CONTENTS

Course – I: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Course II: PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Course – III: FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION

I. INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

II. COMPARATIVE POLITICS

III. POLITICAL THOUGHT

IV. POLITICAL THEORY

V. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
VI. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
VII. LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT
 Course – I: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
UNIT- I: Introduction to Social Research:
a) Meaning,
b) nature and Scope

UNIT- II: Approaches to the study of Social Research:

a) Historical
b) Comparative
c) Descriptive and Experimental

UNIT- III: Research Design:

a) Formulation of Research Design
b) Hypothesis
c) Research Concepts

UNIT- IV: Tools and Techniques of Data Collection:

a) Observation
b) Questionnaire and Sampling Method
c) Interview and Survey Method
d) Case Study Method

UNIT- V: Report Writing:

a) Steps Involved in writing a good report.

References

1. O.P. Gauba 2005. An Introduction to Political Theory, Delhi Macmillan India.

2. U.R. Ghai& K.K. Ghai 2004. Contemporary Political Analysis, Jalandhar New Academic
Publisher.
3. Robert A. Dahl. 2003. Modern Political Analysis, New Delhi Pearson Education.
4. Tim, May. 2001. Social Research: Issues, Methods and Process, Buckingham, Open
University Press.
5. Aldridge, A and Levine, K. 2001. Surveying the Social World, Buckingham, Open
University Press.
6. Lee, R.M. 2001. Un obstructive Methods in Social research, Buckingham, Open
University Press.
7. Williams, M and May, T. 1996. Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Research,
London, UCI Press.
8. P. G. Das. 1996. Modern Political Theory, Calcutta, New Central Book Agency
9. Homan, R. 1991. The Ethics of Social Research, London, Longman.
10. Oyen, E. 1990. Comparative Methodology, London, Sage.
11. Janet Bultolph Johnson & Richard A. Joslyn 1987. Political Science Research Methods,
New Delhi, Prentice Hall of India
12. ParamatmaSharan 1984. Theory of Comparative Politics, New Delhi
MeenakshiPrakashan
 Course II: Principles of Political Science
UNIT- I: Approaches to the Study of Political Science:

a) Normative Approach
b) Behavioural Approach
c) Systems Approach

UNIT- II: Critical Dominant Issues:

a) Secularism – Communalism Divide

b) Combating Corruption: The institution of Lokayukta
c) Centre – State Relations

UNIT- III: Political Issues:

a) Imperialism
b) Colonialism and Post Colonialism
c) Globalization

UNIT- IV: Parties, Interest Groups and Social Movements:

a) Emergence of Coalition Politics

b) Interest Groups and Non- Governmental Organisations
c) Social Movements: Farmers, Women, Dalits and Tribal

UNIT-V: India’s Foreign Policy:

a) Origin and Determinants of India’s Foreign Policy

b) Nonaligned Movement (NAM)
c) South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)

Reference:

1 Michael Has & Henry S. Kariel (ed.) Approaches To The Study of Political Science,
Chandler, 1988.
2 David E. Apter, Introduction to Political Analysis, Prentice Hall, 1984.
3 Freeman(ed.) Foundations of Political Science-Research, Methods and Scope, The Free
Press, 1977.
4 Jessica Kuper, Political Science and Political Theory, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987
5 Charles E. Merriam, New Aspects of Politics, University of Chicago Press, 1990.
6 Bernard Crick, In Defense of Politics, Penguin Press, 1982.
7 Bandhopadyaya, J. The Making of India’s Foreign Policy, New Delhi, Applied
Publishers, 1984.
8 Bimal Prasad, the Origins of Indian Foreign Policy, Calcutta, Bookland, 1962.
9 Bradnock, Robert W, India’s Foreign Policy since 1971, London, Printer Publishers,
1990.
10 Dutt, V.P., India’s Foreign Policy, New Delhi, Vikas, 1984.
 Course – III: FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION

I. INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

UNIT I : Framing of the Indian Constitution: Constituent Assembly, Political and

Social Philosophy, Preamble and salient features.

UNIT II : Union Executive: President, Prime Minister of Council of Ministers,

Union Legislature: Parliament and Committee System, Parliamentary

Control over executive

UNIT III : Judiciary: Jurisdiction of Supreme Court, Judicial Review, Judicial

Activism and Public Interest Litigation.

UNIT IV : Centre and State Relations: Indian Federation, Issues Problem and
Challenges

UNIT V : Party system in India, Election Commission, Electoral Reforms

and pressure groups.

