POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL 3.

Salient Features of the Indian Constitution : The Preamble, Fundamental

Rights and Duties, Directive Principles; Parliamentary System and
RELATIONS Amendment Procedures; Judicial Review and Basic Structure doctrine.
PAPER- I 4. Principal Organs of the Union Government : Envisaged role and actual
Political Theory and Indian Politics : working of the Executive, Legislature and Supreme Court Principal Organs
1. Political Theory: meaning and approaches. of the State Government : Envisaged role and actual working of the
2. Theories of state : Liberal, Neo-liberal, Marxist, Pluiralist, post-colonial and Executive, Legislature and High Courts.
Feminist. 5. Grassroots Democracy : Panchayati Raj and Municipal Government;
3. Justice : Conceptions of justice with special reference to Rawl’s theory of Significance of 73rd and 74th Amendments; Grassroot movements.
justice and its communitarian critiques. 6. Statutory Institutions/Commissions : Election Commission, Comptroller and
4. Equality : Social, political and economic; relationship between equality and Auditorm General,
freedom;Affirmative action. Finance Commission, Union Public Service Commission, National Commission
5. Rights : Meaning and theories; different kinds of rights; Concept of Human for Scheduled
Rights. Castes, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, National Commission for
6. Democracy : Classical and contemporary theories; different models of Women;
democracy—representative, participatory and deliberative. National Human Rights Commission, National Commission for Minorities,
7. Concept of power : hegemony, ideology and legitimacy. National Backward Classes Commission.
8. Political Ideologies : Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Gandhism 7. Federalism : Constitutional provisions; changing nature of centre-state
and Feminism. relations; integrationist tendencies and regional aspirations; inter-state
9. Indian Political Thought: Dharamshastra, Arthashastra and Buddhist disputes.
Traditions; Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Sri Aurobindo, M. K. Gandhi, B. R. 8. Planning and Economic development : Nehruvian and Gandhian
Ambedkar, M. N. Roy. perspectives; Role of planning and public sector; Green Revolution, land
10. Western Political Thought : Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, reforms and agrarian relations; liberalization and economic reforms.
John S. Mill, Marx, Gramsci, Hannah Arendt. 9. Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics.
10. Party System : National and regional political parties, ideological and
Indian Government and Politics social bases of parties;
1. Indian Nationalism : Patterns of coalition politics; Pressure groups, trends in electoral behaviour;
• Political Strategies of India’s Freedom Struggle : Constitutionalism to changing socio-economic profile of Legislators.
mass Satyagraha, Non-cooperation, Civil Disobedience; Militant and 11. Social Movement : Civil liberties and human rights movements; women’s
Revolutionary Movements, Peasant and Workers Movements. movements; environmentalist movements.
• Perspectives on Indian National Movement; Liberal, Socialist and
Marxist; Radical Humanist and Dalit. PAPER-II Comparative Politics and International Relations
2. Making of the Indian Constitution : Legacies of the British rule; different Comparative Political Analysis and International Politics :
social and political perspectives. 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 •India’s “Look East” policy.
State in capitalist and socialist economies, and advanced industrial and •Impediments to regional co-operation : River water disputes; illegal cross
developing societies. border migration; Ethnic conflicts and insurgencies; Border disputes. 4.
3. Politics of Representation and Participation : Political parties, pressure India and the Global South : Relations with Africa and Latin America;
groups and social movements in advanced industrial and developing societies Leadership role in the demand for NIEO and WTO negotiations.
4. Globalisation : Responses from developed and developing societies 5. India and the Global Centres of Power : USA, EU, Japan, China and Russia
5. Approaches to the Study of International Relations : Idealist, Realist, Marxist, 6. India and the UN System: Role in UN Peace-keeping; Demand for Permanent
Functionalist and Systems theory. Seat in the Security Council.
6. Key Concepts in International Relations : National interest, security and 7. India and the Nuclear Question : Changing perceptions and policy.
power; Balance of power and deterrence; Transational actors and collective 8. Recent developments in Indian Foreign Policy : India’s position on the recent
security; World capitalist economy and globalisation. crises in Afghanistan, Iraq and West Asia, growing relations with US and
7. Changing International Political Order : Isreal; Vision of a new world order.
•Rise of super powers; Strategic and ideological Bipolarity, arms race and cold
war; Nuclear threat
•Non-aligned Movement : Aims and achievements.
•Collapse of the Soviet Union; Unipolarity and American hegemony; Relevance
of non-alignment 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, AARC, NAFTA
11. Contemporary Global Concerns : Democracy, human rights, environment,
gender justice terrorism, nuclear proliferation.

India and the World

1. Indian Foreign Policy : Determinants of foreign policy; the institutions of
policy- making; Continuity and change.
2. India’s Contribution to the Non-Alignment Movement Different phases;
Current role.
3. India and South Asia :
•Regional Co-operation : SAARC-past performance and future prospects.
•South Asia as a Free Trade Area.