CBCS SYLLABUS

B.A HONOURS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

SYLLABI OF B.A. HONS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
(CBCS)
2018

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL

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 COURSE MATRIX

SEMESTER B.A. Hons BA Programme

I DSC 101UNDERSTANDING POLITICAL SCIENCE DSC 101UNDERSTANDING POLITICAL SCIENCE
DSC 102 Perspectives on Public Administration

II DSC 203INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS DSC 202INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
DSC 204 Western Political Thought

III DSC 305COMPARATIVE POLITICS DSC 303 COMPARATIVE POLITICS

DSC 306 Public Policy and Administration SEC 301 Public Opinion and Survey Research
DSC 307 Nationalism In India
SEC 301 Public Opinion and Survey Research
GE 301 Reading Gandhi
IV DSC 408INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DSC 404INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
DSC 409 Political Sociology
DSC 410 Political Theory: Concepts and Debates SEC 402 Democratic and Legal Awareness
SEC 402 Democratic and Legal Awareness
GE 402 Feminism: Theory and Practice
V DSC 511 Understanding Global Politics DSE 501A Party System in India
DSC 512 Indian Political Thought DSE 501zB Human Rights
DSE 501A Party System in India GE 501 Reading Gandhi
Choose any one of A or B of DSE DSE 501B Human Rights DSE 502 A Electoral Process in India and
Working of Parliamentary Democracy
DSE 502 A Electoral Process in India and
Working of Parliamentary Democracy
DSE 502 B International Organisations DSE 502 B International Organisations

VI DSC 613 India’s Foreign Policy in a Globalised World DSE 603A Indian Political Thought
DSC 614 Political Ideology DSE 603B India and Her Neighbours
Choose any one of A or B of DSE DSE 603A India and Her Neighbours DSE 604A Grass Root Democracy in India
DSE 604B Emerging Trends in India Politics
DSE 603B Development Process and Social
Movements in Contemporary India
DSE 604A Grass Root Democracy in India GE 602 Feminism: Theory and Practice
DSE 604B Emerging Trends in India Politics

For each course end term examination marks is 60+ Continuous assessment 15 marks, course credit 6 , except for SEC & AECC which are
of 2 Credits each . Total credit: 120 For Question Pattern and Class Hours refer to the Regulation.

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 B.A. HONS.
FIRST SEMESTER

COURSE DSC 101 UNDERSTANDING POLITICAL SCIENCE

1. Politics and Political Science

(i) Meaning of Politics, Nature and Scope of Political Science
(ii) Political Science: Science or an Art, Behaviouralism and Post-Behaviouralism.
(iii) Relationship of Political Science with History, Economics and Sociology

(iv) Nature and Types of political theory.

Relationship between Political Theory and Political Philosophy
2. STATE
(i) Elements of State
(ii) Difference between State and Government, State and Society, State and Association.

(iii)Theories of the State: Social Contract, Idealist, Liberal and Neo-liberal, Anarchist.

(iv) Sovereignty: Features, Kinds, Monistic and Pluralistic Theory : changing concept of
Sovereignty in the context of Globalization.

3. THEORIES OF ORIGIN OF STATE

(i) Social Contract Theory
(ii) Historical Theory
(iii) Marxist Theory
4. FUNCTIONS OF STATE
(i) Liberal Theory of Functions of State
(ii) Welfare Theory of Functions of State
(iii) Marxist Theory of Functions of State

5. Rights, Liberty and Equality and Justice: Interrelationship-

Different Concepts and Theories.

Selected Readings:
[Link] POLITICAL THEORY AND INTRODUCTION
Sushila Ramaswamy, Political Theory: Ideas and Concepts. New Delhi: Macmillan India, 2004.

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Adi H. Doctor, Issues in Political Theory. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1985.
R.M. MacIver. The Modern State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1926.
A.P.D. Entreves, the Notion of the State Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
M.P. Jain, Political Theory: Liberal and Marxian Delhi: Authors Guild Publications, 1979.
A.C. Kapur, Principles of Political Science. New Delhi: S. Chand and Company,
S. P. Varma, Modern Political Theory, Vikash Publishers.
Bhargava, R. (2008) ‘What is Political Theory’, in Bhargava, R and Acharya, A. (eds.) Political
Theory: An Introduction. New Delhi: Pearson Longman, pp. 2-16.
Bellamy, R. (1993) ‘Introduction: The Demise and Rise of Political Theory’, in Bellamy, R.
(ed.) Theories and Concepts of Politics. New York: Manchester University Press, pp. 1-14.
Glaser, D. (1995) ‘Normative Theory’, in Marsh, D. and Stoker, G. (eds.) Theory and Methods
in Political Science. London: Macmillan, pp. 21-40.
Bannett, J. (2004) ‘Postmodern Approach to Political Theory’, in Kukathas, Ch. and Gaus, G.
F. (eds.) Handbook of Political Theory. New Delhi: Sage, pp. 46-54.
Vincent, A. (2004) The Nature of Political Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp.
19-80.
ARUN KR. SEN , SUSHIL KR. SEN & SANTILAL MUKHOPADHYAY

SHRI NIRMALKANTI GHOSH , ADHUNIK RASTRA BINGYANER BHOOMIKA

RASHTRABINGYAN PARICHAY
Debasis Chakraborti, Rashtra Bigyan: tattwa O Pratisthan
Amal Roy, Mohit Bhattacharya, Biswanath Ghosh, Adhunik Rashtra Bigyan.
ARN KR. SEN, SUSIL KR. SEN, SANTILAL MUKHOPADHYAY RASTRA BIGYAN

COURSE DSC 102 PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

1. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS A DISCIPLINE

Meaning, Dimensions and Significance of the Discipline
Public and Private Administration

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Evolution of Public Administration
2. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
CLASSICAL THEORIES
Scientific management ([Link])
Administrative Management (Gullick, Urwick and Fayol)
Ideal-type bureaucracy (Max Weber)
NEO-CLASSICAL THEORIES
Human relations theory (Elton Mayo)
Rational decision-making (Herbert Simon)
CONTEMPORARY THEORIES
Ecological approach (Fred Riggs)
Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Peter Drucker)
3. PUBLIC POLICY
Concept, relevance and approaches
Formulation, implementation and evaluation
4. MAJOR APPROACHES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
New Public Administration
New Public Management
New Public Service Approach
Good Governance
Feminist Perspectives

SELECTED READINGS
Nicholas Henry, Public Administration and Public Affairs, Prentice Hall, 1999
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
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

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M. Bhattacharya, (2008) New Horizons of Public Administration, 5th Revised Edition. New
Delhi: Jawahar Publishers, pp. 37-44.
[Link], Restructuring Public Administration: A New Look, New Delhi: Jawahar
Publishers, 2012
Basu, Rumki, Public Administration : Concepts and Theories,Sterling Publishers, New Delhi
2014
D. Ravindra Prasad, Y. Pardhasaradhi, V. S. Prasad and P. Satyrnarayana, [eds.],
Administrative Thinkers, Sterling Publishers, 2010
S. Maheshwari, Administrative Thinkers, New Delhi: Macmillan, 2009
R. Arora, ‘Riggs’ Administrative Ecology’ in B. Chakrabarty and M. Bhattacharya (eds),
Public
Administration: A reader, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2003
A. Singh, Public Administration: Roots and Wings. New Delhi: Galgotia Publishing
Company, 2002
Peter F. Drucker , The Practice of Management, Harper Collins, 2006
T. Dye, (1984) Understanding Public Policy, 5th Edition. U.S.A: Prentice Hall, pp. 1-44
The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy ,OUP,2006
Xun Wu, [Link], Michael Howlett and Scott Fritzen ,The Public Policy Primer:
Managing The Policy Process, Rutledge, 2010
Michael Howlett, Designing Public Policies : Principles And Instruments, Rutledge, 2011
Prabir Kumar De, Public Policy and Systems, Pearson Education, 2012
R.V. Vaidyanatha Ayyar, Public Policy Making In India, Pearson,2009
Surendra Munshi and Biju Paul Abraham [Eds.] Good Governance, Democratic Societies
And Globalisation, Sage Publishers, 2004
R.V. Vaidyanatha Ayyar, Public Policy Making In India, Pearson, 2009
M. Bhattacharya, ‘Chapter 2 and 4’, in Social Theory, Development Administration and
Development Ethics, New Delhi: Jawahar Publishers, 2006
F. Riggs,The Ecology of Public Administration, Part 3, New Delhi: Asia Publishing House,
1961
M. Bhattacharya, Public Administration: Issues and Perspectives, New Delhi: Jawahar
Publishers, 2012
U. Medury, Public administration in the Globalization Era, New Delhi: Orient Black Swan,

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2010
B. Chakrabarty, Reinventing Public Administration: The India Experience. New Delhi:
Orient Longman, 2007
Radha Kumar, The History of Doing, New Delhi: Kali For Women, 1998
Sylvia Walby, Theorising Patriarchy, Oxford, Basil Blackwell.1997
Amy. S. Wharton, The Sociology Of Gender, West Sussex : Blackwell-Wiley
Publishers,2012
Nivedita Menon [ed.], Gender and Politics, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999
Mohit Bhattacharya and Asit Basu, Bharatiya Prasasan
Seuli Sarker, bharatiya Prasasan
Mohit Bhattacharya , Biswanath Ghosh, Jana prasashan O Parikalpana.
DR. SUBHASH CHANDRA SOM JANA PRASASAN O BHARATIYA PRASASAN

J. C. Johari, Bharatiya Rajniti evum sashan (in hindi), SBPD Publications, 2018 (Indian Politics)

B.L. Fadia, Lok Prashashan (in Hindi), Paperback, Sahitya Bhawan Publications, 2017 (public
administration)

Dr. B.L. Fadia, Dr. Kuldeep Fadia, Lok Prashashan (in Hindi ), 2017. (public administration)

Surendra Kataria, Bhartiya Lok Prashasan (In Hindi), Paperback, National Publishing House,
2015. (indian public administration)

SECOND SEMESTER

COURSE DSC 203 INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

1. Framing of Indian Constitution: An outline; Philosophy of the Constitution: The

Preamble, Salient Features of the Constitution.
2. Fundamental Rights; Fundamental Duties, Directive Principles of State Policy., Amendment of
the Constitution
3. Executive: Union and the States.
(a) President, Prime Minister, and the Council of Ministers.
(b) Governor, Chief Minister and the Council of Ministers.
(c) Emergency Provisions.
4. Legislature: Union and the States
(a) Council of States and the House of the People - Law-making procedure and
Amendment– Speaker
(b) State Legislature– composition and functions.
5. Judiciary: Supreme Court and the High Courts– composition and jurisdiction

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6. Relations between the Union and the States: Legislative, Administrative, Financial-- Election
Commission: composition and functions—Decentralisation : Rural and Urban local bodies.
7. Politics: Party system in India: main features–national parties, regional parties- Coalition
Politics: nature and trends- Groups in Indian politics: Business, Working Class and Peasants --
Religion in Indian politics– secularism and the Indian state--Caste in Indian politics– the issue of
reservation.

