Department of Political Science

Rabindra Bharati University

Semester wise Courses at the PG level and CBCS structure

(CC- Core Course, CEC- Compulsory Elective Course, OEC- Open Elective Course)

Semester -I

CC 1.1: Enlightenment and Its Critics

1. Background to European Enlightenment

2. Rousseau’s position on Enlightenment
3. Kant: Notion of Moral Autonomy
4. Hegel: Views on Freedom and State
5. Marx: Views on History and Modernity
6. Nietzsche: Critique of Modernity
7. Foucault: Views on Enlightenment
8. Rorty: Critique of Cartesian-Kantian Foundation

CC 1.2: Contemporary Liberalism and Its Critics

1. Roots of Liberalism: Socio-political and Intellectual

2. Contemporary Liberalism: Rawls and Nozick
3. Marxist Critique of Liberal-Capitalist State: Gramsci and Poulantzas
4. Pocock: Republicanism Revived
5. Martha Nussbaum’s Liberal Feminism and its Critics
6. Communitarian Critique of Liberalism: Sandel, Walzer and McIntyre
7. Communication Theory: Habermas
8. Liberal Multiculturalism: Kymlicka and Taylor

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CC 1.3: Politics in Ancient and Medieval India

1. Politics of Dharma: Moral Dilemmas and unresolved Conflicts in the Epics

2. Politics of Reigning/Kingship
3. Politics of Rituals: Yajna through the Ages
4. Politics of Danda: From a Narrative of Punishment to a Narrative of resistance
5. Politics of Perception: Truth as Construction
6. Politics of Dana: Brahmanism and Buddhism
7. Politics of Islamic Paradox: Contrasting Views of Kingship
8. Politics of popular Jokes: Humour as subversion

CC 1.4: Colonial India

1. Modernity and its Early Reception : Rammohun Roy and Akshay Kumar Dutt
2. Early Debates on Socio-Political Reforms: Vidyasagar and Keshab Chandra Sen
3. Discourse on Nationalism: Bankimchandra, Tagore, and Gandhi
4. Community and Politics: Iqbal, Savarkar and Jinnah
5. Religion, State and Society: Tagore and Gandhi
6. Socialist Tendencies: Bhupendranath and Narendra Dev
7. Caste Debate; Gandhi and Ambedkar
8. National Construction: Vivekananda, Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose

CC 1.5: Political Theory in Indian Context since Independence

(Course will be taught with reference to contribution of representative writers)

1. Democracy in Indian Context

2. Civil Society and Political Society
3. State and Political Culture in India
4. Multiculturalism in Indian Context
5. Secularism in Indian Context
6. Politics of Knowledge
7. Contending Perspective on Development

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 8. Subaltern Studies as Postcolonial Criticism

Basic Readings

1. A.R. Desai: India’s Path of Development a Marxist Approach.

2. Rajni kolhari : Politics in India
3.Rethinking Democracy
4. --------- Rethinking Development: In search of Human Alternative.
5. ---------State Against Democracy: In Search of Human Governance.
6. Atul koholi: Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability.
7.(e.d.) The Success of Indian Democracy.
8. Partha Chatterjee The politics of the Governed.
9.Lineages of Political Society.
10. Sudipta Kakaviraj : The Trajectories of the India State: Politics and Ideas
11. --------- The Enchantment of Democracy in India
12. Rajeev vargava(e.d.), Secularism and Its Critics
13. Rajeev Vasgava, Amiya Kumar Bagchi, R.Sudarshan(e.d.) Mutticulturalism, Liberalism
and Democracy
14. Bhikhu Parekh, Rethinking Multiculturalism
15. Guspreet Mahajan: The Multicultural Path
16. T.N. Madan, Images of the World.
17. Ashis Nandy: The Romance of the State
18 Bonfire of Creeds
19 Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias
20. Amartya Sen , Development as Freedom
21. Ranajit Gaha, Subaltern Studies
22. Dipesh Chakrabarty : Rethinking Working Class History
23. Neera Chandhoke: The Concept of Civil Society
24---------- State and Civil Society
25. Pranab Bardhan, The political Economy of Development
26---------- Scarcity, Conflicts ,and Cooperation

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 Semester II

CC 2.1: Concepts and Theories of International Relations

1. Scientific Approach to International Relations: The Debate between ‘Tradition’ and

‘Science’
2. Realism and its Critiques
3. International Relations viewed as a System: Systems Theory and Decision-making
4. Approaches to the Political Economy of International Relations
5. Conflict and Cooperation in International Relations: Communications and Game Theory
6. Post-Positivist Interventions in the Study of International Relations I: Normative Theory
and Critical Theory
7. Post-Positivist Interventions in the Study of International Relations II: Constructivism,
Postmodernism and Feminism
8. Post-Cold War Era and the Debate on Unipolarity

Basics Readings

1. Chirs Brown, Understanding International Relations, Macmillan, 1997

2. E. H. Carr, The Twenty Years Crisis, London : Macmillan, 1939.
3. Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics among Nations, Knopf, New York, 1985.
4. Kenneth Waltz, Theory of International Politics, Adison Wesley, London,1980.
5. Immanuel Wallerstein, The Capitalist World Economy, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 1979.
6. Paul R. Viotti and Mark V. Kauppi, International Relations Theory, Macmillan, New
York.
7. Raymond Aron, Peace and War : A Theory of International Relations, Garden City, N.
Y., 1966.
8. Robert Gilpin, The Political Economics of International Relations, Oxford University
Press, 1987.
9. G. Modelski, Long Cycle in World Politics, Macmillan, London, 1987.
10. J. N. Rosenau, Linkage Politics, The Free Press, New York, 1969.

