar thus all the countries were forced to fall in either of the two camps, but today the world is in flux, no one knows who stands where.
✅ Pax Americana vs Indo-pacific: The 20th century was known as US dictating relations with the countries, but today with the centrality of the Indian ocean, US is looking for a partner to check China which was not the case with confrontation with the USSR.
✅ Restricted USSR vs Diversified China: USSR was restricted largely to Eurasia, while China is following Belt and Road initiative enveloping the countries from Eurasian region to African continent.
✅ Military vs Currency War: USA and USSR were locked in military race, evident in stockpiling of conventional and non-conventional weapons while China does carefully manage its currency to keep the yuan at a stable and targeted value through a host of measures, chiefly through buying and selling U.S. dollar bonds and controlling the outflow of yuan from its borders.
The war between China and the USA is very different from the times of the USSR, as it is about who will rule the coming century. The coming age will be defined by technology, not by military might, which makes the case for existential threat for the USA.
Que. “While the national political parties in India favour centralisation, the regional parties are in favour of state
autonomy.” Comment. (Answer in 250 words) 15 marks
Answer: India opted for federal structure of the government, after independence. Our federalism is tilted towards centre to maintain unity and integrity of India. National parties favours Centralisation:
✅ Easy to govern
✅ Ideological base is wide.
✅ Considers Regional aspiration as disintegrating force.
✅ Understand the issue of National security comprehensively.
✅ Represents the wider presence of different sections in the party itself.
✅ Delays the international negotiation and hampers Bilateral relation.
Ex:- Teesta issue.
▪️State Parties Favours Decentralisation:
✅ Appoint of Governors and misuse of Article 356
✅ Emergency powers with centre
✅ Dependence of the states on the centre for financial assistance
✅ Appoint of Governors.
✅ Residuary power with centre.
Commissions’ setup by regional parties to review federal structure:
✅ Rajmannar Commission, 1969: demanded readjustment of the VII schedule and residuary power to the states.
✅ Anandpur Sahib Resolution, 1973: It demanded greater autonomy for the States seeking Centre’s authority to be confined to only :
🔸Defence,
🔸Foreign relation,
🔸Communications,
🔸Railways, and
🔸Currency.
Commissions’ setup by National parties to review federal structure:
✅ Sarkaria commission recommended status quo in the Centre-State relations, especially in the areas, relating to legislative matters, the role of Governors, and the use of Article 356.
✅ M.M Punchi 2007, suggested reforms to address the issue of states.
In this situation we can say that if there is a demand for greater state autonomy, creates instability in the government
and developmental works will be affected. However genuine autonomy to states with necessary centralization factor is the way for political progress.
Q.Discuss the significance of the lion and bull figures in Indian mythology, art and architecture. (15 Marks)
Answer: Animals played a very significant role in early Indian art and iconography. Among the elements in nature, animal portrayals received greater attention. Among animals lion and bull received much attention in mythology, art and architecture.
Significance of the lion figure:
✅ From the primitive era, the lion is considered as the symbol of strength and power and worshipped through all ages in India as a symbol of royalty, leadership and protection as well as of wisdom and pride.
✅ Lions symbolically have played significant roles in magic, as deities or close association with deities.
✅ The lion symbolism and its cultural depictions can be found in Hindu and Buddhist art of India and Southeast Asia.
✅ Narasimha ("man-lion"), Narasinga, is described as an incarnation (Avatara) of Vishnu in the Puranic texts of Hinduism.
✅ Lions are also found in Buddhist symbolism. Lion pillars (Sarnath Lion capital, Sanchi Lion capital) erected
by Ashoka show lions and the chakra emblem.
✅In Buddhist architecture, lion figure were used as protectors of Dharma and symbolic of the Bodhisattvas.
Significance of the bull figures:
✅ The Bull is associated with a number of divinities but, primarily, its association with Siva in Hindu religion, Adinatha in Jaina religion and its relation with the Buddha Sakyamuni. It was a secular symbol.
✅ Nandi is the sacred bull of the Hindu god Shiva. Nandi is Shiva’s animal form, his means of transportation, and his most ardent worshiper.
✅ The white colour of the bull symbolizes purity and justice.
✅ Nandi is also believed to promote fertility, its relation to the fertility cult and its usefulness as a domesticated animal as reflected in ancient Indian art.
✅ During Indus valley civilization bull was presented in stone, clay, metal, seals and terracottas.
