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4 YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
4 YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME
(Courses effective from Academic Year 2013-14)
SYLLABUS OF COURSES TO BE OFFERED

Disciplinary Courses I, Disciplinary Courses II
& Applied Courses
Note: The courses are uploaded as sent by the Department concerned. The scheme of
marks will be determined by the University and will be corrected in the syllabus
accordingly. Editing, typographical changes and formatting will be undertaken further.
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FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME
SCHEDULE OF COURSES FOR 2013-14 onwards
Sem IV
2. Understanding Political
Theory
(Page: 6-9)
3. Nationalism in India
4. Political Theory:
(Page: 10-11)
Concepts and Debates
(Page: 12-14)
5. Constitutional Democracy 6.
Introduction
to
and Government in India
Comparative Government
(Page: 15-17)
and Politics
(Page: 18-20)
7. Public administration:
8.
Perspective
on
Theory and Practice
International
(Page: 21-25)
Relations
(Page: 26-31)
Sem V
9. Public Policy and

Administration in India
(Page: 32-35)
Sem I
Sem II
3rd Year
2nd Year
Sem III
Sem VI
4th Year
4 Year
Bachelor with
Honours
3 Year Bachelor
2 Year Diploma
1st Year
DC-1
Applied
Courses
1. Colonialism in India
(Page: 4 5)
12. Indian Political Thought-I

(Page: 43-45)
15. Western Political

Philosophy I
Sem VII
(Page: 53-55)
Sem
VIII
DC-2
18. Western Political

Philosophy II
(Page: 62-64)
1. Introduction
Politics
(Page: 69-71)
to AC 2. Your
Laws, Your
Rights
(Page: 91-95)
2. Women, Power AC.3
and Politics
Parliamentary
(Page: 72-75)
and
Legislative
Support
(Page: 96-98)
10. Political Processes in 11. Global Politics
3.Understanding
AC 4.Public
India
(Page: 39-42)
Ambedkar
Opinion
(Page: 36-38)
(Page: 76-79)
Research and
Democracy
(Page: 99-101)
13. Political Institutions
14.
Development 4. Gandhi and the AC 5.Conflict
and Processes in
Process and Social
Contemporary
and Peace
Comparative Perspective
Movements
in
World
Building
(Page: 46-48)
Contemporary India (Page: 80-83)
(Page:102-105)
(Page: 49-52)
16. Indias Foreign Policy 17. Research Methods in 5. Human Rights in
(Page: 56-59)
Politics
Comparative
(Page: 60-61)
Perspective.
(Page: 84-87)
19. Indian Political
20
Major
Research 6. Understanding
Thought- II
Paper/Project
Global Politics
(Page: 65-68)
(Page: 88-90)
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DC-I & DC-II : 5 periods/week (4 lectures + 1 students presentation)

Applied Course : 3 periods/week (2 lectures + 1 students presentation)
Note:- Reading list in Hindi will be provided during the workshops with college teachers.

DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Bachelor with Honours
Paper
Title:
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
01
Colonialism in India
Maximum Marks: 100
Total Lectures and Student Presentations: 60
Course objective: The purpose of this course is to help the students understand Indias colonial past.
The importance and the relevance of understanding this past is the fact that the roots of many political
institutions and ideas, social and economic structures that are central to politics in India today can be
traced back to this past. The course seeks to achieve this understanding by studying colonialism in
India from different perspectives that reveal different facets of colonialism in India: social-economic,
political, religious, legal and educational.
I. Imperialism and Colonialism
a. Brief History
b. Main Perspectives on Colonialism:
i. Liberalism
ii. Marxism
iii. Postcolonialism
(10 lectures)
II. Foundations of Colonial Rule in India

a. Consolidation of British Power: Civil Administration and Legal Foundations
III. Economy and Society
a. Impact on Agriculture and Ecology
b. Deindustrialisation Debate
(6 lectures)
(10 lectures)
IV. Culture and Society

a. Colonial ideology of civilizing mission: Utilitarians and Missionaries
b. Shaping Communities: Census and Enumeration
c. The Gender Question
(8 lectures)
V. Education
a. Teaching the Colonial Subject: Education
b. The New Middle Class
(6 lectures)
VI. Early Indian Responses

a. Peasant and Tribal Resistance
b. The 1857 Rebellion
(8 lectures)

Imperialism and Colonialism
Essential Readings:
R. Young, (2001) Concepts in History: Colonialism, Imperialism, in R. Young, Postcolonialism: An
Historical Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 13-43.
S. Datta, (2007) Imperialism and Colonialism: Towards a Postcolonial Understanding, in J.
Dasgupta, (ed.) Science, Technology, Imperialism and War, New Delhi: Centre for Studies in
Civilisation Publication and DK, pp. 423-466.
I.
Foundations of Colonial Rule in India
Essential Readings:
S. Bandopadhyay, (2004) From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India, New Delhi: Orient
Longman, pp. 37-65; 75-82.
T. Metcalf, (1995) Liberalism and Empire in T. Metcalf, Ideologies of the Raj, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 28-65.
II.
Economy and Society
Essential Readings:
Longman, pp. 82-95; 122-138.
R. Guha, and M. Gadgil, (1989) State Forestry and Social Conflict in British India, in Past and
Present No. 123, Oxford University Press, pp. 141-177. http://www.jstor.org/stable/650993
S. Sarkar, (1983) Modern India (1885-1947), New Delhi: Macmillan, pp. 28-35
III.
Culture and Society
Essential Readings:
Longman, pp. 139-158; 234-247.
B. Cohn, (1987) The Census, Social Structure and Objectification of Society, in B. Cohn, An
Anthropologist among Historians and Other Essays, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 224254.
IV.
Education
Essential Readings:
Longman, pp. 139-158.
S. Seth, (2008) Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India, New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, pp. 17-78
V.
Early Indian Responses
Essential Readings:
R. Guha, (1996) The Small Voice of History, in S. Amin, and D. Chakrabarty, (eds.) Subaltern
Studies IX: Writings on South Asian Histories and Society, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-12.
S. Bandopadhyay, (2008) Eighteen-Fifty-Seven and Its Many Histories, in 1857: Essays from
Economic and Political Weekly, Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan in association with Sameeksha Trust,
pp. 1-22.
Additional Readings:
R. Young, (2001) Postcolonialism: A Historical Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell.
T. Metcalf, (1995) Ideologies of the Raj, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
K. Sangari, and S. Vaid, (1989) Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History, New Delhi: Kali for
Women.
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
02
Understanding political theory
Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: This course introduces students to the idea of political theory, an analysis of its
critical and contemporary trends. It covers different notions of the political even as it also tries to
bring in the moral and normative dimension.
I. Core concepts
a. State
b. Power
(2 weeks)
II. Theorising the Political

a. Politics as normative
b. Politics as self-determination
(2 weeks)
III. Traditions of Political Theory

a. Liberal
i. What is liberalism?
ii. Varieties of liberalism: Classical, Modern and Contemporary,
iii. Politics and Passion
(3 weeks)
b. Marxist
i.
Philosophy: Materialism, Alienation
ii.
History: Class struggle
iii. Politics: Revolution
(3 weeks)
c. Feminist
i.
What is Feminism?
ii.
Essential concepts (Sex/Gender, Patriarchy, nature/culture, sameness/difference)
iii. Gendering Political Theory
(2 weeks)

I. Core concepts
a. State
Essential Reading:
D. Held, (1984) Central Perspectives on the Modern State, in G. Mc Lennon, D. Held and S. Hall
(eds) The Idea of the Modern State. Milton Keynes, Open University Press, pp.29-73.
b. Power
Essential Reading:
N. Menon, (2008) Power, in R. Bhargava and A. Acharya, (eds) Political Theory: An Introduction,
New Delhi: Pearson Longman, pp.148-157.
II. Theorising the Political
a. Politics as normative
Essential Reading:
D. Glaser, (1995), Normative Theory, in D. Marsh and G Stoker, eds., Theory and Methods in
Political Science. London: Macmillan, pp. 21-40
b. Politics as self-determination
Essential Reading:
H. Arendt, (2005) Introduction into Politics in The Promise of Politics, New Delhi: Random House.
Additional Reading:
R. Bhargava, (2008) What is Political Theory, in R. Bhargava and A. Acharya (eds), Political
Theory: An Introduction. New Delhi: Pearson Longman, pp. 2-16.
Presentation theme: Theorizing the Political: Rights versus Emancipation.
III.Traditions of Political Theory
a. Liberal
(i) What is liberalism?
Essential Reading:
A. Ryan, (1993) Liberalism, in R. Goodin and P. Petit (eds) A Companion to Contemporary
Political philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell, pp.360-382.
(ii) Varieties of liberalism: Classical, Modern and Contemporary,
Essential Readings:
A. Arblaster, (1984) The Rise and Decline of Western Liberalism, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 55-59; 6691, Available at https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/arblaster.htm, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
A. Acharya, (2008) Liberalism, in R. Bhargava and A. Acharya, (eds) Political Theory: An
Introduction, New Delhi: Pearson Longman, pp. 236-242.
(iii) Politics and Passion
Essential Reading:
M. Walzer (2004) Politics and Passion. Yale University Press, pp. 110-130.
Additional Reading:
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M. Ramsay, (2004) Whats Wrong with Liberalism: A Radical Critique of Liberal Philosophy,
London: Continuum
Presentation theme: Does taxing the rich violate individual liberty?
b. Marxist
(i) Philosophy: Materialism, Alienation
Essential Readings:
T. Eagleton, (1997) Chapter 1, in Marx and Freedom, London: Phoenix.
S. Avineri, (1968) The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pp. 8-13.
(ii) History: Class struggle
Essential Readings:
T. Eagleton, (1997) Chapter 3, in Marx and Freedom, pp. 34- 48
T. Bottomore, (1991) Historical Materialism in Dictionary of Marxist Thought. Manchester:
Blackwell Publishers.
(iii) Politics: Revolution
Essential Readings:
T Eagleton, (1997) Marx and Freedom, London: Phoenix, pp. 49-56.
B. Hindess, (1993) Marxism, in R. Goodin and P. Pettit (eds) A Companion to Contemporary
Political Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 383-402.
W. Kymlicka, (2005) Marxism in Contemporary Political Philosophy. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
F.
Engels,
(1847)
The
Principles
of
Communism.
Available
at
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
Presentation theme: Is capitalism indefensible?
c. Feminist
(i) What is Feminism?
Essential Readings:
J. Freedman, (2001) Introduction: Feminism or Feminisms? from Feminism New Delhi Viva Books,
pp. 1-7
N. Menon, (2013) Introduction from Seeing Like the Feminist New Delhi: Zubaan/Penguin, pp. viixii.
(ii) Essential concepts (Sex/Gender, Patriarchy, nature/culture, sameness/difference)
Essential Readings:
S. Okin, (1991) Gender, the Public and the Private, in D. Held (ed), Political Theory Today.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 67-90.
Menon, N. (2008) Gender, in Bhargava, R. and Ashok Acharya (edited) Political
Theory: An
Introduction New Delhi, Pearson Publishing, pp. 224-233.
(iii) Gendering Political Theory
Essential Reading:
J. Squires, (2000) Justice, in Gender in Political Theory. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 140-152
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A. Vincent, (2010) Feminism Modern Political Ideologies, 3rd edition, West Sussex: Blackwell
Publishing Ltd., pp.172-207
W. Kymlicka, (2005) Feminism in Contemporary Political Philosophy Oxford: Oxford University
Press, pp.377-397
J. Squires (1999), Gender in Political Theory, Polity Press: Cambridge, pp. 32-46.
S. Arya, N. Menon, J. Lokneeta, (eds.) (2000) Naarivaadi Rajneeti: Sangharsh evam Muddey
University of Delhi: Hindi Medium Implementation Board.
Presentation themes: Is patriarchy more than just male domination? Should we be talking
about womens freedom or just womens safety?
Liberal: Free Speech
Marxist: Resistance Movements; social movements versus revolution
Feminist: Rights versus Autonomy; Women safety versus Women Freedom

DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Maximum Marks: 100
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
03
Nationalism in India
Course objective: The purpose of this course is to help students understand the struggle of Indian
people against colonialism. It seeks to achieve this understanding by looking at this struggle from
different theoretical perspectives that highlight its different dimensions. The course begins with the
nineteenth century Indian responses to colonial dominance in the form of reformism and its criticism
and continues through various phases up to the events leading to the Partition and Independence. In
the process, the course tries to highlight its various conflicts and contradictions by focusing on its
different dimensions: communalism, class struggle, caste and gender questions.
I.
Approaches to the Study of Nationalism in India
Nationalist, Imperialist, Marxist, and Subaltern Interpretations
(8 lectures)
II.
Reformism and Anti-Reformism in the Nineteenth Century
Major Social and Religious Movements in 19th century
(8 lectures)
III.
Nationalist Politics and Expansion of its Social Base
(18 lectures)
a. Phases of Nationalist Movement: Liberal Constitutionalists, Swadeshi and the Radicals; Beginning
of Constitutionalism in India
b. Gandhi and Mass Mobilisation: Non-Cooperation Movement, Civil Disobedience Movement, and
Quit India Movement
c. Socialist Alternatives: Congress Socialists, Communists
IV.
Social Movements
a. The Womens Question: Participation in the National Movement and its Impact
b. The Caste Question: Anti-Brahminical Politics
c. Peasant, Tribals and Workers Movements
(8 lectures)
V.
Partition and Independence
a. Communalism in Indian Politics
b. The Two-Nation Theory, Negotiations over Partition.
(6 lectures)
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I.
Approaches to the Study of Nationalism in India
Essential Readings:
R. Thapar, (2000) Interpretations of Colonial History: Colonial, Nationalist, Post-colonial, in P.
DeSouza, (ed.) Contemporary India: Transitions, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 25-36.
II. Reformism and Anti-Reformism in the Nineteenth Century
Essential Readings:
Longman, pp.139-158, 234-276.
A. Sen, (2007) The idea of Social Reform and its Critique among Hindus of Nineteenth Century
India, in S. Bhattacharya, (ed.) Development of Modern Indian Thought and the Social Sciences,
Vol. X. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
III. Nationalist Politics and Expansion of its Social Base
Essential Readings:
S. Bandopadhyay, (2004) From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India. New Delhi:
Orient Longman, pp. 279-311.
S. Sarkar, (1983) Modern India (1885-1947), New Delhi: Macmillan,
P. Chatterjee, (1993) The Nation and its Pasts, in P. Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments:
Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 76-115.
IV. Social Movements
Essential Readings:
S. Bandopadhyay, (2004) From Plassey to Partition: A history of Modern India. New Delhi: Orient
Longman, pp. 342-357, 369-381.
G. Shah, (2002) Social Movements and the State, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 13-31
V. Partition and Independence
A. Jalal, and S. Bose, (1997) Modern South Asia: History, Culture, and Political Economy. New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 135-156.
A. Nandy, (2005) Rashtravad banam Deshbhakti Translated by A. Dubey, New Delhi: Vani
Prakashan. pp. 23-33. (The original essay in English is from A. Nandy, (1994) New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, pp. 1-8.)
B. Chakrabarty and R. Pandey, (2010) Modern Indian Political Thought, New Delhi: Sage
Publications.
P. Chatterjee, (1993) The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, New
Delhi: Oxford University Press.
R. Pradhan, (2008) Raj to Swaraj, New Delhi: Macmillan (Available in Hindi).
S. Islam, (2006) Bharat Mein Algaovaad aur Dharm, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan.
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Paper
Title:
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
04
Political theory: Concepts and debates
Maximum Marks: 100

Total Lectures and Student Presentation: 60
Course objective: Changes in economy and society pose the question of politics anew. Without
overlooking classical debates, attempt is made to address the new articulations and conjunctures.
Hence the course is organised around the key concepts central to political thought.
I. Freedom:
a. Negative and Positive Liberty
b. Freedom as Emancipation, Freedom as Development
(8 lectures)
II. Equality
a. Equality of Opportunity versus Equality of Outcome
(8 lectures)
III. Justice
a. Procedural versus Substantive
b. Distributive Justice
c. Global Justice
(8 lectures)
IV. Rights
a. Theories of Rights
b. Three generations of rights
(8 lectures)
V. Democracy
a. Procedural and Deliberative
b. Radical and participatory theories
(8 lectures)
VI. Contemporary Debates

(8 lectures)
a. Does liberalism accommodate cultural identity? The Communitarian critique.
b. How do plural societies accommodate diversity? Issues of multi-culturalism and Toleration.
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I. Freedom
Essential Readings:
D. Knowles, (2001) Political Philosophy, London: Routledge, pp. 74-85.
A. Sen, (2000) Development as Freedom, New York: Anchor Books, pp.3-11.
S. Avineri, (1968) The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx. pp. 8-13. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
II. Equality
Essential Readings:
A. Swift, (2001) Political Philosophy: A Beginners Guide for Students and Politicians. Cambridge:
Polity Press, pp. 99- 106.
A. Acharya,( 2008) Equality, in R. Bhargava and A. Acharya (eds) Political Theory : An
Introduction. New Delhi: Pearson Longman, pp. 62-72.
III. Justice
Essential Readings:
K. Menon, (2008) Justice, in R. Bhargava and A. Acharya (eds) Political Theory: An Introduction.
New Delhi: Pearson Longman, pp.74-86.
D. Knowles, (2001), Political Philosophy, London: Routledge, pp. 215-235.
B. Gilian, (2008) Global Justice, in C. Mckinnon (eds) Issues in Political Theory, New York:
Oxford University Press, pp. 290-310.
IV. Rights
Essential Readings:
P. Talukdar, (2008) Rights, in R. Bhargava and A. Acharya (eds) Political Theory: An Introduction.
New Delhi: Pearson Longman, pp. 88-104.
J. Waldron, (1993) Liberal Rights: Collected Papers 1981-1991. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
J. Waldron, (1984) Theories of Rights. New York: Oxford University Press.
V. Democracy
Essential Readings:
D. Owen (2003) Democracy, in R. Bellamy and A Mason, (eds.), Political Concepts. Manchester
University Press, pp. 105-117.
J. Srinivasan, Democracy, in R. Bhargava and A. Acharya (eds) Political Theory: An Introduction.
New Delhi: Pearson Longman, pp. 106-128.
Additional Reading:
G. Blakeley, Democracy, in G. Blakeley and V. Bryson, Marx and other four letter words. Pluto,
London, 2005, pp. 192- 212.
W. Brown (2011) We are all Democrats Now. In G. Agamben, et. al., eds., Democracy in What
State? London: Verso, pp. 44-57.
VI. Contemporary debates
a. Does liberalism accommodate cultural identity? The Communitarian critique.
Essential Reading:
C. Farrelly, (2004) Communitarianism, in Introduction to Contemporary Political Theory. London:
Sage Publications Ltd., pp. 97-117.
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b. How do plural societies accommodate diversity? Issues of multi-culturalism and Toleration.
Essential Reading:
C. Farrelly, (2004) Multiculturalism, in Introduction to Contemporary Political Theory. London:
Sage Publications Ltd., pp. 119-136.
W. Kymllicka, (1990) Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction. New York: Oxford
University Press (for Freedom, Equality and Justice)
C. Mckinnon, (2008) Issues in Political Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press (for rights and
multiculturalism)
R. Bellamy and M. Andrew, (eds) (2003) Political Concepts. Manchester: Manchester University
Press.
R. Maureen, (1997) What is Wrong with Liberalism: A Radical Critique of Liberal Philosophy, New
York: Continuum.
S. Lukes, (1991) Liberty and Equality, Must they Conflict in D. Held (ed.) Political Theory Today.
Cambridge: Polity Press.
Suggested themes for projects:

Freedom: Freedom of expression; freedom of movement and migration; freedom and
social transformation.
Equality: Affirmative Action; Are any inequalities morally defensible? Equal citizenship
versus national identity.
Justice: Capital Punishment; Right to Protect by the International Community,
Progressive Taxation.
Rights: Womens right of reproductive choice; right of girl child; right to information.
Democracy: Dissent and democracy; self-government versus representation;
majoritarianism and minority rights.
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Paper
Title:
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Year:
2 Semester: 3
Paper
05
No:
Constitutional democracy and government in
india
Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: This course acquaints students with the constitutional design of state structures
and institutions, and their actual working over time. The Indian Constitution accommodates
conflicting impulses (of liberty and justice, territorial decentralization and a strong union, for
instance) within itself. The course traces the embodiment of some of these conflicts in constitutional
provisions, and shows how these have played out in political practice. It further encourages a study of
state institutions in their mutual interaction, and in interaction with the larger extra-constitutional
environment.
I. The Constituent Assembly and the Constitution
(16 lectures)
a. Philosophy of the Constitution, the Preamble, and Features of the Constitution (2 weeks or 8
lectures)
b. Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles (2 weeks or 8 lectures)
II. Organs of Government
a. The Legislature: Parliament (1.5 weeks or 6 lectures)
b. The Executive: President and Prime Minister (2 weeks or 8 lectures)
c. The Judiciary: Supreme Court (1.5 weeks or 6 lectures)
(20 lectures)
III. Federalism and Decentralization