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 11. Joseph Frankel, Contemporary International Theory and the Behaviour of States, Oxford
University Press, London, 1973.
12. Synder, Bruck and Sapin, Decision – Making as an Approach to the Study of
International Politics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1954.
13. Stephanie Lawson, International Relations, Atlantic publishers, New Delhi, 2003
14. Ronald H Chilcote, Theories of Development and Under Development, West view Press,
1984.
15. Chakraborty, Biswanath , Tatta, Dharana o Bisaya Bitarke Antarjatik Samparka,
Progressive, Kolkata, 2015

CC 2.2: Constitution and Governance in India

1. Philosophy of the Indian Constitution: Major shifts

2. Federalism
3. Social Justice, Patriarchy and the Indian State
4. Politics of Defection and anti-defection Law
5. Issues of Judicial ‘ Overreach’
6. Indian Bureaucracy :Role and Neutrality
7. Elections and Electoral Reforms in India
8. Coalition Politics in India: Prospects and Challenges

Basic Readings

1. Niraja Gopal Joyal and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, (eds), The Oxford Companion to Politics in
India, Oxford University Press.
2. Rajib Bhargava etal (eds), Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy, Oxford
University Press.
3. Sudha Pai (eds), Handbook of Democratic Politics in India, Oxford University Press.
4. Sumit Ganguli, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plathuer (eds), The State of India’s
Democracy, Oxford University Press.

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5. Devesh Kapoor, Pratap Bhanu Mehta (eds), Public Institutions in India, Oxford
University Press.
6. Zoya Hasan, Politics of Inclusion, Oxford University Press.
7. S.R. Maheshwari, Public Administration in India: The Higher Civil Service, Oxford
University Press.
8. Bankim Chandra Mandal, Protective Discrimination Policy : In Search of Equality,
Abhijit Publication, New Delhi.
9. Har Swarup Singh, Indian Bureaucracy: Maladies and Remedies, Shipra Publications.
10. Ramashray Roy, Gandhi and Ambedkar: A Study of Contrast, Shipra Publications.
11. Sudha Pai, State Politics: New Dimensions, Shipra Publication.
12. M.G. Ramakanta Rao and Prasanta K. Mathur, Bureaucratic System and Public Policy,
Kanishka.
13. D. Sundar Ram, Quest for Political Stability in India: Essays on Governance, Polity and
Development, Kanishka.
14. . J.S.N. Rao, A Soomasekhar K. Audiseshaih, B. R. Ambedkar : His Relivance, Gyan
Books Pvt. Ltd.
15. Vivek Kumar, Dalit Leadership in India, Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd.
16. Joginder Singh, India Democracy and Disappointments, Gyan Books Pvt. Ltd.
17. Thorat, Omvedt, Macwan, Social Justice Philanthropy, Rawat Publications.
18. V. Subramanyan (eds), Social Exclusion, Integration and Inclusive Policies, Rawat
Publications.
19. Arun Kumar (ed), Dalit and Economic Reforms, Rawat Publication.
20. Srivastava and Joshi (eds), Bureaucracy in Action, Rawat Publications
21. M.A. Rafath, Bureaucracy and Politics, Rawat Publications
22. B. S. Ghuman etal (ed), Corruption and Quality of Governance, Rawat Publications.
23. Mahendra Prasad Singh, Indian Federalism An Introduction, National Book Trust, 2011
24. Hamid Hussain, Indian Federalism – Emerging Trends, Jain Book Agency, 2010
25. Ranabir Samaddar (ed), State of Social Justice in India: Issues of Social Justice, Sages,
New Delhi, 2009
26. Upendra Kishore Singh, Social Justice in India, ABD Publishers, 2011

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 27. S. P. Sathe, Judicial Activism in India Transgressing Borders and Enforcing Limits,
OUP,2003
28. India at Turning Point: The Road to Good Governance, Rupa Publications, 2014
29. Mahendra Prasad Singh & Anil Mishra, Coalition Politics in India: Problems and
Prospects, Monhar, 2004

CC2.3: Governance and Its Critics

Early Views on Liberal Governance: Pastoral Power and Reason of state

1. Bio-politics and Liberal Governance

2. Background to the Recent Rise of Governance to Prominence
3. Recent Theories of Liberal Governance
4. Illiberality and Liberal Governance
5. Advance Liberal Governance
6. Popular and Political Society in Mass Democracies
7. Politics of the Governed

