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Syllabus:Political
Science and International Relations
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Paper-I
Political Theory and Indian Politics
Section-A
1. Approaches to the study of political theory: historical,
normative and
empirical.
2. Theories of state: Social contract, Liberal, Neo-liberal,
Marxist,
communitarian, post-colonial.
3. State Sovereignty: Marxist and pluralistic theories;
globalisation and the
State.
4. Democracy and Human Rights: Democratic theory-classical and
contemporary.
Theories of Human Rights; Theories of Justice, Equality and
Revolution,
political obligation; New Social Movements.
5. Theories of Political Culture; Culture and politics in Third
World
countries.
6. Theories of Political Economy-Classical and contemporary.
7. Political Ideologies: Nature of Ideology; Liberalism, Socialism,
Marxism,
Fascism, Gandhism and Anarchism.
8. Theories of Power and Hegemony: Pareto, Mosca, Mitchels, C.
Wright Mills,
Weber, Gramsci, Hannah Arendt.
9. Indian Political Thought: Manu, Kautilya M.N. Roy Gandhi Ambedkar
and E V
Ramswami Naicker.
10. Political Thought: Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, J S
Mill, Hegel
and Marx, Lenin, Rosa Luxemberg and Mao Zedong.
Section-B
Indian Government and Politics
1. Indian Nationalism: Dadabhai Naoroji, Tilak, Savarkar,
Gandhi, Jayaprakash
Narain, Nehru, Subhas Bose, Ambedkar, Ram Manohar Lohia.
2. Nature and struggle of Indian freedom struggle : From
constitutionalism to
Mass Satyagraha, Revolutionary movements Non Co-operation, Civil
disobedience
and Quit India, Indian Naval uprising, Indian National Army; role of
women in
freedom struggle.
3. Socio- economic dimensions of the nationalist movement: The
communal
question and the demand for partition; backward caste movements,
Trade union
and Peasant movements, Civil rights movement.
4. Landmarks in Constitutional Development during British Rule:
Morley-Minto
Reforms; Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms; Simon Commission; Government of
India
Act, 1935; Cripps Mission : Indian Independence Act, 1947.
5. Salient Features of the Indian Constitution: The Preamble,
Fundamental
Rights and Duties, Directive Principles; federalism, parliamentary
system;
amending procedures; judicial review.
6. The Executive System in theory and practice: President, Prime
Minister and
the Council of Ministers; Governor, Chief Minister and the State
Council of
Ministers. The Bureaucracy.
7. Role and function of the Parliament and Parlimentary Committee-Lok
Sabha
and Rajya Sabha; changing socio economic profile.
8. The Supreme Court and the High Courts; Judicial Activism; PIL.
9. Statutory institutions/commis sions-UPSC, Election Commission,
Comptroller
and Auditor General, Backward Classes Commission, National
Commission for
women; National Human Rights Commission; Minorities Commission.
10. Party system : ideology and social base of parties;
fragmentation and
regionalisation. Pressure groups; patterns of coalition politics;
trends in
electoral behaviour.
11. Class, caste, ethnicity and gender in Indian politics; politics
of
regionalism, communalism, backward class and Dalit movements, Tribal
people
movements, struggle for gender justice.
12. Planning and Economic Development : Role of the Planning
Commission;
Planning in the era of liberalisation; political dimensions of
economic
reforms.
13. Grassroots democracy : Panchayati Raj and municipal government;
significance of 73rd and 74th Amendements. Grass root movement and
women's
empowerment.
Paper - II
Comparative Politics and International Relations
Section-A
Comparative Analysis and International Politics
1. Approaches to the study of comparative politics : traditional
approaches;
political economy, political sociology or political system
approaches; Nature
of political process in the Third World.
2. The Modern State : Evolution, the contemporary trends in the
advanced
industrial countries and the third world.
3. Development : Strategies and contemporary discourse.
4. Concepts of International politics : Power, national interest,
balance of
power, national security, collective security and peace.
5. Theories of International politics Marxist, Realist, Systems,
Decision-making and Game Theory.
6. Determinants of foreign policy : Domestic compulsions,
geopolitics,
geoeconomics and global order.
7. Origin and contemporary relevance of the Cold War, nature of the
post-cold
war global order.
8. Major issues of world politics : Cuban Missile Crisis; Vietnam
War, Oil
Crisis, Afghan Civil War, Gulf War, Collapse of the Soviet Union,
Yugoslav
Crisis.
9. Non-alignment : Concept and movement; Third World Movements for
global
justice, Non-alignment in the post cold war era.
10. The evolution of the international economic system-from Bretton
woods to
WTO, the North-South dimension.
11. International organisations UN and its specialized agencies :
International Court of Justice; ILO, UNICEF, WHO UNESCO.
12. Regional, organizations such as the ASEAN, APEC, EU, SAARC,
NAFTA
13. Contemporary Global Concerns : Democracy, Human Rights, Ecology,
Gender
Justice, Global commons, Communication.
Section-B
India and the World
1. Indian Foreign Policy : Historical origins, determinants; the
institutions
of policy-making; continuity and change.
2. India and the Non-Alignment Movement : Evolution and contemporary
relevance. Socio- political basis of non-alignment-domestic and
global.
3. Major issues in Indian foreign policy : Sino-Indian Border War
(1962);
Indo-Pakistan War (1971) and the liberation of Bangladesh; IPKF in
Sri Lanka;
India as military nuclear power (1998).
4. Conflict and co-operation in South Asia : India's relations with
Pakistan,
Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal. Regional co-operation and SAARC.
Kashmir
question in India's foreign policy.
5. India's relation with Africa and Latin America.
6. India and South East Asia; ASEAN.
7. India and the major powers : USA, EU, China, Japan and Russia.
8. India and the UN System : India's role in UN Peace Keeping and
global
disarmament.
9. India and the emerging international economic order; multilateral
agencies-WTO, IMF, IBRD, ADB.
10. India and the question of nuclear weapons : NPT and CTBT.
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