✅ In Ashoka pillar, the figure of bull was embossed on their capital or found relieved on abacus.
✅ During Gupta period, it became an established religious symbol.
✅ Chola’s constructed sacred bull of shiva (nandi) in various temples.
Thus, In Indian mythology, art and architecture animal not only represents just nature element but also religious, cultural and social significance.
Q. How is the growth of Tier 2 cities related to the rise of a new middle class with an emphasis on the culture of consumption? (10 Marks)
✅The middle classes constitute a critical market for most goods and services.
✅ A sizable portion of any nation’s tax revenue is collected either directly or indirectly from this group and they are important for economic and social development via urbanization and. industrialization.
✅Middle class working in metro cities but due to heavy land cost, they are purchasing lands in Tier 2 cities. Ex:- Sonipat because of NCR Development.
✅ Work from Home has resulted into demand of goods and services in Tier 2 cities, thus opening of Pizza
outlets, Dosa corner etc.
✅ The major reason of rise in Consumption in a new middle class can be Work, Stress and Enjoyment Purposes.
✅ Start-ups find that initial costs are much
✅And Aesthetics are as important as functionality, an office should be a space where employees feel excited to step in, every day. Ex:- Nissan’s Digital Hub in Thiruvananthapuram
✅ Today the millennial does not just want to satisfy their needs, but satisfied at faster pace. Ex: - Zepto10 Minutes delivery and Amazon delivery in small towns too.
✅ Purchasing power of middle class have increased and thus shift in the pattern of consumption has been observed.
The middle class is claimed to be the ‘bird of gold’. India’s rising middle class is an engine of growth. The rising middle class is both a causal factor behind India’s improved economic and social outcomes growth, education, home ownership, and social security as well as a consequence of the rise in the middle class.
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Q. ‘The emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Digital Revolution) has initiated e-Governance as an integral part of government.’ Discuss. (10 marks)
Fourth Industrial Revolution includes development of new digital technologies that has improved the functioning of society. Components include Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Machine Learning etc that have been a recent phenomenon.
▪️Role of fourth industrial revolution in integrating e-governance
✅ Easier access to services: Through digital revolution and technology improvement, access to government services has become easier. Latest technology such as cloud computing have improved connectivity issues that had been plaguing digital governance.
✅ Better policy measures: New technology such as Big Data, Data Mining etc has capacity to identify useful aspects from large datasets. This will allow policy makers to make clear distinction between what is useful for the future. This ensures better policy measures.
✅ Faster resolution of grievances: Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies have helped in evolution of new grievance resolution techniques such as bots. This has led to faster reduction in public issues.
✅ Transparency: Technology growth has created new opportunities for improving transparency in governance. This includes monitoring misgovernance such as corruption or favouritism.
However, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is facing different challenges like: Poor Internet Connectivity, Digital illiteracy and Issue of security and Privacy . The World Economic Forum has launched a Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) in India.
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Q. Examine the status of forest resources of India and its resultant impact on climate change. (15 marks)
Indian State of Forest Report (ISFR) survey released in 2019 accounts almost 24.5% of area held by forests. The Government of India has a target of 33% to be reached within the next few years. Key forest resources include Timber, leaves, medicinal plants, food plants and honey etc.
▪️Status of forest resources and impact on climate change:
✅ Pan India degradation of Forests: with respect to quality and acreage. E.g.: north east India showed a decline in first cover.
✅ Large scale deforestation due to commercial activity, mining, clearing for agriculture and development projects.
✅ Marginal increase in Mangrove cover by 88 sq. km. but Sundarbans has seen a decline in mangrove acreage due to shrimp farming and clearing for agriculture.
✅ India intends to create a carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes by 2030 but at present, degradation of forests is doing otherwise.
✅ A report by TERI points at a 1% loss in GDP due to forest degradation.
✅ There has been an increased instance of flooding, water scarcity and man animal conflict pointing to worsening condition of forests
✅ Forests in India support over 250 million people with lives and livelihood.
▪️Steps taken for afforestation:
✅ CAMPA funds to fund National afforestation program
✅ Partnership with Global Institutions on REDD and REDD+
✅ India’s commitments under INDCs and increased mix of renewables in energy basket
✅ Bonn Challenge: Global effort to bring 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land into restoration by 2020 and 350 million by 2030
Forests provide a host of services- development, regulatory and provisional. Being the 4th most vulnerable country to environmental disasters, Forest Conservation stands as a survival necessity and needs multi-faceted and multi stakeholder action.