(12 lectures)
a. Federalism: Division of Powers, Emergency Provisions, Fifth and Sixth Schedules (2 weeks or 8
lectures)
b. Panchayati Raj and Municipalities (1 week or 4 lectures)
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I. The Constituent Assembly and the Constitution
a. Philosophy of the Constitution, the Preamble, and Features of the Constitution
Essential Readings:
G. Austin, (2010) The Constituent Assembly: Microcosm in Action, in The Indian Constitution:
Cornerstone of a Nation, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 15th print, pp.1-25.
R. Bhargava, (2008) Introduction: Outline of a Political Theory of the Indian Constitution, in R.
Bhargava (ed.) Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution, New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
pp. 1-40.
Additional Reading:
D. Basu, (2012) Introduction to the Constitution of India, New Delhi: Lexis Nexis.
S. Chaube, (2009) The Making and Working of the Indian Constitution, Delhi: National Book Trust.
b. Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles
Essential Readings:
G. Austin, (2000) The Social Revolution and the First Amendment, in Working a Democratic
Constitution, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 69-98.
A. Sibal, (2010) From Niti to Nyaya, Seminar, Issue 615, pp 28-34.
Additional Reading:
The Constitution of India: Bare Act with Short Notes, (2011) New Delhi: Universal, pp. 4-16.
II. Organs of Government
a. The Legislature: Parliament
Essential Readings:
B. Shankar and V. Rodrigues, (2011) The Changing Conception of Representation: Issues, Concerns
and Institutions, in The Indian Parliament: A Democracy at Work, New Delhi: Oxford University
Press, pp. 105-173.
V. Hewitt and S. Rai, (2010) Parliament, in P. Mehta and N. Jayal (eds.) The Oxford Companion to
Politics in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 28-42.
b. The Executive: President and Prime Minister
Essential Readings:
J. Manor, (2005) The Presidency, in D. Kapur and P. Mehta P. (eds.) Public Institutions in India,
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.105-127.
J. Manor, (1994) The Prime Minister and the President, in B. Dua and J. Manor (eds.) Nehru to the
Nineties: The Changing Office of the Prime Minister in India, Vancouver: University of British
Columbia Press, pp. 20-47.
H. Khare, (2003) Prime Minister and the Parliament: Redefining Accountability in the Age of
Coalition Government, in A. Mehra and G. Kueck (eds.) The Indian Parliament: A Comparative
Perspective, New Delhi: Konark, pp. 350-368.
c. The Judiciary: Supreme Court
Essential Readings:
U. Baxi, (2010) The Judiciary as a Resource for Indian Democracy, Seminar, Issue 615, pp. 61-67.
R. Ramachandran, (2006) The Supreme Court and the Basic Structure Doctrine in B. Kirpal et.al
(eds.) Supreme but not Infallible: Essays in Honour of the Supreme Court of India, New Delhi:
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Additional Reading:
L. Rudolph and S. Rudolph, (2008) Judicial Review Versus Parliamentary Sovereignty, in
Explaining Indian Institutions: A Fifty Year Perspective, 1956-2006: Volume 2: The Realm of
Institutions: State Formation and Institutional Change. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 183210.
III. Federalism and Decentralization
a. Federalism: Division of Powers, Emergency Provisions, Fifth and Sixth Schedules
Essential Readings:
M. Singh, and R. Saxena (eds.), (2011) Towards Greater Federalization, in Indian Politics:
Constitutional Foundations and Institutional Functioning, Delhi: PHI Learning Private Ltd., pp. 166195.
V. Marwah, (1995) Use and Abuse of Emergency Powers: The Indian Experience, in B. Arora and
D. Verney (eds.) Multiple Identities in a Single State: Indian Federalism in a Comparative
Perspective, Delhi: Konark, pp. 136-159.
B. Sharma, (2010) The 1990s: Great Expectations; The 2000s: Disillusionment Unfathomable, in
Unbroken History of Broken Promises: Indian State and Tribal People, Delhi: Freedom Press and
Sahyog Pustak Kuteer, pp. 64-91.
The Constitution of India: Bare Act with Short Notes, (2011) New Delhi: Universal, pp 192-213.
R. Dhavan and R. Saxena, (2006) The Republic of India, in K. Roy, C. Saunders and J. Kincaid
(eds.) A Global Dialogue on Federalism, Volume 3, Montreal: Queens University Press, pp. 166197.
R. Manchanda, (2009) The No Nonsense Guide to Minority Rights in South Asia, Delhi: Sage
Publications, pp. 105-109.
b. Panchayati Raj and Municipalities
Essential Readings:
P. deSouza, (2002) Decentralization and Local Government: The Second Wind of Democracy in
India, in Z. Hasan, E. Sridharan and R. Sudarshan (eds.) Indias Living Constitution: Ideas,
Practices and Controversies, New Delhi: Permanent Black, pp. 370-404.
M. John, (2007) Women in Power? Gender, Caste and Politics of Local Urban Governance, in
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42(39), pp. 3986-3993.
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Paper
Title:
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Year:
2 Semester: 3
Paper
06
No:
Introduction to Comparative Government and
Politics
Maximum marks-100
Total lectures Student presentations: 60
(Note: There will be a compulsory question from topic 1 with internal choice)
Course objective: this is a foundational course in comparative politics. The purpose is to familiarize
students with the basic concepts and approaches to the study of comparative politics. More
specifically the course will focus on examining politics in a historical framework while engaging with
various themes of comparative analysis in developed and developing countries.
I.
Understanding Comparative Politics
a. Nature and scope
b. Going beyond Eurocentrism
(8 lectures)
(16 lectures)
II.
Historical context of modern government
a. Capitalism: meaning and development: globalization
b. Socialism : meaning, growth and development
c. Colonialism and decolonisation: meaning, context, forms of colonialism; anti-colonialism
struggles and process of decolonization
III.
Themes for comparative analysis
(24 lectures)
A comparative study of constitutional developments and political economy in the following
countries: Britain, Brazil, Nigeria and China.
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I. Understanding Comparative Politics
Essential Readings:
J. Kopstein, and M. Lichbach, (eds), (2005) Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and
Institutions in a Changing Global Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.1-5; 16-36;
253-290.
M. Mohanty, (1975) Comparative Political Theory and Third World Sensitivity, in Teaching
Politics, Nos. 1 and 2, pp. 22-38
A. Roy, (2001) Comparative Method and Strategies of Comparison, in Punjab Journal of Politics.
Vol. xxv (2), pp. 1-15.
J. Blondel, (1996) Then and Now: Comparative Politics, in Political Studies. Vol. 47 (1), pp. 152160.
N. Chandhoke, (1996) Limits of Comparative Political Analysis , in Economic and Political
Weekly, Vol. 31 (4), January 27, pp.PE 2-PE2-PE8
II Historical context of modern government
a. Capitalism
Essential Readings:
R. Suresh, (2010) Economy & Society -Evolution of Capitalism, New Delhi, Sage Publications, pp.
151-188; 235-268.
G. Ritzer, (2002) Globalization and Related Process I: Imperialism, Colonialism, Development,
Westernization, Easternization, in Globalization: A Basic Text. London: Wiley- Blackwell, pp. 6384.
M. Dobb, (1950) Capitalism, in Studies in the Development of Capitalism. London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul Ltd, pp. 1-32.
E. Wood, (2002) The Agrarian origin of Capitalism, in Origin of Capitalism: A Long View.
London: Verso, pp. 91-95; 166-181.
A. Hoogvelt, (2002) History of Capitalism Expansion, in Globalization and Third World Politics.
London: Palgrave, pp. 14-28.
b. Socialism
Essential Readings:
A. Brown, (2009) The Idea of Communism, in Rise and Fall of Communism, Harpercollins (ebook), pp. 1-25; 587-601.
J. McCormick, (2007) Communist and Post-Communist States, in Comparative Politics in
Transition, United Kingdom: Wadsworth, pp. 195-209
R. Meek, (1957) The Definition of Socialism: A Comment, The Economic Journal. 67 (265), pp.
135-139.
c. Colonialism, decolonization& postcolonial society
Essential Readings:
P. Duara, (2004) Introduction: The Decolonization of Asia and Africa in the Twentieth Century, in
P. Duara, (ed), Decolonization: Perspective From Now and Then. London: Routledge, pp. 1-18.
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J. Chiryankandath, (2008) Colonialism and Post-Colonial Development, in P. Burnell, et. al,
Politics in the Developing World. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 31-52.
Additional Reading:
M. Mohanty, (1999) Colonialism and Discourse in India and China, Available at
http://www.ignca.nic.in/ks_40033.html http, Accessed: 24.03.2011.
III. Themes for Comparative Analysis
Essential Reading:
L. Barrington et. al (2010) Comparative Politics - Structures & Choices, Boston, Wadsworth, pp.
212-13; 71-76; 84-89.
M. Grant, (2009) United Kingdom Parliamentary System in The UK Parliament. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press, pp. 24-43
J. McCormick, (2007) Comparative Politics in Transition, UK: Wadsworth, pp. 260-270 (China)
M. Kesselman, J. Krieger and William (2010), Introduction to Comparative Politics: Political
Challenges and Changing Agendas, UK: Wadsworth. pp. 47-70 (Britain); 364- 388 (Nigeria); 625648 (China); 415-440 (Brazil).
Additional Reading:
P. Rutland, (2007) Britain, in J. Kopstein and M. Lichbach. (eds.) Comparative Politics: Interest,
Identities and Institutions in a Changing Global Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.
39-79
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Paper
Title:
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
07
Public administration: theory and practice
Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: The course provides an introduction to the discipline of public administration. The
emphasis is on administrative theory, including non-western developing country perspectives. An
understanding of the classical theories of administration is provided. The course also explores some
of the recent trends, including feminism and ecological conservation and how the call for greater
democratization is restructuring public administration. The course will also attempt to provide the
students some practical hands-on understanding on contemporary administrative developments.
I.
Public administration as a discipline
(10 lectures and presentations)
a. Meaning, scope and significance of the discipline (4 Lectures), public and private administration (2
Lectures).
b. Evolution of Public Administration as a discipline(4 Lectures)
II.
Administrative theories
a. Ideal-type bureaucracy (Max Weber)
b. Scientific management (F.W.Taylor)
c. Human relations theory (Elton Mayo)
d. Rational decision-making (Herbert Simon)
e. Ecological approach (Fred Riggs)
f. Guided Bureaucracy (Karl Marx)
III.
Public policy
a. Concept, relevance and approaches (4 Lectures).
b. Formulation, implementation and evaluation (7 Lectures).
IV. Contemporary developments

a. Development administration
b. New public administration
c. New public management
d. Good governance
e. Feminist perspectives
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I. Public Administration as a discipline
a. Meaning, scope and significance of the subject.
Essential Readings:
D. Rosenbloom, R. Kravchuk. and R. Clerkin, (2009) Public Administration: Understanding
Management, Politics and Law in Public Sector, 7th edition, New Delhi: McGraw Hill, pp. 1-40
B. Chakrabarty, and P. Chand, (2012) Public Administration in a Globalizing World: Theories and
Practices, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp.1-10
Additional Reading:
W. Wilson, (2004) The Study of Administration, in B. Chakrabarty and M. Bhattacharya (eds),
Administrative Change and Innovation: a Reader, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 85-101
b. Public and Private administration.
Essential Readings:
Practices, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp.5-8.
M. Bhattacharya, (2008) New Horizons of Public Administration, 5th Revised Edition. New Delhi:
Jawahar Publishers, pp. 37-44.
Additional Reading:
G. Alhson, (1997) Public and Private Management, in Shafritz, J. and Hyde, A. (eds.) Classics of
Public Administration, 4th Edition. Forth Worth: Hartcourt Brace, TX, pp. 510-529.
c. Evolution of Public Administration
Essential Readings:
N. Henry, (2013) Public Administration and Public Affairs, 12th edition. New Jersey: Pearson, pp.
36-49.
Additional Reading:
M. Bhattacharya, (2012) Restructuring Public Administration: A New Look, New Delhi: Jawahar
Publishers, pp.64-77.
II. Administrative theories
a. Ideal-type bureaucracy.
Essential Readings:
M. Bhattacharya, (2011) New Horizons of Public Administration, New Delhi: Jawahar Publishers, pp.
68-89
P. Mouzelis, (2003) The Ideal Type of Bureaucracy in B. Chakrabarty, And M. Bhattacharya, (eds),
2003, Public Administration: A Reader, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Additional Reading:
M. Weber, (1946) Bureaucracy, in C. Mills, and H. Gerth, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.196-244.
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b. Scientific Management
Essential Readings:
D. Gvishiani, (1972) Organisation and Management, Moscow: Progress Publishers, pp. 174-205.
Additional Reading:
F. Taylor, (2004) Scientific Management, in J. Shafritz, and A. Hyde, (eds.) Classics of Public
Administration, 5th Edition. Belmont: Wadsworth, pp. 43-45.
c. Human Relations Theory
Essential Readings:
D. Gvishiani, (1972) Organisation and Management, Moscow: Progress Publishers, pp. 215-249
Practices, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 68-78
Additional Reading:
B. Miner, (2006) Elton Mayo and Hawthrone, in Organisational Behaviour 3: Historical Origins
and the Future. New York: M.E. Sharpe, pp. 59-69.
d. Rational-decision making
Essential Readings:
S. Maheshwari, (2009), Administrative Thinkers, New Delhi: Macmillan, pp. 222-241.
B Chakrabarty and P. Chand, (2012) Public Administration in a Globalizing World: Theories and
Additional Reading:
Fredrickson and Smith, (2003), Decision Theory, in The Public Administration Theory Primer.
Cambridge: Westview Press, pp. 161-183.
e. Ecological approach
Essential Readings:
R. Arora, (2003), Riggs Administrative Ecology in B. Chakrabarty and M. Bhattacharya (eds),
Public Administration: A reader, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, pp.101-132.
A. Singh, (2002) Public Administration: Roots and Wings. New Delhi: Galgotia Publishing
Company, pp. 41-56.
Additional Reading:
F. Riggs, (1964) Administration in Developing Countries: The Theory of Prismatic Society. Boston:
Houghton Miffin, pp. 3-95.
f. Guided Bureaucracy
Essential Readings:
O. Dwiwedi, W. Graf, and J. Nef, (2003) Marxist Contribution to the Theory of the Administrative
State in B. Chakrabarty, and M. Bhattacharya, (eds), Public Administration: A Reader, New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, pp. 133-154
S. Maheshwari, Administrative Thinkers, New Delhi: Macmillan, pp. 245-50
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Additional Reading:
K. Marx, (1843) Critique of Hegels Philosophy of Right (part3. The Executive-bureaucracy), pp.
287-297, Available at www.marxist.org/archive/marx/works/1843/critique-hpr/ch03.html, Accessed:
18.04.2013.
III. Public Policy
a. Concept, relevance and approaches
Essential Readings:
T. Dye, (1984) Understanding Public Policy, 5th Edition. U.S.A: Prentice Hall, pp. 1-44.
B. Chakrabarty and P. Chand, (2012) Public Administration in a Globalizing World: Theories and
Additional Reading:
J. Anderson, (1975) Public Policy Making. New York: Thomas Nelson and sons Ltd.
b. Formulation, implementation and evaluation
Essential Readings:
M. Howlett, M. Ramesh, and A. Perl, (2009), Studying Public Policy: policy cycles and policy
subsystems, 3rd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 121-141
T. Dye, (2002) Understanding Public Policy, New Delhi: Pearson, pp. 32-50,
Additional Reading:
Y. Dror, (1989) Public Policy Making Reexamined. Oxford: Transaction Publication, pp. 3-24; 73128; 129-216.
IV. Contemporary Developments
a. Development administration
Essential Readings:
M. Bhattacharya, (2006) Chapter 2 and 4, in Social Theory, Development Administration and
Development Ethics, New Delhi: Jawahar Publishers.
Additional Reading:
F. Riggs, (1961) The Ecology of Public Administration, Part 3, New Delhi: Asia Publishing House.
b. New Public Administration
Essential Reading:
M. Bhattacharya, (2012), Public Administration: Issues and Perspectives, New Delhi: Jawahar
Publishers, pp. 154-166.
Additional Reading:
H. Frederickson, (2004) Toward a New Public Administration, in J. Shafritz, & A. Hyde, (eds.)
Classics of Public Administration, 5th Edition, Belmont: Wadsworth, pp.315 - 327.
c. New Public Management
Essential Readings:
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U. Medury, (2010) Public administration in the Globalization Era, New Delhi: Orient Black Swan,
pp. 49-83.
A. Gray, and B. Jenkins, (1997) From Public Administration to Public Management in E. Otenyo
and N. Lind, (eds.) Comparative Public Administration: The Essential Readings, 1st Edition.
Netherlands: Oxford University Press, pp. 543-572.
Additional Reading:
C. Hood, (2004) A Public Management for All Seasons, in J. Shafritz, & A. Hyde, (eds.) Classics of
Public Administration, 5th Edition, Belmont: Wadsworth, pp. 503-516.
d. Good Governance
Essential Readings:
M. Bhattacharya, (1998) Contextualizing Governance and Development in B. Chakrabarty and
M. Bhattacharya, (eds.) The Governance Discourse. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 79-102
B. Chakrabarty, (2007) Reinventing Public Administration: The India Experience. New Delhi: Orient
U. Medury, (2010) Public administration in the Globalisation Era, New Delhi: Orient Black Swan,
pp.181-235
Additional Reading:
A. Leftwich, (1994) Governance in the State and the Politics of Development, in Development and
Change. Vol. 25, pp. 363-386.
e. Feminist perspectives
Essential Readings:
M. Bhattacharya, (2012), Public Administration: Issues and Perspectives, New Delhi: Jawahar
B. Chakrabarty and P. Chand (2012) Public Administration in a Globalizing World: Theories and
Additional Reading:
C. Stivers, (1993) Gender Dilemmas and the Quest for legitimacy in Public Administration, in
Gender Images in Public Administration: Legitimacy and the Administrative State. Newbury Park:
Sage Publications, pp. 1-10.
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Max Marks: 100
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
08
Perspective on international relationS

Course objective: This paper seeks to equip students with the basic intellectual tools for
understanding International Relations. The course begins by historically contextualizing the evolution
of the international state system before discussing the agency-structure problem through the levels-ofanalysis approach. After having set the parameters of the debate, students are introduced to different
theories in International Relations. A key objective of the course is to make students aware of the
implicit Eurocentricism of International Relations by highlighting certain specific perspectives from
the Global South.
Part I
a. Studying International Relations (3 lectures)
b. History and IR: Emergence of the International State System
i. Pre-Westphalia and Westphalia (5 lectures)
ii. Post-Westphalia (5 lectures)
c. How do you Understand IR (2 lectures)
i. Levels of Analysis
d. Theoretical Perspectives
I Classical Realism & Neo-Realism (5 lectures)
ii. Liberalism & Neoliberalism (4 lectures)
iii. Marxist Approaches (5 lectures)
iv. Feminist Perspectives (3 lectures)
v. Constructivism (3 lectures)
(35 lectures)
Part II
a. IR, Eurocentricism and Perspectives from the Global South
i. Kautilya (2 Lectures)
ii. Tagores Nationalism (2 Lectures)
iii. Non-alignment (2 Lectures)
iv. International Law: A Third World Perspective (3 Lectures)
v. Rethinking the Regional and Global Orders (4 Lectures)
(13 lectures)
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Part I
a. Studying International Relations:
Essential Readings:
M. Nicholson, (2002) International Relations: A Concise Introduction, New York: Palgrave, pp. 1-4.
R. Jackson and G. Sorensen, (2007) Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approches,
3rd Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 2-7
S. Joshua. Goldstein and J. Pevehouse, (2007) International Relations, New York: Pearson Longman,
2007, pp. 29-35
C. Brown and K. Ainley, (2009) Understanding International Relations, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp.
1-16.
K. Mingst and J. Snyder, (2011) Essential Readings in International Relations, New York: W.W.
Nortan and Company, pp. 1-15.
M. Smith and R. Little, (eds) (2000) Introduction, in Perspectives on World Politics, New York:
Routledge, 2000, 1991, pp. 1-17.
J. Baylis and S. Smith (eds), (2008) The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to
International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-6.
R. Mansbach and K. Taylor, (2008) Introduction to Global Politics, New York: Routledge, pp. 2-32.
b. History and IR: Emergence of the International State System:
Essential Readings:
R. Mansbach and K. Taylor, (2012) Introduction to Global Politics, New York: Routledge, pp. 33-68.
K. Mingst, (2011) Essentials of International Relations, New York: W.W. Nortan and Company, pp.
16-63.
P. Viotti and M. Kauppi, (2007) International Relations and World Politics: Security, Economy,
Identity, Pearson Education, pp. 40-85.
J. Baylis, S. Smith and P. Owens, (2008) The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to
International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 36-89.
R. Mansbach and K. Taylor, (2008) Introduction to Global Politics, New York: Routledge, pp. 70135.
J Goldstein and J. Pevehouse, (2007) International Relations, New York: Pearson Longman, pp. 5069.
E. Hobsbawm, (1995) Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991, Vikings.
S. Lawson, (2003) International Relations, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 21-60.
c. How do you Understand IR (Levels of Analysis):
Essential Readings:
J. Singer, (1961) The International System: Theoretical Essays, World Politics, Vol. 14(1), pp. 7792.
B. Buzan, (1995) The Level of Analysis Problem in International Relations Reconsidered, in K.
Booth and S. Smith, (eds), International Relations Theory Today, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania
State University Press, pp. 198-216.
K. Mingst, (2011) Essentials of International Relations, New York: W.W. Nortan and Company, pp.
93-178.
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J. Goldstein and J. Pevehouse, (2007) International Relations, New York: Pearson Longman, pp. 3549.
K. Waltz, (1959) Man, The State and War, Columbia: Columbia University Press.
d. Theoretical Perspectives:
Classical Realism and Neorealism
Essential Readings:
E. Carr, (1981) The Twenty Years Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International
Relations, London: Macmillan, pp. 63-94.
H. Morgenthau, (2007) Six Principles of Political Realism, in R. Art and R. Jervis, International
Politics, 8th Edition, New York: Pearson Longman, pp. 7-14.
T. Dunne and B. Scmidt, (2008) Realism, in J. Baylis and S. Smith (eds), The Globalization of
World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, pp.
90-107.
K. Waltz, (2007) The Anarchic Structure of World Politics, in R. Art and R. Jervis, International
Politics, 8th Edition, New York: Pearson Longman, pp. 29-49.
M. Nicholson, (2002) International Relations: A Concise Introduction, New York: Palgrave, pp. 6-7.
H. Bull, (2000) The Balance of Power and International Order, in M. Smith and R. Little (eds),
Perspectives on World Politics, New York: Routledge, pp. 115-124.
Liberalism and Neoliberalism
Essential Readings:
T. Dunne, (2008) Liberalism, in J. Baylis and S. Smith (eds.), The Globalization of World Politics:
An Introduction to International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 108-123.
R. Keohane and J. Nye, (2000) Transgovernmental Relations and the International Organization, in
M. Smith and R. Little (eds.), Perspectives on World Politics, New York: Routledge, pp. 229-241.
J. Goldstein and J. Pevehouse, (2007) International Relations, New York: Pearson Longman, pp.
127-137.
R. Jackson and G. Sorensen, (2007) Introduction to International Relations: Theories and
Approaches, 3rd Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 97-128.
Marxist Approaches
Essential Readings:
I. Wallerstein, (2000) The Rise and Future Demise of World Capitalist System: Concepts for
Comparative Analysis, in Michael Smith and Richard Little (eds), Perspectives on World Politics,
New York: Routledge, pp. 305-317.
S. Hobden and R. Jones, (2008) Marxist Theories of International Relations in J. Baylis and S.
Smith (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, New
York: Oxford University Press, pp. 142-149; 155-158.
494-496; 500-503.
J. Galtung, (2000) A Structural Theory of Imperialism, in M. Smith and R. Little, (eds),
Perspectives on World Politics, New York: Routledge, pp. 292-304.
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A. Frank, (1966) The Development of Underdevelopment Monthly Review, pp. 17-30.
P. Viotti and M. Kauppi (2007), International Relations and World Politics: Security, Economy,
Identity, Pearson Education, pp. 40-85.
Modern History Sourcebook: Summary of Wallerstein on World System Theory, Available at
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Wallerstein.asp, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
Feminist Perspectives
Essential Readings:
J. Tickner, (2007) A Critique of Morgenthaus Principles of Political Realism, in R. Art and R.
Jervis, International Politics, 8th Edition, New York: Pearson Longman, pp. 15-28.
F. Halliday, (1994) Rethinking International Relations, London: Macmillan, pp. 147-166.
M. Nicholson, International Relations: A Concise Introduction, New York: Palgrave, 2002, pp. 120122.
138-148.
S. Smith and P. Owens, (2008) Alternative Approaches to International Theory in J. Baylis and S.
Smith (eds), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, New
York: Oxford University Press, pp. 181-184.
Constructivism
Essential Readings:
A. Wendt, (1992) Anarchy is What States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics,
International Organization Vol 46(2) pp. 391-425.
M. Barnett, (2008) Social Constructivism in J. Baylis and S. Smith (eds), The Globalization of
World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, New York: Oxford University Press, pp.
160-173.
Additional Reading:
R. Jackson and G. Sorensen, (2007) Introduction to International Relations: Theories and Approches,
3rdEdition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 161-177.
Part II
a. IR, Eurocentricism and Perspectives from the Global South
On Eurocentricism
Essential Readings:
A. Acharya and B. Buzan, (2007) Why Is There No Non- Western IR Theory: Reflections on and
From Asia, International Relations Of The Asia- Pacific, Vol 7(3), pp. 285-286.
T. Kayaoglu, (2010) 'Westphalian Eurocentrism in I R Theory', in International Studies Review, Vol.
12(2), pp. 193-217.
O. Weaver and A. Tickner, (2009) Introduction: Geocultural Epistemologies, in A. Tickner and O.
Waever (eds), International Relations: Scholarship Around The World, London: Routledge, pp. 1-31.
R. Kanth (ed), (2009) The Challenge of Eurocentris: Global Perspectives,Policy & Prospects, New
York: Palgrave-McMillan.
S. Amin, (2010) Eurocentrism: Modernity, Religion & Democracy, New York: Monthly Review
Press.
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Kautilya
Essential Readings:
B. Sarkar, (1921) The Hindu Theory of State, Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 36(1), pp. 79-90.
B. Sarkar, (1919) Hindu Theory of International Relations, The American Political Science Review,
Vol. 13(3), pp. 400-414.
Tagores Nationalism
Essential Reading:
R. Tagore (2002), Nationalism, New Delhi: Rupa & Co.
Non-alignment
Essential Readings:
A. Rana, (1979) The Imperatives of Non-alignment, New Delhi: Macmillan.
R. Harshe, (1990) Indias Non-Alignment: An Attempt at Conceptual Reconstruction, Economic
and Political Weekly, Vol.25(7), pp. 399-405.
V. Prashad, (2007) The Darker Nations: A Peoples History of the Third World, New York: The New
Press.
R. Khan (ed.), (1981) Perspectives on Non-alignment, New Delhi: Kalamkar Prakashan,
International Law: A Third World Perspective
Essential Readings:
B. Chimni, (2006) Third World Approaches to International Law: A Manifesto, International
Community Law Review, Vol. 8, pp. 3-27.
B. Chimni, (2007) A Just World Order under Law: A View from the South, American University
International Law Review, Vol. 22(2), pp. 199-220.
Additional Reading:
R. Anand, (2004) Jawaharlal Nehru and International Law and Relations, in R. Anand, Studies in
International Law and History: An Asian Perspective,The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, pp. 1-23.
Rethinking the Regional and Global Orders
Essential Readings:
A. Acharya, (2004) Whose Ideas Spread: Whose Norms Matter? Norm Localization and Institutional
Change in Asian Regionalism, International Organization, Vol. 58, pp. 239-275.
K. Narayanan, (2005) The Five Principles of Peaceful Co-Existence: The Appropriate Code for a
Globalized World, inC. Ranganathan, (ed.) Panchasheel and the Future: Perspectives on IndiaChina Relations, New Delhi: Samskriti, in association with Institute of Chinese Studies Centre for the
Study of Developing Societies, xxi(xxvii).
A. Ramakrishnan, (2001) The Global and the Local: A Critical International Perspective on the
Politics of Sustainable Development, Indian Journal of Political Science, Vol.62(1), pp. 91-104.
S. Inayatullah, (2008) Distant Futures and Alternative Presents for South Asia, in N. Behera, (ed),
International Relations in South Asia: Search for an Alternative Paradigm, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 5173.
U. Baxi, (1998) The Future of Human Rights, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
C. Murthy, (1998) Reforming the UN Security Council: An Asian View, South Asian Survey, Vol.
5(1), pp. 113-124.
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A. Ramakrishnan, (2005) Globalisation and Human Rights: A South Asian Perspective, Human
Rights Global Focus, Vol. 2(1), pp. 42-44.
Online Resources:
Flashcard Glossary:
http://global.oup.com/uk/orc/politics/intro/internationalrelations/books/flashcards/
http://global.oup.com/uk/orc/politics/ir_theory/dunne2e/01student/glossary/
Timeline of Key International Relations Events:
http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/orc/resources/politics/intro/internationalrelations/books/timelin
e/ir_timeline.pdf
Maps of the Key Regions:
http://global.oup.com/uk/orc/politics/intro/internationalrelations/books/maps/
For some interesting Multiple Choice Questions:
http://global.oup.com/uk/orc/politics/intro/garner2e/01student/mcqs/
Crossword Puzzle:
http://www.cengage.com/cgiwadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20bI&product_isbn_issn=9781133602101
For Interviews of Eminent Thinkers Conversations with History:
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/alpha.html
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Paper
Title:
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
09
Public policy and administration in india
Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: The course seeks to provide an introduction to the interface between public policy
and administration in India. It deals with issues of decentralization, financial management, citizens
and administration and social welfare from a non-western perspective.
I. Public policy
a. Definition, characteristics and models
b. Public Policy Process in India
II. Decentralization
a. Meaning, significance and approaches and Types
b. Local Self Governance: Rural and Urban
III. Budget
a. Concept, significance and Types of Budget
b. Budget processes in India
IV.Citizen and Social welfare administration