Selected 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.
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.
Praveen Kumar Mellalli, Constitution of India, Professional Ethics and human Rights, SAGE.
P. M. Bakshi, The Constitution of India.
Hiregowder, maheswarappa et al, The Indian constitution: An Introduction, Orient Blackswan,
2016.
Durga Das Basu, Introduction to the Constitution of India.
Granville Austin, Working a Democratic Constitution : The Indian experience.
M. V. Pylee, Constitutional Government in India.
Subhas C. Kashyap, Our Constitution.
J. C. Johari, Indian Government and Politics.
Shiva Rao, The Framing of India’s Constitution.
Granville Austin, The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation.
Durga Das Basu, Shorter Constitution of India.
Alladi Krishnaswami Aiyer, Constitution and Fundamental Rights.
A. G. Noorani, Constitutional Questions and Citizens’ Rights.
Pran Chopra (ed.), The Supreme Court versus the Constitution : A Challenge to
Federalism.
M. C. Setalvad, Union and State Relations under the Constitution.
D. N. Sen, From Raj to [Link] Brass, The Politics of India since Independence.
Partha Chatterjee (ed.), State and Politics in India.
Rakhahari Chatterjee (ed.), Politics in India– State Society Interface.
S. L. Sikri, Indian Government and Politics.
F. Frankel, Z. Hasan, R. Bhargava, and B. Arora (ed.), Transforming India: Social
and Political Dynamics of Democracy.
NeeraChandhoke and PravinPriyadarshini (ed), Contemporary India: Economy,
Society, Politics.
N. G. Jayal and P. B. Mehta (ed.), Oxford Companion to Indian Politics.
M. V. Paylee, India’s Constitution, 16ed, S. Chand.
Morris Jones, Government and Politics in India.
Raghunandan, J. R (2012) Decentralization and local governments: The Indian Experience,
Orient Black Swan, New Delhi
Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay O Bholanath Bandopadhyay, Samprotik Bharatiya Rajniti O
Prasashan
Sourendra Nath mitra, Bharater Sasan baboshya O Rajniti
Nirmal Kanti Ghosh, Bharater Sashan Baboshya O Rajniti

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COURSE DSC 204 WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT

1. PLATO

(i) Theory of Justice

(ii) Philosopher King

2. ARISTOTLE

(i) State and Its Classification

(ii) Theory of Revolution

3. MACHIAVELLI

(i) On Politics and State Craft

(ii) Views on ends and means

4. BODIN

(i) Views on State

(ii) Views on Sovereignty

5. HOBBES AND LOCKE

(i) Hobbes: Theory of Sovereignty

(ii) Locke: Social Contract and Theory of Government

6. ROUSSEAU

(i) Social Contract

(ii) General Will

7. BENTHAM AND J.S. NILL

(i) Bentham: Theory of Utilitarianism

(ii) J.S. Mill: Views on Liberty

8. KARL MARX

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(i) Dialectical Materialism

(ii) Theory of Surplus Value

(iii) Classless and stateless society

Selected Readings:

A. Hacker, Political Theory: Philosophy, Ideology, Science New York, Macmillan, 1961.

G.H. Sabine. A History of Political Theory. New Delhi: Oxford and IBH, 1937.

C.L. Wayper. Political Thought. Bombay: B.I. Publications, 1977.

Ernest Barker, Greek Political Theory: Plato and his Predecessors. London: Metheun & Co., 1970.

M. Butterfield, The State Craft of Machiavelli, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956.

O.P. Bakshi; Politics and Prejudice: Notes on Aristotle’s Political Theory. Delhi: The Delhi University Press,
1975.

M.A. Shepard, “Sovereignty at the Crossroads: A Study of Bodin”, Political Science Quarterly XLV, pp.580-
603.

L. Colleti. From Rousseau to Lenin. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1969.

G.H. Sabine. A History of Political Theory. New Delhi: J.L. Thorson, Oxford and IBH, 1937.

C.E. Vanghan. The Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau, 2 Vols. New York, Jojn Wiley, 1962.

C.L. Wayper, Political Thought. Bombay: B.I. Publication, 1977.

H. Warrender. The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: His Theory of Obligation, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957.

A. Hacker, Political Theory: Philosophy, Ideology Science. New York: Macmillan, 1961.

J. Dunn. The Political Thought of John Locke – An Historical Account of the Argument of the Two Treatises of
Government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968.

S. Avineri Karl Marx: Social and Political Thought, New Delhi: S. Chand. 1976.

L. Althusser. For Marx. London: Allen Lane, 1969.

E. Barker. Social Contract: Locke, Hume Rousseau London: Oxford University Press, 1960.

J.S. Mill. Utilitarianism, On Liberty and Considerations on Representative Government. London: Fontana,
1902.

J.P. Plamentaz. The English Utilitarians. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1966

Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Rashtradarshaner Dhara

Amritava Bandopadhyay, Pashchatto Rashtra Bigyaner Itihash

Himagshu Ghosh, G. H. Sabine er Rajnoitik Tatwer Itihash

Sobhonlal Dauutagupta, Marxiyo Rashtrachinta : Marx thee Mao TSe Tung.

Nimai Pramanik O Sushilranjan Roy, Pashchttye rashtrachinter Ruprekha.

B. L. Fadia, Paschatya Rajnitik Chintan (in hindi), Sahitya Bhavan Publications, 2017 (Western
Political Thought)

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O.P. Gauba ,Rajniti Chintan Ki Rooprekha (in Hindi), Mayur Paperbacks, 2015 (western
Political Thought)

J.C. Johari, Rajnitik Chintan Ka Itihas, (in Hindi), Paperback, SBPD Publications, 2015 (western
Political Thought)

THIRD SEMESTER

COURSE DSC 305 COMPARATIVE POLITICS

1. Comparative Politics: development, nature and scope.

2. Approaches to the study of Comparative Politics: Institutional and Neo-institutional,
Systems and Structural-functional, Marxist.
3. Major governing principles: Constitutionalism; Conventions; Rule of law;
Parliamentary sovereignty; Separation of powers; Judicial Review; Democratic
Centralism; Referendum and Initiative.
4. Comparative studies of Legislature, Executive and Judiciary: United Kingdom,
United States, China and France.
5. Federalism: U.S.A. and Russia.
6. Comparative studies of Party systems: Liberal democracies (U.K., U.S.A), Socialist
Political system (People’s Republic of China).

Selected Readings

Subrata Mukherjee, SushilaRamaswamy, Theoretical Foundations of Comparative Politics,

Orient Blackswan.
G. Almond et. al., Comparative Politics Today: A World View.
Rakhahari Chatterjee, Introduction to Comparative Political Analysis.
S. N. Ray, Comparative Politics.
G. Roberts, An Introduction to Comparative Politics.
Alan R. Ball and Guy Peters, Modern Politics & Government.
The Constitution of the People’s Republic of China (1982).
J. Blondel, An Introduction to Comparative Government.
H. Eckstein and P. E. Apter (ed.), Comparative Politics: A Reader.
Judith Bara and Mark Pennington (ed.), Comparative Politics.
R. Hague, M. Harrop and S. Breslin, Comparative Government and Politics: An
Introduction.
J. Harvey and L. Bather, The British Constitution.
J. Wilson, American Government.
S. K. Dailey (ed.), American Politics and Government.
A. H. Birch, British System of Government.
Dorothy Pickles, The Government and Politics of France (2 Vols.)
Vincent Wright, The Government and Politics of France.
J. T. Dreyer, China’s Political System: Modernization & Tradition.
Tony Saich, Governance and Politics of China.
R. Sakwa, Russian Politics and Society.

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A. Appadorai, The Substance of Politics.
Eddy Asivartham & K. K. Misra, Political Theory, S. Chand.
Anup Chand Kapur, Principles of Political Science, S. Chand.
Anup Chakraborty, Tulanamulak Sashanbyabostha
D. C. Bhattacharya, Tulanamulak Rajniti O Bidesher Sasonbyabostha.

COURSE DSC 306 PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION IN INDIA

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 and Significance of Budget
b. Budget Cycle in India
c. Various Approaches and Types Of Budgeting
IV. Citizen and Administration Interface
a. Public Service Delivery
b. Redressal of Public Grievances: RTI, Lokpal, Citizens’ Charter and E-Governance
V. Social Welfare Administration [ 20 lectures ]
a. Concept and Approaches of Social Welfare
b. Social Welfare Policies:
• Education: Right To Education,
• Health: National Health Mission,
• Food: Right to Food Security
• Employment: MNREGA

SELECTED READINGS

ANDRE BETEILLE ,UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY INDIA

----------------- PUBLIC INSTITUTION IN INDIA
----------------- DEMOCRACY AND ITS INSTITUTIONS
Bidyut Chakrabarty, Prakash Chand, Public Policy: concept, Theory and Practice, SAGE India.
Bidyut Chakrabarty and Prakash chand, Indian Administration: Evolution and Practice, SAGE
India.
Shivani Singh(Ed) Governance: Issues and Challenges, SAGE India.
T. Dye, (1984) Understanding Public Policy, 5th Edition. U.S.A: Prentice Hall
R.B. Denhardt and J.V. Denhardt, (2009) Public Administration, New Delhi: Brooks/Cole
J. Anderson, (1975) Public Policy Making. New York: Thomas Nelson and sons Ltd.
M. Howlett, M. Ramesh, and A. Perl, (2009), Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy
subsystems, 3rd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press
T. Dye, (2002) Understanding Public Policy, New Delhi: Pearson
Y. Dror, (1989) Public Policy Making Re-examined. Oxford: Transaction Publication

