Name of the University : Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Department : Department of Humanities and Social sciences
Degree : PHD
Document Type : Sample Question Paper
Name of the Subject : Development Studies
Website : iitg.ac.in
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Development Studies Sample Paper :
1. Discuss the issues raised by the various movements against hydropower projects across India, and the model of development that they put forward.(25)
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2. Discuss the background of the Green Revolution.What are the benefits and costs of Green Revolution?(5 +20)
English :
1. Attempt a critical assessment of any two schools of literary theory.
2. Examine the significance of Indian Writing in English in contemporary literary and academic fields. Your answer must be in the context, and should incorporate discussion, of the works of any one significant writer of your choice.
3. Write a comprehensive and critical note on any one of the following topics. Your note must trace the historical trajectories, the several authors and their important works associated with the genres and the influences of these on contemporary and subsequent period/s of literature.
a. Elizabethan Drama
b. Romantic Poetry
c. Victorian Novel
d. Absurd Drama
History :
1. Write a short essay on your research interests for a Ph.D degree. Section 2 (Write any one)
2. The historian?s craft involves “a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts, an unending dialogue between the present and the past”. Elaborate on this statement.
3. To what extent can you describe history as fiction?
4. Can visual artefacts become sources of writing history? Give examples from your chosen area of research.
5. Do you think historians will benefit from insights drawn from other disciplines? Discuss with reference to any one.
6. Discuss the ways in which Bombay cinema has contributed to the idea of an Indian nation.
7. Discuss some major historiographical trends of recent times which have significantly redefined our understanding of history.
8. Is it possible that new environmental histories have complicated our understanding of Indian history?
9. Discuss any relevant source in Indian languages which might be important for your chosen area of research.
Linguistics :
1. Briefly describe language contact phenomenon, emphasize on the most notable outcomes of such contact.Point out some interesting features of language contact in India and why they are different.
2.What is a creole? Differentiate between pidgins and creoles. How does innateness hypothesis find a support in the development of creoles?
3.Describe complementary and contrastive distribution of sounds. How can they help in determining phonemes and allophones? Explain with examples.
4.How do formants help in determining vowel quality? Explain with examples.
5.Please write the IPA symbols for the following descriptions a. Voiceless, alveolar, stop b. voiced, labio-dental, fricative c. high, back, rounded vowel d. Voiceless, glottal, fricative
6.Draw two constituent trees demonstrating the ambiguity in the sentence “Megha saw the elephant with a telescope”
7. Write short notes on: a) Speech perception b) Tone languages 2
8. What are the consonant sounds of English which fall in the following natural classes? Provide appropriate symbols. a) [+sonorant] b) [+continuant] d) [+coronal]
9. Draw the syllable structure of the following two words 3
i) a) balcony b) constant
ii) Show whether the two words obey the principles of a) Onset Maximization and b)Sonority sequencing
10. Explain with two relevant examples from Sapir (1933) which clearly show the „psychological reality of phonemes?.
11. Draw a diagram of the vocal tract and show all the places of articulation
Philosophy :
1. Write a note on Plato?s theory of knowledge with special emphasis on the doctrine of Forms and the Allegory of the Cave.
2. Critically examine Cartesian position on „cogito ergo sum? with reference to the Method of Doubt.
Write a critical note on Cartesian dualism or the philosophy of Mind-Body interactionism. How is mind related to the body?
3. Write short notes on any two of the following
(a) Distinction between phenomena and noumena in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (b )Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl ( c) Existentialism of Jean Paul Sartre .
I. Answer the following:
1. If “No flowers in the park are fragrant flowers” is false, write and find out the truth value of the other propositions.
2. Check the validity of the following:
A. Some popular policies are not welfare-centered policies because All growth-oriented policies are welfare-centered policies and Some popular policies are not growth-oriented policies.
B. All transgenic animals are manmade and hence they are patentable.