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Test Series Schedule: Political Science

This document provides the test series schedule for the Political Science exam. It includes the dates, times, and topics that will be covered for each paper of the exam. For Paper 1, topics like political theory, democracy, rights, and Indian and Western political thought will be discussed over three dates. For Paper 2 Section 1, topics involving comparative politics and international relations will be covered over three dates. Paper 2 Section 2 focuses on India and the world and will be discussed over two dates. Full practice tests will take place on two additional dates.

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Test Series Schedule: Political Science

This document provides the test series schedule for the Political Science exam. It includes the dates, times, and topics that will be covered for each paper of the exam. For Paper 1, topics like political theory, democracy, rights, and Indian and Western political thought will be discussed over three dates. For Paper 2 Section 1, topics involving comparative politics and international relations will be covered over three dates. Paper 2 Section 2 focuses on India and the world and will be discussed over two dates. Full practice tests will take place on two additional dates.

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TEST SERIES SCHEDULE

POLITICAL SCIENCE
PAPER-1, Section-1, Political Theory, Western and Indian
political thought:

14 SEPTEMBER 4 TO 7PM
1. Political Theory: meaning and approaches.
2. Theories of the State: Liberal, Neoliberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Post-colonial and feminist.
3. Justice: Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawls theory of justice and its
communitarian critiques.
4. Equality: Social, political and economic; relationship between equality and freedom;
Affirmative action.
5. Rights: Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights; concept of Human Rights.
6. Democracy: Classical and contemporary theories; different models of democracy
representative, participatory and deliberative.

21 SEPTEMBER 4 TO 7PM
7. Concept of power, hegemony, ideology and legitimacy.
8. Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism and Feminism.
9. Indian Political Thought : Dharamshastra, Arthashastra and Buddhist traditions; Sir Syed
Ahmed Khan, Sri Aurobindo, M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, M.N. Roy.
10. Western Political Thought: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, John S. Mill, Marx,
Gramsci, and Hannah Arendt.

DISCUSSION-27 SEPTEMBER, 12 TO 3 PM

PAPER-1, SECTION -2, Indian Government and Politics:


28 SEPTMBER 4 TO 7PM
1. Indian Nationalism:
(a) Political Strategies of Indias Freedom Struggle: Constitutionalism to mass Satyagraha, Noncooperation, Civil Disobedience; Militant and revolutionary movements, Peasant and workers
movements.
(b) Perspectives on Indian National Movement: Liberal, Socialist and Marxist; Radical humanist
and Dalit.
2. Making of the Indian Constitution: Legacies of the British rule; different social and political
perspectives.
3. Salient Features of the Indian Constitution: The Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Duties,
Directive Principles; Parliamentary System and Amendment Procedures; Judicial Review and
Basic Structure doctrine.
4. (a) Principal Organs of the Union Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the
Executive, Legislature and Supreme Court.
(b) Principal Organs of the State Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the
Executive, Legislature and High Courts.
5. Grassroots Democracy: Panchayati Raj and Municipal Government; significance of 73rd and
74th Amendments; Grassroot movements.
6. Statutory Institutions/Commissions: Election Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General,
Finance Commission, Union Public Service Commission, National Commission for Scheduled
Castes, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, National Commission for Women; National
Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Minorities, National Backward Classes
Commission

05 OCTOBER 4 TO 7PM
7. Federalism: Constitutional provisions; changing nature of centre-state relations; integrationist
tendencies and regional aspirations; inter-state disputes.
8. Planning and Economic Development : Nehruvian and Gandhian perspectives; role of
planning and public sector; Green Revolution, land reforms and agrarian relations; liberalilzation
and economic reforms.
9. Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics.
10. Party System: National and regional political parties, ideological and social bases of parties;
patterns of coalition politics; Pressure groups, trends in electoral behaviour; changing socioeconomic profile of Legislators.

11. Social Movements: Civil liberties and human rights movements; womens movements;
environmentalist movements.

DISCUSSION-04 OCTOBER, 12 TO 3PM


PAPER-2, SECTION -1, Comparative Political Analysis and International
Politics:

12 OCTOBER 4 TO 7PM
1. Comparative Politics: Nature and major approaches; political economy and political sociology
perspectives; limitations of the comparative method.
2. State in comparative perspective: Characteristics and changing nature of the State in capitalist
and socialist economies, and, advanced industrial and developing societies.
3. Politics of Representation and Participation: Political parties, pressure groups and social
movements in advanced industrial and developing societies.
4. Globalization: Responses from developed and developing societies.
5. Approaches to the Study of International Relations: Idealist, Realist, Marxist, Functionalist
and Systems theory.

19 OCOBER 4 TO 7PM
6. Key concepts in International Relations: National interest, Security and power; Balance of
power and deterrence; Transnational actors and collective security; World capitalist economy
and globalization.
7. Changing International Political Order:
(a) Rise of super powers; strategic and ideological Bipolarity, arms race and Cold War; nuclear
threat;
(b) Non-aligned movement: Aims and achievements;
(c) Collapse of the Soviet Union; Unipolarity and American hegemony; relevance of nonalignment in the contemporary world.
8. Evolution of the International Economic System: From Brettonwoods to WTO; Socialist
economies and the CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance); Third World demand for
new international economic order; Globalisation of the world economy.
9. United Nations: Envisaged role and actual record; specialized UN agencies-aims and
functioning; need for UN reforms.
10. Regionalisation of World Politics: EU, ASEAN, APEC, SAARC, NAFTA.

11. Contemporary Global Concerns: Democracy, human rights, environment, gender justice,
terrorism, nuclear proliferation.

DISCUSSION-18 OCTOBER, 12 TO 3PM


PAPER-2, SECTION -2, INDIA AND WORLD
26 OCTOBER 4 TO 7PM
1. Indian Foreign Policy: Determinants of foreign policy; institutions of policy-making;
continuity and change.
2. Indias Contribution to the Non-Alignment Movement: Different phases; current role.
3. India and South Asia:
(a) Regional Co-operation: SAARC past performance and future prospects.
(b) South Asia as a Free Trade Area.
(c) Indias Look East policy.
(d) Impediments to regional co-operation: river water disputes; illegal cross-border migration;
ethnic conflicts and insurgencies; border disputes.

02 NOVEMBER 4 TO 7PM
4. India and the Global South: Relations with Africa and Latin America; leadership role in the
demand for NIEO and WTO negotiations.
5. India and the Global Centres of Power: USA, EU, Japan, China and Russia.
6. India and the UN System: Role in UN Peace-keeping; demand for Permanent Seat in the
Security Council.
7. India and the Nuclear Question: Changing perceptions and policy.
8. Recent developments in Indian Foreign policy: Indias position on the recent crisis in
Afghanistan, Iraq and West Asia, growing relations with US and Israel; vision of a new world
order

DISCUSSION-1ST NOVEMBER, 4 TO 6PM


09 NOVEMBER 4 TO 7PM- FULL TEST
16 NOVEMBER 4 TO 7PM-FULL TEST

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