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UPSC CSE Political Theory — practice questions — page 22

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Kosovo, before the split, was a province of:Read the answer and worked solution →The Serb nationalist leader whose government carried out the Kosovo massacre was:Read the answer and worked solution →Milosevic was tried for crimes against humanity by the:Read the answer and worked solution →Rights are reasonable claims of persons recognised by society and:Read the answer and worked solution →The Indian Constitution provides for how many Fundamental Rights?Read the answer and worked solution →Laws applying in the same manner to all regardless of status is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Constitution says reservations for backward classes are:Read the answer and worked solution →In 1999, which journalist wrote a series in The Hindu on untouchability still practised against Dalits?Read the answer and worked solution →Police detain a man at night. Within how many hours must they bring him before the nearest magistrate?Read the answer and worked solution →Forced labour rendered free or at nominal pay is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Constitution prohibits employing in factories or mines a child below the age of:Read the answer and worked solution →A secular state is one that:Read the answer and worked solution →Indian secularism practises an attitude of what towards all religions?Read the answer and worked solution →Every person has a right to profess, practice and:Read the answer and worked solution →Which right did Dr Ambedkar call the heart and soul of the Constitution?Read the answer and worked solution →The National Human Rights Commission was set up by law in:Read the answer and worked solution →The NHRC is appointed by the:Read the answer and worked solution →As on 10 December 2018, State Human Rights Commissions existed in how many states?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the freedomsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the life without rightsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the rights numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the rights wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Allowed or bannedRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the rightsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Democratic rights bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Political theory has its roots in two unique human capacities: reason and the ability to:Read the answer and worked solution →The objective of political theory is to train citizens to:Read the answer and worked solution →Who observed that politics envelops us like the coils of a snake, leaving no way out but to wrestle with it?Read the answer and worked solution →Politics arises from the fact that people have different visions of what is:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Kosovo, before the split, was a province of:

  1. Bulgaria
  2. Romania
  3. Yugoslavia
  4. Albania
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Correct answer: C. Yugoslavia

1. Its population was overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian. 2. It was part of Yugoslavia. 3. Serbs were the majority in the whole country. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics I, Chapter 5, Democratic Rights._

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The Serb nationalist leader whose government carried out the Kosovo massacre was:

  1. Ceausescu
  2. Gorbachev
  3. Brezhnev
  4. Milosevic
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Correct answer: D. Milosevic

1. He had won an election. 2. Milosevic wanted Serb dominance. 3. He later lost power. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics I, Chapter 5, Democratic Rights._

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Milosevic was tried for crimes against humanity by the:

  1. International Court of Justice
  2. United Nations Security Council
  3. Supreme Court of Yugoslavia
  4. European Union Parliament
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Correct answer: A. International Court of Justice

1. Other countries intervened to stop the massacre. 2. He was tried by the International Court of Justice. 3. A democratically elected leader can still violate rights. _Source: syllabus Democratic Politics I, Chapter 5, Democratic Rights._

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