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Satyajit Singh and Pradeep K. Sharma [eds.] Decentralisation: Institutions And Politics In
Rural India, OUP,2007
[Link], Democracy and The State: Welfare, Secular and Development in Contemporary
India, Oxford : Oxford University Press,1999
Bidyut Chakrabarty, Reinventing Public Administration: The Indian Experience, Orient
Longman,2007
Noorjahan Bava, Development Policies and Administration in India, Delhi: Uppal Publishers,
2001
Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, The Civic Culture, Boston: Little Brown, 1965
Erik-Lane, J. (2005) Public Administration and Public Management: The Principal Agent
Perspective. New York: Routledge
Henry, N.(1999) Public Administration and Public Affairs. New Jersey:Prentice Hall
Jenkins, R. and Goetz, A.M. (1999) ‘Accounts and Accountability: Theoretical Implications of
the Right to Information Movement in India’, in Third World Quarterly. June
Sharma, P.K. & Devasher, M. (2007) ‘Right to Information in India’ in Singh, S. and Sharma,
P. (eds.) Decentralization: Institutions and Politics in Rural India. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press
Vasu Deva, E-Governance In India: A Reality, Commonwealth Publishers, 2005
World Development Report, World Bank, Oxford University Press, 1992.
Pankaj Sharma, E-Governance: The New Age Governance, APH Publishers, 2004
Pippa Norris, Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty and the Internet in
Democratic Societies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
United Nation Development Programme, Reconceptualising Governance, New York, 1997
Mukhopadyay, A. (2005) ‘Social Audit’, in Seminar. No.551.
Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen, India, Economic Development and Social Opportunity, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1995
[Link] and Amartya Sen, Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives, Oxford:
Clareland Press, 1997
Reetika Khera- Rural Poverty And Public Distribution System, EPW, Vol-XLVIII, No.45-46,
Nov 2013
Pradeep Chaturvedi [ed.], Women And Food Security: Role Of Panchayats, Concept
Publishers, 1997
Jugal Kishore, National Health Programs of India: National Policies and Legislations, Century
Publications, 2005
K. Lee and Mills, The Economics Of Health In Developing Countries, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1983
K. Vijaya Kumar, Right to Education Act 2009: Its Implementation as to Social Development
in India, Delhi: Akansha Publishers, 2012.
Marma Mukhopadhyay and Madhu Parhar(ed.) Education in India: Dynamics of
Development, Delhi: Shipra Publications, 2007
Surendra Munshi and Biju Paul Abraham [eds.] Good Governance, Democratic Societies and
Globalisation, Sage Publishers, 2004
Basu Rumki (2015) Public Administration in India Mandates, Performance and Future
Perspectives, New Delhi, Sterling Publishers.
SAMPAT MUKHERJEE , ARTHINITIK PARIKALPANA TATTA O PRAYOG
PRANGOBINDA DAS & SAMPAT MUKHERJEE,JANA PRASHASAN O ARTHANITIK
PARIKALPANA

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COURSE DSC 307 NATIONALISM IN INDIA

I. Approaches to the Study of Nationalism in India:

Nationalist, Imperialist, Marxist, and Subaltern Interpretations

II. Reformism and Anti-Reformism in the Nineteenth Century

Major Social and Religious Movements in 19th century

III. Nationalist Politics and Expansion of its Social Base

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 Women’s Question: Participation in the National Movement and its Impact
b. The Caste Question: Anti-Brahminical Politics
c. Peasant, Tribals and Workers Movements

V. Partition and Independence (6 lectures)

a. Communalism in Indian Politics
b. The Two-Nation Theory, Negotiations over Partition

SELECTED READINGS

S. Bandopadhyay, (2004) From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India, New Delhi:
Orient Longman, pp. 184-191.
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.
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.
G. Shah, (2002) Social Movements and the State, New Delhi: Sage, pp. 13-31
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.
R. Pradhan, (2008) Raj to Swaraj, New Delhi: Macmillan (Available in Hindi).
Manaswita Sanyal, Bharatiya Jatyatabader Samajik Patabhumi
Amalesh tripathi, Swadhinata Sangrame Bharatiya Jatiya Congress
Siddhatrha Bhattacharya, Bharatiya Rashtradarshan O Jatiya Andolon.

COURSE GE 301 READING GANDHI

1. Gandhi in his own words: A close reading of Hind Swaraj.

[Link] on Hind Swaraj and Gandhian thought:
“Introduction”, [Link], Hind Swaraj and other writings ed. [Link]

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(1997).
[Link], Gandhi (1997), chs. 4 (“Satyagraha”) and 5(“The critique of
modernity”).
[Link], Gandhi in his time and ours (2003), ch.4(“An alternative
modernity”
3. Gandhi and modern India.
a. Nationalism.
b. Communal unity
c. Women’s Question
d. Untouchability.
This component will contain the following selections from Gandhi’s India of my Dreams
(compiled [Link]): “The meaning of Swaraj” (no.2); “In defence of Nationalism” (no.3);
“India’s cultural heritage” (no.45); “Regeneration of Indian women” (no.54); “Women’s
education” (no.55); “Communal unity” (no.59); “The curse of untouchability” (no.61);
“Religious tolerance in India” (no.62); “The problem of minorities” (no.66)
4. Gandhi’s Legacy
a) Tolerance: Anti - Racism Movements (Anti - Apartheid and Martin Luther King)
b) The Pacifist Movement
c) Women’s Movements
d) Gandhigiri: Perceptions in Popular Culture

Selected 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 BachaoAndolan’, 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.
B. Parekh, (1997) ‘Satyagrah’, in Gandhi: A Brief Insight, Delhi: Sterling Publishing Company,pp. 51-
63.
D. Dalton, (2000) ‘Gandhi’s 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. 251-344D.
R. Iyer, Moral and Political Thoughts of M. K. Gandhi, OUP, 2 Vols.
Hardiman, (2003) ‘Gandhi’s Global Legacy’, in Gandhi in His Time and Ours. Delhi: Oxford
University Press, pp. 238-283.
Manimala, (1984) ‘ZameenKenkar? JoteOnkar: Women’s participation in the Bodhgaya
struggles’, in M. Kishwar and R. Vanita (eds) In Search of Answers: Indian Women’s Voices from
Manushi, London: Zed Press.
M. Shah, (2006) ‘Gandhigiri; A Philosophy of Our Times’, The Hindu Available at
[Link] Accessed:
14.04.2013.
A. Ghosh and T. Babu, (2006) ‘Lage Raho Munna Bhai: Unravelling Brand ‘Gandhigiri’,

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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.
ANIL DUTTA MISHRA , READING GANDHI
Pannalal Dasgupta, Gandhi Gabeshona

COURSE SEC 301 PUBLIC OPINION AND SURVEY RESEARCH

1. Introduction to the course

Definition and characteristics of public opinion, conceptions and characteristics, debates

about its role in a democratic political system, uses for opinion poll.

2. Measuring Public Opinion with Surveys: Representation and sampling

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

3. Survey Research

a. Interviewing: Interview techniques pitfalls, different types of and forms of interview

b. Questionnaire: Question wording; fairness and clarity.

4. Quantitative Data Analysis

a. Introduction to quantitative data analysis

b. Basic concepts: correlational research, causation and prediction, descriptive and

inferential Statistics

4. Interpreting polls

(a) Prediction in polling research: possibilities and pitfalls

(b) Politics of interpreting polling

Selected 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. 3‐13.

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).

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‘Asking About Numbers: Why and How’, Political Analysis (2013), Vol. 21(1): 48‐69, (first

published online November 21, 2012)

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 Publishers, pp. 40‐46.

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.

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 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 . 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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 FOURTH SEMESTER

COURSE DSC 408 INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

1. Origin and growth of International Relations (IR) – meaning and scope of IR.
2. Basic concepts: National Power; National Interest; Balance of Power; Bipolarity and
Unipolarity; Neo-colonialism.
3. Major Theories of IR: Realist Theory and its Variants; Liberal Theory and its
Variants; Marxist Theory; Feminist Theory.
4. Diplomacy; Propaganda.
5. Cold War– an outline;
6. Collective Security: Meaning and Safeguards --Pacific Settlement of International Disputes,
Devices under U.N. Charter --Disarmament and Arms Control, Obstacles to Nuclear
Disarmament ---Non Proliferation Regime– Basic ideas of NPT, CTBT,
FMCT, MTCR.
7. Contemporary issues: Globalization; Environment; Energy; Terrorism.

Selected Readings:

A. Hurrell and N. Woods, Inequality, Globalization and World Politics.

Aneek Chatterjee, International Relations Today: Concepts and Applications.
Banerjee, A. Marxist Theory and Third World. New Delhi: Sage, 1984.
Beitz, C.A. Political Theory and International Relations. New York: Columbia University Press,
1977.
Bull H., The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in International Politics. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1977.
Burton, J.W. International Relations: A General Theory. Bombay: Allen and Unwin, 1971.
C. Sylvester, Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmordern Era.
Deutsch, K. The Analysis of International Relations. Eaglewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1968.
Dougherty, J.E. and Pfaltzgraff, Jr., R.L. Contending Theories of International Relations. New
York: Philadelphia, 1971.
Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics among Nations: the Struggle for Power and Peace.
Holsti, K. International Politics: Framework for Analysis. Eaglewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1983.
J. Baylis, S. Smith and P. Owens, The Globalization of World Politics: AnIntroduction to
International Relations
J. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its [Link] Frankel, International Relations in a
Changing World, London.
Joseph Frankel, International Relations in a Changing World, London.
Joshua S. Goldstein, International [Link], Mortan. System and Processes in
International Politics. New Yhork: Wiley and Sons, 1962.

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KantiBajpai and SiddharthMallavarapu, International Relations in India; bringing Theory Back
Home.
Kegly and Wittkopf. World Politics: Trends and Transformation, New York: St. Martin Press,
1985.
Lieber, R.J. Theory and World Politics. London, Allen and Unwin, 1972.

Mishra, K.P. and Blum, R., eds. Approaches to International Politics, New Delhi: J.N.U., 1981.
Morganthau, H. and Thompson, K. Politics Among Nations. Struggle for Power and Peace. New
Delhi: Kalyani Press, 1985.
Morganthau, H. Politics Among Nations. Calcutta, Scientific New Agency, 1969.
N. D. Palmer and H. C. Perkins, International Relations.
[Link] and G. Sorensen, Introduction to International Relations: Theories and
Scott Burchillet. al., Theories of International Relation.
Stephanie Lawson, International Relations.
W. Laquer, A History of Terrorism.
GOUTAM KUMAR BASU ,ANTARJATIK SAMPARKA : TATTA O BIBARTAN
Nirmal Kanti Ghosh O Pitam Ghosh, Antorjatik Samparko
JAYANT [Link],PRAFULLA [Link], ANTARJATIK SAMPARKER
ITIHAS

B. L. Fadia, Antarashtriya Sambandh (in Hindi), Sahitya Bhawan Publications, 2017 (IR)

COURSE DSC 409 POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

1. Political Sociology: Nature and Development

2. Social stratification and politics: Class, Elite. Caste in India
3. Concept of power: Marx, Weber, Elitist Theory, Pluralist Theory
4. Political culture: Types , Influence , Political socialization: Agencies
5. Political participation– concept and types; Electoral Behaviour in India.
6. Political communication.
7. Political development, modernisation and social change: Concepts and Theories

SELECTED READINGS

PASCUAL GISBERT, FUNDAMENTALS OF SOCIOLOGY

M. Rush, Politics and Society.
Tom Bottomore, Political Sociology.
Tom Bottomore, Classes in Modern Society.
Kate Nash, Contemporary Political Sociology.
Dipankar Gupta, Political Sociology in India
Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Political Sociology.
Ali Asraf, L. N. Sharma, Political Sociology.
Satyabrata Chakraborty (ed.), Political Sociology.