CC 2.4: Politics in India

1. Religion and Politics

2. Politics of Language
3. Caste and Politics of Reservation
4. Tribal Issues: Land, Forest and Underdevelopment
5. Ethnicity and Ethnonationalism
6. Regionalism: Regional Politics
7. Corruption: Civil Society Movements
8. Criminalization of Politics

CC 2.5: Politics in West Bengal

1. Partition: Socio-Economic and Political impact on West Bengal- Problems of Migration
and Displacement.
2. Parties and Politics: The Indian National Congress: Power, Politics and changing Role

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 3. Emergence of Trinamool Congress
4. The Left in West Bengal:– Left in Power/ Left in Opposition
5. Politics of Left Radicalism: Naxalite Movements- Recent Trends.
6. Agitational Politics—Workers’ Movements, Peasants’ Movements, Students’ Movements
7. Movements for Regional Autonomy
8. Power, Politics and Decentralization : Panchayati Raj in West Bengal
9. Culture and Politics of West Bengal

Semester –III

CC 3.1: Comparative Politics in Developing Countries

1. Comparative Politics: Approaches and Methods

2. Media , Communication and Political Culture
3. Political Participation, Political Institution and State of Democracy
4. Politics of Development/ Underdevelopment and relevance of Developing Countries
5. Decolonization, Nation building and the Post-colonial State
6. Cultural Pluralism and Ethnic Conflict
7. Globalization and the Developing World
8. New Social Movements and Politics of Alternative Development

Basic Readings
1. Lichbach MI &b Zuckerman AS (2009) Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture and
Structure, New York, Cambridge University Press
2. Hague R , Harrop M & McCormik J (2016) Comparative Government and Politics: An
Introduction , London, Palgrave
3. Caramani Daniele (eds) ( 2017) Comparative Politics, Oxford, OUP
4. Green December & Luehrmann Laura (2011) Comparative Politics of the “Third
Worlds”: Linking Concepts and cases, Colorado, Lynne Rienner Publishers
5. Peet Richard & Hartwick Elaine (2015) Theories of Development: Contentions,
Arguments, Alternatives; New York, The Guilford Press,
6. Leys Colin (eds) (2010) Politics and Change in Developing Countries: Studies in Theory
and Practice of Development, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press

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 7. Smith B C (2013) Understanding Third World Politics: Theories of Political Change and
Development, London, Palgrave Macmillan
8. Kamrava Meheran (2012) Politics and Society in the Developing World, London
Routledge
9. Burnell Peter, Rakner Lise & Randall Vickey (ed) (2017) Politics in the Developing
world, Oxford, OUP
10. Varshney Ashutosh (eds) (2004) India and the Politics of Developing Countries: Essays
in Memory of Myron Weiner, New Delhi, Sage
11. Norbu Dawa (2002) Culture and the Politics of Third world Nationalism, London,
Routledge
12. Holton J Robert (2011) Globalization and the Nation State, London, Palgrave Macmillan
13. Rotberg I Robert (2012) Transformative Political Leadership: Making a Difference in the
Developing World , Chicago, Chicago University Pres
14. Bagchi Subrata Sankar & Das Arnab (ed) (2012) Human Rights and the Third World:
Issues and Discourses, Lanham, Lexington Books
15. Bryant Raymond & Bailey Sinead (1997) Third World Political Ecology, London,
Routledge

CC 3.2 Public Administration

1. Development of Public Administration as an academic discipline : its Stages; Impact of

Globalization in the modern era: Idea of Global Governance
2. New Public Administration: Minnowbrook I; Blacksburg Manifesto; Minnowbrook II
3. Comparative Public Administration: Concept and significance
4. Theories of Bureaucracy: Marxist, Weberian, Post Weberian
5. Development Administrationand its Challenges: Role of non-state actors in
administration
6. Radical Challenges to developmentalism: New indicators of development, Controlling
post development

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 7. Contemporary approaches: Public Choice, New Public Management, Critical, Feminist,
Postmodern.
8. Concept of Governance: Good Governance, Gender and Governance, Green Governance,
E- governance and Corporate Governance

CC 3.3: Public Policy

1. The Public and its Policies

2. Institutional and Historical Background
3. Modes of Policy Analysis
4. Producing public policy
5. Constraints on Public Policy
6. Policy Intervention
7. Politics of Policy Evaluation
8. Democratizing the Policy Process

Basic Readings
1. Kuldeep Mathur, Public Policy and Politics in India; How Institution Matter, OUP, 2015
2. Rajesh Chakraborti and Kaushiki Sanyal, Shaping Polcy In India: Alliance , Advocacy,
Activism, OUP, 2017
3. Subrata K. Mitra, Politics in India: Structure, Process and Policy, OUP

CEC – Group –A: Indian Society and Politics

CEC 3.1: Social Movements in India

1. Human Rights Movements

2. Women’s Movements
3. Dalit Movements
4. Tribal Movements
5. Ethnic Movements
6. Regional Movements

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 7. Peasants Movements
8. Trade Union Movements

