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The document outlines a comprehensive syllabus for a course on Political Theory and Indian Politics, covering key topics such as political ideologies, democracy, rights, and the Indian Constitution. It also addresses comparative political analysis, international relations, and India's foreign policy, including its role in regional and global contexts. The syllabus emphasizes various political movements, theories, and the evolution of political systems both in India and internationally.

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The document outlines a comprehensive syllabus for a course on Political Theory and Indian Politics, covering key topics such as political ideologies, democracy, rights, and the Indian Constitution. It also addresses comparative political analysis, international relations, and India's foreign policy, including its role in regional and global contexts. The syllabus emphasizes various political movements, theories, and the evolution of political systems both in India and internationally.

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Syllabus
Sunday, 26 February 2023 6:17 PM

Political Theory and Indian Politics:


1. Political Theory: meaning and approaches.
2. Theories of state: Liberal, Neo-liberal, 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; the relationship between equality and freedom; Affirmative
action.
Equality

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: Dharmashastra, 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 Government and Politics
(a) Political Strategies of India’s Freedom Struggle: Constitutionalism to mass Satyagraha,
Noncooperation, Civil Disobedience; Militant and Revolutionary Movements, Peasant and Workers
Movements.
(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.
The preamble
Fundamental Rights

4. (a) Principal Organs of the Union Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive,
Legislature, and Supreme Court.
Union Government

(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; liberalization 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 behavior; changing socio-economic profile of
Legislators.
Party System

11. Social Movement: Civil liberties and human rights movements; women’s movements; environmentalist
movements.

Comparative Political Analysis and International Politics:


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 State in capitalist and
socialist economies, and advanced industrial and developing societies.
3. Politics of Representation and Participation: Political parties, pressure groups and social movements in
advanced industrial and developing societies.
4. Globalisation: Responses from developed and developing societies.
Globalization
5. Approaches to the Study of International Relations: Idealist, Realist, Marxist, Functionalist and Systems
theory.
6. Key Concepts in International Relations: National interest, security and power; Balance of power and
deterrence; Transational actors and collective security; World capitalist economy and globalisation.

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7. Changing International Political Order:
(a) Rise of superpowers; Strategic and ideological Bipolarity, arms race and cold war; Nuclear threat;
(b) Non-aligned movement: Aims and achievements.
(c) Collapse of the Soviet Union; Unipolarity and American hegemony; Relevance of non-alignment in
the contemporary world.
1. Changing International Political Order
2.
8. Evolution of the International Economic System: From Bretton woods 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.
Evolution of International Economic System
WTO
9. United Nations: Envisaged role and actual record; Specialized UN agencies—aims and functioning; the
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.
Contemporary Global Concerns

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:
(a) Regional Co-operation: SAARC-past performance and future prospects.
(b) South Asia as a Free Trade Area.
(c) India’s “Look East” policy.
(d) Impediments to regional co-operation: River water disputes; illegal cross-border migration; Ethnic
conflicts and insurgencies; Border disputes.
4. India and the Global South: Relations with Africa and Latin America; Leadership role in the demand for
NIEO and WTO negotiations.
5. India and the Global Centres of Power: USA, EU, Japan, China and Russia.
6. India and the UN System: Role in UN Peace-keeping; Demand for Permanent Seat in the Security
Council.
7. India and the Nuclear Question: Changing perceptions and policy.
• India and Nuclear Question
•
8. Recent developments in Indian Foreign Policy: India’s position on the recent crises in Afghanistan, Iraq,
and West Asia, growing relations with US and Israel; Vision of a new world order.
• Recent Developments

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