POLITICAL SCIENCE AND
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
PAPER – I
Political Theory and
Indian Politics:
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 Rawl’s 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.
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, Hannah Arendt.
Indian Government and
Politics:
1. Indian Nationalism:
(a) Political Strategies
of India
(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.
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 socio- economic profile of Legislators.
11. Social Movements:
Civil liberties and human rights movements; women’s movements; environmentalist
movements.
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