a. Citizens and Administration
(i) Public accountability and Peoples participation in administration
(ii) Redressal of public grievances: RTI, Lokpal, citizens charter and E-Governance
b. Social Welfare Administration
(i) Concept and approaches of Social Welfare
(ii) Social Welfare Policies: Education: Sarv Siksha Abhiyan, Health: NRHM and Employment:
MNREGA
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I. Public Policy
a. Definition, characteristics and models
Essential Readings:
T. Dye, (1984) Understanding Public Policy, 5th Edition. U.S.A: Prentice Hall, pp. 1-44.
B. Chakrabarty and P. Chand (2012) Public Administration in a Globalizing World: Theories and
Additional Reading:
N. Henry, (2013) Public Administration and Public Affairs, 12th Edition, USA: PHI Learning, pp.
342-353.
b. Public Policy Processes in India
Essential Readings:
Avasthi and Maheshwari (2010) Public Administration, Agra: Lakshmi Narain Agarwal, pp.705-729.
II. Decentralization
a. Meaning, significance and approaches and Types
Essential Readings:
G. Cheema and D. Rondinelli, (1983) Decentralization and Development: Policy Implementation in
Developing Countries, Beverly Hills, California: Sage publications.
Additional Reading:
J. Fesler, (1965) Approaches to the Understanding of Decentralization, Journal of Politics, Vol.
27(3), pp. 536-66.
b. Local Self Governance: Rural and Urban
Essential Readings:
B.Chakrabarty and P. Chand, (2012) Public Administration in a Globalizing World: Theories and
Practices, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 268-292.
S. Sarkar, (2010) Public administration in India, New Delhi: PHI Learning, pp.130-188
Additional Reading:
N. Jayal, A. Prakash and P. Sharma, (2006) Local Governance in India: Decentralisation and
Beyond, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-26.
III. Budget
a. Concept, Significance and Types of Budget
Essential Readings:
Cox, et al., (1994) Public administration in Theory and Practice. New Delhi: Pearson pp. 121-142
Practices, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 414-421.
Additional Reading:
N. Henry, (1999) Public Administration and Public Affairs. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, pp. 233-249.
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b. Budget Processes in India
Essential Readings:
Additional Reading:
A. Singh, (2002), Public Administration: Roots and Wings. New Delhi: Galgotia Publishing
Company, pp.187-195.
IV. Citizen and Social welfare administration
a. Citizens and Administration
Public accountability
Essential Readings:
Jawahar Publishers, pp. 412-428
Peoples participation in administration
Essential Readings:
Avasthi and Maheshwari, (2010) Public Administration, Agra: Lakshmi Narain Agarwal, pp.639-645.
Additional Reading:
M. Bhattacharya, (2008) New Horizons of Public Administration, 5th Revised Edition, New Delhi:
Redressal of public grievances: RTI, Lokpal citizens charter and E-Governance
Essential Readings:
P. Sharma and M. Devasher, (2007) Right to Information in India, in S. Singh and P. Sharma,
(eds.) Decentralization: Institutions and Politics in Rural India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
pp. 348-382.
S. Bhatnagar, (2008) E-Government: building a SMART administration for Indias States, in B.
Chakrabarty and M. Bhattacharya, (eds) The Governance Discourse, New Delhi: Oxford University
Press, pp. 246-259.
Additional Reading:
A. Singh and G. Prakash, (2008) A New Public Management Perspective in Indian E- Governance
Initiatives, in Critical Thinking In E-Governance, Delhi: International Congress of E-Governance,
pp. 11-19
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b. Social Welfare Administration

Concept and approaches of Social Welfare
Essential Readings:
W. Friedlander, (1967) Introduction to Social Welfare, New Delhi: Prentice Hall of India.
Additional Reading:
R. Titmus, (1985) Essays on the welfare State, London: George Allen and Unwin.
Social Welfare Policies
Essential Readings:
Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India (2013) MGNREGA Sameeksha, Delhi: Orient
Blackswan.
(a)
Education: Sarv Siksha Abhiyan
A. Sinha, Is It Really Possible? Available at www.india-seminar.com/2004/536/amarjeetsinha.htm
Dhir, J. Beyond Resources. Available at
www.india-seminar.com/2004/536/dhir jhingram.htm, Accessed: 18.04.2013.
(b) Health: NRHM
National Rural Health Mission (India),(2007) Reviewing two years of NRHM: Citizens
Report,
October,
New
Delhi,
Available
at
www.chsj.org/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=442, Accessed: 18.04.2013.
(c)Employment: MNREGA
A. Kumar, B. Suna and S. Pratap, Responding to Peoples Protests about Poverty: Making and
Implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in India. Available at
www.chronicpoverty.org, Accessed: 18.04.2013.
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
10
Political process in india
Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: Actual politics in India diverges quite significantly from constitutional legal rules.
An understanding of the political process thus calls for a different mode of analysis - that offered by
political sociology. This course maps the working of modern institutions, premised on the existence
of an individuated society, in a context marked by communitarian solidarities, and their mutual
transformation thereby. It also familiarizes students with the working of the Indian state, paying
attention to the contradictory dynamics of modern state power.
I. Political Parties and the Party System
(1.5 weeks or 6 lectures)
Trends in the Party System; From the Congress System to Multi-Party Coalitions
II. Determinants of Voting Behaviour
(2 weeks or 8 lectures)
Caste, Class, Gender and Religion
III. Regional Aspirations
The Politics of Secession and Accommodation
IV. Religion and Politics
Debates on Secularism; Minority and Majority Communalism
V. Caste and Politics
Caste in Politics and the Politicization of Caste
VI. Affirmative Action Policies
Women, Caste and Class
VII. The Changing Nature of the Indian State
Developmental, Welfare and Coercive Dimensions
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I. Political Parties and the Party System: Trends in the Party System; From the Congress
System to Multi-Party Coalitions
Essential Readings:
R. Kothari, (2002) The Congress System, in Z. Hasan (ed.) Parties and Party Politics in India, New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp 39-55.
E. Sridharan, (2012) Introduction: Theorizing Democratic Consolidation, Parties and Coalitions, in
Coalition Politics and Democratic Consolidation in Asia, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Additional Reading:
Y. Yadav and S. Palshikar, (2006) Party System and Electoral Politics in the Indian States, 19522002: From Hegemony to Convergence, in P. deSouza and E. Sridharan (eds.) Indias Political
Parties, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 73-115.
II. Determinants of Voting Behaviour: Caste, Class, Gender and Religion
Essential Readings:
Y. Yadav, (2000) Understanding the Second Democratic Upsurge, in F. Frankel, Z. Hasan, and R.
Bhargava (eds.) Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics in Democracy, New Delhi:
C. Jaffrelot, (2008) Why Should We Vote? The Indian Middle Class and the Functioning of Worlds
Largest Democracy, in Religion, Caste and Politics in India, Delhi: Primus, pp. 604-619.
R. Deshpande, (2004) How Gendered was Womens Participation in Elections 2004?, Economic
and Political Weekly, Vol. 39, No. 51, pp. 5431-5436.
S. Kumar, (2009) Religious Practices Among Indian Hindus, Japanese Journal of Political Science,
Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 313-332.
III. Regional Aspirations: The Politics of Secession and Accommodation
Essential Readings:
M. Chadda, (2010) Integration through Internal Reorganisation, in S. Baruah (ed.)
Ethnonationalism in India: A Reader, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 379-402.
P. Brass, (1999) Crisis of National Unity: Punjab, the Northeast and Kashmir, in The Politics of
India Since Independence, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press and Foundation Books, pp.192227.
IV. Religion and Politics: Debates on Secularism: Minority and Majority Communalism
Essential Readings:
T. Pantham, (2004) Understanding Indian Secularism: Learning from its Recent Critics, in R. Vora
and S. Palshikar (eds.) Indian Democracy: Meanings and Practices, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 235-256.
N. Menon and A. Nigam, (2007) Politics of Hindutva and the Minorities, in Power and
Contestation: India since 1989, London: Fernwood Publishing, Halifax and Zed Books, pp.36-60.
Additional Reading:
N. Chandhoke, (2010) Secularism, in P. Mehta and N. Jayal (eds.) The Oxford Companion to
Politics in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 333-346.
V. Caste and Politics: Caste in Politics and the Politicization of Caste
Essential Readings:
R. Kothari, (1970) Introduction, in Caste in Indian Politics, Delhi: Orient Longman, pp.3-25.
M. Weiner, (2001) The Struggle for Equality: Caste in Indian Politics, in Atul Kohli (ed.) The
Success of Indias Democracy, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, pp. 193-225.
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G. Omvedt, (2002) Ambedkar and After: The Dalit Movement in India, in G. Shah (ed.) Social
Movements and the State, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 293-309.
VI. Affirmative Action Policies: Women, Caste and Class
Essential Readings:
M. Galanter, (2002) The Long Half-Life of Reservations, in Z. Hasan, E. Sridharan and R.
Sudarshan (eds.) Indias Living Constitution: Ideas, Practices, Controversies, New Delhi: Permanent
Black, pp. 306-318.
C. Jaffrelot, (2005) The Politics of the OBCs, in Seminar, Issue 549, pp. 41-45.
M. John, (2011) The Politics of Quotas and the Womens Reservation Bill in India, in M. Tsujimura
and J. Steele (eds.) Gender Equality in Asia, Japan: Tohoku University Press, pp. 169-195.
VII. Changing Nature of the Indian State: Developmental, Welfare and Coercive Dimensions
Essential Readings:
S. Palshikar, (2008) The Indian State: Constitution and Beyond, in R. Bhargava (ed.) Politics and
Ethics of the Indian Constitution, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 143-163.
R. Deshpande, (2005) State and Democracy in India: Strategies of Accommodation and
Manipulation, Occasional Paper, Series III, No. 4, Special Assistance Programme, Department of
Politics and Public Administration, University of Pune.
M. Mohanty, (1989) Duality of the State Process in India: A Hypothesis, Bhartiya Samajik
Chintan, Vol. XII (1-2)
T. Byres, (1994) Introduction: Development Planning and the Interventionist State Versus
Liberalization and the Neo-Liberal State: India, 1989-1996, in T. Byres (ed.) The State, Development
Planning and Liberalization in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 1-35.
A. Verma, (2007) Police Agencies and Coercive Power, in S. Ganguly, L. Diamond and M. Plattner
(eds.) The State of Indias Democracy, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, pp. 130-139.
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
11
Global politics
Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: This course introduces students to the key debates on the meaning and nature of
globalization by addressing its political, economic, social, cultural and technological dimensions. In
keeping with the most important debates within the globalization discourse, it imparts an
understanding of the working of the world economy, its anchors and resistances offered by global
social movements while analyzing the changing nature of relationship between the state and transnational actors and networks. The course also offers insights into key contemporary global issues
such as the proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological issues, international terrorism, and human
security before concluding with a debate on the phenomenon of global governance.
I. Globalization: Conceptions and Perspectives
a. Understanding Globalization and its Alternative Perspectives (6 lectures)
b. Political: Debates on Sovereignty and Territoriality (3 lectures)
c. Global Economy: Its Significance and Anchors of Global Political Economy: IMF,
d. World Bank, WTO, TNCs (8 lectures)
e. Cultural and Technological Dimension (3 lectures)
f. Global Resistances (Global Social Movements and NGOs) (3 lectures)
(23 lectures)
II. Contemporary Global Issues

(20 lectures)
a. Ecological Issues: Historical Overview of International Environmental Agreements, Climate
Change, Global Commons Debate (7 lectures)
b. Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (3 lectures)
c. International Terrorism: Non-State Actors and State Terrorism; Post 9/11 developments (4 lectures)
d. Migration (3 lectures)
e. Human Security (3 lectures)
III. Global Shifts: Power and Governance
(5 lectures)
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I. Globalization Conceptions and Perspectives
Understanding Globalization and its Alternative Perspectives
Essential Readings:
G. Ritzer, (2010) Globalization: A Basic Text, Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 33-62.
M. Strager, (2009) Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, London: Oxford University Press, pp.
1-16.
R. Keohane and J. Nye Jr, (2000) Globalization: Whats New? Whats Not? (And So What?), in
Foreign Policy, No 118, pp. 104-119.
Additional Reading:
A. McGrew, (2011) Globalization and Global Politics, in J. Baylis, S. Smith and P. Owens (eds.)
Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, New York: Oxford
A. Heywood, (2011) Global Politics, New York: Palgrave-McMillan, pp. 1-24.
W. Ellwood, (2005) The No-nonsense Guide to Globalization, Jaipur: NI-Rawat Publications, pp. 1223.
Political: Debates on Sovereignty and Territoriality
Essential Readings:
R. Keohane, (2000) Sovereignty in International Society, in D. Held and A. McGrew (eds.) The
Global Trans-Formations Reader, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 109-123.
Additional Reading:
K. Shimko, (2005) International Relations: Perspectives and Controversies, New York: Houghton
Mifflin, pp. 195-219.
Global Economy: Its Significance and Anchors of Global Political Economy: IMF, World
Bank, WTO, TNCs
Essential Readings:
T. Cohn, (2009) Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice, pp. 130-140 (IMF), 208-218
(WTO).
R. Picciotto, (2003) A New World Bank for a New Century, in C. Roe
Goddard et al., International Political: State-Market Relations in a Changing Global Order, Boulder:
Lynne Reinner, pp. 341-351.
A. Narlikar, (2005) The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction, New York: Oxford
J. Goldstein, (2006) International Relations, New Delhi: Pearson, pp. 392-405 (MNC).
P. Hirst, G. Thompson and S. Bromley, (2009) Globalization in Question, Cambridge: Polity Press,
pp. 68-100 (MNC).
F. Lechner and J. Boli (ed.), (2004) The Globalization Reader, London: Blackwell, pp. 236-239
(WTO).
D. Held et al, (1999) Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture, California: Stanford
University Press, pp. 242-282 (MNC).
T. Cohn, (2009) Global Political Economy, New Delhi: Pearson, pp. 250-323 (MNC).
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Cultural and Technological Dimension

Essential Readings:
D. Held and A. McGrew (eds.), (2002) Global Transformations Reader: Politics, Economics and
Culture, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 1-50; 84-91.
M. Steger, (2009) Globalization: A Contested Concept, in Globalization: A Very Short Introduction,
London: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-16.
A. Appadurai, (2000) Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination, in Public Culture,
Vol. 12(1), pp. 1-19.
Additional Reading:
J. Beynon and D. Dunkerley, (eds.), (2012) Globalisation: The Reader, New Delhi: Rawat
Publications, pp. 1-19.
A. Vanaik, (ed.), (2004) Globalization and South Asia: Multidimensional Perspectives, New Delhi:
Manohar Publications, pp. 171-191, 192-213, 301-317, 335-357.
Global Resistances (Global Social Movements and NGOs)
Essential Readings:
R. OBrien et al., (2000) Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and
Global Social Movements, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-23.
J. Fisher, (1998) Non-Governments: NGOs and Political Development in the Third World,
Connecticut: Kumarian Press, pp. 1- 37 (NGO).
G. Laxter and S. Halperin (eds.), (2003) Global Civil Society and Its Limits, New York: Palgrave, pp.
1-21.
A. Heywood, (2011) Global Politics, New York: Palgrave-McMillan, pp. 150-156 (NGO).
P. Willets, (2011) Trans-National Actors and International Organizations in Global Politics, in J.
Baylis, S. Smith and P. Owens (eds.) Globalization of World Politics, New York: Oxford University
Press, pp. 334-342. (NGO)
II. Contemporary Global Issues
Ecological Issues: Historical Overview of International Environmental Agreements, Climate
Change, Global Commons Debate
Essential Readings:
J. Volger, (2011) Environmental Issues, in J. Baylis, S. Smith and P. Owens (eds.) Globalization of
World Politics, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 348-362.
A. Heywood, (2011) Global Politics, New York: Palgrave, pp. 383-411.
N. Carter, (2007) The Politics of Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge
P. Bidwai, (2011) Durban: Road to Nowhere, in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.46, No. 53,
December, pp. 10-12.
K.Shimko, (2005) International Relations Perspectives and Controversies, New York: HughtonMifflin, pp. 317-339.
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Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Essential Readings:
D. Howlett, (2011) Nuclear Proliferation, in J. Baylis, S. Smith and P. Owens (eds.) Globalization
of World Politics, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 384-397.
P. Viotti and M. Kauppi, (2007) International Relations and World Politics: Security, Economy and
Identity, New Delhi: Pearson, pp. 238-272.
Additional Reading:
International Terrorism: Non-State Actors and State Terrorism; Post 9/11 developments
Essential Readings:
P. Viotti and M. Kauppi, (2007) International Relations, New Delhi: Pearson, pp. 276-307.
J. Kiras, (2011) Terrorism and Globalization, in J. Baylis, S. Smith and P. Owens (eds.)
Globalization of World Politics, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 366-380.
A. Vanaik, (2007) Masks of Empire, New Delhi: Tulika, pp. 103-128.
Migration
Essential Readings:
S. Castles, (2012) Global Migration, in B. Chimni and S. Mallavarapu (eds.) International
Relations: Perspectives For the Global South, New Delhi: Pearson, pp. 272-285.
Human Security
Essential Readings:
A. Acharya, (2011) Human Security, in J. Baylis, S. Smith and P. Owens (eds.) Globalization of
World Politics, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 480-493.
S. Tadjbakhsh and A. Chenoy, (2007) Human Security, London: Routledge, pp. 13-19; 123-127; 236243.
Additional Reading:
A. Acharya, (2001) Human Security: East versus West, in International Journal, Vol. 56, no. 3, pp.
442-460.
III. Global Shifts: Power and Governance
Essential Readings:
J. Rosenau, (1992) Governance, Order, and Change in World Politics, in J. Rosenau, and E.
Czempiel (eds.) Governance without Government: Order and Change in World Politics, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-29.
A. Kumar and D. Messner (eds), (2010) Power Shifts and Global Governance: Challenges from
South and North, London: Anthem Press.
P. Dicken, (2007) Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy, New York:
The Guilford Press.
J. Close, (2001) The Global Shift: A quantum leap in human evolution, Available at
http://www.stir-global-shift.com/page22.php, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
12
Indian political thought - 1

Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: This course introduces the specific elements of Indian Political Thought spanning
over two millennia. The basic focus of study is on individual thinkers whose ideas are however
framed by specific themes. The course as a whole is meant to provide a sense of the broad streams of
Indian thought while encouraging a specific knowledge of individual thinkers and texts. Selected
extracts from some original texts are also given to discuss in class. The list of additional readings is
meant for teachers as well as the more interested students.
I. Traditions of Pre-colonial Indian Political Thought
a. Brahmanic and Shramanic
b. Islamic and Syncretic.
(8 lectures)
II. Ved Vyasa (Shantiparva): Rajadharma
(5 lectures)
III. Manu: Social Laws
(6 lectures)
IV. Kautilya: Theory of State
(7 lectures)
V. Aggannasutta (Digha Nikaya) : Theory of kingship
(5 lectures)
VI. Barani: Ideal Polity
(6 lectures)
VII. Abul Fazal: Monarchy
(6 lectures)
VIII. Kabir: Syncretism
(5 lectures)
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I .Traditions of Pre-modern Indian Political Thought:
Essential Readings:
B. Parekh, (1986) Some Reflections on the Hindu Tradition of Political Thought, in T. Pantham,
and K. Deutsch (eds.), Political Thought in Modern India, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 17- 31.
A. Altekar, (1958) The Kingship, in State and Government in Ancient India, 3rd edition, Delhi:
Motilal Banarsidass, pp. 75-108.
M. Shakir, (1986) Dynamics of Muslim Political Thought, in T. Pantham, and K. Deutsch (eds.),
Political Thought in Modern India, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 142- 160
G. Pandey, (1978) Sraman Tradition: Its History and Contribution to Indian Culture, Ahmedabad: L.
D. Institute of Indology, pp. 52-73.
S. Saberwal, (2008) Medieval Legacy, in Spirals of Contention, New Delhi: Routledge, pp.1-31
II. Ved Vyasa (Shantiparva): Rajadharma
Essential Readings:
The Mahabharata (2004), Vol. 7 (Book XI and Book XII, Part II), Chicago and London: University
of Chicago Press.
V. Varma, (1974) Studies in Hindu Political Thought and Its Metaphysical Foundations, Delhi:
Motilal Banarsidass, pp. 211- 230.
B. Chaturvedi, (2006) Dharma-The Foundation of Raja-Dharma, Law and Governance, in The
Mahabharta: An Inquiry in the Human Condition, Delhi: Orient Longman, pp. 418- 464.
III. Manu: Social Laws
Essential Readings:
Manu, (2006) Rules for Times of Adversity, in P. Olivelle, (ed. & trans.) Manus Code of Law: A
Critical Edition and Translation of the Manava- Dharamsastra, New Delhi: OUP, pp. 208- 213.
V. Mehta, (1992) The Cosmic Vision: Manu, in Foundations of Indian Political Thought, Delhi:
Manohar, pp. 23- 39.
R. Sharma, ( 1991) Varna in Relation to Law and Politics (c 600 BC-AD 500), in Aspects of
Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, pp. 233- 251.
P. Olivelle, (2006) Introduction, in Manus Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the
Manava Dharmasastra, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 3- 50.
IV. Kautilya: Theory of State
Essential Readings:
Kautilya, (1997) The Elements of Sovereignty in R. Kangle (ed. and trns.), Arthasastra of Kautilya,
New Delhi: Motilal Publishers, pp. 511- 514.
V. Mehta, (1992) The Pragmatic Vision: Kautilya and His Successor, in Foundations of
Indian Political Thought, Delhi: Manohar, pp. 88- 109.
R. Kangle, (1997) Arthashastra of Kautilya-Part-III: A Study, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, rpt., pp.
116- 142.
Additional Reading:
J. Spellman, (1964) Principle of Statecraft, in Political Theory of Ancient India: A
Study of Kingship from the Earliest time to Ceirca AD 300, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 132- 170.
V. Agganna Sutta (Digha Nikaya): Theory of Kingship
Essential Readings:
S. Collins, (ed), (2001) Agganna Sutta: An Annotated Translation, New Delhi: Sahitya Academy, pp.
44-49.
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S. Collins, (2001) General Introduction, in Agganna Sutta: The Discussion on What is Primary
(An
Annotated
Translation
from
Pali),
Delhi:
Sahitya
Akademi,
pp. 1- 26.
B. Gokhale, (1966) The Early Buddhist View of the State, in The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol.
XXVI, (1), pp. 15- 22.
Additional Reading:
L.
Jayasurya,
Budhism,
Politics
and
Statecraft,
Available
ftp.buddhism.org/Publications/.../Voll1_03_Laksiri%20Jayasuriya.pdf,Accessed: 19.04.2013.
at
VI. Barani: Ideal Polity