Basic Readings
1. Ghanshyam Shah, Social Movements in India: A Review of literature, Sage Publications,
2004
2. Raka Ray, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Social Movements in India: Poverty Power and
Politics, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005
3. Kenneth Bo Nielson, Alf Gunvald Nilsen (ed.) Social Movements in India and the State
in India: Deepening Democracy, Palgrave, 2016
4. Aurther Bonner, Averting the Apocalpse: Social Movements in India Today, Duke
University Press, 1990
5. Mahendra Narain Karna , Social Movements in North –East India, Indus Publishing,
1998
6. T.K. Oommen, Social Movements I: Issues and Identity, OUP,New Delhi,2010
7. T.K. Oommen, Social Movements II: Issues and Identity, OUP,New Delhi,2010
8. Mala Khullar, Writing the Women’s Movement: A Reader, 2003
9. Savyasaachi, Ravi Kumar(Ed), Social Movements: Transformative Shifts and Turning
Points, Routledge India, 2014
10. P.G. Jogdand, S.M Micheal, Globalization and Social Movements: Struggle for a
Humane Society, Rawat Publications, 2003
11. Gail Omvedt, Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements and the Socialist Tradition in India, M.E

12. 12. M. S. A. Rao Social Movements and Social Transformation: A Study of Two
Backward Classes , Monahar, 1987
13. V.N. Vishwanathan, Human rights-twenty first century challenges Delhi: Kalpaz Pub.,
2008,
14. P.M. Katare and B.C. Barik, Development, deprivation and Human Rights violation New
Delhi: Rawat, 2002

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 15. Verma, J. S. The New universe of human rights, Delhi: Universal, 2004.
16. Saksena, K.P. (ed.) Human Rights and the Constitution: Vision and the Reality New
Delhi: Gyan , Publishing, 2003

CEC 3.2: Human Rights in India

1. Human Rights : Conceptual Framework

2. Human Rights: National and International Dimensions
3. Human Rights and Constitutional Framework in India , a. Fundamental Rights b.
Directive Principles of State Policy
4. Human rights and Legal Framework in India- Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993
5. Human Rights: Issues and Challenges - Caste , Tribe, Minorities and Women , LGBT,
Terrorism
6. Human Rights and the Indian State - Role of Police, Administration, , Judiciary, and
Affirmative Action for Weaker Sections
7. Role of Civil Society in Human Rights
8. NHRC and Other state Commissions

Basic Readings
1. Alston Philip, The United Nations and Human Rights-A Critical Appraisal, Oxford,
Clarendon, 1995.
2. Baxi, Upendra (ed.), The Right to be Human, Delhi, Lancer, 1987
3. Beetham, David edited, Politics and Human Rights, Oxford, Blackwell, 1995
4. Desai, A R. (ed), Violations of Democratic Rights in India, Bombay, Popular Prakashan,
1986.
5. Evans, Tony, The Politics of Human Rights: A Global Perspective, London, Pluto Press,
2001.
6. Haragopal, G, Good Governance: Human Rights, Perspective, Indian Journal of Public
Administration, Vol. 44 (3), July-September,1998.
7. Vistaar Iyer, V.R. Krishna, The Dialectics and Dynamics of Human Rights in India,
Delhi, Eastern Law House, 1999.

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8. Kothari, Smitu and Sethi, Harsh (eds.), Rethinking Human Rights, Delhi, Lokayan, 1991.
9. Saksena, K.P. edited, Human Rights: Fifty Years of India's Independence, Delhi, Gyan,
1999.
10. Subramanian, S., Human Rights: International Challenges, Delhi, Manas, 1997.

11. Verma, J. S. The New universe of human rights , Delhi: Universal, 2004
12. Saksena, K.P. (ed.) Human Rights and the Constitution: Vision and the Reality New
Delhi: Gyan , Publishing, 2003,
13. Bhambhari ,C.P., Globalization India: nation, state and democracy Delhi: Shipra, 2005.
14. Pathak , Avijit, Modernity globalization and identity: towards a reflexive quest, Delhi:
Aakar Books, 2006, paperback
15. Padhi, N.K., Protection of human rights and national human rights commission
reflections New Delhi: Gyan Publishing, 2007
16. P.K. Meena , Human rights: theory and practice New Delhi: Murari Lal , 2008
17. Srivastava, Deep Kumar Human rights in India Allahabad: Adhayan Pub., 2009
18. V.N. Vishwanathan Human rights-twenty first century challenges Delhi: Kalpaz Pub.,
2008,
19. Michael R. Anderson and,Sumit Guha, Changing concepts of rights and justice in South
Asia New Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press,2000.
20. Singh, Ram Gopal & Ravindra D. Gadkar (eds.), Restoration of Human Rights and
Dignity to Dalits New Delhi: Manak Publications, 2004
21. Samudrala, Anil kumar,Sri Krishna, S., Dalit and Human Rights New Delhi: Serial Pub.,
2007
22. P.M. Katare and B.C. Barik Development, deprivation and Human Rights violation New
Delhi: Rawat, 2002
23. D.N. Gupta , Human Rights: Acts, Statutes and constitutional provisions Delhi: Kalpaz
Pub., 2009
24. Gurusamy, S., Human Rights and Gender Justice , New Delhi: APH, 2009
25. Ganga , R. M. Supputhi (ed), Children's rights as basic human rights New Delhi:
Reference Press, 2007