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Almond and S. Verba, Civic Culture.
Lucian Pye, Aspects of Political Development.
C. E. Fuller (ed.), Caste Today.
R. Bendix (ed.), State and Society.
Rakhahari Chatterjee (ed.), Religion, Politics and Communalism.
Donal E. Smith (ed.), Religion and Political Modernization.
Brian McNair, An Introduction to Political Communication.
ALI ASHRAF & L.N. SHARMA, POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY A NEW GRAMMER OF
POLITICS
Mrinal Kanti Ghoshdastidar, Rajnoitik Samajttawa
Aalaydeb Mukhopadhya, Rashtra O Rajniti
Pijush Kanti Ghosh O Promod Bandhu Sengupta, Samaj O Rashtradarshan
SATYABRATA CHAKRABORTY, RASTRASAMAJ O RAJNETI

COURSE DSC 410 POLITICAL THEORY: CONCEPTS AND DEBATES

Section A: Core Concepts

I. Importance of Freedom

a) Negative Freedom: Liberty

b) Positive Freedom: Freedom as Emancipation and Development

Important Issue: Freedom of belief, expression and dissent

II. Significance of Equality

a) Formal Equality: Equality of opportunity

b) Political equality

c) Egalitarianism: Background inequalities and differential treatment

Important Issue: Affirmative action

III. Indispensability of Justice

a) Procedural Justice

b) Distributive Justice

c) Global Justice

Important Issue: Capital punishment

IV. The Universality of Rights

a) Natural Rights

b) Moral and Legal Rights

c) Three Generations of Rights

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d) Rights and Obligations

Important Issue: Rights of the girl child

Section B: Major Debates

I. Why should we obey the state? Issues of political obligation and civil disobedience.

II. Are human rights universal? Issue of cultural relativism.

III. How do we accommodate diversity in plural society? Issues of multiculturalism and

toleration.

SELECTED READINGS

Riley, Jonathan. (2008) ‘Liberty’ in Mckinnon, Catriona (ed.) Issues in Political Theory, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 103-119.

Knowles, Dudley. (2001) Political Philosophy. London: Routledge, pp. 69- 132.

Swift, Adam. (2001) Political Philosophy: A Beginners Guide for Student’s and Politicians.

Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 51-88.

Carter, Ian. (2003) ‘Liberty’, in Bellamy, Richard and Mason, Andrew (eds.). Political

Concepts. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 4-15.

Sethi, Aarti. (2008) ‘Freedom of Speech and the Question of Censorship’, in Bhargava,

Rajeev and Acharya, Ashok. (eds.) Political Theory: An Introduction. New Delhi: Pearson

Longman, pp. 308-319.

Swift, Adam. (2001) Political Philosophy: A Beginners Guide for Student’s and Politicians.

Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 91-132.

Casal, Paula & William, Andrew. (2008) ‘Equality’, in McKinnon, Catriona. (ed.) Issues in PoliticalTheory. New York: Oxford University
Press, pp. 149- 165.

Seglow, Jonathan. (2003) ‘Multiculturalism’ in Bellamy, Richard and Mason, Andrew (eds.),Political Concepts. Manchester: Manchester
University Press, pp. 156-168.

Tulkdar, P.S. (2008) ‘Rights’ in Bhargava, Rajeev and Acharya, Ashok. (eds.) Political Theory: An Introduction. New Delhi: Pearson
Longman, pp. 88-104.

McKinnon, Catriona. (2003) ‘Rights’, in Bellamy, Richard and Mason, Andrew. (eds.) Political Concepts. Manchester: Manchester
University Press, pp. 16-27.

Menlowe, M.A. (1993) ‘Political Obligations’, in Bellamy Richard.(ed.) Theories and Concepts of Politics. New York: Manchester
University Press, pp. 174-194.

Amoah, Jewel. (2007) ‘The World on Her Shoulders: The Rights of the Girl-Child in the Context of Culture & Identity’, in Essex Human
Rights Review, 4(2), pp. 1-23.

Working Group on the Girl Child (2007), A Girl’s Right to Live: Female Foeticide and Girl Infanticide, available on
[Link] infanticide CSW [Link]

Hyums, Keith. (2008) ‘Political Authority and Obligation’, in Mckinnon, Catriona. (ed.) Issuesin Political Theory, New York: Oxford
University Press, pp. 9-26

Martin, Rex. (2003) ‘Political Obligation’, in Bellamy, Richard and Mason, Andrew. (eds.)Political Concepts, Manchester: Manchester
University Press, pp. 41-51.

Campbell, Tom. (2008) ‘Human Rights’ in Mckinnon, Catriona. (ed.) Issues in Political [Link] York: Oxford University Press, pp.
194-210.

Mookherjee, Monica, ‘Multiculturalism’, in Mckinnon, Catriona. (ed.) Issues in Political Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, pp.
218- 234.

Seglow, Jonathan, ‘Multiculturalism’, in Bellamy, Richard and Mason, Andrew. (eds.) Political Concepts, Manchester: Manchester
University Press, pp. 156-168.

AMAL RAY & MOHIT BHATTACHARYA ,POLITICAL THEORY - IDEAS AND INSTITUTIONS

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PRASANGA RAJNAITIK TATTA KASHI NATH KOYAL
Praloydeb Mukhopadhyay, Rashtra O Rajniti: Tattwa O Matabadic Bitarka.

COURSE GE 402 FEMINISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE

1. Approaches to understanding Patriarchy

(a) Feminist theorising of the sex/gender distinction. Biologism versus social
constructivism
(b) Understanding Patriarchy and Feminism
(c) Liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Radical feminism, New Feminist Schools/Traditions
2. History of Feminism
(a) Origins of Feminism in the West: France, Britain and United States of America
(b) Feminism in the Socialist Countries: China, Cuba and erstwhile USSR
(c) Feminist issues and women’s participation in anti-colonial and national liberation
movements with special focus on India
3. The Indian Experience
(a) Traditional Historiography and Feminist critiques. Social Reforms Movement and
position of women in India. History of Women’s struggle in India
(b) Family in contemporary India - patrilineal and matrilineal practices. Gender Relations
in the Family, Patterns of Consumption: Intra Household Divisions, entitlements and
bargaining, Property Rights
(c) Understanding Woman’s Work and Labour – Sexual Division of Labour, Productive and
Reproductive labour, Visible - invisible work – Unpaid (reproductive and
care),Underpaid and Paid work,- Methods of computing women’s work , Female headed
Households

Selected Readings

ArpitaMukhipadhyay, Feminisms, Orient Blackswan, 2016.

Geetha, V. (2002) Gender. Calcutta: Stree.
Geetha, V. (2007) Patriarchy. Calcutta: Stree.
Jagger, Alison. (1983) Feminist Politics and Human Nature. U.K.: Harvester Press, pp. 25-
350.
Ray, Suranjita. Understanding Patriarchy. Available at:
[Link]
Lerner, Gerda. (1986) The Creation of Patriarchy. New York: Oxford University Press.
History of Feminism
Rowbotham, Shiela. (1993) Women in Movements. New York and London: Routledge,
Section I, pp. 27-74 and 178-218.
Jayawardene, Kumari. (1986) Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World. London: Zed
Books, pp. 1-24, 71-108, and Conclusion.
Forbes, Geraldine (1998) Women in Modern India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pp. 1-150.
Roy, Kumkum. (1995) ‘Where Women are Worshipped, There Gods Rejoice: The Mirage of
the Ancestress of the Hindu Women’, in Sarkar, Tanika&Butalia, Urvashi. (eds.) Women and

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the Hindu Right. Delhi: Kali for Women, pp. 10-28.
Chakravarti, Uma. (1988) ‘Beyond the Altekarian Paradigm: Towards a New Understanding
of Gender Relations in Early Indian History’, Social Scientist, Volume 16, No. 8.
Banerjee, Nirmala. (1999) ‘Analysing Women’s work under Patriarchy’ in Sangari, Kumkum
&Chakravarty, Uma. (eds.) From Myths to Markets: Essays on Gender. Delhi: Manohar.
Additional Readings
Gandhi, Nandita& Shah, Nandita. (1991) The Issues at Stake – Theory and Practice in
Contemporary Women’s Movement in India. Delhi: Zubaan, pp. 7-72.
Shinde, Tarabai (1993) ‘Stri-PurushTulna’, in Tharu, Susie &Lalita, K. (eds.) Women Writing
in India, 600 BC to the Present. Vol. I. New York: Feminist Press.
Desai, Neera& Thakkar, Usha. (2001) Women in Indian Society. New Delhi: National Book
Trust

COURSE SEC 402 DEMOCRATIC AND LEGAL AWARENESS

1. Outline of the Legal system in India:

(a) System of courts/tribunals and their jurisdiction in India ‐ criminal and civil courts,writ jurisdiction, specialized courts such
as juvenile courts, Mahila courts andtribunals.

(b) Role of the police and executive in criminal law administration.

(c) Alternate dispute mechanisms such as lokadalats, non‐ formal mechanisms.

2. Brief understanding of the laws applicable in India

(a) Constitution ‐ fundamental rights, fundamental duties, other constitutional rights

and their manner of enforcement, with emphasis on public interest litigation and the

expansion of certain rights under Article 21 of the Constitution.

(b) Laws relating to criminal jurisdiction ‐ provision relating to filing an FIR, arrest, bail

search and seizure and some understanding of the questions of evidence and procedure in Cr. P.C. and related laws, important offences
under the IndianPenalCode, offences against women, juvenile justice, prevention of atrocities on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.,
Concepts like Burden of Proof, Presumption of Innocence, Principles of Natural

Justice, Fair comment under Contempt laws.

(c) Personal laws in India : Pluralism and Democracy

(d) aws relating to contract, property and tenancy laws.

(e) Laws relating to dowry, sexual harassment and violence against women

(f) Laws relating to consumer rights

(g) Laws relating to cyber crimes

(h) Anti‐terrorist laws: implications for security and human rights

3. Practical application: Visit to either a (I) court or (ii) a legal aid centre set up by theLegal Services Authority or an NGO or (iii) a
LokAdalat, and to interview a litigant orperson being counselled. Preparation of a case history.

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 4. Access to courts and enforcement of rights

(a) Critical Understanding of the Functioning of the Legal System

(b) Legal Services Authorities Act and right to legal aid, ADR systems

(c) Practical application :What to do if you are arrested ; if you are a consumer with a grievance; if you are avictim of sexual
harassment; domestic violence, child abuse, caste, ethnic andreligious discrimination; filing a public interest litigation. How can
you challengeadministrative orders that violate rights, judicial and administrative remedies

5. Using a hypothetical case of (for example) child abuse or sexual harassment or any

other violation of a right, preparation of an FIR or writing a complaint addressed to the appropriate authority.

Selected Readings

Creating Legal Awareness, edited by Kamala Sankaran and Ujjwal Singh (Delhi: OUP, 2007)

Legal literacy: available amongst interdisciplinary courses on Institute of Life Long Learning

(Delhi University) Virtual Learning Portal namely [Link]

Reading list for course on Legal Literacy

• Multiple Action Research Group, Our Laws Vols 1‐10, Delhi. Available in Hindi also.

• Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, Legal Literacy Series Booklets. Available in Hindi

also.

• S.K. Agarwala, Public Interest Litigation in India, K.M. Munshi Memorial Lecture,

• Second Series, Indian Law Institute, Delhi, 1985.

• S.P. Sathe, Towards Gender Justice, Research Centre for Womens' Studies, SNDT

Women's University, Bombay, 1993.