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* Manufacturing Boost: Promoting growth in the manufacturing sector can absorb a larger portion of the workforce and drive economic development.
* Entrepreneurship: Encouraging entrepreneurship can create new jobs and stimulate innovation.
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✅The first component of the model requires effective charter implementation thereby opening up a channel for receiving citizens’ inputs into the way in which organizations determine service delivery requirements.
✅ The second component of the model, ‘Public Grievance Redress’ requires a good grievance redress system operating in a manner that leaves the citizen more satisfied with how the organization responds to complaints/grievances, irrespective of the final decision.
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Q. The political and administrative reorganization of states and territories has been a continuous ongoing process since the mid-nineteenth century. Discuss with examples. (10 Marks)
✅ British government reorganised states and territories into various provinces for administrative
efficiency and political significance.
▪️British government carved following provinces:
✅ Central Provinces: Created in 1861 from Nagpur Province.
✅ Assam: separated from Bengal in 1874 as the North-East Frontier province.
✅ Andaman and Nicobar Islands: established as a province in 1875.
✅ North-West Frontier Province: created in 1901 from Punjab Province.
✅ Eastern Bengal and Assam: created in 1905 upon the partition of Bengal.
✅ Britisher followed policy of divide and rule on the basis race, religion, language which is impacting Indian polity till date leading to various reorganization.
▪️Political and administrative reasons for reorganization:
✅ In 1953, a separate state Andhra Pradesh was forcefully established for Telugu speaking people.
✅ Fazl Ali Commission recommended creation of states based on language.
✅ Reorganisation of States acts 1956 re-established the boundaries of Indian territories and states based on regional language.
✅ Separation of Maharashtra and Gujarat due to political reason
✅ Creation of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand for administrative efficiency and development.
✅ Recently, Telengana was created to address development deficit
▪️Present scenario:
✅ Demand for creation of Vidharbha & Marathwada in Maharastra and Surashtra & Kutch in Gujarat for development
✅ Demand for creation of Gorkhaland, Bodoland and Greater Nagaland for political reasons
✅ Demand for creation of Dravidland for ethnic and political reasons
▪️Way Forward:
✅ Economic and social viability rather than political considerations must be given primacy.
✅ It is better to allow democratic concerns like development, decentralisation and governance rather than religion, caste, language or dialect to be the valid bases for conceding the demands for a new state.
Q. Evaluate the policies of Lord Curzon and their long-term implications on the national movement.
Lord Curzon served as India’s Viceroy between 1899 and 1905. He represented the peak of the imperialist tendency who largely focused around institutionalising paramountcy and checking the anti-British movement. This reactionary approach gave the national movement a mass push.
▪️The Policies of Lord Curzon:
✅ Calcutta Corporation Act,1899: Reduced the number of elected Indian members.
✅ Ancient Monuments Act, 1904: Aimed to protect the important monuments.
✅ Educational Reforms,1904: The real motive was to control the voices coming from the university, and to suppress them.
✅ Partition of Bengal: Considered as one of the major drawbacks of Curzon. Its aim was to divide Bengal into a
communal division.
✅ Agricultural Reforms: The Punjab Land Seizure Act in 1900 & The Co-operative Credit Union Act in 1904.
✅ Railways: He also abolished the railway department. He organized the Railway administration on a commercial
line with the objective of earning profit.
Foreign policies of Lord Curzon:
With Afghan: Motivated by fears of Russian expansion.
With Tibet: Curzon broke the 1890 trade relations between Tibet and British India.
With the Northwest Frontier: Curzon pursued a policy of consolidating and protecting British-occupied
territories in the North-West.
With Persia: Curzon personally visited the gulf in 1903 to protect the British interest by getting their
support.
The Implication of Lord Curzon Policy:
Positive:
Rise in Nationalist sentiments like the Swadeshi and Vande Mataram Movement.
Curzon’s anti-Indian policies helped India gain the support of the Indian diaspora.
✅ Curzon’s policies made Indians proud of their rich heritage and the inferiority complex of Indians was greatly
reduced
✅ It strengthened the nationalist feelings of the Indians, and the request for swaraj became more intense.
✅ Many factories, schools, and colleges were opened. Such gives step gave Indians the confidence to be self-reliant.
