Rights: PSIR Optional PYQs (Topic-wise)

Rights: Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights; Concept of Human Rights (PSIR PYQs)

1. Discuss the evolution of the theories of human rights from natural rights to collective and environmental rights. (2002)
2. “Human rights are basic moral guarantees that people in all countries and cultures possess, simply because they are people”. Explain the statement. (2008)
3. Explain as to why Jeremy Bentham dismisses the theory of natural rights as ‘nonsense upon stilts.’ (2009)
4. Critically examine the cultural relativist approach to human rights. (2010)
5. Examine the multi -. cultural perspectives on rights. (2012)
6. Analyse the relation between natural rights and human rights. (2013)
7. Explain Berlin’s notion of value pluralism. (2013)
8. Comment in 150 words: Idea of Natural Rights. (2015)
9. “The implementation of human rights is regarded as a matter of changing the conduct of States.” Comment. (2016)
10. What do you understand by Multiculturalism 7 Discuss Bhikhu Parekh’s views on Multiculturalism. (2017)
11. What do you understand by three generations of Human Rights? (2018)
12. Discuss the doctrine of ‘rights as trumps’. (2019)
13. Assess the significance of right to property in political theory. (2020)
14. Can there be universal conception of human rights? Give your arguments. (2021)
15. Human Rights are complex and contested social practice that organises relations between individuals, society and the State. Comment. (2022)
16. Write on the Cultural Relativism. (2022)
17. Comment on multicultural perspective on rights. (2023)
18. The debate on human rights is caught between the limitations of both universalism and cultural relativism. Comment. (2024)