•Asha Bajpai, Child Rights in India : Law, Policy, and Practice, Oxford University Press,

New Delhi,2003

• Agnes, Flavia Law and Gender Equality, OUP, 1997.

• Sagade, Jaga, Law of Maintenance: An Empirical Study, ILS Law College, Pune 1996.

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• B.L. Wadhera, Public Interest Litigation ‐ A Handbook, Universal, Delhi, 2003.

• Nomita Aggarwal, Women and Law in India, New Century, Delhi, 2002.

• P.C. Rao and William Sheffiled Alternate Dispute Resolution: What it is and How it

Works, , Universal Law Books and Publishers, Delhi, 2002

• V.N. Shukla's Constitution of India by Mahendra P. Singh, Eastern Book Co. 10th

edition 2001.

• Parmanand Singh, 'Access to Justice and the Indian Supreme Court', 10 & 11 Delhi

Law Review 156, 1981‐82.

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 FIFTH MESTER

(Choose either DSE A or B)

COURSE DSC 511 UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS

1.: What Makes the World What it is? a. The Sovereign State System (i ) Evolution of the state
system ( ii) The concept of Sovereignty
2. : . What Makes the World What it is? (b) The Global Economy ( i ) Discussing the Bretton
Woods Institutions and WTO (ii ) Ideological underpinnings (iii )Transnational Economic
Actors (c) Identity and Culture
3 : What Drives the World Apart? a. Global Inequalities b. Violence: Conflict, War and
Terrorism
4. : Why We Need to Bring the World Together? a. Global Environment
b. Global Civil Society

SELECTED READINGS

ANDREW HEYWOOD , GLOBAL POLITICS

[Link]. , GLOBALIZATION
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 [Link], (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: Oxford University Press, pp. 36-52. Page 38 of 62
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.
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.
A. Wibben, (2009) ‘What Do We Think We Are?’, in J. Edkins and M. Zehfuss (eds.) Global
Politics: A New Introduction, New York: Routledge, pp. 70-96.
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.
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.

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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.
N. Adams, (1993) World Apart: The North-South Divide and the International System,
London: Zed.
M. Dillon, (2009) ‘What Makes The World Dangerous?’ in J. Edkins And M. Zehfuss (eds.)
Global Politics: A New Introduction, New York: Routledge, pp. 397-426.
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.
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.
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
[Link]/wp-content/uploads/[Link], 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. 558566.
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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COURSE DSC 512 INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

1. Ancient Indian Political Thought: Main Features– Contribution of Kautilya.

2. Medieval Political Thought: Main Features.
3. Indian Awakening and birth of Modernity: Rammohun and Syed Ahmed Khan
4. Ideas of Nationalism: Bankimchandra, Tilak and Rabindranath
5. M. K. Gandhi: ideas on State and Trusteeship.
6. Alternative trends in political ideas:
a) B. R. Ambedkar: on social justice.
b) M. N. Roy: Radical Humanism.
c) Narendra Deva: contributions to Socialism.

SELECTED READINGS

Beni Prasad, The State in Ancient India.

R. S. Sharma, Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India.
V. P. Verma, Ancient and Medieval Political Thought.
R. P. Tripathi, Some Aspects of Muslim Administration.
R. P. Tripathi, The State and Religion in Mughal India.
M. Habib and Afzahuddin Khan, The Political Theory of the Delhi Sultanate.
B. B. Majumder, History of Indian Social and Political Ideas: From Rammohan to
Dayananda.
T. Pantham and K. L. Deutsch (ed.), Political Thought in Modern India.
U. N. Ghosal, The History of Hindu Political Theories.
Anthony Parel (ed.), Gandhi, ‘Hind Swaraj’ and Other Writings.
Buddhadeva Bhattacharyya, Evolution of Political Philosophy of Gandhi.
Sachin Sen, The Political Thought of Rabindranath.
M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj.
Bhikhu Parekh, Gandhis’ Political Philosophy: A Critical Examination.
Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism.
Bidyut Chakraborty and Rajendra Kumar Pandey (ed.), Modern Indian Political
Thought: Text and Context.
Sankar Ghose, Socialism and Communism in India.
K. N. Mukherjee, The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore.
M. N. Roy, From Communism to Radical Humanism.
G. P. Bhattacharjee, Evolution of Political Philosophy of M. N. Roy.
Yusuf Meherally (ed.), Narendra Deva : Socialism and National Revolution.
W. N. Kuber, Dr. Ambedkar: A Critical Study.
Susobhan Sarkar, On the Bengal Renaissance.
A. T. Embree (ed.), Sources of Indian Tradition (Vol. 1)
Subrata Dasgupta, The Bengal Renaissance– Identity and Creativity: From
Rammohan Roy to Rabindranath Tagore.
V. R. Mehta, Foundations of Indian Political Thought: An Interpretation
Sudipta Kaviraj, The Unhappy Conciousness: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and
the Formation of Nationalist Discourse in India.
Partha Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative
Discourse.
Shan Mohammad (ed.), Selected Writings and Speeches of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Kalyan Kumar Sarkar, Bharatiya Rashtrachintar itihash
Debashish Chakraborty, Bharatiya Rashtrachintar Dhara

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Neetu Sharma, Adhunik Bharatiya Rajnitik Chintan (in hindi), Gullybaba Publishing House
(indian political thought)

B. L. Fadia, Bharatiya Rajnitik Chintan (in hindi), Sahitya Bhawan Publications, 2017 edition
(indian political thought)

COURSE DSE 501A PARTY SYSTEM IN INDIA

1. Political Party

i. Meaning of Political Parties and Kinds of Political Parties

ii. Features and Characteristics of Indian Party System

iii. Emerging Trends in Indian Party System

2. National Political Parties

i. INC: Organization, Ideology, Policies and Nature of Mass Support

ii. BJP: Organization, ideology, Policies and Nature of Mass Support

iii. Electoral Performance of INC and BJP

3. Same Major Political Parties

i. CPI (M) Organization, Ideology, Policies and Nature of Mass support

ii. BSP: Organization, Ideology, Policies and Nature of Mass Support

iii. Electoral Performance of CPI(M) BSP , AITMC.

4. Regional Political Parties

i. Emergence of Regional Political Parties and Regionalization of Regional Forces.

ii. Impact of Regional Political Parties and National Politics : Different Coalitions at Centre

Selected Readings:

Bbidyut Chakrabarty, Indian Government and Politics, SAGE India.

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.

Hasan F. Frankal, R. Z. Bhargave and B, Arora Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy.

Rajni Kothari, Parties and Party Politics in India.

B. Arora and D.v. Demey( eds.) , Multiple Identities in a Single State: Indian Federalism in Comparative Perspective.

P.R. Desouza and E. Sridharan (eds.), India’s Political Parties.

S. Baruah (eds.), Parties and Party Politics in India.

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Z. Hasan ( ed.), Parties and Party Politics in India.

R. Roy and P. Wallace (ed.), Indian Politics and the 1998 Elections : Regionalism, Hindutva and State Politics.

[Link], (ed.), Parties and Party Politics in India.

B. Arora ed., Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy.

C. Jaffrelot, India’s Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in India.

A. Kohli, ed., The Success if India’s Democracy.

COURSE DSE 501B HUMAN RIGHTS

1. Human Rights: Historical Background: A Brief History of Human Rights Theory

------Difference between Civil Liberties, Democratic Rights and Human Rights ---Are Human Rights Universal ?---Are Human Right
Incontrovertible or Subjective ? -- Ethics and Social Practice

2. Aspects of Human Rights--Human Rights and Theoretical Traditions --Human Rights: Modernity and Democratization -- The State and
Human Rights Theory --Human Rights and World Politics

3. Areas and Issues in Human Rights: Nature of Human Rights Violation --Human Rights and United Nations --State: Protection and
Regulation (With Special reference to India)

4. Social Aspects : Women and Human Rights --Children and Woman Rights --Poverty and Human Rights --The Environment and Human
Rights

Darren JO’ Byrne, Human Rights: An Introduction, New Delhi: Pearson Education in South Asia, 2008.

K.G. Kannabiran, The Wage of Impunity, Orient Longman, 2004.

C.J. Nirmal ed., Human Rights in India: Historical, Social and Political Perspectives, OIP, Delhi, 2004.

M. Cranston. What are Human Rights? London: The Bodley Head, 1973.

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.

[Link] , HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDIA

SUHAS CHATTOPADHYAY , BIPANNA MANABADHIKAR

DSE 502A

ELECTORAL PROCESS IN INDIA AND WORKING OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY

UNIT I ELECTION SYSTEM IN INDIA

(i) Features, Merits and Demerits of Election System in India

(ii) Election Commission: Compositions and Functions

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(iii) Electoral Process in India

(iv) Proposals for Reforms in Indian Electoral System

UNIT II

Voting Behaviours: Meaning, Features and Determinants

Political Participation in India: Meaning, Features and Determinants

Lok Sabha Elections since 1952 and Politics of Government Formation

UNIT III

Politics of Political Defection

Politics of Reservation

Parliamentary Democracy in India: Main Features

Dynamics of Features of Politics in India

UNIT IV WORKING OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY IN INDIA 1950-1967, 1967-1977, 1977-1979, 1980-89, 1989-2012

Parliamentary v. Presidential: The Debate

Reasons for Demand for Scrapping of Parliamentary System and Its replacement

A Case for Adoption for the Presidential System

A Case for the Retention of the Parliamentary System

Suggestion for Reforms in the Parliamentary System

Conditions essential for success of Indian Parliamentary Democracy.

SELECTED READINGS

P.R. Brass, The Politics of India since Independence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.

Hasan, ed., Politics and Party System in India.

Norman D. Palmer, Indian Political System, London: George Allen and Unwin, 1963.

J.R. Sewach, Dynamic of Indian Government and Politics, New Delhi: Sterling, 1990.

C.H. Philips, Politics and Society in India, London: George Allen and Unwin, 1963.

M.V. Pylee, Constitutional Government, Bombay: Asia Publishing,1968.

K.R. Bombwall, Indian Constitution and Administration, Ambala Cantt: Modern Publishers, 1970.

A.S. Narang, Indian Government and Politics, Delhi: Gitanjali Press, 1994.

C.P. Bhambhari, Politics in India since Independence, Delhi: Shipra 1990.

K.C. Marbandan, Aspects of Indian Polity (Vol. I and II), Jullunder: ABS, 1990.

V.R. Mehta, Democracy, Modernization and Politics in India, New Delhi: Manohar, 1988.

