| Part I |
| Political Theory and Indian Politics |
| Politicaltheory meaning and approaches |
| Theories of the state:Liberal, Neoliberal, Marxist, Pluralist, Post-colonial and feminist. |
| Justice: Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawl’s theory of justice and its communitarian critiques. |
| Equality: Social, political and economic;relationship between equality and freedom; Affirmative action. |
| Rights: Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights; concept of Human Rights. |
| Democracy: Classical and contemporary theories; different models of democracy –representative, participatory and deliberative. |
| Concept of power, hegemony, ideology and legitimacy. |
| Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism and Feminism. |
| Indian Political Thought: Dharamshastra, Arthashastra and Buddhist traditions; Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, S r i Aurobindo, M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar,M.N. Roy . |
| Western Political Thought: Plato ,Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, John,S. Mill, Marx, Gramsci, Hannah Arendt. |
| Indian Government and politics |
| Indian Nationalism: Political Strategies of India’s Freedom struggle : constitutionalism to mass Satyagraha, Non-cooperation, Civil Disobedience ; millitant and revolutionary movements, Peasant and workers’ movements. Perspectives on Indian National Movement: Liberal, Socialist and Marxist; Radical humanist and Dalit. |
| Making of the Indian Constitution: Legacies of the British rule; different social and political perspectives. |
| 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. |
| Principal Organs of the Union Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature and Supreme Court. Principal Organs of the State Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, Legislature and High Courts. |
| Grassroots Democracy: Panchayati Raj and Municipal Government; significance of 73rd and 74th Amendments; Grassroot movements. |
| Statutory Inst i tut ions/Commissions: Election Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General, Finance Commission, Union Public Service Commission, National Commission for Scheduled Castes, National Comission for scheduled Tribes, National Commission for Women; National Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Minorities, National Backward Classes Commission. |
| Federalism: Constitutional provisions; changing nature of centre-state relations; integrationist tendencies and regional aspirations; inter-state disputes. |
| 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. |
| Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics |
| Party System: National and regional political parties, ideological and social bases of parties; patterns of coalition politics; Pressure groups, trends in electoral behaviour; changing socio- economic profile of Legislators. |
| Social Movements: Civil liberties and human rights movements; women’s movements; environmentalist movements |