References:

1. Bipin Chandra “Colonialism, Stages of Colonialism and Colonial State”, Journal of Contemporary
Asia, Vol.10, No.3, 1980.
2. Jairus Banaji : “Theiry of Colonial Mode of Production”, EPW, 23 December, 1972.
3. Irfan Bahib : “Colonialist of Indian Economy” 1957-1900, Social Scientist, 1973.
4. Hamza Alavi : “India and Colonial Mode of Production”, Special Number, August 1975
5. Rajat Ray : Three Interpretation of Indian Nationalism”, in BR. Nanda and VC. Joshi (ed.),
Studies in Modern Indian History, Bombay Orient Longman, 1972.
6. Sudipta Kaviraj:On the Construction of Colonial Power Structure, Discourse Hegemony,
Occasional Paper–Teen Murti.
7. B.R. Nanda, Mahatma Gandhi, A Biography, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1958.
8. Granville Austin: India’s Constitution – Corner Stone of a Nation, Bombay Oxford Press,
1991.
9. Rudolph & Rudolph :In Pursuit of Lakshmi: the Political Economy of the Indian State,
Bombay, Orient Longman, 1987.
10. Achin Vanaik : The Painful Transition, Dourgeoisic Democracy in India, London, Verso,
1990.
11. Atul Kohli: Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
12. Atul Kohli (ed.) India Democracy: An Analysis of changing State-Society Relations,
Hyderabad, Orient Longman, 1991.
13. Rajani Kothari, Politics in India, New Delhi, Orient Longman, 1970.
14. Rajani Kothari (ed.) Caste in Indian Politics, Hyderabad, Orient Longman, 1970, p.380.
15. Francine Frankel – Iindia’s Political Economy 1947-77: The Gradual Revolt, Delhi, Oxford
University Press, 1978.
16. Francine Frankel, India’s green Revolution, Princeton, University Press.
17. Sukhamoy Chakravarty : Development Planning : The Indian Experience, Oxford,
Clarenden, 1987.
18. Ahluwalia, Isher J. Industrial Growth in India : Stagnation Since Mid Sixties, Delhi, Oxford
University Press, 1985.
19. Bardhan, Pranab : The Political Economy of Development in India, Delhi, Oxford University
Press, 1985.
20. Blair, Hany : “Rising Kulas and backward Clases in Bihar : social Change in the Dalak 1970’s
EPW 15:2 (Jan 12, 1980).
21. Paul Brass: Factional Politics in an Indian State: The Congress in UP. California, University
of California Press, 1965.
22. Paul Brass: “The Politicisation of Peasants in North Indian State”, I&II, Journal of Peasant
Studies 7:4 (July 1980). And 8:1 (Sept. 1980).
23. Marcus Franda Radical Politics in West Bengal, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1972.
 II. COMPARATIVE POLITICS

UNIT I : Meaning, Nature, Scope and Importance.

UNIT II : Theories of Comparative Politics: Traditional, Modern, Systems,

Cultural and Political Economy theories.

UNIT III : Constitutionalism, Party System and Pressure Groups.

UNIT IV : Political Culture, Political Socialization, Political Communication and

Political Participation.

UNIT V : Political Parties, Elections and Political Development.

References:

1. Lucian W.Pye, Aspects of Political Development, Amerind Publications, New Delhi, 1966.
2. M.Curtis, Comparative Government & Politics: An Introductory Essay in Political Science,
Harper & Row, New York, 1978.
3. Jean Blondel, Comparative Government: A Reader, Macmillan Press, London, 1975.
4. G.A. Almond and J.S. Coleman, The Politics of the Developing Areas, Princeton University
Press, New Jersey, 1971
5. G.A. Almond and G.B. Powell, Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach, Ferrer
and Simons, New York.
6. Lucian W.Pye and Sidney Verba, Political Culture and Political Development, Princeton
University Press, New Jersey, 1972.
7. Shah, Ghanshyam, Social Movements in India: A Review of the Literature, Sage
Publications, New Delhi, 1990.
8. Malik, S.C. (ed.) Indian Movements: Some Aspects of Dissent, Protest and Reform, IIA,
Simla, 1978.
9. Oommen, T.K. Protest and Change: Studies in Social Movements, Sage Publications, New
Delhi, 1990.
10. Roa, M.S.A., Social Movements and Social Transformation: A Study of Two Backward
Classes Movement in India, Manohar Publications, New Delhi, 1987.
 III. POLITICAL THOUGHT

UNIT I : Ancient Western Political Thought: Plato and Aristotle

UNIT II : Medieval Western Political Thought: State vs Church controversy, St.