DSE 502B

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

UNIT I

(i) Emergence of UNO

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(ii) An Evaluation of UN Charter

(iii) UNO and Its Organs: ECOSOC, UNESCO, WHO

(iv) General Assembly

(v) United Nation Development Programme (UNDP)

UNIT II

(i) Security Council of UNO Composition and Functions

(ii) Role of Security Council in maintaining World Peace

(iii) India’s Contribution in maintaining World Peace

UNIT III

(i) International Court of Justice Composition and Functions

(ii) IMF : Composition and Functions

(iii) European Union

UNIT IV

(i) SAARC: Composition and Functions

(ii) ASEAN : Composition and Function

(iii) WTO: Composition and Functions

Selected Readings:

J.A. Moore and Pubantz, The New United Nations

J. Goldstein and J.C. Pevehouse, International Relations

P. Taylor and A.J.R. Groom, The United Nations at the Millennium

S.B. Garcis and J. Varwick, The United Nations : An Introduction

R. Thakur, Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, The UN at Fifty

RADHA RAMAN CHAKRABORTY SAMASAMAYEK ANTARJATIK SAMPARKA

Nirmal Kanti Ghosh, Antarjatik Sangathan O Jatipunja

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COURSE DSC 613 INDIA’S FOREIGN POLICY IN A GLOBALISED WORLD

I. India’s Foreign Policy: The Determinants and Ideological Roots. Evolution of

India’s Foreign Policy: From a Postcolonial State to an Aspiring Global Power
II. India’s Relations with the USA and USSR/Russia .
III. India’s Engagements with China .
IV. India in South Asia: Debating Regional Strategies.
V. India’s Negotiating Style and Strategies: Trade, Environment and Security Regimes.
VI. India in the Contemporary Multipolar World.
SELECTED READINGS
S. Ganguly and M. Pardesi, (2009) ‘Explaining Sixty Years of India’s Foreign Policy’, in India
Review, Vol. 8 (1), pp. 4–19.
Ch. Ogden, (2011) ‘International ‘Aspirations’ of a Rising Power’, in David Scott (ed.),
Handbook of India’s 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.
J. Bandhopadhyaya, (1970) The Making Of India's Foreign Policy, New Delhi: Allied
Publishers.
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, (2011) ‘India’s Relations with China’, in D. Scott (ed.), Handbook of India’s
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: India’s Perspective’, in A. Tellis and S. Mirski
(eds.), Crux of Asia: China, India, and the Emerging Global Order, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace: Washington.
Li Li, (2013) ‘Stability in Southern Asia: China’s Perspective’, in A. Tellis and S. Mirski (eds.),
Crux of Asia: China, India, and the Emerging Global Order, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace: Washington.
S. Muni, (2003) ‘Problem Areas in India’s 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 India’s Grand Strategy of Regional Hegemony from Historical
and Conceptual Perspectives’, IDSS Working Paper, 76, Available at

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[Link] 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
S. Cohen, (2002) ‘The World View of India’s Strategic Elite’, in S. Cohen, India: Emerging
Power, Brookings Institution Press, pp. 36-65.
A. Narlikar, (2007) ‘All that Glitters is not Gold: India’s 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 Cobenefits’,
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 India’s
International Relations, London: Routledge, pp. 266-277.
P. Mehta, (2009) ‘Still Under Nehru’s Shadow? The Absence of Foreign Policy Frameworks in
India’, in India Review, Vol. 8 (3), pp. 209–233.
B. L. Fadia, Bharat avem antarashtriya sambandh (in hindi), Sahitya Bhawan Publications,
2017 (IR)

Online Resources:
Government of India’s Ministry of External Relations website at [Link]
and specially its library which provides online resources at [Link]
The Council of Foreign Relations has a regularly updated blog on India’s foreign policy:
[Link] Centre for Policy Research’s blog on IR and strategic
affairs though it is not exclusively on India’s foreign policy.
[Link] relations-and-security-blog
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses: [Link]
Research and Information System: [Link]/
Indian Council of World Affairs: [Link]/
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies: [Link]/
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations: [Link]/

COURSE DSC 614 POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES

1. LIBERALISM
Meaning and Characteristics of Liberalism
Development of Liberalism : Negative and Positive
2. THEORIES OF DEMOCRACY
Classical Liberal Theory of Democracy
Elite Theory of Democracy
Pluralist Theory of Democracy
Marxist Theory of Democracy

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3. MARXISM
Marxian Interpretation of History
Marxian Theory of Social and Political Change
Theory of Revolution
4. SOCIALISM AND FASCISM
Socialism: Meaning, Features and Development
Fascism: Meaning, Features and Development
SELECTED READINGS

ANDREW HEYWOOD, POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Introduction to Political Ideologies, SAGE India.
M.P. Jain, Political Theory: Liberal and Marxian (Delhi: Authors Guild Publications, 1993).
F.W. Coker, Recent Political Thought (Calcutta: The Words Press, 1966).
W. Ebenstein, Great Political Thinkers (New Delhi: Oxford and IBH, 1974).
J.A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1976).
C.B. Macpherson, The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
G. Sartori, Democratic Theory (New Delhi: Oxford and IBH, 1965).
Shibdas Ghosh, On Fascism (Calcutta: SUCI, 1975).
Ruggiero, “Liberalism” in E.R.A. Seligman ed., Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Vol. IV (NV.,
1937).
M. Freeden, The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform (London: OUP, 1978).
D. Held, Models of Democracy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987).

(Any one from DSE A or B)

COURSE DSE 603A INDIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS

UNIT I INDIA AND PAKISTAN

(i) Colonial Legacies

(ii) Geographical and Strategic Importance

(iii) Demographic, Socio-Cultural Composition
(iv) Natural Resources

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(v) Development, Democracy and Dictatorship
(vi) Nuclear Policy of India and Pakistan
(vii) Kashmir Question
(viii) Areas of Cooperation and Conflict

UNIT II INDIA AND BANGLADESH

(i) Colonial Legacies
(ii) Geographical and Strategic Importance
(iii) Demographic, Socio-Cultural Composition
(iv) Natural Resources
(v) Development, Democracy and Dictatorship
(vi) Refugee Problem
(vii) Ganga Water Issue
(viii) Areas of Cooperation and Conflict

UNIT III INDIA AND SRILANKA

(i) Geographical and Strategic Importance
(ii) Demographic, Socio-Cultural Composition
(iii) Natural Resources
(iv) Development and Democracy
(v) Tamil Question
(vi) Areas of Cooperation and Conflicts

UNIT IV INDIA AND NEPAL

(i) Historical Relations with Nepal
(ii) Geographical and Strategic Importance
(iii) Demography and Socio-Cultural Composition
(iv) Development and Democracy
(v) Areas of Cooperation and Conflict

Suggested Readings:
Manzoorudin Ahmed, Contemporary Pakistan Politics, Economy and Society, Karachi, Royal
Book, 1988.
Tariq Ali, Can Pakistan Survive: Death of States, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1983.
Keith Callard, Political Forces in Pakistan, New York: the Macmillan Company, 1989. 52
Mohatamed Ali Choudhary, the Emergence of Pakistan, New York: Culumbia University
Press, 1967.
Rafiuddein Ahmed (ed.), Islam in Bangladesh Society, Culture and Politics, Dacca: University
Press, 1983.
Robin Blackburn (ed.), Explosion in Subcontinent India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Ceylon,
Harmountsworth: Penguin, 1975.
Robert Jackson, South Asian Crises, India, Pakistan Bangladesh, New Delhi: Vikas Publishers,
1978.
K.M.D. Desilva, Srilanka : A Survey, London: C. Hurst Company, 1978.
E.F.C. Ludowyke, The Story of Ceylon, New Delhi: Navrang, 1985.
Urmila Phadins, Ethnicity and Nation Building in South Asia, New Delhi: Sage Publication,
1989.
Urmila Phadins, Religion and Politics in Sri Lanka, Delhi: Manohar Book, 1976.
Rajiva Vijesinha, The Current Crises in Sri Lanka, new Delhi: Navrang, 1986.

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W.C. Herward, Wringing, Ceylon: Dilemmas of a New nation, New Delhi: Young Asian
Publication, 1980.
L.S. Baral, Opposition Politics in Nepal, New Delhi: Abhinav Publishers, 1977.
R.S. Chauhan, Opposition Politics in Nepal, New Delhi: Associated Publishing House, 1971.
S.D. Muni (ed.), Assertive Monarchy, New Delhi: Chetna Publication, 1977.
Kusum, Rishikesh, Shah, Nepali Politics: Retrospect and Prospect, New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1985.
Shreshta, Monarchy in Nepal, New Delhi, 1988.
R. Jahan ed. Bangladesh, Promise and Performance Dhaka, The University Press, Dhaka
Avatar Singh Bhasin, India in Sri Lanka between Lion and Tiger, New Delhi, Manas
Publication 2004.
[Link] Swami, The Tiger Vanquished LTTE’s Stay, New Delhi, Sales Publications,
2010.
Aneek Chatterjee, Neighbours, major powers and Indian foreign policy, Orient Blacswan..

COURSE DSE 603B

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA

I. Development Process since Independence

a. State and planning

b. Liberalization and reforms

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

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

IV. Social Movements

a. Tribal, Peasant, Dalit and Women's movements

b. Maoist challenge

c. Civil rights movements

Selected 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 India’s

Economic Reforms’ in R. Mukherji (ed.) India’s Economic Transition: The Politics of Reforms,

Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp 146-169.

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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.

A. Aggarwal, (2006) ‘Special Economic Zones: Revisiting the Policy Debate’, in Economic and

Political Weekly, XLI (43-44), pp.4533-36.

B. Nayar (1989) India’s Mixed Economy: The Role of Ideology and its Development, Bombay:

Popular Prakashan.

F. Frankel, (2005) ‘Crisis of National Economic Planning’, in India’s Political Economy (1947-

2004): The Gradual Revolution, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 93-340.

L. Fernandes, (2007) India’s New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic

Reform, Delhi: Oxford University Press.

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: Labor’s Incorporation

into the Indian Political Economy’ in R. Ray, and M.F. Katzenstein (eds.) Social Movements in

India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp 32-60.

A. Desai, (ed.), (1986) Agrarian Struggles in India After Independence, Delhi: Oxford

University Press, pp. xi-xxxvi

F. Frankel, (1971) India’s 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. 29-32.

P. Joshi, (1979) Land Reforms in India: Trends and Perspectives, New Delhi: Allied publishers.

M. Sidhu, (2010) ‘Globalisation vis-à-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.

G. Haragopal, and K. Balagopal, (1998) ‘Civil Liberties Movement and the State in India’, in

M. Mohanty, P. Mukherji and O. Tornquist, (eds.) People’s 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.

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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) ‘India’s Maoist Insurgency: Evolution, Current Trends and Responses’, in

M. Kugelman (ed.) India’s Contemporary Security Challenges, Woodrow Wilson International

Centre for Scholars Asia Programme, Washington D.C., pp.29-47.

A. Roy, (2010) ‘The Women’s Movement’, in [Link] and P. Mehta (eds.) The Oxford

Companion to Politics in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.409-422.

M. Weiner, (2001) ‘The Struggle for Equality: Caste in Indian Politics’, in [Link]. (ed.) The

Success of India’s 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.

