Political Science · Indian Political Thought
UGC NET November 2021 Political Science
Match List I (Books) with List II (Author) and choose the correct answer from the options given below.
List I
- Fatwa-i-Jahandari
- Thoughts on Linguistic States
- India Independent
- The Future of Indian Politics
List II
- Charles Bettelheim
- M.N. Roy
- Ziauddin Barani
- B.R. Ambedkar
AI-a, II-b, III-c, IV-d
BI-d, II-c, III-b, IV-a
CI-c, II-d, III-a, IV-b ✓ Correct
DI-b, II-a, III-d, IV-c
Correct answer: (C) I-c, II-d, III-a, IV-b — The correct match is I-c, II-d, III-a, IV-b.
Explanation
★The correct match is I-c, II-d, III-a, IV-b.
★Fatwa-i-Jahandari was written by Ziauddin Barani, advising Muslim rulers on the ideals of a Shari'ah-based polity.
★Thoughts on Linguistic States was written by B.R. Ambedkar in 1955, weighing the case for reorganising states on linguistic lines.
★India Independent was written by the French economist Charles Bettelheim in 1962, analysing India's early post-independence economic development.
★The Future of Indian Politics was written by M.N. Roy in 1929, assessing Indian politics in the early twentieth century.
★Barani belongs to the medieval Delhi Sultanate, while the other three authors are modern figures, which helps separate them.
★Ambedkar ultimately favoured linguistic states with safeguards, a debate central to the 1950s reorganisation of India.
★Ambedkar favoured linguistic states on the principle of one state, one language, not one language, one state.
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