▪️Negative:
✅ It was his policy that gaves birth to the divide and rule policy in India.
✅ It led to the rise of extremism in the Indian National Congress.
Though Curzon’s courses of actions had caused a great amount of resent-ment among the Indians, yet unknowingly, it created a national awakening and religious renaissance as well.
Q. What are the major challenges of Public Distribution System (PDS) in India? How can it be made
effective and transparent? [150 Words]
The concept of Public Distribution System (PDS) in the country evolved during the 2nd World War (1942) due to the shortage of food grains. PDS has evolved as a system of management of scarcity and for distribution of food grains at affordable prices. PDS is incremental in nature and is not intended to make available the entire requirement of any of the commodities distributed under it.
▪️The PDS faces certain challenges mentioned below:
✅Most of the states distribute only wheat and rice under PDS resulting in deficiency of nutrients among poor
✅ The food grains distributed under PDS lacks in quality
✅Inadequate storage capacity with FCI leads to wastage of food grains
✅Centralized procurement leads to transport of food grains from surplus states to deficit states leading to
wastage of Govt.’s resources
✅FCI’s procurement of only wheat and rice has distorted the cropping pattern
▪️Taking a cue from the recommendations of the Shanta Kumar Committee, it can be made more effective and transparent in the following ways:
✅FCI should hand over the procurement operations to states
✅The coverage of beneficiaries should be brought down from the present 67% to 40%
✅FCI should outsource its stocking operations to private sector and other agencies
✅ Liquidation of stocks should automatically kick-in when FCI is faced with surplus stocks than buffer norms
✅ End to end computerization of the entire food management system, starting from procurement from farmers, to stocking, movement and finally distribution through TPDS
It’s time to introduce DBT in procurement and distribution of food grains and FCI should keep only a minimum level of buffer stock for food security purpose.
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Q. Pala period is the most significant phase in the history of Buddhism in India. Enumerate. (Answer in 150 words)
The Pala period, spanning from the 8th to the 12th centuries, marks a pivotal chapter in the evolution of Buddhism in India. This epoch is characterized by the remarkable resurgence and growth of the religion under the auspices of the Pala dynasty, whose rulers were staunch patrons of Buddhism.
▪️Some of the key reasons for the significance of the Pala period are:
✅Patronage of Buddhism: Pala kings, such as Dharmapala and Devapala, were devout Buddhists and supported the religion through the establishment and maintenance of monasteries, temples, and educational institutions.
✅Development of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism: These new schools of thought provided fresh impetus to the religion, leading to an increased number of followers and a deepening of Buddhist practices.
✅Establishment of renowned monastic universities: The Pala kings were instrumental in the establishment of famous monastic universities, such as Nalanda, Vikramashila, and Odantapuri. These institutions attracted scholars and students from across the Indian subcontinent and beyond, making them significant centers of learning, scholarship, and cultural exchange.
✅Proliferation of Buddhist art and architecture: The Pala school of art, which emerged during this period, is known for its distinct style and fine craftsmanship.
✅ Spread of Buddhism beyond India: The transmission of Buddhist teachings, texts, and art forms to these regions can be largely attributed to the patronage and support provided by the Pala rulers.
✅Preservation of Buddhist texts: Monks and scholars at institutions like Nalanda and Vikramashila undertook the task of translating Buddhist texts from Sanskrit into other languages, thereby ensuring the survival and dissemination of Buddhist knowledge.
Conclusion: The Pala period was a highly significant phase in the history of Buddhism in India. The Pala dynasty's patronage, along with the development of new schools of thought, the establishment of renowned monastic universities, and the spread of Buddhism beyond India, all contributed to the growth and impact of Buddhism during this time.
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✅It refers to the constitutionally allocated distribution of powers between two or more levels of government ie at national, provincial, state or local level.
✅ Features :
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🔸 Financial autonomy of each
🔸 Promote unity and regional diversity
🔸 Two or more tiers of government
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✅ Strengthening :
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🔸 Financial devolution reforms
🔸 Role of state government in covid 19 crisis.
🔸 formation of bodies like niti aayog & gst council.
✅ Weakening :
🔸 Rising regional demands
🔸 Arbitrariness- misuse of office of governors
🔸 Economic incapabilities
🔸 Developmental narratives- one nation one market, one nation one grid etc
✅ Reforms :
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