Augustine and Thomas Acquinas

UNIT III : Modern Western Political thought: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke,

Rousseau, T. H. Green, Jeremy Bentham, J S Mill and Karl Marx.

UNIT IV : Ancient and Medieval Indian Political Thought: Kautilya, Santi Parva and
Basaveshwara

UNIT V : Socialist, Radical, Secular and Nationalist, Indian Political Thought

M N Roy, Ram Manohar Lohia, Jyothiba Pule, Swami Vivekananda, Bal

Gangadhar Tilak, Dr. B R Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru
and Jayaprakash Narayan.

References:

1 Bluhm, W.T. Theories of Political Systems: Classics of Ancient and Modern Political
Throught, Printice Hall, New Delhi, 1981.
2 Dunning, William. A History of Politica Theories, Allahabad, 1966.
3 Ebenstein, William. Modern Political Thought, Oxford and IBH, 1974.
4 Jones, W.T. Masters of Political Thought, OUP, 1975.
5 Sabine, G.H. A History of Political Theory. OUP, 1973.
6 Strauss, Leo and Cropsey, Joseph. History of Political Philosophy, Chicago, 1987.
7 Voegelin, Eric. Order and History: Plato and Aristotle, Louisiana State University Press,
1957.
8 Wiser, James. Political Philosophy: A History of the Search for Order. Prentice-Hall,
1982.
9 Wolin, Sheldon, Politics and Vision, University of California Press.
10 Fred Dallmayr and G.N. Devy, Between Tradition and Modernity, Sage, New Delhi,
1998.
11 Thomas Pantham & Kenneth L. deutsch (eds.), Political Thought in Modern India, Sage
Publications, New Delhi, 1986.
12 Ainslie T. Embree (ed.), Sources of Indian Tradition, Volume One, From the beginning to
1800, Penguin, New Delhi, 1992.
13 J.N. Mohanty, Classical Indian Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 2002, Parts 2 & 3.
14 Shyam Ranganathan, Ethics and the History of Indian Philosophy, Motilal Banarasidass,
Delhi, Edinburgh, 2007, Chapters 1, 3, 7, 8.
15 Chaturvedi Badrinath, Dharma, India and the World Order, Saint Andrew Press, 1993,
Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5.
16 Uma Chakravarti, Beyond the Kings and Brahmanas of `Ancient’ India, Tulika Books,
New Delhi, 2006.
17 Gunter-Dietz Sontheimer and Hermann Kulke (eds.), Hinduism Reconsidered, Manohar,
Delhi, 2005.
18 J.L. Brockington, The Sacred Thread, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1996.
19 K.M. Sen, Hinduism, Penguin, New Delhi, 2005.
20 Fred Dallmayr and G.N. Devy, Between Tradition and Modernity, Sage, New Delhi,
1998.
21 Rajmohan Gandhi, Revenge & Reconciliation, Penguin, New Delhi, 1999, Chapters 3 & 4.
22 Brijadulal Chattopadhyaya, Studying Early India, Permanent Black, Delhi, 2003.
23 Richard M. Eaton (ed.), India’s Islamic Traditions, 711-1750, Oxford University Press,
New Delhi, 2003.
24 Aloka Parasher Sen (ed.), Subordinate and Marginal Groups in India, Oxford University
Press, New Delhi, 2004, Chapters 9 & 10.
25 Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (eds.), The Mughal State, 1520-1750, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi, 2001.
26 P.J. Marshall (ed.), The British Discovery of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1970.
27 David Kopf, British Orientalists and the Bengal Renaissance, University of California
Press, 1969.
 IV. POLITICAL THEORY
UNIT–I: Political Theory:
a) Meaning , Nature
b) Scope and Importance
UNIT- II: Key Concepts in Political Theory –I:
a) Freedom
b) Rights
c) Equality
d) Justice
Chapter- III: Key Concepts in Political Theory-II:
a) Nationalism
b) Secularism
c) Development
UNIT- IV: Political Ideologies:
a) Liberalism
b) Marxism
c) Socialism
UNIT- V: State and Society:
a) State
b) Civil Society
c) Democracy

References:

1. Benn, S. I. and R. S. Peters : Principles of Political Thought, British Edition, Social Principles
and the Democratic State, New York : Collier Books, 1964.

