Political Science · Political Institutions in India
UGC NET June 2019 Political Science
Match List-I (Author) with List-II (Book) and select the correct answer from the codes given below.
List I
- I. Granville Austin
- II. Morris Jones
- III. MV Pylee
- IV. Ivor Jenning
List II
- a. The Government and Politics of India
- b. Some Characteristics of Indian Constitution
- c. The Indian Constitution Cornerstone of Nation
- d. Constitution Government in India
AI-c, II-a, III-d, IV-b ✓ Correct
BI-a, II-d, III-a, IV-c
CI-c, II-a, III-b, IV-d
DI-c, II-b, III-a, IV-d
Correct answer: (A) I-c, II-a, III-d, IV-b — The correct match pairs Granville Austin with Cornerstone of a Nation, Morris Jones with The Government and Politics of India, M.V. Pylee with Constitutional Government in India, and Ivor Jennings…
Explanation
★The correct match pairs Granville Austin with Cornerstone of a Nation, Morris Jones with The Government and Politics of India, M.V. Pylee with Constitutional Government in India, and Ivor Jennings with Some Characteristics of the Indian Constitution, which is option (1).
★Granville Austin wrote The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation, published in 1966, on the making of the Constitution.
★It remains the standard study of how the Constituent Assembly framed the Constitution.
★W.H. Morris Jones wrote The Government and Politics of India, first published in 1971.
★It offers a clear and concise overview of the contemporary Indian political system.
★M.V. Pylee wrote Constitutional Government in India, released in 1977, exploring the growth of constitutionalism in India.
★Pylee was an Indian scholar known for his detailed studies of the working of the Constitution.
★Sir Ivor Jennings wrote Some Characteristics of the Indian Constitution, published in 1953.
★That book compiled the lectures Jennings delivered at the University of Madras in March 1952.
★Jennings was a British constitutional lawyer who was often critical of the length and detail of the Indian Constitution.
★Austin, by contrast, was broadly admiring of the Constitution's design and its social goals.
★Morris Jones and Pylee both wrote standard textbooks widely used in the study of Indian government.
★Matching authors to their best known works is a recurring style of question in this area.
★These four works together represent some of the foundational scholarship on the Indian Constitution.
★For NET, fix Austin with Cornerstone of a Nation, Morris Jones with The Government and Politics of India, Pylee with Constitutional Government in India, and Jennings with Some Characteristics of the Indian Constitution.
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