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 26. A. L. Prasad, Crime, Human Rights and Justice in New Millennium, Kunal Books
Publishers
27. BRIJESH Babu, Hun Rights and Sustainable Development
28. Rashee Jain, Textbook on Human Rights Law and Practice, Universal Law Publishing
Co. Ltd.
29. Raj Kumar Gupta, Essentials of Human Rights, Universal Law Publishing Co. Ltd.
30. Nirmal Chiranjivi j. Human Rights In India : Historical, Social and Political Perspectives,
OUP.
31. A.g.Nooriman and South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre, Challenjes of
Civil Rights Guarantees in India, OUP
32. Aftab Alam, Human Rights In India: Issues and Challenges, Rajpal Publications.
33. G.S. Bhargava,R. M. Paal , Human Rights of Dalits: Societal Violation, Gyan Publishing
House.
34. P.K.Pandey, Human Rights and Gender Justice, APH Publishing Corporation.

CEC –Group –B: India’s Neighborhood

CEC 3.1: South Asian Politics

1. Decolonisation and Major Challenges of Nation-building

2. Major Constitutional Developments and Political Processes
3. Democratic experiments
4. Regional and Sub-regional Cooperation
5. Contemporary Regional Security Issues
6. Resource Politics
7. India’s South Asia Policy
8. China and South Asia

Basic Readings

1. Ayesha Jalal, Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia

2. Ian Talbot, Pakistan: A Political History

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 3. Craig Baxter et.al (eds.), Government and Politics in South Asia
4. Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik, South Asia on a Short Fuse: Nuclear Politics and the
Future of Global Disarmament
5. Stephen P. Cohen, The Pakistan Army
6. Partha S. Ghosh, Cooperation and Conflict in South Asia
7. Christina Lamb, Waiting for Allah: Pakistan’s Struggle for Democracy
8. Raunaq Jahan, Bangladesh Politics: Problems and Issues
9. Urmila Phadnis and Rajat Ganguly, Ethnicity and Nation-building in South Asia
10. Maya Chadda, Building Democracy in South Asia: India, Nepal, Pakistan
11. S. U. Kodikara (ed.), External Compulsion of South Asian Politics
12. Wilson and D. Dalton (eds.), The States of South Asia: Problems of National Integration

CEC 3.2: Central Asian Politics

1. Central Asia as a New Region

2. Post-Soviet Democratization and Authoritarianism
3. Contemporary Central Asian States
4. Managing Multi-ethnic Societies
5. Political Islam in the Region
6. Politics of Oil and Water
7. Changing Geopolitics of the Region
8. China and Central Asia

Basic Readings

Group- C: Cultural Politics

CEC 3.1: Politics of Representation

1. Changing Context of Cultural Politics- Neo-Fordism, Post Industrial Society and

Globalization
2. Representation- Meaning and Language
3. Myth and Ideology

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 4. Discourse, power and the Subject
5. Politics and poetics of Other hood
6. Subjectivity and Identity
7. Liminality
8. Home and Homeless

CEC 3.2: Post-colonial Legacies and Public Modernities

1. Aesthetics of National Liberation: Fanon, Cabral, and Ngugi

2. Post-Colonial Spaces
3. Bhabha and the Third Space
4. Implosion of the Social in the Media
5. Consumption and Consumer Society
6. Gazing in a Metropolis: Window Shopping
7. Dining Out
8. Representation and Media Fictions

Semester –IV

CC 4.1: Contemporary Issues in World Politics

1. Post-Cold War Era and the ‘Crisis’ of the Sovereign State: Evolution of Regionalism
2. Globalization and its Impact: From International Relations to World Politics
3. Human Rights and Humanitarian Interventions
4. Environmental Challenges – Climate Change and Environmental Disasters – Evolution of
Environmental Regimes
5. Migration in the Age of Globalization – Refugees and IDPs – International Refugee
Protection Regimes and UN Guiding Principles
6. Resource Crisis and Resource Politics with special reference to Africa
7. Terrorism as a Global Challenge – ‘War on Terror’ and Global anti-Terror Initiatives
8. Security Threats in the Contemporary World: From national to human security

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CEC –Group –A: Indian Society and Politics
CEC 4.1: Dalit Studies

1. Conceptualizing Dalits

2. Dalit Development Discourses

3. Dalit Literature

4. Dalits and Globalization

5. Dalits and Human Rights

6. Dalits and Diaspora

7. Dalit Feminism

8. Dalit Politics in India

Basic Readings

1. Anupama Rao, The Caste Question – Dalits and the Politics of Modern India ,
Permanent Black
2. Eva-Maria Hardtmann, The Dalit Movement in India: Local Practices, Global
Connections , Oxford
3. Gopal Guru , Humiliation: Claims and Context, Oxford,
4. Eleanor Zelliot, ( From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement
Monahar pub.
5. Sharmila Rege, Against the Madness of Manu: B.R Ambedkar’s Writings on
Brahmanical Patriarchy, Navayana
6. Gopal Guru (Author), Sunder Sarukka, The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on
Experience and Theory, Oxford University Pres
7. Satish Deshpande,The Problem of Caste (EPW), Orient Blackswan Private Limited -
New Delhi,
8. Charu Gupta , The Gender of Caste , Permanent Black (2015),
9. Uma Chakravarti, Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens (Theorizing Feminism),
Bhat kal & Sen; UK ed.

