POLITICAL SCIENCE & 9.

Indian Political Thought

a. Dharmashastra
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS b. Arthashastra
c. Buddhist traditions
Paper 1
d. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Part 1: Political Theory and Indian e. Sri Aurobindo
Politics: f. M.K. Gandhi
g. B.R. Ambedkar
1. Political Theory: meaning and h. M.N. Roy
approaches 10. Western Political Thought:
2. Theories of the State: a. Plato
a. Liberal b. Aristotle
b. Neoliberal c. Machiavelli
c. Marxist d. Hobbes
d. Pluralist e. Locke
e. Post-colonial f. John S. Mill
f. Feminist g. Marx
3. Justice: h. Gramsci
a. Conceptions of justice with i. Hannah Arendt.
special reference to Rawls'
theory of justice and its
communitarian critiques
4. Equality:
a. Social, political and economic
b. relationship between equality
freedom;
c. Affirmative action.
5. Rights:
a. Meaning and theories;
b. different kinds of rights;
c. concept of Human Rights
6. Democracy:
a. Classical and contemporary
theories;
b. different models of democracy
i. representative,
ii. participatory
iii. deliberative
7. Concept of power, hegemony,
ideology and legitimacy
8. Political Ideologies:
a. Liberalism
b. Socialism
c. Marxism,
d. Fascism
e. Gandhism
f. Feminism
 b. significance of
73rd and 74th Amendments;
Part 2: Indian Government and Politics: c. Grassroot movements.
1. Indian Nationalism: 7. Statutory Institutions/Commissions:
a. Political Strategies of India’s a. Election Commission
Freedom Struggle: b. Comptroller and Auditor
i. Constitutionalism General
to mass Satyagraha c. Finance Commission
ii. Non-cooperation d. Union Public Service
iii. Civil Disobedience Commission
iv. Militant and e. National Commission for
revolutionary Scheduled Castes
movements f. National Commission for
v. Peasant and workers’ Scheduled Tribes
movements. g. National Commission for
b. Perspectives on Indian Women
National Movement: h. National Human Rights
i. Liberal, Socialist and Commission
Marxist; Radical i. National Commission for
humanist and Dalit. Minorities
2. Making of the Indian Constitution: j. National Backward Classes
a. Legacies of the British rule Commission.
b. different social and political 8. Federalism:
perspectives. a. Constitutional provisions;
3. Salient Features of the Indian b. changing nature of centre-
Constitution: state relations;
a. The Preamble c. integrationist tendencies and
b. Fundamental Rights & Duties regional aspirations
c. Directive Principles d. inter-state disputes.
d. Parliamentary System and 9. Planning and Economic Development:
Amendment Procedures a. Nehruvian and Gandhian
e. Judicial Review and Basic perspectives
Structure doctrine. b. Role of planning and public
4. Principal Organs of the Union sector
Government: c. Green Revolution
a. Envisaged role and actual d. Land reforms and agrarian
working of the Executive, relations;
Legislature and Supreme e. Liberalisation and economic
Court. reforms
5. Principal Organs of the State 10. Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian
Government: Politics
a. Envisaged role and actual 11. Party System:
working of the Executive, a. National and regional political
Legislature and High Courts parties
6. Grassroots Democracy: b. Ideological and social bases of
a. Panchayati Raj and Municipal parties
Government c. Patterns of coalition politics
d. Pressure groups
 e. Trends in electoral
behaviour
f. Changing socio- economic
profile of Legislators.
12. Social Movements:
a. Civil liberties and human
rights movements
b. Women’s movements
c. environmentalist movements.
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Paper 2: COMPARATIVE POLITICS & d. nuclear threat;

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS e. Non-aligned movement: Aims
and achievements;
Part 1: Comparative Political Analysis
f. Collapse of the Soviet Union;
and International Politics g. Unipolarity and American
1. Comparative Politics: hegemony;
a. Nature and major approaches; h. relevance of
b. Political economy and political non-alignment in the
sociology perspectives; contemporary world
c. Limitations of the comparative 8. Evolution of the International
method. Economic System:
2. State in comparative perspective: a. From Bretton Woods to WTO;
a. Characteristics and changing b. Socialist economies and the
nature of the State in capitalist CMEA (Council for Mutual
and socialist economies and Economic Assistance);
advanced industrial and c. Third World demand for new
developing societies international economic order;
3. Politics of Representation and d. Globalisation of the world
Participation: economy.
a. Political parties pressure 9. United Nations:
groups and social movements a. Envisaged role and actual
in advanced industrial and record;
developing societies. b. specialized UN agencies-aims
4. Globalisation: Responses from and functioning;
developed and developing societies c. need for UN reforms.
5. Approaches to the Study of 10. Regionalisation of World Politics:
International Relations: a. EU
a. Idealist b. ASEAN
b. Realist c. APEC
c. Marxist d. SAARC
d. Functionalist and Systems e. NAFTA
theory 11. Contemporary Global Concerns:
6. Key concepts in International a. Democracy
Relations: b. human rights
a. National interest c. environment
b. Security and power d. gender justice
c. Balance of power and e. terrorism
deterrence f. nuclear proliferation.
d. Transnational actors and
collective security
e. World capitalist economy and
globalisation
7. Changing International Political Order:
a. Rise of superpowers
b. strategic and ideological
Bipolarity
Part 2: India and the World 8. Recent developments in the Indian
Foreign Policy:
1. Indian Foreign Policy: a. India’s position on the recent
a. Determinants of foreign policy crises in Afghanistan, Iraq and
b. institutions of policy-making West Asia
c. continuity and change b. Growing relations with the US
2. India’s Contribution to the Non- and Israel
Alignment Movement: c. Vision of a new world order
a. Different phases
b. current role.
3. India and South Asia
a. Regional Cooperation:
i. SAARC: past
performances and
future prospects
b. South Asia as a Free Trade
Area
c. India’s “Look East” Policy
d. Impediments to regional
cooperation:
i. River water disputes
ii. Illegal Cross border
migration
iii. Ethnic conflicts and
insurgencies
iv. Border disputes
4. India and the Global South:
a. Relations with Africa and Latin
America
b. Leadership role in the demand
for NIEO and WTO
negotiations
5. India and the Global Centres of Power:
a. USA
b. EU
c. Japan
d. China
e. Russia
6. India and the UN System:
a. Role in the UN Peace keeping
b. Demand for permanent Seat
in the Security Council
7. India and the Nuclear Question
a. Changing perceptions and
policy