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STATE POLITICS IN INDIA (MPSE-008)
TUTOR MARKED ASSIGNMENT
Course Code: MPSE-008
Assignment Code: /Asst/TMA/2023-24
Marks: 100
Answer five questions in all, selecting at least two questions from each section. Each
question is to be answered in about 500 words. Each question carries 20 marks.
SECTION-I
1. Discuss how different frameworks are applied to the study of identities and new social
movements in state politics.
2. Critically analyse the adequacy of nationalist responses to different kinds of diversity in
India.
3. The party systems at both levels – national and state moved towards a fragmentation from
the late 1980s or, more particularly, from the 1990s. What are the features of these
fragmentary systems?
4. Contextualise the water and territorial disputes in relation to federalism in India.
5. Explain the various phases of state autonomy movements in India.
SECTION-II
Write a short note on each part of the following question in about 250 words:
6. (a) Tension areas in the Union-State relations
(b) Reorganisation of states in independent India
7. (a) Efforts made for electoral reforms
(b) Decline of Congress system
8. (a) Patterns of protest movements
(b) India’s policy of economic reforms
9. (a) Regional disparities
(b) Limitations of land reforms
10. (a) Communal Politics and Communal Violence Today
(b) Linguistic minorities
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