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10. Nivedita Menon, Seeing Like a Feminist, Penguin India
11. Mary E. John , Women's Studies in India: A Reader, Penguin India,
12. Mounika Vurity &
Krishnaveer Abhishek Challa, Dalit Feminism and Linguistic
Distance, Cyberwit.net,
13. K. Singh, Dalitism and Feminism: Locating Woman in Dalit Literature
14. Murali Manohar, Critical Essays on Dalit Literature, Atlantic Publishers &
DistributorsPvt Ltd,
15. S.K.Limbale, Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature, Orient BlackSwan,
16. K. Satyanarayana , Susie Tharu, The Exercise
of Freedom: An Introduction to Dalit Writing, Navayana
17. Anand Mahanand, Lo(k)cal Knowledge: Perceptions on Dalit,
Tribal and Folk Literature, AuthorsPress

18. Anupama Rao, Edited Gender and caste, New Delhi: Kali for Women,

18. G.S. Bhargava R.M. Pal, Human Rights of Dalit: Societal Violation, Gyan Publishing
House,
19. Dinesh Sharma, Dalit Constitution
and Human Rights, Arise Publishers &
Distributors,Rs
20. V.T. Rajshekar, Dalit The Black Untouchables of India, Gyan Publishing House
21. V.T. Rajshekar, Caste a nation within the nation, Gyan Publishing House,
22. Kameshwar Choudhary, Globalisation, Governance Reforms and Development in India,
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd,
23. Ghanshyam Shah , Dalit Identity and Politics, Volume 2 of Cultural subordination and
the Dalit challenge, SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd,
24. Prakash Louis, Political Sociology Of Dalit Assertion , Gyan Publishing House

25. By Papiya Ghosh, Partition and the South Asian Diaspora: Extending the
Subcontinent, Routledge,
26. Pradeep K. Sharma, Dalit Politics And Literature, Shipra Publications, 2006,
27. Jai Shankar Prasad, Dalit Politics and Literature, Encyclopaedia of dalit series,
28. Joshil K. Abraham, Judith Misrahi-Barak, Dalit Literatures in India, Routledge,
29. Amar Nath Prasad, M. B. Gaijan, Dalit Literature: A Critical Exploration, , Sarup &
Sons,
30. Vishwanatha, Vishwanatha & L. C. Malliah, Globalisation And Dalits: Magnitude And
Impact, Abhijeet Publications,
31. Prahlad Gangaram Jogdand, Prashant P. Bansode, N. G. Meshram, Globalization and
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 32. V. Subramanyam, K. Sekhar, Social Exclusion, Integration and Inclusive Policies, Rawat
Publications, 2010,
33. Arjun Dangle, Poisoned Bread, Orient BlackSwan

CEC 4.2: Local Government and Politics in India

1. Approaches to the study of Local government: Liberal, Marxist, Neo Marxist,

2. Public choice approach; Gandhian perspective of Local Government
3. Colonial approach to Local Self Government- Post colonial development of Local
Government; Constitutional Amendment and local government - Emerging trend in
India
4. Approach to the Panchayati Raj System in West Bengal: Left Front and Trinamool
Congress government
5. Rural politics in West Bengal – Emerging trend and the social background of the
Panchayat leaders in West Bengal
6. Accountability of the PRIs: People’s participation in Panchayat with special reference to
West Bengal
7. Urbanization in India – a historical outline; Classification of Urban government:
Structure and functions – Politics of People’s participation in Urban government
8. Municipal Personnel – Relations between State government and Municipality; Ward
Committee – Composition, role and function;
9. Election to Local Government: the Constitutional provision and role of the State
Election Commission

Basic Readings

1. Mohd Muttalib, and Ali Akbar Khan, Theory of Local Government, Starling Publishers
Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1983.
2. Golding, Local Government, St. Paul’s House, London, 1970.
3. J.M. Mackenzie, Theories of Local Government, London School of Economics, Greater
London, 1961.
4. L.C Jain, Grass with out Roots, Sage Publication, New Delhi

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 5. G.K. Lieten, Continuity and Change in Rural West Bengal, Sage Publication, New Delhi,
1992
6. Neil Webster, Panchayati Raj and the Decentralization of Development Planning in West
Bengal, K.P Bagchi and Company, Kolkata, 1992.
7. Harihar Bhattacharyya, Micro Foundation of Bengal Communism, Ajanta Book
International, Delhi, 1998.
8. Atul Kohli , The State and Poverty in India: The Politics of Reform, Cambridge
University Press, USA, 1987
9. Jasodhara Bagchi, The Changing Status of Women in West Bengal (1970-2002): The
Challenge Ahead, Sage Publication, Delhi, 2004
10. Ashraf Ali, Government and Politics of Big City, Print House, 1977.
11. B. Bhattacharya, Urban Development in India, Shree Publishing House, Delhi, 1979.
12. Abhijit Datta, Urban Government Finance and Development, World Press, Kolkata.
13. Mohit Bhattacharya, Eassays on Urban Government, World Press, Kolkata.
14. N. R. Rao, Municipal Finance in India, Inter-India Publication, New Delhi, 1966.
15. Chakraborty, Biswanath, Participation in West Bengal Panchayat System, Progressive ,
Kolkata, 2008
16. Chakraborty, Biswanath, Sthaniya Sarkar: Dharana, Sangathanik Vitti o Bibihinno
Dristibhongi (Bengali), Progressive , Kolkata
17. Chakraborty, Biswanath, Pachim Banger Panchayat Babothar Ruporekha(Bengali),
Progotisil Prokasan, Kolkata, 2017