Essential Reading:
I. Habib, (1998) Ziya Barnis Vision of the State, in The Medieval History Journal, Vol. 2, (1), pp.
19- 36.
Additional Reading:
M. Alam, (2004) Sharia Akhlaq, in The Languages of Political Islam in India 1200- 1800, Delhi:
Permanent Black, pp. 26- 43
VII. Abul Fazal: Monarchy
Essential Readings:
A. Fazl, (1873) The Ain-i Akbari (translated by H. Blochmann), Calcutta: G. H. Rouse, pp. 47- 57.
V. Mehta, (1992) The Imperial Vision: Barni and Fazal, in Foundations of Indian Political Thought,
Delhi: Manohar, pp. 134- 156.
M. Alam, (2004) Sharia in Naserean Akhlaq, in Languages of Political Islam in India1200-1800,
Delhi: Permanent Black, pp. 46- 69.
I. Habib, (1998) Two Indian Theorist of The State: Barani and Abul Fazal, in Proceedings of the
Indian History Congress. Patiala, pp. 15- 39.
VIII. Kabir: Syncreticism
Essential Readings:
Kabir. (2002) The Bijak of Kabir, (translated by L. Hess and S. Singh), Delhi: Oxford University
Press, No. 30, 97, pp. 50- 51 & 69- 70.
V. Mehta, ( 1992) Foundation of Indian Political Thought, Delhi: Manohar, pp. 157- 183.
G. Omvedt, (2008) Kabir and Ravidas, Envisioning Begumpura, in Seeking Begumpura: The Social
Vision of Anti Caste Intellectual, Delhi: Navayana, pp. 91- 107.
Additional Reading:
L. Hess and S. Singh, (2002) Introduction, in The Bijak of Kabir, New Delhi: Oxford University
Press, pp. 3- 35.
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Paper
Title:
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Year:
3 Semester: 6
Paper
No:
Political Institutions and Processes in
Comparative Perspective
13
Total Lectures and Student Presentations 60

Maximum Marks -100
(Note: There will be a compulsory question from topic one with internal choices)
Course objective: In this course students will be trained in the application of comparative methods to
the study of politics. The course is comparative in both what we study and how we study. In the
process the course aims to introduce undergraduate students to some of the range of issues, literature,
and methods that cover comparative political.
I.
Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics

a. Political Culture
b. New Institutionalism
(8 lectures)
II.
Electoral System
(8 lectures)
Definition and procedures: Types of election system (First Past the Post, Proportional
Representation, Mixed Representation)
III.
Party System
Historical contexts of emergence of the party system and types of parties
(8 lectures)
IV.
Nation-state
What is nationstate?
Historical evolution in Western Europe and postcolonial contexts
Nation and State: debates
(8 lectures)
V.
Democratization
(8 lectures)
Process of democratization in postcolonial, post- authoritarian and post-communist countries
VI.
Federalism
Historical context
Federation and Confederation: debates around territorial division of power.
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(8 lectures)

I: Approaches to Studying Comparative Politics
Essential Readings:
M. Pennington, (2009) Theory, Institutional and Comparative Politics, in J. Bara and Pennington.
(eds.) Comparative Politics: Explaining Democratic System. Sage Publications, New Delhi, pp. 1340.
M. Howard, (2009) Culture in Comparative Political Analysis, in M. Lichback and A. Zuckerman,
pp. 134- S. (eds.) Comparative Political: Rationality, Culture, and Structure. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
B. Rosamond, (2005) Political Culture, in B. Axford, et al. Politics, London: Routledge, pp. 57-81.
P. Hall, Taylor and C. Rosemary, (1996) Political Science and the Three New Institutionalism,
Political Studies. XLIV, pp. 936-957.
L. Rakner, and R. Vicky, (2011) Institutional Perspectives, in P. Burnell, et .al. (eds.) Political in
the Developing World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 53-70.
II: Electoral System
Essential Readings:
A. Heywood, (2002) Representation, Electoral and Voting, in Politics. New York: Palgrave, pp.
223-245.
A. Evans, (2009) Elections Systems, in J. Bara and M. Pennington, (eds.) Comparative politics.
New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. 93-119.
Additional Reading:
R. Moser, and S. Ethan, (2004) Mixed Electoral Systems and Electoral System Effects: Controlled
Comparison and Cross-national Analysis, in Electoral Studies. 23, pp. 575-599.
III: Party System
Essential Readings:
A. Cole, (2011) Comparative Political Parties: Systems and Organizations, in J. Ishiyama, and M.
Breuning, (eds) 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Book. Los Angeles: Sage Publications,
pp. 150-158.
A. Heywood, (2002) Parties and Party System, in Politics. New York : Palgrave, pp. 247-268.
B. Criddle, (2003) Parties and Party System, in R. Axtmann, (ed.) Understanding Democratic
Politics: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications, pp. 134-142.
IV: Nation-state
Essential Readings:
W. OConner, (1994) A Nation is a Nation, is a Sate, is a Ethnic Group, is a , in J. Hutchinson
and A. Smith, (eds.) Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 36-46.
K. Newton, and J. Deth, (2010) The Development of the Modern State , in Foundations of
Comparative Politics: Democracies of the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pp. 13-33.
Additional Reading:
A. Heywood, (2002), The State, in Politics. New York: Palgrave, pp. 85-102
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V. Democratization
Essential Readings:
T. Landman, (2003) Transition to Democracy, in Issues and Methods of Comparative Methods: An
Introduction. London: Routledge, pp. 185-215.
K. Newton, and J. Deth, (2010) Democratic Change and Persistence, in Foundations of
Comparative Politics: Democracies of the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pp. 53-67.
J. Haynes, (1999) State and Society, in The Democratization. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 20-38; 39-63.
Additional Reading:
B. Smith, (2003) Democratization in the Third World, in Understanding Third World Politics:
Theories of Political Change and Development. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.250-274.
VI: Federalism
Essential Readings:
M. Burgess, (2006) Comparative Federalism: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, pp. 135-161.
R. Watts, (2008) Introduction, in Comparing Federal Systems. Montreal and Kingston: McGill
Queens University Press, pp. 1-27
Additional Reading:
R. Saxena, (2011) Introduction, in Saxena, R (eds.) Varieties of Federal Governance: Major
Contemporary Models. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, pp. xii-x1.
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Paper
Title:
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Year:
3 Semester: 6
Paper
14
No:
Development Process and Social Movements in
Contemporary India
Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: Under the influence of globalization, development processes in India have
undergone transformation to produce spaces of advantage and disadvantage and new geographies of
power. The high social reproduction costs and dispossession of vulnerable social groups involved in
such a development strategy condition new theatres of contestation and struggles. A variety of protest
movements emerged to interrogate and challenge this development paradigm that evidently also
weakens the democratic space so very vital to the formulation of critical consensus. This course
proposes to introduce students to the conditions, contexts and forms of political contestation over
development paradigms and their bearing on the retrieval of democratic voice of citizens.
I. Development Process since Independence
a. State and planning
b. Liberalization and reforms
(2 weeks)
II. Industrial Development Strategy and its Impact on the Social Structure
a. Mixed economy, privatization, the impact on organized and unorganized labour
b. Emergence of the new middle class
(2 weeks)
III. Agrarian Development Strategy and its Impact on the Social Structure
a. Land Reforms, Green Revolution
b. Agrarian crisis since the 1990s and its impact on farmers
(2weeks)

a. Tribal, Peasant, Dalit and Women's movements
b. Maoist challenge
c. Civil rights movements
(6 weeks)
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I. The Development Process since Independence
Essential Readings:
A. Mozoomdar, (1994) The Rise and Decline of Development Planning in India, in T. Byres (ed.)
The State and Development Planning in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 73-108.
A. Varshney, (2010) Mass Politics or Elite Politics? Understanding the Politics of Indias Economic
Reforms in R. Mukherji (ed.) Indias Economic Transition: The Politics of Reforms, Delhi: Oxford
University Press, pp 146-169.
P. Chatterjee, (2000) Development Planning and the Indian State, in Zoya Hasan (ed.), Politics and
the State in India, New Delhi: Sage, pp.116-140.
P. Patnaik and C. Chandrasekhar, (2007) India: Dirigisme, Structural Adjustment, and the Radical
Alternative, in B. Nayar (ed.), Globalization and Politics in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press,
pp. 218-240.
P. Bardhan, (2005) Epilogue on the Political Economy of Reform in India, in The Political
Economy of Development in India. 6th impression, Delhi: Oxford University Press.
T. Singh, (1979) The Planning Process and Public Process: a Reassessment, R. R. Kale Memorial
Lecture, Pune: Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics.
II. Industrial development strategy and its impact on social structure
Essential Readings:
A. Aggarwal, (2006) Special Economic Zones: Revisiting the Policy Debate, in Economic and
Political Weekly, XLI (43-44), pp.4533-36.
B. Nayar (1989) Indias Mixed Economy: The Role of Ideology and its Development, Bombay:
Popular Prakashan.
F. Frankel, (2005) Crisis of National Economic Planning, in Indias Political Economy (19472004): The Gradual Revolution, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 93-340.
L. Fernandes, (2007) Indias New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform,
Delhi: Oxford University Press.
S. Shyam, (2003) Organizing the Unorganized, in Seminar, [Footloose Labour: A Symposium on
Livelihood Struggles of the Informal Workforce, 531] pp. 47-53.
S. Chowdhury, (2007) Globalization and Labour, in B. Nayar (ed.) Globalization and Politics in
India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.516-526.
V. Chibber, (2005) From Class Compromise to Class Accommodation: Labors Incorporation into
the Indian Political Economy in R. Ray, and M.F. Katzenstein (eds.) SocialMovements in India,
Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp 32-60.
III. Agrarian development strategy and its impact on social structure
Essential Readings:
A. Desai, (ed.), (1986) Agrarian Struggles in India After Independence, Delhi: Oxford University
Press, pp. xi-xxxvi
F. Frankel, (1971) Indias Green Revolution: Economic Gains and Political Costs, Princeton and
New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
F. Frankel, (2009) Harvesting Despair: Agrarian Crisis in India, Delhi: Perspectives, pp. 161-169.
J. Harriss, (2006) Local Power and the Agrarian Political Economy in Harriss, J. (ed) Power
Matters: Essays on Institutions, Politics, and Society in India, Delhi. Oxford University Press, pp. 2932.
K. Suri, (2006) Political economy of Agrarian Distress, in Economic and Political Weekly, XLI(16)
pp. 1523-1529.
P. Joshi, (1979) Land Reforms in India: Trends and Perspectives, New Delhi: Allied publishers.
P. Appu, (1974) Agrarian Structure and Rural Development, in Economic and Political Weekly, IX
(39), pp.70 75.
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P. Sainath, (2010) Agrarian Crisis and Farmers, Suicide, Occasional Publication 22, New Delhi:
India International Centre (IIC).
M. Sidhu, (2010) Globalisation vis--vis Agrarian Crisis in India, in R. Deshpande and S. Arora,
(eds.) Agrarian Crises and Farmer Suicides (Land Reforms in India Series), New Delhi: Sage, pp.
149-174.
V. Sridhar, (2006) Why Do Farmers Commit Suicide? The Case Study of Andhra Pradesh, in
Economic and Political Weekly, XLI (16).
Essential Readings:
G. Haragopal, and K. Balagopal, (1998) Civil Liberties Movement and the State in India, in M.
Mohanty, P. Mukherji and O. Tornquist, (eds.) Peoples Rights: Social Movements and the State in
the Third World New Delhi: Sage, pp. 353-371.
M. Mohanty, (2002) The Changing Definition of Rights in India, in S. Patel, J. Bagchi, and K. Raj
(eds.) Thinking Social Sciences in India: Essays in Honour of Alice Thorner Patel, New Delhi: Sage.
G. Omvedt, (2012) The Anti-caste Movement and the Discourse of Power, in N. Jayal (ed.)
Democracy in India, New Delhi: Oxford India Paperbacks, sixth impression, pp.481-508.
P. Ramana, (2011) Indias Maoist Insurgency: Evolution, Current Trends and Responses, in M.
Kugelman (ed.) Indias Contemporary Security Challenges, Woodrow Wilson International Centre
for Scholars Asia Programme, Washington D.C., pp.29-47.
A. Ray, (1996) Civil Rights Movement and Social Struggle in India, in Economic and Political
Weekly, XXI (28). pp. 1202-1205.
A. Roy, (2010) The Womens Movement, in N.Jayal and P. Mehta (eds.) The Oxford Companion to
Politics in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.409-422.
N. Sundar, (2011) At War with Oneself: Constructing Naxalism as Indias Biggest Security Threat,
in M. Kugelman (ed.) Indias Contemporary Security Challenges, Woodrow Wilson International
Centre for Scholars Asia Programme, Washington D.C., pp.46-68.
M. Weiner, (2001) The Struggle for Equality: Caste in Indian Politics, in A.Kohli. (ed.) The Success
of Indias Democracy, Cambridge: CUP, pp.193-225.
S. Sinha, (2002) Tribal Solidarity Movements in India: A Review, in G. Shah. (ed.) Social
Movements and the State, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 251-266.
S. Banerjee, (1986) Naxalbari in Desai, in A.R. (ed.) Agrarian Struggles in India After
Independence. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.566-588.
B. Nayar, (ed.), (2007) Globalization and Politics in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
S. Roy and K. Debal, (2004) Peasant Movements in Post-Colonial India: Dynamics of Mobilization
and Identity, Delhi: Sage.
G. Omvedt, (1983) Reinventing Revolution, New Social Movements and the Socialist Tradition in
India, New York: Sharpe.
G. Shah, (ed.), (2002) Social Movements and the State. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
G. Shah, (2004) Social Movements in India: A Review of Literature, New Delhi: Sage Publications.
G. Rath, (ed.), (2006) Tribal development in India: The Contemporary Debate, New Delhi: Sage
Publications.
J. Harris, (2009) Power Matters: Essays on Institutions, Politics, and Society in India. Delhi: Oxford
University press.
K. Suresh, (ed.), (1982) Tribal Movements in India, Vol I and II, New Delhi: Manohar (emphasis on
the introductory chapter).
M. Mohanty, P. Mukherji and O.Tornquist, (1998) Peoples Rights: Social Movements and the State
in the Third World. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
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M. Rao, (ed.), (1978) Social Movements in India, Vol. 2, Delhi: Manohar.
N. Jayal, and P. Mehta, (eds.), (2010) The Oxford Companion to Politics in India, Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
P. Bardhan, (2005) The Political Economy of Development in India, 6th impression, Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
R. Mukherji, (ed.), (2007) Indias Economic Transition: The Politics of Reforms, Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
R, Ray and M. Katzenstein, (eds.), (2005) Social Movements in India, Delhi: Oxford University
Press.
S. Chakravarty, (1987) Development Planning: The Indian Experience, Delhi: Oxford University
Press.
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
15
Western Political Philosophy - I
Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: This course goes back to Greek antiquity and familiarizes students with the
manner in which the political questions were first posed. Machiavelli comes as an interlude
inaugurating modern politics followed by Hobbes and Locke. This is a basic foundation course for
students.
I. Text and Interpretation
(2 weeks)
II. Antiquity
Plato
(2 weeks)
Philosophy and Politics, Theory of Forms, Justice, Philosopher King/Queen, Communism
Presentation theme: Critique of Democracy; Women and Guardianship, Censorship
Aristotle
(2 weeks)
Forms, Virtue, Citizenship, Justice, State and Household
Presentation themes: Classification of governments; man as zoon politikon
III. Interlude:
Machiavelli
Virtu, Religion, Republicanism
Presentation themes: morality and statecraft; vice and virtue
(2 weeks)
IV. Possessive Individualism

Hobbes
(2 weeks)
Human nature, State of Nature, Social Contract, State
Presentation themes: State of nature; social contract; Leviathan; atomistic individuals.
Locke
(2 weeks)
Laws of Nature, Natural Rights, Property,
Presentation themes: Natural rights; right to dissent; justification of property
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I. Text and Interpretation
Essential Readings:
T. Ball, (2004) History and Interpretation in C. Kukathas and G. Gaus, (eds.) Handbook of Political
Theory, London: Sage Publications Ltd. pp. 18-30.
B. Constant, (1833) The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns, in D. Boaz,
(ed), (1997) The Libertarian Reader, New York: The Free Press.
J. Coleman, (2000) Introduction, in A History of Political Thought: From Ancient Greece to Early
Christianity, Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, pp. 1-20.
Q. Skinner, (2010) Preface, in The Foundations of Modern Political Thought Volume I, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press pp. ix-xv.
II. Antiquity:
Plato
Essential Readings:
A. Skoble and T. Machan, (2007) Political Philosophy: Essential Selections. New Delhi: Pearson
Education, pp. 9-32.
R. Kraut, (1996) Introduction to the study of Plato, in R. Kraut (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to
Plato. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-50.
C. Reeve, (2009) Plato, in D. Boucher and P. Kelly, (eds) Political Thinkers: From Socrates to the
Present, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 62-80
S. Okin, (1992) Philosopher Queens and Private Wives, in S. Okin Women in Western Political
Thought, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 28-50
R. Kraut, (1996) The Defence of Justice in Plato's Republic, in R. Kraut (ed.) The Cambridge
Companion to Plato. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 311-337
T. Saunders, (1996) Plato's Later Political Thought, in R. Kraut (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to
Plato. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 464-492.
Aristotle
Essential Readings:
T. Burns, (2009) Aristotle, in D. Boucher, and P. Kelly, (eds) Political Thinkers: From Socrates to
the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.81-99.
C. Taylor, (1995) Politics, in J. Barnes (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp. 232-258
J. Coleman, (2000) Aristotle, in J. Coleman A History of Political Thought: From Ancient Greece to
Early Christianity, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp.120-186
D. Hutchinson, (1995) Ethics, in J. Barnes, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 195-232.
III. Interlude:
Machiavelli
Essential Readings:
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Education, pp. 124-130
Q. Skinner, (2000) The Adviser to Princes, in Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, pp. 23-53
J. Femia, (2009) Machiavelli, in D. Boucher, and P. Kelly, (eds) Political Thinkers: From Socrates
to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 163-184
Additional Reading:
Q. Skinner, (2000) The Theorist of Liberty, in Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford:
IV. Possessive Individualism
Hobbes
Essential Readings:
Education pp. 131-157.
D. Baumgold, (2009) Hobbes, in D. Boucher and P. Kelly (eds) Political Thinkers: From Socrates
to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 189-206.
C. Macpherson (1962) The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke. Oxford
University Press, Ontario, pp. 17-29.
I. Hampsher-Monk, (2001) Thomas Hobbes, in A History of Modern Political Thought: Major
Political Thinkers from Hobbes to Marx, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 1-67.
A. Ryan, (1996) Hobbes's political philosophy, in T. Sorell, (ed.) Cambridge Companion to
Hobbes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 208-245.
Locke
Essential Readings:
J. Waldron, (2009) John Locke, in D. Boucher and P. Kelly, (eds) Political Thinkers: From
Socrates to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 207-224
C. Macpherson, (1962) The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke. Oxford
University Press, Ontario, pp. 194-214.
R. Ashcraft, (1999) Locke's Political Philosophy, in V. Chappell (ed.) The Cambridge Companion
to Locke, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, pp. 226-251.
I. Hampsher-Monk, (2001) A History of Modern Political Thought: Major Political Thinkers from
Hobbes to Marx, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 69-116
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
16
IndIas foreIgn polIcy
Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: This courses objective is to teach students the domestic sources and the structural
constraints on the genesis, evolution and practice of Indias foreign policy. The endeavour is to
highlight integral linkages between the domestic and the international aspects of Indias foreign
policy by stressing on the shifts in its domestic identity and the corresponding changes at the
international level. Students will be instructed on Indias shifting identity as a postcolonial state to the
contemporary dynamics of India attempting to carve its identity as an aspiring power. Indias
evolving relations with the superpowers during the Cold War and after, bargaining strategy and
positioning in international climate change negotiations, international economic governance,
international terrorism and the United Nations facilitate an understanding of the changing positions
and development of Indias role as a global player since independence.
I.
Indias Foreign Policy: From a Postcolonial State to an Aspiring Global Power

(7 lectures)
II.
Indias Relations with the USA and USSR/Russia
III.
Indias Engagements with China
IV.
India in South Asia: Debating Regional Strategies
V.
Indias Negotiating Style and Strategies: Trade, Environment and Security Regimes
(11 lectures)
VI.
India in the Contemporary Multipolar World
(9 lectures)
(6 lectures)
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(9 lectures)
(6 lectures)

I. Indias Foreign Policy: From a Postcolonial State to an Aspiring Global Power
Essential Readings:
S. Ganguly and M. Pardesi, (2009) Explaining Sixty Years of Indias Foreign Policy, in India
Review, Vol. 8 (1), pp. 419.
Ch. Ogden, (2011) International Aspirations of a Rising Power, in David Scott (ed.), Handbook of
Indias International Relations, London: Routeledge, pp.3-31
W. Anderson, (2011) Domestic Roots of Indian Foreign Policy, in W. Anderson, Trysts with
Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia, Anthem Press: University Publishing Online.
Additional Reading:
J. Bandhopadhyaya, (1970) The Making Of India's Foreign Policy, New Delhi: Allied Publishers.
II: Indias Relations with the USA and USSR/Russia
Essential Readings:
S. Mehrotra, (1990) Indo-Soviet Economic Relations: Geopolitical and Ideological Factors, in India
and the Soviet Union: Trade and Technology Transfer, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp.
8-28.
R. Hathaway, (2003) The US-India Courtship: From Clinton to Bush, in S. Ganguly (ed.), India as
an Emerging Power, Frank Cass: Portland.
A. Singh, (1995) India's Relations with Russia and Central Asia, in International Affairs, Vol. 71
(1): 69-81.
M. Zafar, (1984), Chapter 1, in India and the Superpowers: India's Political Relations with the
Superpowers in the 1970s, Dhaka, University Press.
H. Pant, (2008) The U.S.-India Entente: From Estrangement to Engagement, in H. Pant,
Contemporary Debates in Indian Foreign and Security Policy: India Negotiates Its Rise in the
International System, Palgrave Macmillan: London.
D. Mistry, (2006) Diplomacy, Domestic Politics, and the U.S.-India Nuclear Agreement, in Asian
Survey, Vol. 46 (5), pp. 675-698.
III: Indias Engagements with China
Essential Readings:
H. Pant, (2011) Indias Relations with China, in D. Scott (ed.), Handbook of Indias International
Relations, London: Routeledge, pp. 233-242.
A. Tellis and S. Mirski, (2013) Introduction, in A. Tellis and S. Mirski (eds.), Crux of Asia: China,
India, and the Emerging Global Order, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Washington.
S. Raghavan, (2013) Stability in Southern Asia: Indias Perspective, in A. Tellis and S. Mirski
(eds.), Crux of Asia: China, India, and the Emerging Global Order, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace: Washington.
Additional Reading:
Li Li, (2013) Stability in Southern Asia: Chinas Perspective, in A. Tellis and S. Mirski (eds.), Crux
of Asia: China, India, and the Emerging Global Order, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:
Washington.
IV: India in South Asia: Debating Regional Strategies
Essential Readings:
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S. Muni, (2003) Problem Areas in Indias Neighbourhood Policy, in South Asian Survey, Vol. 10
(2), pp. 185-196.
S. Cohen, (2002) India: Emerging Power, Brookings Institution Press.
V. Sood, (2009) India and regional security interests, in Alyssa Ayres and C. Raja Mohan (eds),
Power realignments in Asia: China, India, and the United States, New Delhi: Sage.
M. Pardesi, (2005) Deducing Indias Grand Strategy of Regional Hegemony from Historical and
Conceptual
Perspectives,
IDSS
Working
Paper,
76,
Available
at
http://www.rsis.edu.sg/publications/WorkingPapers/WP76.pdf, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
D. Scott, (2009) India's Extended Neighbourhood Concept: Power Projection for a Rising Power,
in India Review, Vol. 8 (2), pp. 107-143
V: Indias Negotiating Style and Strategies: Trade, Environment and Security Regimes
Essential Readings:
S. Cohen, (2002) The World View of Indias Strategic Elite, in S. Cohen, India: Emerging Power,
Brookings Institution Press, pp. 36-65.
A. Narlikar, (2007) All that Glitters is not Gold: Indias Rise to Power, in Third World Quarterly,
Vol. 28 (5) pp. 983 996.
N. Dubash, (2012) The Politics of Climate Change in India: Narratives of Enquiry and Co-benefits,
Working Paper, New Delhi: Centre for Policy Research.
N. Jayaprakash, (2000) Nuclear Disarmament and India, in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 35
(7), pp. 525-533.
P. Bidwai, (2005) A Deplorable Nuclear Bargain, in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 40 (31),
pp. 3362-3364.
A. Anant, (2011) India and International Terrorism, in D. Scott (ed.), Handbook of Indias
International Relations, London: Routledge, pp. 266-277.
VI: India in the Contemporary Multipolar World
Essential Readings:
R. Rajgopalan and V. Sahni (2008), India and the Great Powers: Strategic Imperatives, Normative
Necessities, in South Asian Survey, Vol. 15 (1), pp. 532.
C. Mohan, (2013) Changing Global Order: Indias Perspective, in A. Tellis and S. Mirski (eds.),
Crux of Asia: China, India, and the Emerging Global Order, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace: Washington.
A. Narlikar, (2006) Peculiar Chauvinism or Strategic Calculation? Explaining the Negotiating
Strategy of a Rising India, in International Affairs, Vol. 82 (1), pp. 59-76.
Additional Reading:
P. Mehta, (2009) Still Under Nehrus Shadow? The Absence of Foreign Policy Frameworks in
India, in India Review, Vol. 8 (3), pp. 209233.
Online Resources:
Government of Indias Ministry of External Relations website at http://www.mea.gov.in/ and
specially its library which provides online resources at http://mealib.nic.in/
The Council of Foreign Relations has a regularly updated blog on Indias foreign policy:
http://www.cfr.org/region/india/ri282
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Centre for Policy Researchs blog on IR and strategic affairs though it is not exclusively on Indias
foreign policy. http://www.cprindia.org/blog/internationalrelations-and-security-blog
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses: http://www.idsa.in/
Research and Information System: www.ris.org.in/
Indian Council of World Affairs: www.icwa.in/
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies: www.ipcs.org/
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations: www.icrier.org/
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Maximum Marks: 100
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
17
Research METHODS IN POLITICS

