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Rights: Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights; Concept of Human Rights (PSIR PYQs)
| Year | Question | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | "Rights of the man are separate and independent of the State." Critically analyze the perspective of Laski. (20 marks) | View answer |
| 2024 | The debate on human rights is caught between the limitations of both universalism and cultural relativism. Comment. | View answer |
| 2023 | Comment on multicultural perspective on rights. | View answer |
| 2022 | Human Rights are complex and contested social practice that organises relations between individuals, society and the State. Comment. | View answer |
| 2022 | Write on the Cultural Relativism. | View answer |
| 2021 | Can there be universal conception of human rights? Give your arguments. | View answer |
| 2020 | Assess the significance of right to property in political theory. | View answer |
| 2019 | Discuss the doctrine of 'rights as trumps'. | View answer |
| 2018 | What do you understand by three generations of Human Rights? | View answer |
| 2017 | What do you understand by Multiculturalism 7 Discuss Bhikhu Parekh's views on Multiculturalism. | View answer |
| 2016 | "The implementation of human rights is regarded as a matter of changing the conduct of States." Comment. | View answer |
| 2015 | Comment in 150 words: Idea of Natural Rights. | View answer |
| 2013 | Analyse the relation between natural rights and human rights. | View answer |
| 2013 | Explain Berlin's notion of value pluralism. | View answer |
| 2012 | Examine the multi -. cultural perspectives on rights. | View answer |
| 2010 | Critically examine the cultural relativist approach to human rights. | View answer |
| 2009 | Explain as to why Jeremy Bentham dismisses the theory of natural rights as 'nonsense upon stilts.' | View answer |
| 2008 | "Human rights are basic moral guarantees that people in all countries and cultures possess, simply because they are people". Explain the statement. | View answer |
| 2002 | Discuss the evolution of the theories of human rights from natural rights to collective and environmental rights. | View answer |
Syllabus unit: Rights
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