CEC- Group-B: India’s Neighborhood

CEC 4.1: South East Asian Politics

1. Impact of Colonialism on Southeast Asia – the role of nationalistic movements in Nation

Building
2. Political Processes and Institutions in the post independent political systems
3. Democracy and the Challenges – recent trends of democratisation
4. Nature of Leadership – Civil – military interface
5. Role of Ethnic and Religious identities in the politics of Southeast Asia

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6. Regional Security – Traditional and non-Traditional security threats and state responses
7. Building regional identity – ASEAN and the process of community building
8. India in Southeast Asia – Prospects and Challenges.

a. Basic Readings
9. Benedict Richard O’Gorman Anderson, The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism,
Southeast Asia and the World, Verso, 1998.
10. D.R. Sardesai, Southeast Asia Past and Present, Westview Press, 2012
11. D.G. Hall, History of Southeast Asia, Palgrave, 1981
12. N. John Funston, Government and Politics in Southeast Asia, ISEAS, 2001.
13. William Case, Politics in Southeast Asia, Psychology Press, 2002.
14. Nicholas Tarling (ed) , Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Cambridge University
Press, 1999.
15. Alan Collins, Security and Southeast Asia, domestic Regional And Global Issues, ISEAS,
2003.
16. Kevin Hewison, Richard Robinson and Gary Rodan, Southeast Asia in the 1990s, Allen
Unwin, 1993.
17. Hsin Huang Michael Hsiao, Domecracy or Alternative Political Systems in Asia After the
Strong Men, Routledge, 2013.
18. Johan Saravanamuttu, Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia, Routledge, 2009.
19. “The ASEAN Community, Unblocking the Blocks”, ASEAN Studies Centre Report No.
1, ISEAS- Yusof Ishak Centre, 2008.
20. RIS, “ASEAN- India Connectivity Report”, Bookwell, 2012.
21. Sudhir T. Devare, India and Southeast Asia: Towards Security Convergence, ISEAS,
2005.
22. Mohammed Ayoob, India and Southeast Asia: Indian Perception and Policies,
Routledge, 1990.
23. Aneek Chatterjee, Neighbours, Major Powers and Indian Foreign Policy, Orient
Blackswan, 2017.
24. Apart from the suggested basic readings articles from reports, articles, newspapers and
current online resources will be suggested as per requirement

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CEC – 4.2: Geopolitical Imperatives of India’s Foreign Policy
1. The significance of geographical and historical factors on the evolution of Indian Foreign
Policy – an introduction to the concept of the geopolitical imperatives.
2. Strategic Orientation of India’s Foreign Policy – contemporary trends
3. India’s National Security – priorities and challenges
4. Boundaries and disputes in the Indian subcontinent – implications for Indian Foreign
Policy
5. Geopolitical significance of the Indian Ocean – implications for India.
6. Significance of geo economics- India’s quest for energy security and foreign policy
7. The dynamics of major power interplay in the subcontinent – India’s responses
8. India’s role in establishing connectivity in her neighbourhood – geostrategic implications.

Basic Readings:

1. Dennis Rumley and Sachin Chaturvedi, The Security of Sea Lanes of Communication
a. in the Indian Ocean Region, Routledge, 2017.
2. Shivshankar Menon, Choices :Inside the Making of Indian Foreign policy(Geopolitics in
the 21st Century), Brookings Institution, 2016.
3. Namrata Goswami, India’s Approach to Asia, Strategy, Politics and Responsibility,
IDSA, Pentagon Press, 2016.
4. Kanti P. Bajpai and Harsh V. Pant, India’s National Security: A Reader, OUP, 2013.
5. Namrata Goswami, Indian National Security and Counter-Insurgency: The Use of
Force vs. Non-Violent Response, Routledge, London and New York, 2015.
6. Sinder Pal Singh (ed), Modi and the World: (Re)constructing Indian Foreign Policy,
World Scientific, 2017.
7. Girijesh Pant (ed), India’s Emerging Energy Relations, Issues and Challenges,
Springer, 2015.
8. Arndt Michael, India’s Foreign Policy and Regional Multilateralism, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2013
9. Rajiv Sikri, Challenge and Strategy Rethinking India’s Foreign Policy, Sage 2009.