Course objective: This is an elementary course to introduce the student to the fundamental issues of
research in the study of politics. Given that by the time this course is offered, the student would be
familiar with some well-known analysis and arguments in the discipline, this course affords an
opportunity to understand the methods by which those works would have been carried out and the
debates around them. It is divided simply into two parts. The first will introduce the student to some
basic debates. The second aims to introduce them to specific methodologies using two kinds of
reading: one well-known work that uses that method and one explanatory article on that method.
I. Introduction
(4 lectures)
a. What is political inquiry? Why do we need it?
(4 lectures)
b. How to eliminate bias and prejudices from political inquiry? Can political inquiry be free of
value? Issues of objectivity/Interpretation
(4 lectures)
c. Are there universal laws of politics?
(4 lectures)
II. What are the different methods appropriate for different questions asked in the study of
politics?
(32 lectures)
a. Textual/discourse analysis
b. Ethnography/fieldwork
c. survey research
d. archival sources.
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I. Introduction
Essential Readings:
G. King, R. Keohane, and S. Verba, (1994) Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in
Qualitative Research, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, pp. 1-12.
L. Rudolph and S. Rudolph, (2010) An Intellectual History of the Study of Indian Politics, in N.
Jayal and P. Mehta, The Oxford Companion to Politics in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
pp.555-586.
A. MacIntyre, (1971) Is the Science of Comparative Politics possible?, in Against the Self Images of
Age, Essays on Ideology and Philosophy, London: Schocken Books, pp.8-26.
II. What are the different methods appropriate for different questions asked in the study of
politics?
Essential Readings:
a. Textual/discourse analysis
H. Sandra and O. Heath, (2012) Political Research: Methods and Practical Skills, Oxford: Oxford
b. Ethnography/ Fieldwork
H. Sandra & O. Heath, (2012) Political Research: Methods and Practical Skills, Oxford: Oxford
J. Scott, (1985) Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, New Haven: Yale
University Press.
c. Survey Research
S. Kumar, & P. Rai, (2013) Measuring Voting Behaviour in India, New Delhi: Sage Publications,
pp.1-12.
J. Linz and A. Stepan, (2011) Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern
Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
d. Archival sources
K. Paul, G. Gray, and L. Melvin (eds.), (2009) Introduction, in An American Political Archives
Reader,Maryland: The Scarecrow Press.
U. Singh, (2001) Political Prisoners in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Additional Reading:
D. Easton, (1969) The New Revolution in Political Science, in The American Political Science
Review, Vol. LXIII (4), pp.1051-1061.
S. Wolin, (1969) Political Theory as a Vocation, in The American Political Science Review, Vol.
LXIII (4), pp.1062-82.
J. Gee, (2010) An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method, London: Routledge, pp.210.
D. Marsh and G. Stoker, (2010) Theory and Methods in Political Science, 3rd Edition, Palgrave
Macmillan.
S. Hazareesingh & K. Nabulsi, (2008) Using Archival Data to Theorise about Politics, in David
Leopold and Mark Stears (eds.), Political Theory: Methods and Approaches Oxford: Oxford
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Maximum Marks: 100
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
18
Western POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY - ii

Course objective: Philosophy and politics are closely intertwined. We explore this convergence by
identifying four main tendencies here. Students will be exposed to the manner in which the questions
of politics have been posed in terms that have implications for larger questions of thought and
existence.
I. Modernity and its discourses
(8 lectures)
This section will introduce students to the idea of modernity and the discourses around modernity.
Two essential readings have been prescribed.
II. Romantics
(16 lectures)
a. Jean Jacques Rousseau (8 Lectures)
Presentation themes: General Will; local or direct democracy; self-government; origin of
inequality.
b. Mary Wollstonecraft (8 Lectures)
Presentation themes: Women and paternalism; critique of Rousseaus idea of education; legal
rights
III. Liberal socialist
(8 lectures)
a. John Stuart Mill
Presentation themes: Liberty, suffrage and subjection of women, right of minorities; utility
principle.
IV. Radicals
(16 lectures)
a. Karl Marx (8 Lectures)
Presentation themes: Alienation; difference with other kinds of materialism; class struggle
b. Alexandra Kollontai (8 Lectures)
Presentation themes: Winged and wingless Eros; proletarian woman; socialization of
housework; disagreement with Lenin
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I. Modernity and its discourses
Essential Readings:
I. Kant. (1784) What is Enlightenment?, Available at http://theliterarylink.com/kant.html, Accessed:
19.04.2013
S. Hall (1992) Introduction, in Formations of Modernity UK: Polity Press pages 1-16
II. Romantics
Essential Readings:
B. Nelson, (2008) Western Political Thought. New York: Pearson Longman, pp. 221-255.
M. Keens-Soper, (2003) Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, in M. Forsyth and M. KeensSoper, (eds) A Guide to the Political Classics: Plato to Rousseau. New York: Oxford University
Press, pp. 171-202.
C. Jones, (2002) Mary Wollstonecrafts Vindications and their Political Tradition in C. Johnson,
(ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pp. 42-58.
S. Ferguson, (1999) The Radical Ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, in Canadian Journal of Political
Science XXXII (3), pp. 427-50, Available at http://digitalcommons.ryerson.ca/politics, Accessed:
19.04.2013.
III. Liberal Socialist
Essential Readings:
H. Magid, (1987) John Stuart Mill, in L. Strauss and J. Cropsey, (eds), History of Political
Philosophy, 2nd edition. Chicago: Chicago University Press, pp. 784-801.
P. Kelly, (2003) J.S. Mill on Liberty, in D. Boucher, and P. Kelly, (eds.) Political Thinkers: From
Socrates to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 324-359.
IV. Radicals
Essential Readings:
J. Cropsey, (1987) Karl Marx, in L. Strauss and J. Cropsey, (eds) History of Political Philosophy,
2ndEdition. Chicago: Chicago University Press, pp. 802-828.
L. Wilde, (2003) Early Marx, in D. Boucher and P. Kelly, P. (eds) Political Thinkers: From
Socrates to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 404-435.
V. Bryson, (1992) Marxist Feminism in Russia in Feminist Political Theory, London: Palgrave
Macmillan, pp. 114-122
C. Sypnowich, (1993) Alexandra Kollontai and the Fate of Bolshevik Feminism Labour/Le Travail
Vol. 32 (Fall 1992) pp. 287-295
A. Kollontai (1909), The Social Basis of the Woman Question, Available at
http://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1909/social-basis.htm, Accessed: 19.04.2013
A. Bloom, (1987) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in Strauss, L. and Cropsey, J. (eds.) History of Political
Philosophy, 2nd edition. Chicago: Chicago University Press, pp. 559-580.
Selections
from
A
Vindication
of
the
Rights
of
Woman,
Available
at
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/wollstonecraft/woman-a.html#CHAPTER%20II,
Accessed: 19.04.2013.
A. Skoble and T. Machan, (2007) Political Philosophy: Essential Selections, New Delhi: Pearson
B. Ollman (1991) Marxism: An Uncommon Introduction, New Delhi: Sterling Publishers.
G. Blakely and V. Bryson (2005) Marx and Other Four Letter Words, London: Pluto
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A. Skoble, and T. Machan, (2007) Political Philosophy: Essential Selections, New Delhi: Pearson
A. Kollontai, (1977) Social Democracy and the Womens Question, in Selected Writings of
Alexandra Kollontai, London: Allison & Busby, pp. 29-74.
A. Kollontai, (1977) Make Way for Winged Eros: A Letter to the Youth, in Selected Writings of
Alexandra Kollontai Allison & Busby, pp. 201-292.
C. Porter, (1980) Alexandra Kollontai: The Lonely Struggle of the Woman who defied Lenin, New
York: Dutton Childrens Books.
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DISCIPLINE COURSE I
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
19
Indian political thought - II

Total Lectures and Presentations: 60
Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: Based on the study of individual thinkers, the course introduces a wide span of
thinkers and themes that defines the modernity of Indian political thought. The objective is to study
general themes that have been produced by thinkers from varied social and temporal contexts.
Selected extracts from original texts are also given to discuss in the class. The list of additional
readings is meant for teachers as well as the more interested students.
I. Introduction to Modern Indian Political Thought
(4 lectures)
II. Rammohan Roy: Rights
(4 lectures)
III. PanditaRamabai: Gender
(4 lectures)
IV. Vivekananda: Ideal Society
(5 lectures)
V. Gandhi: Swaraj
(5 lectures)
VI. Ambedkar: Social Justice
(5 lectures)
VII. Tagore: Critique of Nationalism
(4 lectures)
VIII. Iqbal: Community
(5 lectures)
IX. Savarkar: Hindutva
(4 lectures)
X. Nehru: Secularism
(4 lectures)
XI. Lohia: Socialism
(4 lectures)
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I.
Introduction to Modern Indian Political Thought
Essential Readings:
V. Mehta and T. Pantham (eds.), (2006) A Thematic Introduction to Political Ideas in Modern India:
Thematic Explorations, History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian civilization Vol. 10,
Part: 7, New Delhi: Sage Publications, pp. xxvii-ixi.
D. Dalton, (1982) Continuity of Innovation, in Indian Idea of Freedom: Political Thought of Swami
Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghose, Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi, Academic Press:
Gurgaon, pp. 1-28.
II. Rammohan Roy: Rights
Essential Readings:
R. Roy, (1991) The Precepts of Jesus, the Guide to Peace and Happiness, S. Hay, (ed.) Sources of
Indian Traditio, Vol. 2. Second Edition. New Delhi: Penguin, pp. 24-29.
C. Bayly, (2010) Rammohan and the Advent of Constitutional Liberalism in India 1800-1830, in
Sh. Kapila (ed.), An intellectual History for India, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1834.
T. Pantham, (1986) The Socio-Religious Thought of Rammohan Roy, in Th. Panthom and K.
Deutsch, (eds.) Political Thought in Modern India, New Delhi: Sage, pp.32-52.
Additional Reading:
S. Sarkar, (1985) Rammohan Roy and the break With the Past, in A Critique on colonial India,
Calcutta: Papyrus, pp. 1-17.
III. Pandita Ramabai: Gender
Essential Readings:
P. Ramabai, (2000) Womans Place in Religion and Society, in M. Kosambi (ed.), Pandita Ramabai
Through her Own Words: Selected Works, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 150-155.
M. Kosambi, (1988) Womens Emancipation and Equality: Pandita Ramabais Contribution to
Womens Cause, in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 23(44), pp. 38-49.
Additional Reading:
U. Chakravarti, (2007) Pandita Ramabai - A Life and a Time, New Delhi: Critical Quest, pp. 1-40.
G. Omvedt, (2008) Ramabai: Women in the Kingdom of God, in Seeking Begumpura: The Social
Vision of Anti Caste Intellectuals, New Delhi: Navayana. pp. 205-224.
IV. Vivekananda: Ideal Society
Essential Readings:
S. Vivekananda, (2007) The Real and the Apparent Man, S. Bodhasarananda (ed.), Selections from
the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Kolkata: Advaita Ashrama, pp. 126-129.
A. Sen, (2003) Swami Vivekananda on History and Society, in Swami Vivekananda, Delhi: Oxford
University Press, pp. 62- 79.
H. Rustav, (1998) Swami Vivekananda and the Ideal Society, in W. Radice (ed.), Swami
Vivekananda and the Modernisation of Hinduism, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 264- 280.
Additional Reading:
Raghuramaraju, (2007) Swami and Mahatma, Paradigms: State and Civil Society, in Debates in
Indian Philosophy: Classical, Colonial, and Contemporary, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 2965.
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V. Gandhi: Swaraj
Essential Readings:
M. Gandhi, (1991) Satyagraha: Transforming Unjust Relationships through the Power of the Soul,
in S. Hay (ed.), Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 2.Second Edition, New Delhi: Penguin, pp. 265270.
A. Parel, (ed.), (2002) Introduction, in Gandhi, freedom and Self Rule, Delhi: Vistaar Publication.
D. Dalton, (1982) Indian Idea of Freedom: Political Thought of Swami Vivekananda,
AurobindoGhose, Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, Gurgaon: The Academic Press, pp.
154- 190.
Additional Reading:
R. Terchek, (2002) Gandhian Autonomy in Late Modern World, in A. Parel (ed.), Gandhi, Freedom
and Self Rule. Delhi: Sage.
VI. Ambedkar: Social Justice
Essential Readings:
B. Ambedkar, (1991) Constituent Assembly Debates, S. Hay (ed.), Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol.
2, Second Edition, New Delhi: Penguin, pp. 342-347.
V. Rodrigues, (2007) Good society, Rights, Democracy Socialism, in S. Thorat and Aryama (eds.),
Ambedkar in Retrospect - Essays on Economics, Politics and Society, Jaipur: IIDS and Rawat
Publications.
B. Mungekar, (2007) Quest for Democratic Socialism, in S. Thorat, and Aryana (eds.), Ambedkar in
Retrospect - Essays on Economics, Politics and Society, Jaipur: IIDS and Rawat Publications, pp.
121-142.
Additional Reading:
P. Chatterjee, (2005) Ambedkar and the Troubled times of Citizenship, in V. Mehta and Th.
Pantham (eds.), Political ideas in modern India: Thematic Explorations, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 73-92.
VII. Tagore: Critique of Nationalism
Essential Readings:
R. Tagore, (1994) The Nation, S. Das (ed.), The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Vol. 3,
New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, pp. 548-551.
R. Chakravarty, (1986) Tagore, Politics and Beyond, in Th. Panthams and K. Deutsch (eds.),
Political Thought in Modern India, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 177-191.
M. Radhakrishnan, and Debasmita, (2003) Nationalism is a Great Menace: Tagore and Nationalism
in P. Hogan, Colm and L. Pandit, (eds.) Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition, London:
Rosemont Publishing and Printing Corporation, pp. 29-39.
Additional Reading:
A. Nandy, (1994) Rabindranath Tagore & Politics of Self, in Illegitimacy of Nationalism, Delhi:
VIII. Iqbal: Community
Essential Readings:
M. Iqbal, (1991) Speeches and Statements, in S. Hay (ed.), Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 2,
Second Edition, New Delhi: Penguin, pp. 218-222.
A. Engineer, (1980) Iqbals Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, in Social Scientist, Vol.8
(8), pp. 52-63.
Madani, (2005) Composite Nationalism and Islam, New Delhi: Manohar, pp. 66-91.
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Additional Reading:
L. Gordon-Polonskya, (1971) Ideology of Muslim Nationalism, in H. Malik (ed.), Iqbal: PoetPhilosopher of Pakistan, New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 108-134.
IX.
Savarkar: Hindutva
Essential Readings:
V.
Savarkar,
Hindutva
is
Different
from
Hinduism,
available
at
http://www.savarkar.org/en/hindutva-/essentials-hindutva/hindutva-different-hinduism,
Accessed:
19.04.2013.
J. Sharma, (2003) Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism, Delhi: Penguin, pp. 124-172.
Additional Reading:
Dh. Keer, (1966) Veer Savarkar, Bombay: Popular Prakashan, pp. 223-250.
X. Nehru: Secularism
Essential Readings:
J. Nehru, (1991) Selected Works, in S. Hay (ed.), Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 2, Second
Edition, New Delhi: Penguin, pp. 317-319.
R. Pillai, (1986) Political thought of Jawaharlal Nehru, in Th. Pantham, and K. Deutsch (eds.),
Political
Thought
in
Modem
India,
New
Delhi:
Sage,
pp.
260274.
B. Zachariah, (2004) Nehru, London: Routledge Historical Biographies, pp. 169-213.
Additional Reading:
P. Chatterjee, (1986) The Moment of Arrival: Nehru and the Passive Revolution, in
Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? London: Zed
Books, pp. 131-166
XI. Lohia: Socialism
Essential Readings:
M. Anees and V. Dixit (eds.), (1984) Lohia: Many Faceted Personality, Rammanohar Lohia Smarak
Smriti.
S. Sinha, (2010) Lohias Socialism: An underdogs perspective, in Economic and Political Weekly,
Vol. XLV (40) pp. 51-55.
A. Kumar, (2010) Understanding Lohias Political Sociology: Intersectionality of Caste, Class,
Gender and Language Issue, in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLV (40), pp. 64-70.
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DISCIPLINE COURSE II
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
Introduction to politics
Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: The course is designed as an introduction to basic and key debates in politics. Two
essential readings have been given for each unit. Effort has been made to limit each of these to 20
pages as required; this has often meant limiting the reading to the first twenty pages of the article.
However, teachers must use their discretion to read and teach the entire chapter wherever applicable.
Additional readings are given as well; these are mostly full books which we believe are essential
background readings. They may be used by teachers as well as students for presentation and further
discussion of the themes.
I. What is Politics?
a. Politics as the struggle for scarce resources
b. Politics as challenging power Emancipation
c. Politics as the division between public and private
II. State and Nation
III. Identity and Representation
IV. Democracy and Majoritarianism
V. Citizens and Subjects
VI. The Politics of Media, Cinema
VII. Politics of the Market
VIII. Urban Politics: Delhi
IX. The Politics of Contested Spaces
a. Land Acquisition and Tribal Areas
b. Rural India
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(12 lectures)
(4 lectures)
(4 lectures)
(4 lectures)
(4 lectures)
(4 lectures)
(4 lectures)
(4 lectures)
(8 lectures)

I. What is Politics?
Essential Readings:
A. Leftwich, (2004) Political Approach to Human Behavior: People, Resources and Power, in A.
Leftwich (ed.) What is Politics: The Activity and Its Study Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 100-118.
A. Callinicos, (2004) Marxism and Politics, in A. Leftwich (ed.) What is Politics: The Activity and
Its Study Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 53-66
S. Okin, (1991) Gender, the Public and Private, in David Held (ed) Political Theory Today
Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 67-90.
II. State and Nation
Essential Readings:
D. Held, (1984) Introduction, in David Held, Political Theory and the Modern State Milton Keynes:
Open University Press, pp. 1-11.
S. Kumar, (2008) Nationalism, in R. Bhargava and A. Acharya (ed.) Political Theory: An
Introduction New Delhi: Pearson Publishing pp. 258-269.
III. Identity and Representation
Essential Readings:
R. Kothari, (1970) Introduction from Caste in Indian Politics, Hyderabad: Orient Longman, pp. 326.
I. Young, (1989) Polity and Group Difference Ethics, Vol. 99 (2), pp. 250-274, Available at
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/herbert.preiss/files/Young_Polity_and_Group_Difference_A_Critique_o
f_the_Ideal_of_Universal_Citizenship.pdf, Accessed: 19.04.2013
IV. Democracy and Majoritarianism
Essential Readings:
D. Held. (2006) Pluralism, Corporate Capitalism and the State, in Models of Democracy, pp. 158172
B. Chandra, M. Mukherjee, and A. Mukherjee, (2008) Chapter 35 and 36, in India Since
Independence, New Delhi: Penguin,
V. Citizens and Subjects
Essential Readings:
R. Bellamy, (2008) What is Citizenship, and Why Does it Matter?, in R. Bellamy, Citizenship: A
Very Short Introduction Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-16
U. Ramanathan (2010) A Unique Identity Bill, in Economic and Political Weekly Vol. XLV (30),
pp. 10-14.
VI. The Politics of Media, Cinema
Essential Readings:
M. Pandian, (1997) Culture and Subaltern Consciousness: An Aspect of the MGR Phenomenon, in
P. Chatterjee, (ed.) Politics and State in India, pp. 367-389.
E. Grimaud, (2012) To be or not to be filmy in C. Jaffrelot (ed.) India Since 1950, New Delhi: Yatra
Books, pp. 681-691.
VII. Politics of the Market
Essential Readings:
D. Nayyar and A. Bhaduri, (1996) Liberalisation: The Said and The Unsaid in D. Nayyar and A.
Bhaduri, An Intelligent Persons Guide to Globalisation New Delhi: Penguin, pp. 1-19.
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B. Einhorn, (1993) Right or Duty? Women and the Economy in B. Einhorn, Cinderella Goes to the
Market London: Verso.
VIII. Urban Politics: Delhi
Essential Readings:
G. Bhan, (2009) This is no longer the city I once knew: Evictions, the urban poor and the right to the
city in millennial Delhi, in
Environment and Urbanization 21: 127, Available at
http://eau.sagepub.com/content/21/1/127.full.pdf, Accessed: 18.04.2013.
U. Ramanathan, (2006) Illegality and the Urban Poor, in Economic and Political Weekly Vol. XLI
(29), pp. 3193-3197.
IX. The Politics of Contested Spaces
a. Land Acquisition and Tribal Areas
b. Rural India
Essential Readings:
A. Shrivastava and A. Kothari, (2012) Land Wars and Crony Capitalism, in A. Shrivastava and A.
Kothari, Churning the Earth pp. 193-203 New Delhi, Penguin
J. Pouchepadass, (2012) Rural India, in C. Jaffrelot (ed.) India Since 1950 New Delhi: Yatra Books,
pp.391-211
A. Nigam and N. Menon, (2008) Globalisation I: Accumulation by Dispossession, in A. Nigam and
N. Menon, Power and Contestation: India since 1989 Hyderabad: Orient Longman, pp. 61-82.
B. Anderson, (1993) Imagined Communities, Available at https://www2.bc.edu/mariansimion/th406/readings/0420anderson.pdf, Accessed: 18.04.2013.
D. Harvey, (2005) A Brief History of Neoliberalism Oxford: Oxford University Press.
A. Nigam, (2011) Desire Named Development, New Delhi: Penguin
B.
Ambedkar,
Annihilation
of
Caste,
Available
at
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/ambedkar/, Accessed: 18.04.2013.
F. Fanon, (2008) Black Skin, White Masks, New York: Grove Press.
K. Krishnan, Patriarchy, Womens Freedom and Capitalism in Kafila.org, Available at
http://kafila.org/2013/01/25/patriarchy-womens-freedom-and-capitalism-kavita-krishnan/, Accessed:
18.04.2013.
U. Singh, (2003) Democratic Dilemmas: Can Democracy Do Without Extraordinary Laws?,
Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 38(5).
M. Carrin, (2012) The World of tribes: revolutionary movements and ethnic withdrawal, in C.
Jaffrelot (ed), India Since 1950, New Delhi: Yatra press, pp. 488-509
A. Nigam and N. Menon, (2008). Power and Contestation: India since 1989, Hyderabad: Orient
Longman,
Talking Marriage, Caste and Community: Voices from Within (Monograph published by Saheli
Womens Resource Center, November 2007.
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Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
Women, power and politics

Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: This course opens up the question of womens agency, taking it beyond womens
empowerment and focusing on women as radical social agents. It attempts to question the complicity
of social structures and relations in gender inequality. This is extended to cover new forms of
precarious work and labour under the new economy. Special attention will be paid to feminism as an
approach and outlook. The course is divided into broad units, each of which is divided into three subunits.
I. Groundings
1. Patriarchy (2 weeks)
a. Sex-Gender Debates
b. Public and Private
c. Power
2. Feminism (2 weeks)
3. Family, Community, State (2 weeks)
a. Family
b. Community
c. State
(6 weeks)
II. Movements and Issues

1. History of the Womens Movement in India (2 weeks)
2. Violence against women (2 weeks)
3. Work and Labour (2 weeks)
a. Visible and Invisible work
b. Reproductive and care work
c. Sex work
(6 weeks)
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I. Groundings
1. Patriarchy
Essential Readings:
T. Shinde, (1993) Stree Purusha Tulna, in K. Lalitha and Susie Tharu (eds), Women Writing in
India, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, pp. 221-234
U. Chakravarti, (2001) Pitrasatta Par ek Note, in S. Arya, N. Menon & J. Lokneeta (eds.)
Naarivaadi Rajneeti: Sangharsh evam Muddey, University of Delhi: Hindi Medium Implementation
Board, pp.1-7
a. Sex Gender Debates
Essential Reading:
V Geetha, (2002) Gender, Kolkata, Stree, pp. 1-20
b. Public and Private
Essential Reading:
M. Kosambi, (2007) Crossing the Threshold, New Delhi, Permanent Black, pp. 3-10; 40-46
c. Power
Essential Reading:
N. Menon, (2008) Power, in R. Bhargava and A. Acharya (eds), Political Theory: An Introduction,
Delhi: Pearson, pp.148-157
2. Feminism
Essential Readings:
B. Hooks, (2010) Feminism: A Movement to End Sexism, in C. Mc Cann and S. Kim (eds), The
Feminist Reader: Local and Global Perspectives, New York: Routledge, pp. 51-57
R. Delmar, (2005) What is Feminism?, in W. Kolmar & F. Bartkowski (eds) Feminist Theory: A
Reader, pp. 27-37
3.Family, Community and State
a.Family
Essential Readings:
R. Palriwala, (2008) Economics and Patriliny: Consumption and Authority within the Household in
M. John. (ed) Women's Studies in India, New Delhi: Penguin, pp. 414-423
b. Community
Essential Reading:
U. Chakravarti, (2003) Gendering Caste through a Feminist Len, Kolkata, Stree, pp. 139-159.
c. State
Essential Reading:
C. MacKinnon, The Liberal State from Towards a Feminist Theory of State, Available at http://fairuse.org/catharine-mackinnon/toward-a-feminist-theory-of-the-state/chapter-8, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
K. Millet, (1968) Sexual Politics, Available at
http://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/millett-kate/sexual-politics.htm,
Accessed:
19.04.2013.
N. Menon (2008) Gender, in R. Bhargava and A. Acharya (eds), Political Theory: An Introduction,
New Delhi: Pearson, pp. 224-233
R. Hussain, (1988) Sultanas Dream, in Sultanas Dream and Selections from the Secluded Ones
translated by Roushan Jahan, New York: The Feminist Press
S. Ray Understanding Patriarchy, Available at
http://www.du.ac.in/fileadmin/DU/Academics/course_material/hrge_06.pdf, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
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S. de Beauvoir (1997) Second Sex, London: Vintage.
Saheli Womens Centre, (2007) Talking Marriage, Caste and Community: Womens Voices from
Within, New Delhi: monograph
II. Movements and Issues
1. History of Womens Movement in India
Essential Readings:
I. Agnihotri and V. Mazumdar, (1997) Changing the Terms of Political Discourse: Womens
Movement in India, 1970s-1990s, Economic and Political Weekly, 30 (29), pp. 1869-1878.
R. Kapur, (2012) Hecklers to Power? The Waning of Liberal Rights and Challenges to Feminism in
India, in A. Loomba South Asian Feminisms, Durham and London: Duke University Press, pp. 333355
2. Violence against Women
Essential Readings:
N. Menon, (2004) Sexual Violence: Escaping the Body, in Recovering Subversion, New Delhi:
Permanent Black, pp. 106-165
3. Work and Labour
a. Visible and Invisible work
Essential Reading:
P. Swaminathan, (2012) Introduction, in Women and Work, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, pp.1-17
b. Reproductive and care work
Essential Reading:
J. Tronto, (1996) Care as a Political Concept, in N. Hirschmann and C. Stephano, Revisioning the
Political, Boulder: Westview Press, pp. 139-156
c. Sex work
Essential Readings:
Darbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, Kolkata (2011) Why the so-called Immoral Traffic
(Preventive) Act of India Should be Repealed, in P. Kotiswaran, Sex Work, New Delhi, Women
Unlimited, pp. 259-262
N. Jameela, (2011) Autobiography of a Sex Worker, in P. Kotiswaran, Sex Work, New Delhi:
Women Unlimited, pp. 225-241
C.
Zetkin,
Proletarian
Woman,
Available
at
http://www.marxists.org/archive/zetkin/1896/10/women.htm, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
F. Engles, Family, Private Property and State, Available at
http://readingfromtheleft.com/PDF/EngelsOrigin.pdf, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
J. Ghosh, (2009) Never Done and Poorly Paid: Womens Work in Globalising India, Delhi: Women
Unlimited
Justice Verma Committee Report, Available at http://nlrd.org/womens-rights-initiative/justice-vermacommittee-report-download-full-report, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
N. Gandhi and N. Shah, (1992) Issues at Stake Theory and Practice in the Womens Movement,
New Delhi: Kali for Women.
V. Bryson, (1992) Feminist Political Theory, London: Palgrave-MacMillan, pp. 175-180; 196-200
M. Mies, (1986) Colonisation and Housewifisation, in Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World
Scale London: Zed, pp. 74-111, Available at
http://caringlabor.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/maria-mies-colonization-and-housewifization/,
Accessed: 19.04.2013.
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R. Ghadially, (2007) Urban Women in Contemporary India, Delhi: Sage Publications.
S. Brownmiller, (1975) Against our Wills, New York: Ballantine.
Saheli Womens Centre (2001) Reproductive Health and Womens Rights, Sex Selection and
feminist response in S Arya, N. Menon, J. Lokneeta (eds), Nariwadi Rajneeti, Delhi, pp. 284-306
V. Bryson (2007) Gender and the Politics of Time, Bristol: Polity Press
Readings in Hindi:
D. Mehrotra, (2001) Bhartiya Mahila Andolan: Kal, Aaj aur Kal, Delhi: Books for Change
G. Joshi, (2004) Bharat Mein Stree Asmaanta: Ek Vimarsh, University of Delhi: Hindi Medium
Implementation Board
N. Menon (2008) Power, in R. Bhargava and A. Acharya (eds) Political Theory: An Introduction,
New Delhi: Pearson
N. Menon (2008) Gender, in R. Bhargava and A. Acharya (eds) Political Theory: An Introduction,
New Delhi, Pearson
R. Upadhyay and S. Upadhyay (eds.) (2004) Aaj ka Stree Andolan, Delhi: Shabd Sandhan.
S. Arya, N. Menon and J. Lokneeta (eds.) (2001) Naarivaadi Rajneeti: Sangharsh evam Muddey,
University of Delhi: Hindi Medium Implementation Board
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Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
Understanding ambedkar
Maximum Mark: 100
Course objective: This course is broadly intended to introduce Ambedkars ideas and their relevance
in contemporary India, by looking beyond caste. Ambedkars philosophical contributions towards
Indian economy and class question, sociological interpretations on religion, gender, caste and cultural
issues; ideas on politics such as concepts of nation, state, democracy, law and constitutionalism are to
be pedagogically interrogated and interpreted. This will help students to critically engage themselves
with the existing social concerns, state and economic structures and other institutional mechanisms.
This also will facilitate them to strengthen their creative thinking with a collective approach to
understand ongoing social, political, cultural and economic phenomena of the society.
I. Introducing Ambedkar
a. Approach to Study Polity, History, Economy, Religion and Society
(1 week)
II. Caste and Religion

a. Caste, Untouchability and Critique of Hindu Social Order
b. Religion and Conversion
(3 weeks)
III. Womens Question

a. Rise and Fall of Hindu Women
b. Hindu Code Bill
(2 weeks)
IV. Political Vision

a. Nation and Nationalism
b. Democracy and Citizenship
(2 weeks)
V. Constitutionalism
a. Rights and Representations
b. Constitution as an Instrument of Social Transformation
(2 weeks)
VI. Economy and Class Question

a. Planning and Development
b. Land and Labor
(2 weeks)
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I. Introducing Ambedkar
Essential Readings:
G. Omvedt, (2008) Phule-Remembering The Kingdom of Bali, Seeking Begumpura Navyana, pp.
159-184.
M. Gore, (1993) The Social Context of an Ideology: Ambedkars Political and Social Thought, Delhi:
Sage Publication, pp. 73-122 ; 196-225.
B. Ambedkar, (1989) Annihilation of Caste with a Reply to Mahatma Gandhi, in Dr. Babasaheb
Ambedkar Writings and Speeches: Vol. 1, Education Deptt., Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai,
pp. 23-96.
E. Zelliot, (1996) From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar Movement, in The
Leadership of Babasaheb Ambedkar, Delhi: Manohar, pp. 53-78.
G. Omvedt, Liberty Equality and Community: Dr. Ambedkars Vision of New Social Order, Available
at http://www.ambedkar.org/research/LibertyEquality.htm, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
II. Caste and Religion
Essential Readings:
The Untouchables Who were they and why they become Untouchables?, Available at
http://www.ambedkar.org/ambcd/39A.Untouchables%20who%20were%20they_why%20they%20be
came%20PART%20I.htm, Accessed: 18.04.2013.
B. Ambedkar, (1987) The Hindu Social Order: Its Essential Principles, in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Writings and Speeches: Vol. 3, Education Deptt., Government of Maharashtra, 1989, pp. 95-129.
B. Ambedkar, (2003) What way Emancipation?, in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and
Speeches, Vol. 17-III, Education Deptt., Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai, pp-175-201.
B. Ambedkar, (1987) Philosophy of Hinduism, in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches,
Vol. 3, Education Deptt., Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai, pp-3-92.
E. Zelliot, (2013) Ambedkars World: The Making of Babasaheb and the Dalit Movement, in The
Religious Conversion Movement-1935-1956, Delhi, pp. 143-173.
III. Womens Question
Essential Readings:
S. Rege, (2013) Against the Madness of Manu, in B. R. Ambedkars Writings on Brahmanical
Patriarchy, Navyana Publication, pp. 13-59 ; 191-232.
B. Ambedkar, (2003) The Rise and Fall of Hindu Woman: Who was Responsible for It?, in Dr.
Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches Vol. 17- II, Education Deptt., Government of
Maharashtra, Mumbai, pp. 109-129.
B. Ambedkar, (1987) The Women and the Counter-Revolution, in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Writings and Speeches, Vol. 3, Education Deptt., Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai, pp. 427-437.
P. Ramabai , (2013), The High Caste Hindu Woman, Critical Quest, Delhi.
IV. Political Vision
Essential Readings:
B. Ambedkar, (1991) What Gandhi and Congress have done to the Untouchables, in Dr. Babasaheb
Ambedkar Writings and Speeches, Education Deptt, Government of Maharashtra, Vol.9, pp. 40-102;
181-198; 274-297.
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B. Ambedkar, (2003) Conditions Precedent for the successful working of Democracy, in Dr.
Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches, Vol. 17-III, Education Deptt, Government of
G. Aloysius, (2009). Ambedkar on Nation and Nationalism, Critical Quest, Delhi.
B. R. Ambedkar, (2003), I have no Homeland, in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches
Vol- 17, Education Deptt., Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai, pp-51-58.
B. Ambedkar, (2003), Role of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in Bringing The Untouchables on the Political
Horizon of India and Lying A Foundation of Indian Democracy, in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Writings and Speeches, Vol. 17-I, Education Deptt., Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai, pp-63178.
B. Ambedkar, (2003) Buddhism paved way for Democracy and Socialistic Pattern of Society, in Dr.
Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches, Vol. 17-III, Education Deptt., Government of
B. Ambedkar, (2003) Failure of Parliamentary Democracy will Result in Rebellion, Anarchy and
Communism, in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches, Vol. 17-III, Education Deptt.,
Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai, pp. 423-437.
B. Ambedkar, (2003) Prospects of Democracy in India, in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and
Speeches, Vol. 17-III, Education Deptt., Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai, pp. 519-523.
B. Ambedkar, (2003) People cemented by feeling of one country, One Constitution and One
Destiny, Take the Risk of Being Independent, in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches
Vol. 17-III, Education Deptt, Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai, pp. 13-59.
V. Constitutionalism
Essential Readings:
Ambedkar, Evidence before South Borough committee on Franchise, Available at
http://www.ambedkar.org/ambcd/07.%20Evidence%20before%20the%20Southborough%20Committ
ee.htm, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
Constituent Assembly Debates, Ambedkars speech on Draft Constitution on 4th November 1948,
CAD Vol. VII, Lok Sabha Secretariat, Government of India, 3rd Print, pp. 31-41.
B. Ambedkar, (2013), States and Minorities, Delhi: Critical Quest.
A. Gajendran, (2007) Representation, in S. Thorat and Aryama (eds.), Ambedkar in Retrospect:
Essays on Economics, Politics and Society, Delhi: Rawat Publishers, pp. 184-194.
B. Ambedkar, (2003), Depressed Classes against Second Chamber: Dr. Ambedkar on Joint
Parliamentary Committee Report Provision for Better Representation Demanded, in Dr. Babasaheb
Ambedkar Writings and Speeches, Vol. 17-I, Education Deptt, Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai,
pp. 231-243.
VI. Economy and Class Question
Essential Readings:
B. Ambedkar, (1987) Buddha or Karl Marx, in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings and Speeches,
Vol. 3, Education Deptt., Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai, pp-442-462.
S. Thorat, (2007) Economic System, Development and Economic Planning, in S. Thorat and
Aryama (eds), Ambedkar in Retrospect: Essays on Economics, Politics and Society, Delhi: Rawat
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B. Ambedkar, (1991) Labor and Parliamentary Democracy and Welfare, in Dr. Babasaheb
Ambedkar Writings and Speeches, Vol. 10, Education Deptt., Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai,
pp. 106-112; 139-143; 243-252
B. Mungekar, (2007) Labour Policy in S. Thorat and Aryama (eds), Ambedkar in Retrospect:
Essays on Economics, Politics and Society, Delhi: Rawat Publishers, pp. 76-92.
R. Ram, (2010) Dr, Ambedkar, Neo Liberal Market-Economy and Social Democracy in India, in
Human Rights Global Focus, Vol. V (384), pp. 12-38, Available at www.roundtableindia.co.in,
Accessed: 19.04.2013.
B. Ambedkar, (2003) Trade Union must Enter Politics to Protect their Interests, in Dr. Babasaheb
Ambedkar Writings and Speeches, Vol. 17-III, Education Deptt, Government of Maharashtra,
Mumbai, pp.174-192.
B. Ambedkar, (1991) Why Indian Labour determined to War, in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Writings
and Speeches, Vol. 10, Education Deptt, Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai, pp. 36-43.
A. Teltumbde and S. Sen (eds), Caste Question in India, in Scripting the Change, Selected Writings
of Anuradha Ghandi, pp. 62- 91.
Format for Student Presentations (12)
(1) Five presentations on any original writing/speeches by B. R Ambedkar can be used by the
students for presentations (Preferably other than compulsory writings that has been suggested in
the reading list)
(2) Six Presentations on the different issues concerned to Ambedkars works and their relevance in
contemporary India. (Preferably other than compulsory writings that has been suggested in the
reading list)
(3) One Presentation on Critical understanding on Ambedkars Ideas.
References for Students Presentations:
1) Babasaheb Ambedkar, Writings and Speeches, 22 Volumes (Available on www.ambedkar.org)
2) Narendra Jadhav, Ambedkar Spoke, 3 Volumes
3) Any other related audio-visual source
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Degree
Paper
Title:
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
Gandhi and the contemporary world
Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: Locating Gandhi in a global frame, the course seeks to elaborate Gandhian
thought and examine its practical implications. It will introduce students to key instances of Gandhis
continuing influence right up to the contemporary period and enable them to critically evaluate his
legacy.
I. Gandhi on Modern Civilization and Ethics of Development
a. Conception of Modern Civilisation and Alternative Modernity
b. Critique of Development: Narmada Bachao Andolan
II. Gandhian Thought: Theory and Action
a. Theory of Satyagraha
b. Satyagraha in Action
i. Peasant Satyagraha: Kheda and the Idea of Trusteeship
ii. Temple Entry and Critique of Caste
iii. Social Harmony: 1947and Communal Unity
III. Gandhis Legacy
a) Tolerance: Anti Racism Movements (Anti Apartheid and Martin Luther King)
b) The Pacifist Movement
c) Womens Movements
d) Gandhigiri: Perceptions in Popular Culture
IV. Gandhi and the Idea of Political
a) Swaraj
b) Swadeshi
(2 weeks)
(4 weeks)
(4 weeks)
(2 weeks)
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I. Gandhi on Modern Civilization and Ethics of Development
Essential Readings:
B. Parekh, (1997) The Critique of Modernity, in Gandhi: A Brief Insight, Delhi: Sterling Publishing
Company, pp. 63-74.
K. Ishii, (2001) The Socio-economic Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi: As an Origin of Alternative
Development, Review of Social Economy. Vol. 59 (3), pp. 297-312.
D. Hardiman, (2003) Narmada Bachao Andolan, in Gandhi in his Time and Ours. Delhi: Oxford
University Press, pp. 224- 234.
A Baviskar, (1995) The Politics of the Andolan, in In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflict Over
Development in the Narmada Valley, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.202-228.
R Iyer, (ed) (1993) Chapter 4 in The Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, New Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
R. Ramashray, (1984) Liberty Versus Liberation, in Self and Society: A Study in Gandhian Thought,
New Delhi: Sage Publication.
II. Gandhian Thought: Theory and Action
Essential Readings:
B. Parekh, (1997) Satyagrah, in Gandhi: A Brief Insight, Delhi: Sterling Publishing Company, pp.
51-63.
D. Dalton, (2000) Gandhis originality, in A. Parel (ed) Gandhi, Freedom and Self-Rule, New
Delhi: Lexington Books, pp.63-86.
D. Hardiman, (1981) The Kheda Satyagraha, in Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat: Kheda District,
1917-1934, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 86-113.
J. Brown, (2000) Gandhi and Human Rights: In search of True humanity, in A. Parel (ed) Gandhi,
Freedom and Self-Rule, New Delhi: Lexington Books, pp. 93-100.
R. Iyer, (2000) Chapter 10 and 11, in The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi, New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 251-344
I. Knudegaard, (2010), Gandhis Vision for Indian Society: Theory and Action, Master Thesis in
History,
University
of
Oslo,
Available
at
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Eqj9br1n3_oJ:https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handl
e/123456789/23275/IngfridxKnudegaardxmasteroppgavexixhistorie.pdf?sequence%3D1+gandhi+and
+temple+entry&hl=en&gl=in&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiKGssA7q2z1kxiuitm3bciHPh_HI3chWKbJl
Vo9HE4LcWCLmKdKXCirPaIzh7Tp47fyoBQlHX9GUesefn8YCAQeaQSKMRdrwvYT2Q8c7XV9
5tQhSGuO9bNCGEdlYGoBjzoVdJc&sig=AHIEtbQ78zwxGvh92AnwmRHiA7t2wWXXJQ,
Accessed: 14.04.2013, pp.27-38.
P. Rao, (2009) Gandhi, Untouchability and the Postcolonial Predicament: A Note. Social Scientist.
Vol. 37 (1/2). Pp. 64-70.
B. Parekh, (1999) Discourse on Unsociability, in Colonialism, Tradition and Reform: An Analysis
of Gandhi's Political Discourse, New Delhi: Sage Publication.
D. Hardiman, (2003) Fighting Religious Hatreds, in Gandhi in His Time and Ours. Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
III. Gandhis Legacy
Essential Readings:
D. Hardiman, (2003) Gandhis Global Legacy, in Gandhi in His Time and Ours. Delhi: Oxford
Manimala, (1984) Zameen Kenkar? Jote Onkar: Womens participation in the Bodhgaya struggles,
in M. Kishwar and R. Vanita (eds) In Search of Answers: Indian Womens Voices from Manushi,
London: Zed Press.
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M. Shah, (2006) Gandhigiri; A Philosophy of Our Times, The Hindu Available at
http://www.hindu.com/2006/09/28/stories/2006092802241000.htm, Accessed: 14.04.2013.
A. Ghosh and T. Babu, (2006) Lage Raho Munna Bhai: Unravelling Brand Gandhigiri, Economic
and Political Weekly, 41 (51), pp. 5225 5227.
H. Trivedi (2011) Literary and Visual Portrayal of Gandhi, in J Brown and A Parel (eds) Cambridge
Companion to Gandhi, Cambridge University Press 2011, pp. 199-218.
IV. Gandhi and the Idea of Political
Essential Readings:
P. Chatterjee, (1986) The Moment of Maneuver, in Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A
derivative discourse?, Delhi: Zed Books.
Indian Council for Historical Research (1976) The Logic of Gandhian Nationalism: Civil
Disobedience and the Gandhi Irwin Pact, 1930-31, Indian Historical Review, Available at
http://www.ichrindia.org/journal.pdf, Accessed: 18.04.2013.
D. Dalton, (1996) Swaraj: Gandhis Idea of Freedom, in Mahatma Gandhi: Selected Political
Writings, USA: Hackett Publishing, pp. 95-148.
A. Parel (ed.) (1997) Editors Introduction, in Gandhi, Hind Swaraj and Other Writings Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
A. Baviskar, (1995) National Development, Poverty and the environment, in In the Belly of the
River: Tribal Conflict Over Development in the Narmada Valley, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.
18-33.
B. Parekh, (1997) Religious Thought, in Gandhi: A Brief Insight, Delhi: Sterling Publishing
Company.
R. Iyer, (1993) The Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.
299-344; 347-373.
S. Sarkar, (1982) Modern India 1885-1947, New Delhi: Macmillan, pp. 432-39.
R. Iyer, (2001) The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi, New Delhi: Oxford University
Press. pp. 344-358.
H. Coward, (2003) Gandhi, Ambedkar, and Untouchability, in H. Coward (ed) Indian Critiques of
Gandhi, New York: State University of New York Press, pp. 41-66.
J. Lipner, (2003) A Debate for Our Times, in Harold Coward (ed) Indian Critiques of Gandhi, New
York: State University of New York Press, pp. 239-58
M. Gandhi, (1941) Chapter 1, 2, 9, 15, 16, in Constructive Programme: Its Meaning and Place,
Ahmedabad: Navjivan Trust.
R. Terchek, (1998) Gandhi: Struggling for Autonomy, USA: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
N. Dirks, (2001), The Reformation of Caste: Periyar, Ambedkar and Gandhi, in Castes of Mind:
Colonialism and the making of Modern India, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
R. Mukharjee, (ed) (1995), The Penguin Gandhi Reader, New Delhi: Penguin.
T. Weber, (2006) 'Gandhi is dead, Long live Gandhi- The Post Gandhi Gandhian Movement in India',
in Gandhi, Gandhism and the Gandhians, New Delhi: Roli.
A. Taneja, (2005) Gandhi Women and the National Movement 1920-1947, New Delhi: Haranand
Publishers.
J. Brown, (2008) Gandhi and Civil Disobedience: The Mahatma in Indian Politics, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2008
R. Ramashray, (1984) What Beyond the Satanic Civilization?, in Self and Society: A Study in
Gandhian Thought, New Delhi: Sage Publication.
Activities
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Topic 1
1. Reading of primary texts:- M K Gandhi Chapter VI and XIII Hind Swaraj Navjeevan Trust,
Ahmedabad, 1910
2. A site visit to any on-going developmental project preferably in NCT Delhi by students and
submission of report on Environmental law Violation and Resistance by People in a Gandhian
Way.
Topic 2
1. Reading of primary texts:- M K Gandhi Chapter XII&XIII, Satyagraha in South Africa,
Navjivan Trust, Ahmmedabad, 1928, pp. 95-107
2. A Report followed by presentation on functioning of Cooperative and Community engagement
for example Amuland/or SEWA in Gujarat to understand Trusteeship and its relevance
Topic 3
1. Movie Screenings (Movies like Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Gandhi by Richard Attenboroughand
Students Participation in reviewing/discussing the movie from a Gandhian perspective or Cultural
engagement of Students with Gandhian Ideas through Staging of a street play.
Topic 4
Student Visit to Any Gandhian Institution in Delhi like, Gandhi Darshan and Smiriti to understand
on-going Gandhian work and programme and interacting with Gandhian activists.
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Degree
Paper
Title:
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
Human rights in comparative perspective