DSE 604A

GRASSROOT DEMOCRACY IN INDIA

1. Historical Background of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) in India after Independence

Constitutional Recognition of PRIs in India after Independence

2. GRAM PANCHAYAT

Gram Sabha

Composition and Functions of Gram Panchayat

3. PANCHAYAT SAMITI

Composition and Functions

Zila Parishad – Composition and Functions

4. Features of 73 rd & 74th Amendments

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Composition and Functions of Municipal Corporation

5. Democratic Decentralisation in India: Critical Evaluation

Selected Readings:

Z. Haran, E. Sridharan and R. Sudharshan (ed.), India’s Living Constitution: Ideas, Practices and
Controversies.

R. Samaddar, The Politics of Autonomy, Indian Experiences

N.G. Jayal, A Prakash and P. Sharma (eds.), Local Governance in India: Decentralization and Beyond.

KUMARESH CHAKRABARTY, BHARATER BARTAMAN RAJNITI PRASHASAN O BIDHI

SOMA GHOSH, JANA PRASHASAN : TATTA O PROYOG

DSE 604B

EMERGING TRENDS IN INDIAN POLITICS

1. Casteism: Meaning, Features, Impact of Caste on Indian Politics, Communalism and Secularism: Meaning, Features, Causes and Impact
on Indian Politics.

Regionalism: Meaning, Causes and Features, Regional Imbalances: Indicators and Impact on Indian Politics.

2. (i) Emergence of Regional Political Parties

(ii) Regional Political Parties with Special Reference to National Conference, Akali Dal, DMK, Telgu Desham

(iii) Impact of Regional Political Parties on National Politics

3.(i) Coalition Politics in India

(ii) Coalition Politics in States

4. Globalization: Meaning, Features and its Effect on Indian Economy

Issues of Environment in India

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Selected Readings:

P.R. Brass, The Politics of India since Independence, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press and Foundation Books 1999.

S. Kaviraj (ed.), Politics in India: New Delhi, Oxford University Press,1999.

A.S. Narang, Ethnic Identities and Federalism, Shimla: IIAS 1995.

Arvind N. Ada, India Invented: A Nation in the Making, New Delhi: Manohar 1992.

Atul Kohli, Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1991.

V.R. Mehta, Ideology, Modernization and Politics in India, New Delhi: Manohar, 1988.

Myron Weiner, The Indian Paradox, Essays in Indian Politics, New Delhi: Sage 1989.

Iqual Narain ed., State Politics in India, Meerut: Meenakshi Pub.,1976.

Randhir Singh, Of Marxism and Indian politics, Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1990.

Randhir Singh, Five Essays in Marxist Mode Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1993.

Mohanan (ed.), Globalization of Economy, Vision for the Future, New Delhi, Gyan Publications, 1995.

Dr. Malay Banerjee, Bharatiya Rajnitir Samprotik Probanata.

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 CBCS SYLLABUS
SYLLABI OF B.A. PROGRAMME IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
(CBCS)
2018

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL

COURSE MATRIX

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SEMESTER B.A. Hons BA Programme

I DSC 101UNDERSTANDING POLITICAL SCIENCE DSC 101 UNDERSTANDING POLITICAL SCIENCE

DSC 102 Perspectives on Public Administration

II DSC 203INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS DSC 202INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

DSC 204 Western Political Thought

III DSC 305COMPARATIVE POLITICS DSC 303 COMPARATIVE POLITICS

DSC 306 Public Policy and Administration SEC 301 Public Opinion and Survey Research

DSC 307 Nationalism In India

SEC 301 Public Opinion and Survey Research

GE 303 Reading Gandhi

IV DSC 408INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DSC 404INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

DSC 409 Political Sociology

DSC 410 Political Theory: Concepts and Debates SEC 402 Democratic and Legal Awareness

SEC 402 Democratic and Legal Awareness

GE 404 Feminism: Theory and Practice

V DSC 511 Understanding Global Politics DSE 501A Party System in India

DSC 512 Indian Political Thought DSE 501B Human Rights

DSE 501A Party System in India GE 501 Reading Gandhi

Choose any one of A or B of DSE DSE 501B Human Rights DSE 502 A Electoral Process in India and Working of
Parliamentary Democracy
DSE 502 A Electoral Process in India and Working of
Parliamentary Democracy

DSE 502 B International Organisations DSE 502 B International Organisations

VI DSC 613 India’s Foreign Policy in a Globalised World DSE 603A Indian Political Thought

DSC 614 Political Ideology DSE 603B India and Her Neighbours

Choose any one of A or B of DSE DSE 603A India and Her Neighbours DSE 604A Grass Root Democracy in India

DSE 603B Development Process and Social Movements in DSE 604B Emerging Trends in Indian Politics
Contemporary India

DSE 604A Grass Root Democracy in India

GE 602 Feminism: Theory and Practice
DSE 604B Emerging Trends in India Politics

For each course end term examination marks is 60+ Continuous assessment 15 marks, course credit 6 , except for SEC & AECC which are
of 2 Credits each . Total credit: 120 For Question Pattern and Class Hours refer to the Regulation.

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 Detailed Syllabus

First Semester
Course DSC 101

UNDERSTANDING POLITICAL SCIENCE

1. Politics and Political Science

(i) Meaning of Politics, Nature and Scope of Political Science

(ii) Political Science: Science or an Art, Behaviouralism and Post-Behaviouralism.

(iii) Relationship of Political Science with History, Economics and Sociology

(iv) Nature and Types of political theory.

Relationship between Political Theory and Political Philosophy

2. STATE

(i) Elements of State

(ii) Difference between State and Government, State and Society, State and Association.

(iii)Theories of the State: Social Contract, Idealist, Liberal and Neo-liberal, Anarchist.

(iv) Sovereignty: Features, Kinds, Monistic and Pluralistic Theory : changing concept of
Sovereignty in the context of Globalization.

3. THEORIES OF ORIGIN OF STATE

(i) Social Contract Theory

(ii) Historical Theory

(iii) Marxist Theory

4. FUNCTIONS OF STATE

(i) Liberal Theory of Functions of State

(ii) Welfare Theory of Functions of State

(iii) Marxist Theory of Functions of State

5. Rights, Liberty and Equality and Justice: Interrelationship-

Different Concepts and Theories.

SELECTED READINGS:

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[Link] POLITICAL THEORY AND INTRODUCTION
Sushila Ramaswamy, Political Theory: Ideas and Concepts. New Delhi: Macmillan India, 2004.
Adi H. Doctor, Issues in Political Theory. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1985.
R.M. MacIver. The Modern State. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1926.
A.P.D. Entreves, the Notion of the State Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
M.P. Jain, Political Theory: Liberal and Marxian Delhi: Authors Guild Publications, 1979.
A.C. Kapur, Principles of Political Science. New Delhi: S. Chand and Company,
S. P. Varma, Modern Political Theory, Vikash Publishers.
Bhargava, R. (2008) ‘What is Political Theory’, in Bhargava, R and Acharya, A. (eds.) Political
Theory: An Introduction. New Delhi: Pearson Longman, pp. 2-16.
Bellamy, R. (1993) ‘Introduction: The Demise and Rise of Political Theory’, in Bellamy, R.
(ed.) Theories and Concepts of Politics. New York: Manchester University Press, pp. 1-14.
Glaser, D. (1995) ‘Normative Theory’, in Marsh, D. and Stoker, G. (eds.) Theory and Methods
in Political Science. London: Macmillan, pp. 21-40.
Bannett, J. (2004) ‘Postmodern Approach to Political Theory’, in Kukathas, Ch. and Gaus, G.
F. (eds.) Handbook of Political Theory. New Delhi: Sage, pp. 46-54.
Vincent, A. (2004) The Nature of Political Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp.
19-80.
ARUN KR. SEN , SUSHIL KR. SEN & SANTILAL MUKHOPADHYAY

SHRI NIRMALKANTI GHOSH , ADHUNIK RASTRA BINGYANER BHOOMIKA

RASHTRABINGYAN PARICHAY
Debasis Chakraborti, Rashtra Bigyan: tattwa O Pratisthan
Amal Roy, Mohit Bhattacharya, Biswanath Ghosh, Adhunik Rashtra Bigyan.

RashtraBigyan by Anadi Kumar Mahapatra

ARN KR. SEN, SUSIL KR. SEN, SANTILAL MUKHOPADHYAY RASTRA BIGYAN

SECOND SEMESTER

Course DSC 202

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 INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

1. Framing of Indian Constitution: An outline; Philosophy of the Constitution: The

Preamble, Salient Features of the Constitution.
2. Fundamental Rights; Fundamental Duties, Directive Principles of State Policy, Amendment of
the Constitution
3. Executive: Union and the States.
(a) President, Prime Minister, and the Council of Ministers.
(b) Governor, Chief Minister and the Council of Ministers.
(c) Emergency Provisions.
4. Legislature: Union and the States
(a) Council of States and the House of the People - Law-making procedure and
Amendment– Speaker
(b) State Legislature– composition and functions.
5. Judiciary: Supreme Court and the High Courts– composition and jurisdiction
6. Relations between the Union and the States: Legislative, Administrative, Financial-- Election
Commission: composition and functions—Decentralisation : Rural and Urban local bodies.
7. Politics: Party system in India: main features–national parties, regional parties- Coalition
Politics: nature and trends- Groups in Indian politics: Business, Working Class and Peasants --
Religion in Indian politics– secularism and the Indian state--Caste in Indian politics– the issue of
reservation.

Selected 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.
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.
P. M. Bakshi, The Constitution of India.
Hiregowder, maheswarappa et al, The Indian constitution: An Introduction, Orient Blackswan,
2016.
Durga Das Basu, Introduction to the Constitution of India.
Granville Austin, Working a Democratic Constitution : The Indian experience.
M. V. Pylee, Constitutional Government in India.
Subhas C. Kashyap, Our Constitution.
J. C. Johari, Indian Government and Politics.
Shiva Rao, The Framing of India’s Constitution.
Granville Austin, The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation.
Durga Das Basu, Shorter Constitution of India.
Alladi Krishnaswami Aiyer, Constitution and Fundamental Rights.
A. G. Noorani, Constitutional Questions and Citizens’ Rights.
Pran Chopra (ed.), The Supreme Court versus the Constitution : A Challenge to
Federalism.
M. C. Setalvad, Union and State Relations under the Constitution.
D. N. Sen, From Raj to [Link] Brass, The Politics of India since Independence.
Partha Chatterjee (ed.), State and Politics in India.
Rakhahari Chatterjee (ed.), Politics in India– State Society Interface.
S. L. Sikri, Indian Government and Politics.
F. Frankel, Z. Hasan, R. Bhargava, and B. Arora (ed.), Transforming India: Social

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and Political Dynamics of Democracy.
NeeraChandhoke and PravinPriyadarshini (ed), Contemporary India: Economy,
Society, Politics.
N. G. Jayal and P. B. Mehta (ed.), Oxford Companion to Indian Politics.
M. V. Paylee, India’s Constitution, 16ed, S. Chand.
Morris Jones, Government and Politics in India.
Raghunandan, J. R (2012) Decentralization and local governments: The Indian Experience,
Orient Black Swan, New Delhi
Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay O Bholanath Bandopadhyay, Samprotik Bharatiya Rajniti O
Prasashan
Bharatiya Sashan Byabostha O Rajniti by Anadi Kumar Mahapatra
Sourendra Nath mitra, Bharater Sasan baboshya O Rajniti
Nirmal Kanti Ghosh, Bharater Sashan Baboshya O Rajniti

THIRD SEMESTER

Course DSC 303

COMPARATIVE POLITICS

1. Comparative Politics: development, nature and scope.

2. Approaches to the study of Comparative Politics: Institutional and Neo-institutional,
Systems and Structural-functional, Marxist.
3. Major governing principles: Constitutionalism; Conventions; Rule of law;
Parliamentary sovereignty; Separation of powers; Judicial Review; Democratic
Centralism; Referendum and Initiative.
4. Comparative studies of Legislature, Executive and Judiciary: United Kingdom,
United States, China and France.
5. Federalism: U.S.A. and Russia.
6. Comparative studies of Party systems: Liberal democracies (U.K., U.S.A), Socialist
Political system (People’s Republic of China).