2. Coker, R. C. : Recent Political Thought, Calcutta : Scientific Books Agency, 1980.

3. Crespigay, Anthony de and Alan Wertheimer (Eds.) : Contemporary Political Theory, London
: Nelson, 1971.M.A. (Politics) / 11

4. Oakeshoutt, Michael : The Sociology and Political Doctrine of Contemporary Europe, New
York : Cambridge University Press, 1950.

5. Raphel, D. D. : Problems of Political Philosophy, London : Macmillon.

6. Bondurant Joan V. : Conquest of Violence : The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict, New Jersey
:Princeton, 1958.

7. Ebenstein : Today’s Isms, Delhi : Prentice Hall, 1970.

 V. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
UNIT- I: Public Administration:
a) Meaning,
b) Nature and Scope

UNIT- II: Theories of Public Administration:

a) Scientific Management Theory
b) Bureaucratic Theory
c) System Theory

UNIT- III: Development Administration:

a) Capitalist Model of Development
b) Socialist and Third World Development
c) Sustainable Development

UNIT- IV: Financial Administration:

a) Budgetary Process
b) Financial Committee of the Legislature
c) Audit

UNIT- V: New Horizons of Public Administration:

a) Good Governance
b) Public and Private Partnerships
c) New Public Management

References:

1. White, L. D. : Introduction to the study of Public Administration, New York : Macmilan,

1948.

2. Nigro, F. A. : Modern Public Administration, New York : Harper and Row, 1970.

3. Calden, G. E. : The Dynamics of Public Administration, New York : Holt-Rinehard,Winston,

1971.

4. Avashti, A. and Maheshwari, S.: Public Administration, Agra : LaxmiNarainAgarwal

(LatestEdition).M.A. (Politics) / 13
5. Indian Journal of Public Administration–Relevant Articles.

6. Gladden, E. N. : Central Government Administration, London : Staples Press, 1972.

7. Fesher, James, W. : Public Administration : Theory and Practice, New Jersey : Prentice
Hall,1980 (To remember subsequent entries).

8. Indian Institute of Public Administration: Organisation of the Government of India

(LatestEdition).
 VI. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
UNIT-I: Historical Background:
a) The Historical, diplomatic and Marxian approaches
B) Idealist / Realist Controversy

UNIT-II: Limits of Power Approach:

a) Ideology and National Interest
b) Collective Security
c) Balance of Power

UNIT-III: Behavioral Approach:

a) Systems Approach
b) Decision making Approach
c) Scientific Vs Traditional Approach Controversy

UNIT-IV: International Conflict:

a) War in the Nuclear Age
b) Arms Control, Disarmament
c) Arms Race

UNIT-V: Organizational Issues:

a) Working of United Nations in relation to
I. Peace and Security
II. Developmental and Environmental Issues
b) Debate over reforms and restructuring of United Nations

References:

1. Dougtherty, J. E. and Pfaltzgnaff, R. L.: Contending Theories of International Relations (New

York :Harper and Row, 1981).
2. Holsti, K. J. : International Politics : A Framework of Analysis (Englewood Cliffs, Prentice
Hall,1991).
3. Coloumbis, T. A. and Wolfe, J. H.: Introduction to International Relations: Power and Justice
(Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall,1986).
4. Burton, J. W.: International Relations : A General Theory, 1971 (Bombay : Allen and Unwin,
1971).
5. Kegley, Charles. W. Jr. and Wittkopf, Eugene,R. : World Politics Trend and Transformation
(Hampshire: Macmillan,1989).
6. Johari, J. C.: International Relations and Politics (New Delhi: Sterling, 1991).
7. Morganthau, H. J.: Politics among Nations (Calcutta References Scientific Book
Agency,1981).
8. Deutsch, Karl. W.: The Analysis of International Relations (New Delhi: Prentice Hall, 1989).
9. Keohne, Robert and Neje, Joseph. : Power and Interdependence (Boston: Little, Brown, 1977).
10. Levine, Herbert M.: World Politics Debated: A Reader in Contemporary Issues (New York :
McGraw Hill,1986).
11. Bull, Hedly: The Anarchical Society (London: Macmillan, 1978).
12. Donelan, Michael: Elements of International Political Theory (London: Claredon Press,
1990).
13. Hollis, Martin and Smith, Stence: Explaining and Understanding International Relations
(London :
Claredon Press, 1990).
14. Alexander, Yonnah, et. al : Terrorism : Theory and Practice (Boulder, Westview, 1979).
15. Light, Margot and Groom A. J. R.: International Relations (London: Frances Pintu, 1985).