Indian Administration – UPSC Civils IAS MainExamination Topic wise Comprehensive Material

1. “The rule of kings depends primarily on written orders “why did Kautilya favour codification of Laws (2010/II la/20)

2. Comment on the view that despite different contexts, administrative maxims of Kautilya’s Arthashastra bear considerable similarity with features of Weber’s ideal bureaucratic model. (2009/20)

3. “Kautilya was not only the foremost politico-administrative thinker of ancient India but he was an advocate and preacher of moral values too.” Comment. (2007/20)

4. “In the happiness of his subjects lies the king’s happiness; in their welfare his welfare.” Comment on Kautilyan state administration.In what respects is modern democratic rulers’ behaviour different from Kaut ilyan rulers (2006/20)

5. “The Arthashastra is India’s oldest complete text on’ public administration.” Comment. (2003/20)

6. “The machinery of government designed in Kautilya’sArthashastra does not exactly resemble our modern-day polity, but it does contain some principles which could be said to be the part of today’s science of public administration.” Comment (2001/20)

7. “Kautilya’s Arhashastra has significant relevance to the contemporary Indian administration.” Comment. (1998/20)

8. “The principles in Arthshastra do not command as much of our attention as the delineation of the machinery ofadministration in it It reveals the authors mastery of detail, which could have developed only as a result ofhis actual experience ofadministration.’ Comment. (1990/20)

9. “It is not possible to maintain that the administrative system, described in Arthashastra was in actual existence during the Mouryan period’. Comment. (1987/20)

1. Some Administration, in essence, do exist in Indian Administration. Elaborate. (2008/20)

2. “The Mughal Administrative system was a military rule by nature and was centralized despotism.” comment. (2005/20)

3. Trace the evolution  of Judicial Administration in India during the Mughal and of Indian History and highlight the major landmarks of this evolution from 1774 to 1991.(89/11/2/60)

4. Iqtac the lowest unit of administration during the sultanate period was sub-divided Shigs The Shiqdar administered a number of Paraganas “AChaudhari in every.paragana and a Patwari in every village Constituted the Local administration. Comment. (1988/20)

1. is said that the British made a significant contribution towards modernising the Indian Administrative system on a rational legal” basis. Justify the assessment with reference to the period from 1830 to 1865, (2010/30)

2. “Bureaucracy developed by the British stifled the village self-rule. Comment (09/11/la/20)

3. “The main features of British governmental and administrative system continue to influence the present Administrative system.” Comment (2004/20)

4. “Though India emerged as a sovereign state after Independence, he administrative system remained the same as was during the British period. Comment. (2003/20)

5. .”After independence, despite the change in soda-economic and political milieu, the basic features of colonial impact on administration continues to exist in our administrative system.” Comment (2002/60)

6. “The period of British rule generated most of the structural and behavioural values of Indian Administration not by imitation but tnrough interaction.” Comment, (2000/20)

7. “Under the Company’s rule a distinction was drawn between Regulation and Non-Regulation Provinces. Comment. (1997/20)

8. “It is not wholly correct to suggest that British rule had seriously attempted to bring aboutunity in India’s administration.” Comment. (1996/20)

9. “The purpose of Clive’s famous ‘double government’ was to mask Company’s sovereignty.”(1995/20)

10. Trace the evolution of Judicial Administration in India during the British period and highlight the legacies that persist and the judicial reforms that have followed during the Twentieth Century. (1993/60)

11. “The generalist-neutralist model of Civil Service, more than any other model of Civil service, fits in framework of parliamentary democracy in India, a legacy of the British pattern with which Indians have been familiar.” Comment. (1993/20)

12. “The British colonial administration superimposed the prefectorial system on the historically inherited district administration in India, in the absence of rural local governments at the district level.”Comment (1993/20)

13. ‘Lord Ripon was the prophet of local government in India.” Comment. (1992/20)

14. “The proposals of the Royal Commission on Decentralisation (1907-1909) did little more than echo the resolution ofMay, 1882, yet even such entirely conservative reforms were postponed for a further ten years: the last of the years ofopportunity for British statesmen and officials -and they passed away unused.’ Comment. (1990/20)

15. “The Cabinet Committees provide a useful forum for interface between officials and non-officials in participatory situation in “Policy Administration” in a Parliamentary Democracy”. Comment. (1989 /20)

16. ‘Lord Ripon’s Resolution of 1882 has been described as the Magna Carta of Local Self-Government in India. It was a Policy Statement and marked a fundamental change in the basic approach. Comment (1989/20)

17. “The formative stage ofadministration, preceding the Indian mutiny of1857 witnessed a struggle between the “Cormwallis’and “Munro’schools of district administration.” Comment. (88 i 1/5a 20)

18. Trace the evolution of the system of Public Administration in India from 1858 to 1919, highlighting the major landmarks of this period of administrative history.(1987/60)