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 10. Prabir De and Jayanta Kumar Ray, India Myanmar Connectivity Current Status and
Future Prospects, IFPS and CPWAS, 2013.
11. David Malone, Does the Elephant Dance: Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy,
OUP, 2011.
12. Harsh V. Pant, Indian Foreign Policy: An Overview, Manchester University Press, 2016.
13. Apart from the suggested basic readings articles from reports, articles, newspapers and
current online resources will be suggested as per requirement.

CEC – Group –C: Cultural Politics

CEC 4.1: Politics of Indian Culture

1. Sex and Subjectivity: Theoretical Exposition

2. Psychology of Colonialism Sex, Age and ideology in India
3. Uncolonized Mind and the West
4. Political Culture of India
5. Religion as Culture: Nandy, Madan and Parekh
6. Ramlila
7. Kumbh Mela
8. Women and the Mahabharata: Yuganta and Nathhabati Anathbat
9. Politics of Faith – Gandhi and Lohia

CEC 4.2: Politics of Indigeneity

1. Critique of Realism and Objectvitism in Ethnography

2. Ethnicity and Indigenety
3. Indigenous Vision: People’s Perspectives on Nature
4. Cultural Constructions of the Nature
5. The Original Affluent Society – Stone Age Economics
6. The Quest for Simplicity – Hind Swaraj
7. Western Science and the Destruction of Local Knowledge – Western Science as
Epistemological Violence

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 8. Community Knowledge System

OEC 4.1: Women’s Studies

1. Rise of Women’s Studies--- Women’s Studies to Gender Studies
2. Key Issues of feminism : sex, gender, patriarchy, private and the public, personal and
the political
3. Birth and evolution of Feminist thought: An overview of the transition from the first to
the third wave feminism.
4. Some representative debates: Liberal, Marxist, Socialist and Radical Feminist debates;
postcolonial and postmodern feminist debate.
5. Women and politics, Human Rights and Women’s Rights,– Women and Political
Participation– ‘Representation’ and the ‘reservation’ debate
6. Feminism and Citizenship—Toward an Informal Politics, Transforming the nature of
politics
7. Feminist Indian Historiography
8. Women and Movements in India: Phases and Issues

OEC 4.2: Politics of Development and Environment

1. Political Economy of Development: Contending Perspectives and Issues

2. Neo-Liberal Policies, Structural Adjustment Programmes and Challenges to Governance
3. Globalization and its impact on development
4. Development and Displacement: Areas, Issues and Resistance
5. Political Ecology: Concepts and Issues
6. Conservation, Sustainable Development and Environmental Governance
7. Environmental Movements: Ideologies, Typologies and Issues
8. Climate Change: Global Initiatives, Impacts and Resistance from Below

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Basic Readings:

1. Peet Richard & Hartwick Elaine (2015) Theories of Development: Contentions,

Arguments, Alternatives; New York, The Guilford Press,
2. Nayak Pulin B (eds) (2015) Economic Development of India, London, Routledge
3. Bardhan Pranab (1998) The Political Economy of Development In India, Delhi, OUP
4. Hoogvelt Ankie (2001) Globalization and the Post Colonial World: The New Political
Economy of Development, Baltimore, Jhon Hopkins University Press
5. Berberoglu Berch (1992) The Political Economy of Development: Development Theory
and the Prospects for Change in the Third World, Albany, State Universityof New York
Press
6. Craig David Alan & Porter Doug (2006): Development beyond Neoliberalism?
Governance, Poverty Reduction and Political Economy, London, Routledge
7. Edelman Marc & Haugerud Angelique (2005) The anthropology of Development and
Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism, New
Jersy, Wiley Blackwell
8. Penz Peter, Drydyk Jay & Bose Pablo S (2011) Displacement by Development: Ethics
Rights and Responsibilities, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
9. Parasuraman S (2016): The Development Dilemma: Displacement in India, London,
Macmillan
10. Satiroglu Rge & Choi Narae (ed) (2015) Development induced Displacements and
Resettlement: New Perspective on persisting problems, London Routledge
11. Robbins Paul (2012) Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction, New Jersy, John Willy
& Sons
12. Guha Ram Chandra & Alier Joan Martinez (2013) Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays
North and South, London, Earthscan
13. Eckersley Robyn (1992) Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an
Ecocentric Approach, Albany: State University of New York Press,
14. Mawhinney Mark ( 2008): Sustainable Development: Understanding the Green Debates,
Malden, Blackwell
15. Birnbacher Dieter & Thorseth May (ed) (2015) The Politics of Sustainability:
Philosophical Perspectives, Oxon & New York, Routledge

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16. Rowell, Andrew (1996) Green backlash: Global subversion of the
environmentalmovement, London, Routledge
17. Kalland Arne & Persoon Gerard (ed) (2013) Environmental movements in Asia, London,
Routledge
18. Rangarajan Mahesh (eds) ( 2009) Environmental issues in India: A Reader, New Delhi,
Pearson Longman
19. Dessler Andrew E & Person Edward A (2006) The Science and Politics of Global
Climate Change: A Guide to the debate, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
20. Bidwai Praful ( 2012) The Politics of Climate Change and the Global Crisis: Mortgaging
Our Future, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan

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