Maximum Marks: 100
Course objective: This course attempts to build an understanding of human rights among students
through a study of specific issues in a comparative perspective. It is important for students to see
how debates on human rights have taken distinct forms historically and in the contemporary world.
The course seeks to anchor all issues in the Indian context, and pulls out another country to form a
broader comparative frame. Students will be expected to use a range of resources, including films,
biographies, and official documents to study each theme. Thematic discussion of sub-topics in the
second and third sections should include state response to issues and structural violence questions.
I. Human Rights: Theory and Institutionalization
a. Understanding Human Rights: Three Generations of Rights
b. Institutionalization: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
c. Rights in National Constitutions: South Africa and India
(3 weeks)
II. Issues
a. Torture: USA and India
b. Surveillance and Censorship: China and India
c. Terrorism and Insecurity of Minorities: USA and India
(5 weeks)
III. Structural Violence

a. Caste and Race: South Africa and India
b. Gender and Violence: India and Pakistan
c. Adivasis/Aboriginals and the Land Question: Australia and India
(4 weeks)
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I. Human Rights: Theory and Institutionalization
Essential Readings:
J. Hoffman and P. Graham, (2006) Human Rights, Introduction to Political Theory, Delhi, Pearson,
pp. 436-458.
SAHRDC (2006) Introduction to Human Rights; Classification of Human Rights: An Overview of
the First, Second, and Third Generational Rights, in Introducing Human Rights, New Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Chapter 2: Bill of Rights.
The Constitution of India, Chapter 3: Fundamental Rights
II. Issues
a. Torture: USA and India
Essential Readings:
M. Lippman, (1979) The Protection of Universal Human Rights: The Problem of Torture Universal
Human Rights, Vol. 1(4), pp. 25-55
J. Lokaneeta, (2011) Torture in the TV Show 24: Circulation of Meanings; Jurisprudence on
Torture and Interrogations in India, in Transnational Torture Law, Violence, and State Power in the
United States and India, Delhi: Orient Blackswan,
D. OByrne, (2007) Torture, in Human Rights: An Introduction, Delhi: Pearson, pp. 164-197.
b. Surveillance and Censorship: China and India
Essential Readings:
D. OByrne, (2007) Censorship, in Human Rights: An Introduction, Delhi: Pearson, pp. 106-138.
D. Lyon, (2008) Surveillance Society, Talk for Festival del Diritto, Piacenza, Italia, September 28,
pp.1-7.
Fu Hualing, (2012) Politicized Challenges, Depoliticized Responses: Political Monitoring in Chinas
Transitions, paper presented at a conference on States of Surveillance: Counter-Terrorism and
Comparative Constitutionalism, at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, 13-14 December.
U. Singh, (2012) Surveillance Regimes in India, paper presented at a conference on States of
Surveillance: Counter-Terrorism and Comparative Constitutionalism, at the University of New South
Wales, Sydney, 13-14 December.
c. Terrorism and Insecurity of Minorities: USA and India
Essential Readings:
E. Scarry, (2010) Resolving to Resist, in Rule of Law, Misrule of Men, Cambridge: Boston Review
Books, MIT, pp.1-53.
M. Ahmad, (2002) Homeland Insecurities: Racial Violence the Day after September 11, Social Text,
72, Vol. 20(3), pp. 101-116.
U. Singh, (2007) The Unfolding of Extraordinariness: POTA and the Construction of Suspect
Communities, in The State, Democracy and Anti-terror Laws in India, Delhi: Sage Publications,
pp.165-219
3. Structural Conflicts
a. Caste and Race: South Africa and India
Essential Readings:
A. Pinto, (2001) UN Conference against Racism: Is Caste Race?, in Economic and Political
Weekly, Vol. 36(30)
D. OByrne, (2007) Apartheid, in Human Rights: An Introduction, Delhi: Pearson, pp. 241-262.
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R. Wasserstorm, (2006), Racism, Sexism, and Preferential Treatment: An approach to the Topics, in
R. Goodin and P. Pettit, Contemporary Political Philosophy: an Anthology, Oxford: Blackwell, pp549-574
R. Wolfrum, (1998) Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism in J. Symonides, Human Rights: New
Dimensions and Challenges, Aldershot, Ashgate/UNESCO, pp.181-198.
b. Gender and Violence: India and Pakistan
Essential Readings:
A. Khan and R. Hussain, (2008), Violence Against Women in Pakistan: Perceptions and Experiences
of Domestic Violence, Asian Studies Review, Vol. 32, pp. 239 253
K. Kannabiran (2012) Rethinking the Constitutional Category of Sex, in Tools of Justice: NonDiscrimination and the Indian Constitution, New Delhi, Routledge, pp.425-443
N. Menon (2012) Desire, Seeing Like a Feminist, New Delhi: Zubaan/Penguin, pp. 91-146
c. Adivasis/Aboriginals and the Land Question: Australia and India
Essential Readings:
H. Goodall, (2011) International Indigenous Community Study: Adivasi Indigenous People in India,
in A. Cadzow and J. Maynard (eds.), Aboriginal Studies, Melbourne: Nelson Cengage Learning,
pp.254-259.
K. Kannabiran, (2012) Adivasi Homelands and the Question of Liberty, in Tools of Justice: NonDiscrimination and the Indian Constitution, New Delhi: Routledge, pp.242-271.
N. Watson (2011) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Identities in A. Cadzow and J. Maynard
(eds.), Aboriginal Studies, Melbourne: Nelson Cengage Learning, pp.43-52.
W. Fernandes (2008) India's Forced Displacement Policy and Practice. Is Compensation up to its
Functions?, in M. Cernea and H. Mathus (eds), Can Compensation Prevent Impoverishment?
Reforming Resettlement through Investments and Benefit-Sharing, pp. 181-207, New Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
A. Laws and V. Iacopino, (2002) Police Torture in Punjab, India: An Extended Survey, in Health
and Human Rights, Vol. 6(1), pp. 195-210
D. OByrne, (2007) Theorizing Human Rights, in Human Rights: An Introduction, Delhi, Pearson,
pp.26-70.
J. Morsink, (1999) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting and Intent,
Philadelphia: University of Pensylvania Press, pp. ix-xiv
J. Nickel, (1987) Making Sense of Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections on the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, Berkeley: University of California Press.
J. Goldman, (2005) Of Treaties and Torture: How the Supreme Court Can Restrain the Executive,
in Duke Law Journal, Vol. 55(3), pp. 609-640.
K. Tsutsui and C. Wotipka, (2004) Global Civil Society and the International Human Rights
Movement: Citizen Participation in Human Rights International Nongovernmental Organizations, in
Social Forces, Vol. 83(2), pp. 587-620.
L. Rabben, (2001) Amnesty International: Myth and Reality, in Agni, No. 54, Amnesty International
Fortieth Anniversary pp. 8-28
M. Mohanty, (2010) In Pursuit of Peoples Rights: An Introduction, in M. Mohanty et al., Weapon
of the Oppressed: Inventory of Peoples Rights in India, New Delhi: Danish Books, pp.1-11
M. Cranston, (1973) What are Human Rights? New York: Taplinger
M. Ishay, (2004) The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era, Delhi:
Orient Blackswan.
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R. Sharan, (2009) Alienation and Restoration of Tribal Land in Jharkhand, in N. Sundar (ed.) Legal
Grounds, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 82-112
Text of UDHR available at http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
U. Baxi, (1989) From Human Rights to the Right to be Human: Some Heresies, in S. Kothari and H.
Sethi (eds.), Rethinking Human Rights, Delhi: Lokayan, pp.181-166
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Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
Understanding global politics
Maximum Marks: 100
Course Objectives: This course aims to provide students a basic yet interesting and insightful way of
knowing and thinking about the world around them. It is centered around three sets of basic questions
starting with what makes the world what it is by instructing students how they can conceptualize the
world and their place within it. The second module focuses on the basic fault lines that drives the
world apart and the last one is designed to help students explore how and why they need to think
about the world' as a whole from alternate vantage points.
I. What Makes the World What it is?
(30 lectures)
a. The Sovereign State System (10 lectures)

i
Evolution of the state system
ii
The concept of Sovereignty
b. The Global Economy (13 lectures)
i
Discussing the Bretton Woods Institutions and WTO
ii
Ideological underpinnings
iii
Transnational Economic Actors
c. Identity and Culture (7 lectures)
II. What Drives the World Apart?
a. Global Inequalities
b. Violence: Conflict, War and Terrorism
(10 lectures)
III. Why We Need to Bring the World Together?

a. Global Environment
b. Global Civil Society
(8 lectures)
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I. What Makes the World What it is?
a. The Sovereign State System
Essential Readings:
S. Elden, (2009) Why Is The World Divided Territorially?, in J. Edkins and M. Zehfuss (eds.)
Global Politics: A New Introduction, New York: Routledge, pp. 192-219.
M. Shapiro, (2009) How Does The Nation- State Work?, in J. Edkins and M. Zehfuss (eds.) Global
Politics: A New Introduction, New York: Routledge, pp. 220-243.
R. Mansbach and K.Taylor, (2012) The Evolution of the Interstate System and Alternative Global
Political Systems, Introduction to Global Politics, 2nd edition, New York: Routledge, pp. 34-68.
D. Armstrong, (2008) The Evolution of International Society, in J. Baylis, S. Smith, and P. Owens
(ed.) The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, New York:
N. Inayatullah and D. Blaney, (2012) Sovereignty in B. Chimni and S. Mallavarapu (ed.)
International Relations: Perspectives For the Global South, New Delhi: Pearson, pp. 124-134.
b. The Global Economy
Essential Readings:
V. Peterson, (2009) How Is The World Organized Economically?, in J. Edkins and M. Zehfuss
(eds.) Global Politics: A New Introduction, New York: Routledge, pp. 271- 293.
R. Mansbach and K. Taylor, (2012) International Political Economy, Introduction to Global
Politics, 2nd Edition, New York: Routledge, pp. 470-478.
A. Narlikar, (2005) The World Trade Organization: A Very Short Introduction, New Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
J. Goldstein, (2006) International Relations, New Delhi: Pearson, pp. 327-368.
c. Identity and Culture
Essential Readings:
A. Wibben, (2009) What Do We Think We Are?, in J. Edkins and M. Zehfuss (eds.) Global
R. Collin and P. Martin, (eds.), (2013) Community and Conflict: A Quick Look at the Planet, in An
Introduction To World Politics: Conflict And Consensus On A Small Planet, New York: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, pp. 67- 102.
Y. Isar, (2012) Global Culture, in B. Chimni and S. Mallavarapu (ed.) International Relations:
Perspectives For the Global South, New Delhi: Pearson, pp. 272-285.
II. What Drives the World Apart?
a. Global Inequalities
Essential Readings:
P. Chammack, (2009) Why are Some People Better off than Others?, in J. Edkins and M. Zehfuss
(ed.) Global Politics: A New Introduction, New York: Routledge, pp. 294-319.
M. Pasha, (2009) How can we end Poverty?, in J. Edkins and M. Zehfuss (ed.) Global Politics: A
New Introduction, New York: Routledge, pp. 320-343.
R. Wade, (2008) Globalisation, Growth, Poverty, Inequality, Resentment, and Imperialism, in J.
Ravenhill (ed.), Global Political Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 373-409.
M. Duffield, (2011) Development and Security the Unending War: Governing the World of Peoples,
Cambridge: Polity Press.
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N. Adams, (1993) World Apart: The North-South Divide and the International System, London: Zed.
b. Violence: Conflict, War and Terrorism
Essential Readings:
M. Dillon, (2009) What Makes The World Dangerous?, in J. Edkins And M. Zehfuss (eds.) Global
R. Mansbach, and K. Taylor, (2012) Great Issues In Contemporary Global Politics, in Introduction
to Global Politics, 2nd edition, New York: Routledge, 2012, pp. 206-247.
J. Bourke, (2009) Why Does Politics Turn Into Violence?, in J. Edkins And M. Zehfuss (eds.),
Global Politics: A New Introduction, New York: Routledge, pp. 370-396.
K. Bajpai, (2012) Global Terrorism, in B. Chimni and S. Mallavarapu (ed.), International
Relations: Perspectives For the Global South, New Delhi: Pearson, pp. 312-327.
R. Mansbach, and K. Taylor, (2012) The Causes of War And The Changing Nature Of Global
Politics, in Introduction to Global Politics, 2nd edition, New York: Routledge, pp. 248-283.
R. Collin and P. Martin, Kinds Of Conflict: The World When Things Go Wrong, in An
Introduction To World Politics: Conflict And Consensus On A Small Planet, London: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, pp. 267-425.
III. Why We Need to Bring the World Together?
a. Global Environment
Essential Readings:
S. Dalby, (2009) What Happens If We Do not Think In Human Terms?, in J. Edkins and M.
Zehfuss (eds.), Global Politics: A New Introduction, New York: Routledge, pp. 45-69.
R. Collin and P. Martin, (2013) The Greening of A Blue Planet, in An Introduction To World
Politics: Conflict And Consensus On A Small Planet, Maryland: The Rowman & Littlefield
Publication Group, pp. 527-570.
A. Heywood, (2011) Global Environmental Issues, in Global Politics, London: Palgrave, 2011, pp.
383-411.
N. Carter, (2007) The Politics of Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 2nd edition, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pp 13-81.
b. Global Civil Society
Essential Readings:
M. Zehfuss, (2009) What Can We Do To Change The World?, in J. Edkins and M. Zehfuss (eds.),
Global Politics: A New Introduction , New York: Routledge, pp. 483-501.
N. Chandhoke, (2011) The Limits of Global Civil Society, Available at
www.gcsknowledgebase.org/wp-content/uploads/2002chapter2.pdf, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
K. Mingst and J. Snyder (eds.), (2011) Transnational Issues, in Essential Readings In World
Politics, 4th Edition, New York: W. W. Norton And Company, pp. 574-626.
M. Keck and K. Sikkink,(2007) Transnational Activist Networks, in Robert J. Art and R. Jervis
(eds.) International Politics: Enduring Concepts And Contemporary Issues, 8th Edition, London:
Pearson, pp. 532-538.
M. Naim, (2007) The Five Wars Of Globalization, in R. Art and R. Jervis (eds.) International
Politics: Enduring Concepts And Contemporary Issues, 8th Edition, London: Pearson, pp. 558-566.
S. Mallaby, (2007) NGOs: Fighting Poverty, Hurting the Poor, in R. Art and R. Jervis (eds.)
International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues, 8th edition, New York: Pearson,
pp. 539-545.
G. Lexter and S. Halperin (eds.), (2003) Global Civil Society And Its Limits, New York: Palgrave, pp.
1-21.
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APPLIED COURSE
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Maximum Marks: 75
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
Yours laws, yours rights

Course objective: More often than not, when we talk of laws we mean authoritatively sanctioned
rules, which are considered essential for a well-ordered society. Yet laws in a democracy are also
about constituting a society marked by equality, freedom, and dignity. The rights approach to law has
assumed importance in democracies, precisely because of peoples struggles to broaden the
understanding of law as something which reflects the will of the people. As such law becomes an
important source of rights and duties, which develop and strengthen alongside institutions of
representative democracy, constitutional norms, and the rule of law. This course aims to understand
law as a source of rights, as a progressively widening sphere of substantive justice, welfare, and
dignity. This relationship between laws and rights will be studied through specific values which have
come to be seen as integral for a democratic society viz., equality and non-discrimination,
empowerment, redistribution and recognition of traditional rights etc.
I. Rule of law and the Criminal Justice System in India
(1 week)
II. Laws relating to criminal justice administration

a. How to file a complaint, First Information Report (FIR)
b. Detention, arrest and bail
(2 weeks)
III. Equality and non-discrimination

(4 weeks)
a. Gender: the protection of women against domestic violence, rape and sexual harassment
b. Caste: laws abolishing untouchability and providing protection against atrocities
c. Class: laws concerning minimum wages
d. Disability and equality of participation and opportunity
IV. Empowerment
a. Access to information
b. Rights of the consumer
(2weeks)
V. Redistribution, recognition and livelihood

