Political Science · Political Institutions in India
UGC NET July 2018 Political Science
Who amongst the following provided a link between pre and post independence institutional framework to study Indian politics?
ARajni Kothari
BMyron Weiner
CMorris Jones ✓ Correct
DPaul R. Brass
Correct answer: (C) Morris Jones — The scholar who provided a link between the pre and post independence institutional frameworks for studying Indian politics was W.H. Morris Jones, which is option (3).
Explanation
★The scholar who provided a link between the pre and post independence institutional frameworks for studying Indian politics was W.H. Morris Jones, which is option (3).
★Morris Jones explored the continuity between colonial and independent India's institutions through his extensive research.
★In his work Parliament in India he analysed the socio economic backgrounds of the members of India's first Parliament.
★He showed how these backgrounds influenced political processes in the new democracy.
★His other writings include The Government and Politics of India, Politics Mainly Indian, and Decolonisation and After.
★Together these works give a comprehensive view of India's political transition from British rule.
★He is also famous for describing the languages or idioms of Indian politics as the modern, the traditional and the saintly.
★This framework explained how different styles of political communication coexisted in India.
★The option Rajni Kothari is wrong, since he is associated with the idea of the Congress system of one party dominance.
★The option Myron Weiner is wrong, since he was an American scholar known for studies of political participation and party building in India.
★The option Paul R. Brass is wrong, since he focused on ethnicity, language and the politics of northern India.
★Morris Jones was a British political scientist who became a leading authority on Indian government.
★His emphasis on institutional continuity makes him the natural answer to a question about linking the two eras.
★His work bridged the study of colonial constitutional reforms with the working of independent India's Parliament.
★For NET, attach the study of institutional continuity across Independence, and the idioms of Indian politics, to W.H. Morris Jones.
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