a. Traditional rights of forest dwellers and the issue of womens property rights
b. Rural employment guarantee
(2 weeks)
VI. Access to Identification documents and Social Security Schemes (1 week / exercises only)
Familiarise yourself with the following: Procedure for obtaining an Election Commission of India
Identity Card, Driving license, Ration Card, Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna, Old Age Pension
Scheme.
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I. Rule of law and the Criminal Justice System in India
Essential Readings:
A. Andrew, (1996) Arbitrary Government and the Rule of Law, in Arguing About the Law, An
Introduction to Legal Philosophy, Wordsworth, Boston., pp.3-19.
SAHRDC, (2006) Criminal Procedure and Human Rights in India in Oxford Handbook of Human
Rights and Criminal Justice in India- The system and Procedure, New Delhi: Oxford University
Press, pp.5-15.
K. Sankaran and U. Singh, (2008) Introduction, in Towards Legal Literacy. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, pp. xi xv.
II. Laws relating to criminal justice administration
Essential Readings:
B. Pandey, (2008) Laws Relating to Criminal Justice: Challenges and Prospects, in K. Sankaran and
U. Singh, Towards Legal Literacy, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.61-77.
SAHRDC, (2006)Reporting a Crime: First Information Report, in Oxford Handbook of Human
Rights and Criminal Justice in India- The system and Procedure, New Delhi: Oxford University
Press, pp.16-26.
SAHRDC, (2006) Bail, in Oxford Handbook of Human Rights and Criminal Justice in India- The
system and Procedure, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.59-71.
SAHRDC, (2006) Detention, in Oxford Handbook of Human Rights and Criminal Justice in IndiaThe system and Procedure. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, Pp.72-84.
P. Mathew, (2003) Your Rights if you are Arrested, New Delhi. Indian Social Institute.
III. Equality and non-discrimination
Essential Readings:
Gender Study Group, (1996) Sexual Harassment in Delhi University, A Report, Delhi: University of
Delhi.
N. Jain, (2011) Physically/Mentally Challenged, in M. Mohanty et al. Weapon of the Oppressed,
Inventory of Peoples Rights in India, Delhi: Danish Books, pp.171-179.
P. Mathew, (2002) The Law on Atrocities Against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, New
Delhi: Indian Social Institute.
P. Mathew, (2004) The Minimum Wages Act, 1948, New Delhi: Indian Social Institute.
K. Sankaran, (2008) Labour Laws and the World of Work, in K, Sankaran and U. Singh (eds.)
Towards Legal Literacy, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, Pp.119-131.
K. Saxena, (2011) Dalits, in M. Mohanty et al., Weapon of the Oppressed, Inventory of Peoples
Rights in India. Delhi: Danish Books, Pp.15-38
K. Saxena, (2011) Adivasis, in M. Mohanty et al., Weapon of the Oppressed, Inventory of Peoples
Rights in India, Delhi: Danish Books, Pp.39-65.
S. Durrany, (2006) The Protection of Women From Domestic Violence Act 2005, New Delhi: Indian
Social Institute.
V. Kumari, (2008) Offences Against Women, in K, Sankaran and U. Singh (eds.) Towards Legal
Literacy, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
P. D. Mathew,(2004)The Measure to Prevent Sexual Harassment of Women in Work Place. New
Delhi: Indian Social Institute.
D. Srivastva, (2007) Sexual Harassment and Violence against Women in India: Constitutional and
Legal Perspectives, in C. Kumar and K. Chockalingam (eds) Human Rights, Justice, and
Constitutional Empowerment, Delhi: Oxford University Press.
IV. Empowerment
Essential Readings:
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N. Kurian, (2011) Consumers, in M. Mohanty et al., Weapon of the Oppressed, Inventory of
Peoples Rights in India. Delhi: Danish Books.
S. Naib, (2013) Right to Information Act 2005, in The Right to Information in India, New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, Available at
http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org/publications/rti/guide_to_use_rti_act_2005_English2012_light_
Aspire.pdf, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
A. Roberts, (2010) A Great and Revolutionary Law? The First Four Years of Indias Right to
Information Act, Public Administration Review. Volume 70, Issue 6, pp. 925933.
SAHRDC, (2006) Consumer Rights, in Introducing Human Rights, Oxford University Press, pp.
118-134.
V. Redistribution, Recognition and livelihood
Essential Readings:
M. Sarin and O. Baginski, (2010) Indias Forest Rights Act -The Anatomy of a Necessary but Not
Sufficient Institutional Reform, Department for International Development. Available at
www.ippg.org.uk (Accessed: 10.04.2013).
J. Dreze, Dey and Khera, (2008) Employment Guarantee Act, A Primer, New Delhi: National Book
Trust (Also available in Hindi).
K. Chaubey, (2013) Do Pragatisheel Kanoonon ki Dastan: Rajya, Jan Andolan aur Pratirdoh,
Pratiman: Samay, Samaj, Sanskriti, CSDS- Vani Prakashn, pp. 149-177.
S. Dahiwale, (2009) Khairlanji: Insensitivity of Mahar Officers, Economic and Political Weekly,
Vol. 44 (31), pp. 29-33.
J. Kothari, (2005) Criminal Law on Domestic Violence, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.
40(46), pp. 4843-4849.
H. Mander, and A. Joshi, The Movement for Right to Information in India, Peoples Power for the
Control
of
Corruption.
Available
at
http://www.rtigateway.org.in/Documents/References/English/Reports/12.%20An%20article%20on%
20RTI%20by%20Harsh%20Mander.pdf , Accessed: 10.04.2013.
P. Mathew, and P. Bakshi, (2005) Indian Legal System, New Delhi: Indian Social Institute.
P. Mathew, and P. Bakshi, (2005) Women and the Constitution, New Delhi: Indian Social Institute.
N. Menon, (2012) Sexual Violence, in Seeing Like a Feminist, New Delhi: Zubaan and Penguin, pp.
113-146.
M, Mohanty et al. (2011) Weapon of the Oppressed, Inventory of Peoples Rights in India. Delhi:
Danish Books.
Centre for Good Governance, (2008) Right to Information Act, 2005: A Citizens Guide, Available at
http://www.rtigateway.org.in/Documents/Publications/A%20CITIZEN'S%20GUIDE.pdf , Accessed:
10.04.2013.
K. Sankaran, and U. Singh, (eds.) (2008) Towards Legal Literacy. New Delhi: Oxford University
Press.
A. Pandey, (2004) Rights of the Consumer. New Delhi: Indian Social Institute.
Bare Acts:
Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Available at http://chdslsa.gov.in/right_menu/act/pdf/consumer.pdf ,
Accessed: 10.04.2013.
Criminal
law
Amendment
Act,
2013,
Available
at
http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2013/E_17_2013_212.pdf , Accessed: 10.04.2013.
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guaranty Act, 2005, Available at
http://nrega.nic.in/rajaswa.pdf , Accessed: 10.04.2013.
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National Food Security Act 2011, Available at http://nac.nic.in/foodsecurity/nfsb_final.pdf,
Accessed: 10.04.2013.
Protection of Women Against Domestic Violence Act, 2005, Available at http://wcd.nic.in/wdvact.pdf,
Accessed: 10.04.2013.
Right to Information Act, 2005, Available at http://righttoinformation.gov.in/rti-act.pdf , Accessed:
10.04.2013.
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act, 1989, Available at
http://tribal.nic.in/writereaddata/linkimages/poaact989E4227472861.pdf , Accessed: 10.04.2013.
Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006,
Available at http://tribal.gov.in/writereaddata/mainlinkFile/File1033.pdf, Accessed: 10.04.2013.
The
Minimum
Wages
Act,
1948,
Available
at
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/travail/docs/623/Minimum%20Wages%20Act%201948.pdf,
Accessed:
10.04.2013.
The Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights, Full Participation) Act,
1995, Available at http://bhind.nic.in/Sparsh_disability%20act%201995.pdf, Accessed: 10.04.2013.
The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, Available at
http://www.delta.org.in/form/rte.pdf , Accessed: 10.04.2013.
The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2012,
Available
at
http://164.100.24.219/BillsTexts/LSBillTexts/PassedLoksabha/144C_2010_LS_Eng.pdf, Accessed:
10.04.2013.
Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013, Available at , mha.nic.in/pdfs/TheCrimnalLaw030413.pdfFile
Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View, Accessed: 15.04.2013.
Suggested exercises for students
1. Discuss the debates around any recent Ordinance, Bill or Act in Parliament.
2. How to file an FIR? In case there has been a theft in the neighbourhood how would you file the
first Hand Information Report?
3. Under what circumstances can detention and arrest become illegal?
4. Discuss any contemporary practice or event that violates the equality and protection against
discrimination laws.
5. Read Ordinance XV -D of University of Delhi and make a list of the kinds of conduct that would
qualify as sexual harassment.
6. Your friend has shared with you an incident of unwelcome verbal remarks on her by a person of
higher authority in your college, what would you do?
7. Visit any nearby construction site and talk to the workers about their daily wage. Find out the
minimum wage in Delhi for such construction work. Make an assessment of the awareness among
the workers about their minimum wages and the law related to it.
8. You have seen a lady in your neighbourhood being beaten up by her husband. Identify the
concerned Protection Officer in case you want to provide information about this incident.
9. Read the Vishakha Guidelines as laid down by the Supreme Court and the Act against sexual
harassment at the workplace. Discuss what constitutes sexual harassment and the mechanisms
available for its redressal in your institution.
10. What is the procedure to file an RTI?
11. You bought a product from a nearby shop which was expired, the shop keeper refused to return it.
Use your knowledge of Consumer Protection Act to decide what you do next?
12. Do you think the provisions of Forest Rights Act (FRA) address the question of gender equality?
13. What must you keep in mind as a consumer while making a purchase that may later help you
make use of Consumer Protection Act? (Hint- Should you ask for a Bill?)
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14. In your surroundings have you witnessed any incident that would be considered offensive under
the SC and ST Act? Make a class room presentation on it.
15. After reading the Disabilities Act, discuss in your classroom, whether the differently abled people
in your college are able to exercise the rights and facilities guaranteed under the law.
16. Discuss the procedure for issuing a job card under MNREGA.
17. You have read the rural job guarantee scheme under MNREGA. Do you think that there is a need
for similar guarantee scheme in urban areas? Discuss with your classmates.
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APPLIED COURSE
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
Parliamentary and Legislative support
Maximum marks: 75
Total lectures and Student Presentations: 36
Course objective: To acquaint the student broadly with the legislative process in India at various
levels, introduce them to the requirements of peoples representatives and provide elementary skills
to be part of a legislative support team and expose them to real life legislative work. These will be, to
understand complex policy issues, draft new legislation, track and analyse ongoing bills, make
speeches and floor statements, write articles and press releases, attend legislative meetings, conduct
meetings with various stakeholders, monitor media and public developments, manage constituent
relations and handle inter-office communications. It will also deepen their understanding and
appreciation of the political process and indicate the possibilities of making it work for democracy.
I. Powers and functions of peoples representative at different tiers of governance (6 lectures)
Members of Parliament, State legislative assemblies, functionaries of rural and urban local self
government from Zila Parishad, Municipal Corporation to Panchayat/ward.
II. Supporting the legislative process
(2 lectures)
How a bill becomes law, role of the Standing committee in reviewing a bill, legislative consultants,
the framing of rules and regulations.
III. Supporting the Legislative Committees
(6 lectures)
Types of committees, role of committees in reviewing government finances, policy, programmes, and
legislation.
IV. Reading the Budget Document
(6 lectures)
Overview of Budget Process, Role of Parliament in reviewing the Union Budget, Railway Budget,
Examination of Demands for Grants of Ministries, Working of Ministries.
V. Support in media monitoring and communication
(4 lectures)
Types of media and their significance for legislators; Basics of communication in print and electronic
media.
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I. Powers and functions of peoples representative at different tiers of governance
Essential Readings:
M. Madhavan, and N. Wahi, (2008) Financing of Election Campaigns PRS, Centre for Policy
Research,
New
Delhi,
Available
at,
http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/conference/Campaign_finance_brief.pdf,
Accessed:
19.04.2013
S. Vanka, (2008) Primer on MPLADS, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, Available at
http://www.prsindia.org/parliamenttrack/primers/mplads-487/, Accessed: 19.04.2013
H. Kalra, (2011) Public Engagement with the Legislative Process PRS, Centre for Policy Research,
New
Delhi,
Available
at
http://www.prsindia.org/administrator/uploads/media/Conference%202011/Public%20Engagement%
20with%20the%20Legislative%20Process.pdf, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
Government of India (Lok Sabha Secretariat), (2009) Parliamentary Procedures (Abstract Series),
Available at http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/abstract/index.aspx, Accessed: 19.04.2013
II. Supporting the legislative process
Essential Readings:
Government of India, (Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs), (2009) Legislation, Parliamentary
Procedure,
Available
at
http://mpa.nic.in/Manual/Manual_English/Chapter/chapter-09.htm,
Accessed: 19.04.2013
Government of India, (Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs) (2009), Subordinate Legislation,
Parliamentary Procedure, Available at http://mpa.nic.in/Manual/Manual_English/Chapter/chapter11.htm Accessed: 19.04.2013
D. Kapur and P. Mehta, (2006) The Indian Parliament as an Institution of Accountability,
Democracy, Governance and Human Rights, Programme Paper Number 23, United Nations Research
Institute
for
Social
Development,
Available
at
http://www.unrisd.org/UNRISD/website/document.nsf/240da49ca467a53f80256b4f005ef245/8e6fc7
2d6b546696c1257123002fcceb/$FILE/KapMeht.pdf, Accessed: 19.04.2013
O. Agarwal and T. Somanathan, (2005) Public Policy Making in India: Issues and Remedies,
Available
at
http://www.cprindia.org/admin/paper/Public_Policy_Making_in_India_14205_TV_SOMANATHAN
.pdf, Accessed: 19.04.2013
B. Debroy, (2001) Why we need law reform Seminar January.
III. Supporting the Legislative Committees
Essential Readings:
P. Mehta, Indias Unlikely Democracy: The Rise of Judicial Sovereignty, Journal of Democracy,
Vol. 18(2), pp.70-83.
Government link: http://loksabha.nic.in/; http://rajyasabha.nic.in/; http://mpa.nic.in/
K. Sanyal, (2011) Strengthening Parliamentary Committees PRS, Centre for Policy Research, New
Delhi,
Available
at
http://www.prsindia.org/administrator/uploads/media/Conference%202011/Strengthening%20Parlia
mentary%20Committees.pdf, Accessed: 19.04.2013
IV. Reading the Budget Document
Essential Readings
A. Celestine, (2011) How to Read the Union Budget PRS, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi,
Available at http://www.prsindia.org/parliamenttrack/primers/how-to-read-the-union-budget-1023/,
Accessed: 19.04.2013
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V. Support in media monitoring and communication
Essential Reading:
G. Rose, (2005) How to Be a Media Darling: There's No getting Away From It, State Legislatures,
Vol. 31(3).
N. Jayal and P. Mehta (eds), (2010)The Oxford Companion to Politics in India, Oxford University
Press: New Delhi,
B. Jalan, (2007) Indias Politics, New Delhi: Penguin.
Initiating Discussion on Various Type of Debates in Rajya Sabha, Available at
http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/publication_electronic/75RS.pdf, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
Praxis of Parliamentary Committees: Recommendations of Committee on Rules published by Rajya
Sabha, available at http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/publication_electronic/Praxis.pdf,Accessed:
19.04.2013.
S.J. Phansalkar, Policy Research in the Indian Context
N. Singh, Some Economic Consequences of Indias Institutions of Governance: A Conceptual
Framework,
Available
at
http://econ.ucsc.edu/faculty/boxjenk/wp/econ_conseq_2003_rev2.pdf,Accessed: 19.04.2013.
R. Guha, (2007), India After Gandhi, Macmillan: New Delhi.
Parliamentary Procedures (Abstract Series) published by Lok Sabha, Available at
http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/abstract/index.aspx, website: www.loksabha.nic.in, Accessed:
19.04.2013.
Committees
of
Lok
Sabha,
Available
at
http://164.100.47.134/committee/committee_list.aspxAccessed: 19.04.2013.
Ethics
Committee
of
Rajya
Sabha,
available
at
http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/publication_electronic/ethics_committee.pdf,Accessed: 19.04.2013.
Committees of Parliament, Parliamentary Procedure, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Available at
http://mpa.nic.in/Manual/Manual_English/Chapter/chapter-12.htm, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
Nomination of Members of Parliament on Committees, Councils, Boards and Commissions, etc., set
up
by
the
Government,
Ministry
of
Parliament
Affairs,
Available
at
Parliamentary Procedures: Problems and Perspectives 2009 Published by Rajya Sabha, Available at
http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/publication_electronic/parl_procedure2009.pdf, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
Primer
on
the
Budget
Process
published
by
PRS,
Available
at
http://www.prsindia.org/parliamenttrack/primers/the-budget-process-484/, Accessed: 19.04.2013.
Background note on Financial Oversight by Parliament published by PRS, Available at
http://www.prsindia.org/administrator/uploads/media/Conference%20note/Conference%20note%20o
n%20financial%20oversight.pdf,Accessed: 19.04.2013.
P. Keefer and S Khemani, (2009) When Do Legislators Pass On "Pork"? The Determinants of
Legislator Utilization of a Constituency Development Fund in India, in World Bank Policy Research
Working Paper Series 4929, pp. 1-45, Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1405160,
Accessed: 19.04.2013.
Parliamentary
Procedures
(Abstract
Series),
Lok
Sabha,
Available
at
http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/abstract/process.htm
Budget, Parliamentary Procedure, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, available at
http://mpa.nic.in/mpahandbook/parlia13.pdf
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APPLIED COURSE
Degree
Paper
Title:
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
Public opinion research and democracy
Maximum marks: 75
Course Objective: this course will introduce the students to the debates, principles and practices of
public opinion polling in the context of democracies, with special reference to India. It will
familiarise the students with how to conceptualize and measure public opinion using quantitative
methods, with particular attention being paid to developing basic skills pertaining to the collection,
analysis and utilisation of quantitative data.
I. Introduction to the course
(6 lectures)
Definition and characteristics of public opinion, conceptions and characteristics, debates about its role
in a democratic political system, uses for opinion poll
II. Measuring Public Opinion with Surveys: Representation and sampling
(6 lectures)
a. What is sampling? Why do we need to sample? Sample design.
b. Sampling error and non response
c. Types of sampling: Non random sampling (quota, purposive and snowball sampling); random
sampling: simple and stratified
III. Survey Research
a. Interviewing: Interview techniques pitfalls, different types of and forms of interview
b. Questionnaire: Question wording; fairness and clarity.
(2 lectures)
IV. Quantitative Data Analysis

(4 lectures)
a. Introduction to quantitative data analysis
b. Basic concepts: correlational research, causation and prediction, descriptive and inferential
Statistics
V. Interpreting polls
Prediction in polling research: possibilities and pitfalls
Politics of interpreting polling
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(6 lectures)

I. Introduction to the course
Essential Readings:
R. Erikson and K. Tedin, (2011) American Public Opinion, 8th edition, New York: Pearson Longman
Publishers,. pp. 40-46.
G. Gallup, (1948) A guide to public opinion polls Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1948. Pp. 313.
II. Measuring Public Opinion with Surveys: Representation and sampling
Essential Readings:
G. Kalton, (1983) Introduction to Survey Sampling Beverly Hills, Sage Publication.
Lokniti Team (2009) National Election Study 2009: A Methodological Note, Economic and
Political Weekly, Vol. XLIV (39)
Lokniti Team, (2004) National Election Study 2004, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXIX
(51).
Asking About Numbers: Why and How, Political Analysis (2013), Vol. 21(1): 48-69, (first
published online November 21, 2012)
III. Survey Research
Essential Readings:
H. Asher, (2001) Chapters 3 and 5, in Polling and the Public: What Every Citizen Should Know,
Washington DC: Congressional Quarterly Press.
R. Erikson and K. Tedin, (2011) American Public Opinion, 8th edition, New York, Pearson Longman
IV. Quantitative Data Analysis
Essential Readings:
A. Agresti and B. Finlay, (2009) Statistical methods for the Social Sciences, 4th edition, Upper saddle
river, NJ: Pearson-Prentice Hall,
S. Kumar and P. Rai, (2013) Chapter 1, in Measuring Voting Behaviour in India, New Delhi: Sage.
V. Interpreting polls
Essential Readings:
R. Karandikar, C. Pyne and Y. Yadav, (2002) Predicting the 1998 Indian Parliamentary
Elections, Electoral Studies, Vol. 21, pp.69-89.
M. McDermott and K. A. Frankovic, (2003) Horserace Polling and Survey Methods Effects: An
Analysis of the 2000 Campaign, Public Opinion Quarterly 67, pp. 244-264.
K. Warren, (2001) Chapter 2, in In Defense of Public Opinion Polling, Boulder: Westview Press,
pp. 45-80.
W. Cochran, (2007) Chapter 1, Sampling Techniques, John Wiley & Sons.
G. Gallup, (1948) A Guide to Public Opinion Polls. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 14-20;
73-75.
D. Rowntree (2000) Statistics Without Tears: an Introduction for Non Mathematicians,
Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Suggested Student Exercises:

1. Discussion of readings and Indian examples.
2. Groups of students to collect examples of and discuss various sample based studies across many
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fields: e.g. consumer behaviour, unemployment rates, educational standards, elections, medicinal
trials etc.
3. Non-random sampling: The students have to identify one group of people or behaviour that is
unique or rare and for which snowball sampling might be needed. They have to identify how they
might make the initial contact with this group to start snowball rolling.
4. Give the students the electoral list of an area in Delhi (http://ceodelhi.gov.in). The students have to
draw a random sample of n number of respondents.
5. For this activity, working with a partner will be helpful. The class should first decide on a topic of
interest. Then each pair should construct a five-item self report questionnaire. Of the five items, there
should be at least one nominal response, one ordinal response and one interval. After the common
questionnaire is constructed putting together the questions from everyone, working in pairs, the
questionnaire should be administered on 10 different individuals.
6. Give the students a questionnaire from any public opinion survey and ask them to identify the type
of variables.
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APPLIED COURSE
Degree
Diploma/ Bachelor/
Paper
Title:
Maximum marks: 75
Year:
Semester:
Paper
No:
Conflict and peace building

Course Objectives: This course is designed to help build an understanding of a variety of conflict
situations among students in a way that they can relate to them through their lived experiences. Its an
interdisciplinary course that draws its insights from various branches of social sciences and seeks to
provide a lively learning environment for teaching and training students how to bring about political
and social transformations at the local, national and international levels. The course encourages the
use of new information technologies and innovative ways of understanding these issues by teaching
students skills of managing and resolving conflicts and building peace through techniques such as
role-play, simulations, street theatre, cinema and music on the one hand and by undertaking field
visits, interacting with different segments of the civil society including those affected by conflicts as
well as diplomats, journalists and experts, on the other.
Unit I. Concepts
a. Understanding Conflict (Week 1)
b. Conflict Management, Conflict Resolution and Conflict Transformation (Week 2)
c. Peace Building (Week 3)
(6 Lectures)
Unit II: Dimensions of Conflict

a. Ideology (Week 4)
b. Economic/Resource Sharing Conflicts (Week 5)
c. Socio-Cultural Conflicts (Ethnic, Religious, Gender-based) (Week 6)
(6 Lectures)
Unit III: Sites of Conflict

a. Local (Week 7)
b. Sub-National (Week 7)
c. International (Week 8)
(6 Lectures)
Unit IV: Conflict Responses: Skills And Techniques

a. Negotiations: Trust Building (Week 9)
b. Mediation: Skill Building; Active Listening (Week 10)
c. Track I, Track II & Multi Track Diplomacy (Week 11)
d. Gandhian Methods (Week 12)
(6 Lectures)
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Unit I. Concepts
a. Understanding Conflict
Essential Readings:
O. Ramsbotham, T. Woodhouse and H. Miall, (2011) Understanding Contemporary Conflict, in
Contemporary Conflict Resolution, (Third Edition), Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 94-122.
W. Zartman, (1995) Dynamics and Constraints In Negotiations In Internal Conflicts, in William
Zartman (ed.), Elusive Peace: Negotiating an End to Civil Wars, Washington: The Brookings
Institute, pp. 3-29.
P. Wallensteen, (2012) Armed Conflicts, in Understanding Conflict Resolution, (Third Edition),
London: Sage, pp. 13-28.
b. Conflict Management, Conflict Resolution and Conflict Transformation
Essential Readings:
C. Mitchell, (2002) Beyond Resolution: What Does Conflict Transformation
Actually Transform?, in Peace and Conflict Studies, 9:1, May, pp.1-23.
S. Ryan, (1990) Conflict Management and Conflict Resolution, in Terrorism and Political Violence,
2:1, pp. 54-71.
Additional Reading:
J. Lederach, (2003) The Little Book Of a Conflict Transformation, London: Good Books.
I. Doucet, (1996)Thinking About Conflict, Resource Pack For Conflict Transformation: International
Alert.
c. Peace Building
Essential Readings:
M. Lund, (2001) A Toolbox for Responding to Conflicts and Building Peace, in L. Reychler and T.
Paffenholz, eds., Peace-Building: A Field Guide, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, pp. 16-20.
L. Schirch, (2004) The Little Book Of Strategic Peacebuilding, London: Good Books.
Unit II: Dimensions of Conflict
Essential Readings:
R. Rubenstein, (2003) Sources, in S. Cheldelin, D. Druckman and L. Fast (eds.) Conflict: From
Analysis to Intervention, London: Continuum, pp.55-67.
P. Le Billon, (2009) Economic and Resource Causes of Conflicts, in J. Bercovitch, V. Kremenyuk
and I. Zartman (eds.)The Sage Hand Book of Conflict Resolution, London: Sage Publications, pp.
210-224.
S. Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana, (2009) Ethno-Religious Conflicts: Exploring the Role of Religion in
Conflict Resolution, in J. Bercovitch, V. Kremenyuk and I. Zartman (eds.)The Sage Hand Book of
Conflict Resolution, London: Sage Publications, pp. 264-284.
Unit III: Sites of Conflict
Essential Readings:
D. Barash and C. Webel, (2009) Peace and Conflict Studies, London: Sage Publication, pp. 91-117.
D. Sandole, (2003) Typology in S. Cheldelin, D. Druckman and L. Fast (eds.) Conflict: From
Analysis to Intervention, London: Continuum, pp.39-54.
P. Wallenstein, (2007) Understanding Conflict Resolution (2nd ed.), London: Sage Publications.
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Unit IV: Conflict Response: Skills And Techniques
Essential Readings:
H. Saunders, (1999) A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue To Transform Racial and Ethnic
Conflicts, Palgrave Macmillan: New York, pp. 1-30.
N. Behera, Forging New Solidarities: Non-official Dialogues, in M. Mekenkamp, P. Tongeren and
H.
Van
De
Veen
(eds.),
Searching
For
Peace In Central And South Asia, London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 210-236.
J Bercovitch, V. Kremenyuk, and I. Zartman (eds.), (2009) The Sage Hand Book of Conflict
Resolution, London: Sage Publications.
M. Steger , (2001) Peacebuilding and Non-Violence: Gandhis Perspective on Power, in D. Christie,
R. Wagner and D. Winter, (eds.), Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st
Century Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
J. Davies and E. Kaufman (eds.), (2003) Second Track/Citizens' Diplomacy: Concepts and
Techniques for Conflict Transformation, Rowman & Littlefield: Maryland.
C. Webel and J. Galtung (eds.), (2007) The Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies, London:
Routledge.
Toolkits by United States Institute of Peace
S. Mason and M. Siegfried, (2010) Debriefing Mediators To Learn Their Experiences, Washington
D.C: United States Institute Of Peace.
I. Zartman and A. De Soto, (2010) Timing Mediation Initiatives, Washington D.C: United States
Institute Of Peace.
A. Smith and D. Smock, (2010)Managing A Mediation Process, Washington D.C: United States
Institute Of Peace.
H. Burgess and G. Burgess, (2010) Conducting Track II, Washington D.C: United States Institute Of
Peace.
Online Resources
Conflict Resolution in Popular Art and Culture:
The International Network of Peace Museums, at www.mueseumsforpeace.org/, contains links to
visit the websites of many of the worlds peace museums.
Theatre,
peace
and
conflict
at
Theatre
Without
Borders,
www.theatrewithoutborders.com/peacebuilding
Global Peace Film Festival, www.peacefilmfest.org/
Football for Peace International, www.football4peace.eu/contact.html
Dialogue:
http://www.pgexchange.org/images/toolkits/PGX_D_Sustained%20Dialogue.pdf
Mediation:
http://www.initiativeforpeacebuilding.eu/resources/A_guide_to_Mediation_HDC.pdf
http://www.pgexchange.org/images/toolkits/civicus%20mediation%20tool.pdf
http://www.beyondintractability.org/bi-essay/mediation
Facilitation:
http://www.pgexchange.org/images/toolkits/pgx_facilitation_tool.pdf
http://www.beyondintractability.org/bi-essay/facilitation
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Negotiation:
Roger Fisher et al, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In, New York: Penguin,
1991.
http://peacebuilding.caritas.org/index.php/Introduction_to_Principled_Negotiation
Reconciliation:
http://www.peacebuildinginitiative.org/index.cfm?pageId=1975
John Paul Lederach,The Journey Toward Reconciliation, London: Herald Press, 1999.
Charles Lerche, Peace Building Through Reconciliation, International Journal of Peace Studies,
Vol.
5.
No.
2,
2000.http://www.gmu.edu/programs/icar/ijps/vol5_2/lerche.htm
Crossword Puzzle:
Suggested Classroom Exercises/ Activities:
1) Map the ethnic composition of your classroom and examine the prevailing prejudices and
stereotyping practices and their manifestations and then suggest a strategy for trust building.
2) Identify a group of immigrants/ refugees from the South Asian region (Afghans,
Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, Tibetans, Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar) and based on your
interactions with them, write a report explaining their respective experiences of conflicts are
amenable to what kind of solution?
3) Identify musical bands and other such endeavours in the South Asian region which have used
music as a peace building measure for promoting understanding among different
communities.
4) Sports is a means or a barrier to promoting inter community understanding. Have a debate in
the class arguing for and against this proposition.
5) Conduct a case study of resource allocation of water and electricity by the Government of
Delhi. Identify, if any, elements of institutional discrimination has taken place.
6) Follow a conflict from any level (local/sub-national/national) covered in the news for a month
and prepare a report on its causes, the parties and the dynamics of the conflict.
7) Identify protests over sharing of environmental resources and study their modus operandi for
seeking redressal (for example, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Protests against the Nuclear Plant
in Kondakulm, Movements against POSCO and Vedanta in Orissa)
8) Organize a peace film festival in your college.
9) Follow any track-two initiative between India and any of its neighbours (for example,
Neemrana Initiative, The Pakistan India Peoples forum for Peace and Democracy , RIMC Old
Boys Network, Womens Initiative for Peace in South Asia, Committee for Sane Nuclear
Policy, Peace Pals) and, write a report on its activities and the impact factor.
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9. Public Policy and

12. Indian Political Thought-I

15. Western Political

18. Western Political

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DC-I & DC-II : 5 periods/week (4 lectures + 1 students presentation)

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II. Foundations of Colonial Rule in India

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VI. Early Indian Responses

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Understanding political theory

Maximum Marks: 100

Total Lectures and Student Presentations: 60

II. Theorising the Political

III. Traditions of Political Theory

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Political theory: Concepts and debates

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Suggested themes for projects:

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III. Federalism and Decentralization

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Public administration: theory and practice

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(11 lectures and presentations)

IV. Contemporary developments

(15 lectures and presentations)

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