Selected Readings

Subrata Mukherjee, SushilaRamaswamy, Theoretical Foundations of Comparative Politics,

Orient Blackswan.
G. Almond et. al., Comparative Politics Today: A World View.
Rakhahari Chatterjee, Introduction to Comparative Political Analysis.
S. N. Ray, Comparative Politics.
G. Roberts, An Introduction to Comparative Politics.
Alan R. Ball and Guy Peters, Modern Politics & Government.
The Constitution of the People’s Republic of China (1982).

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J. Blondel, An Introduction to Comparative Government.
H. Eckstein and P. E. Apter (ed.), Comparative Politics: A Reader.
Judith Bara and Mark Pennington (ed.), Comparative Politics.
R. Hague, M. Harrop and S. Breslin, Comparative Government and Politics: An
Introduction.
J. Harvey and L. Bather, The British Constitution.
J. Wilson, American Government.
S. K. Dailey (ed.), American Politics and Government.
A. H. Birch, British System of Government.
Dorothy Pickles, The Government and Politics of France (2 Vols.)
Vincent Wright, The Government and Politics of France.
J. T. Dreyer, China’s Political System: Modernization & Tradition.
Tony Saich, Governance and Politics of China.
R. Sakwa, Russian Politics and Society.
A. Appadorai, The Substance of Politics.
Eddy Asivartham & K. K. Misra, Political Theory, S. Chand.
Anup Chand Kapur, Principles of Political Science, S. Chand.
Anup Chakraborty, Tulanamulak Sashanbyabostha
D. C. Bhattacharya, Tulanamulak Rajniti O Bidesher Sasonbyabostha.
Tulanamulok Rajniti by Anadi Kumar Mahapatra

COURSE SEC 301

PUBLIC OPINION AND SURVEY RESEARCH

1. Introduction to the course

Definition and characteristics of public opinion, conceptions and characteristics, debates

about its role in a democratic political system, uses for opinion poll.

2. Measuring Public Opinion with Surveys: Representation and sampling

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

3. Survey Research

a. Interviewing: Interview techniques pitfalls, different types of and forms of interview

b. Questionnaire: Question wording; fairness and clarity.

4. Quantitative Data Analysis

a. Introduction to quantitative data analysis

b. Basic concepts: correlational research, causation and prediction, descriptive and

inferential Statistics

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4. Interpreting polls

(a) Prediction in polling research: possibilities and pitfalls

(b) Politics of interpreting polling

Selected 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. 3‐13.

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)

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 Publishers, pp. 40‐46.

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.

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:

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1. Discussion of readings and Indian examples.

2. Groups of students to collect examples of and discuss various sample based studies across

many 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 . 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.

FOURTH SEMESTER

Course DSC 404

INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

1. Origin and growth of International Relations (IR) – meaning and scope of IR.
2. Basic concepts: National Power; National Interest; Balance of Power; Bipolarity and
Unipolarity; Neo-colonialism.
3. Major Theories of IR: Realist Theory and its Variants; Liberal Theory and its
Variants; Marxist Theory; Feminist Theory.
4. Diplomacy; Propaganda.
5. Cold War– an outline;
6. Collective Security: Meaning and Safeguards --Pacific Settlement of International Disputes,
Devices under U.N. Charter --Disarmament and Arms Control, Obstacles to Nuclear
Disarmament ---Non Proliferation Regime– Basic ideas of NPT, CTBT,
FMCT, MTCR.
7. Contemporary issues: Globalization; Environment; Energy; Terrorism.

Selected Readings:

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A. Hurrell and N. Woods, Inequality, Globalization and World Politics.
Aneek Chatterjee, International Relations Today: Concepts and Applications.
Banerjee, A. Marxist Theory and Third World. New Delhi: Sage, 1984.
Beitz, C.A. Political Theory and International Relations. New York: Columbia University Press,
1977.
Bull H., The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in International Politics. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1977.
Burton, J.W. International Relations: A General Theory. Bombay: Allen and Unwin, 1971.
C. Sylvester, Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmordern Era.
Deutsch, K. The Analysis of International Relations. Eaglewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1968.
Dougherty, J.E. and Pfaltzgraff, Jr., R.L. Contending Theories of International Relations. New
York: Philadelphia, 1971.
Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics among Nations: the Struggle for Power and Peace.
Holsti, K. International Politics: Framework for Analysis. Eaglewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1983.
J. Baylis, S. Smith and P. Owens, The Globalization of World Politics: AnIntroduction to
International Relations
J. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its [Link] Frankel, International Relations in a
Changing World, London.
Joseph Frankel, International Relations in a Changing World, London.
Joshua S. Goldstein, International [Link], Mortan. System and Processes in
International Politics. New Yhork: Wiley and Sons, 1962.
KantiBajpai and SiddharthMallavarapu, International Relations in India; bringing Theory Back
Home.
Kegly and Wittkopf. World Politics: Trends and Transformation, New York: St. Martin Press,
1985.
Lieber, R.J. Theory and World Politics. London, Allen and Unwin, 1972.

Mishra, K.P. and Blum, R., eds. Approaches to International Politics, New Delhi: J.N.U., 1981.
Morganthau, H. and Thompson, K. Politics Among Nations. Struggle for Power and Peace. New
Delhi: Kalyani Press, 1985.
Morganthau, H. Politics Among Nations. Calcutta, Scientific New Agency, 1969.
N. D. Palmer and H. C. Perkins, International Relations.
[Link] and G. Sorensen, Introduction to International Relations: Theories and
Scott Burchillet. al., Theories of International Relation.
Stephanie Lawson, International Relations.
W. Laquer, A History of Terrorism.
GOUTAM KUMAR BASU ,ANTARJATIK SAMPARKA : TATTA O BIBARTAN
Nirmal Kanti Ghosh O Pitam Ghosh, Antorjatik Samparko
JAYANT [Link],PRAFULLA [Link], ANTARJATIK SAMPARKER
ITIHAS
Antarjartik Samparka by Nirmal Kanti Ghosh
Antarjartik Samparka byDebashis Chakrabarty

B. L. Fadia, Antarashtriya Sambandh (in Hindi), Sahitya Bhawan Publications, 2017 (IR)

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COURSE SEC 402 DEMOCRATIC AND LEGAL AWARENESS

1. Outline of the Legal system in India:

(a) System of courts/tribunals and their jurisdiction in India ‐ criminal and civil courts,writ jurisdiction, specialized courts such
as juvenile courts, Mahila courts andtribunals.

(b) Role of the police and executive in criminal law administration.

(c) Alternate dispute mechanisms such as lokadalats, non‐ formal mechanisms.

2. Brief understanding of the laws applicable in India

(a) Constitution ‐ fundamental rights, fundamental duties, other constitutional rights

and their manner of enforcement, with emphasis on public interest litigation and the

expansion of certain rights under Article 21 of the Constitution.

(b) Laws relating to criminal jurisdiction ‐ provision relating to filing an FIR, arrest, bail

search and seizure and some understanding of the questions of evidence and procedure in Cr. P.C. and related laws, important offences
under the IndianPenalCode, offences against women, juvenile justice, prevention of atrocities on Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.,
Concepts like Burden of Proof, Presumption of Innocence, Principles of Natural

Justice, Fair comment under Contempt laws.

(c) Personal laws in India : Pluralism and Democracy

(d) aws relating to contract, property and tenancy laws.

(e) Laws relating to dowry, sexual harassment and violence against women

(f) Laws relating to consumer rights

(g) Laws relating to cyber crimes

(h) Anti‐terrorist laws: implications for security and human rights

3. Practical application: Visit to either a (I) court or (ii) a legal aid centre set up by theLegal Services Authority or an NGO or (iii) a
LokAdalat, and to interview a litigant orperson being counselled. Preparation of a case history.

4. Access to courts and enforcement of rights

(a) Critical Understanding of the Functioning of the Legal System

(b) Legal Services Authorities Act and right to legal aid, ADR systems

(c) Practical application :What to do if you are arrested ; if you are a consumer with a grievance; if you are avictim of sexual
harassment; domestic violence, child abuse, caste, ethnic andreligious discrimination; filing a public interest litigation. How can
you challengeadministrative orders that violate rights, judicial and administrative remedies

5. Using a hypothetical case of (for example) child abuse or sexual harassment or any

other violation of a right, preparation of an FIR or writing a complaint addressed to the appropriate authority.

Selected Readings

Creating Legal Awareness, edited by Kamala Sankaran and Ujjwal Singh (Delhi: OUP, 2007)

Legal literacy: available amongst interdisciplinary courses on Institute of Life Long Learning

(Delhi University) Virtual Learning Portal namely [Link]

Reading list for course on Legal Literacy

• Multiple Action Research Group, Our Laws Vols 1‐10, Delhi. Available in Hindi also.

• Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, Legal Literacy Series Booklets. Available in Hindi

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also.

• S.K. Agarwala, Public Interest Litigation in India, K.M. Munshi Memorial Lecture,

• Second Series, Indian Law Institute, Delhi, 1985.

• S.P. Sathe, Towards Gender Justice, Research Centre for Womens' Studies, SNDT

Women's University, Bombay, 1993.

•Asha Bajpai, Child Rights in India : Law, Policy, and Practice, Oxford University Press,

New Delhi,2003

• Agnes, Flavia Law and Gender Equality, OUP, 1997.

• Sagade, Jaga, Law of Maintenance: An Empirical Study, ILS Law College, Pune 1996.

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• B.L. Wadhera, Public Interest Litigation ‐ A Handbook, Universal, Delhi, 2003.

• Nomita Aggarwal, Women and Law in India, New Century, Delhi, 2002.

• P.C. Rao and William Sheffiled Alternate Dispute Resolution: What it is and How it

Works, , Universal Law Books and Publishers, Delhi, 2002

• V.N. Shukla's Constitution of India by Mahendra P. Singh, Eastern Book Co. 10th

edition 2001.

• Parmanand Singh, 'Access to Justice and the Indian Supreme Court', 10 & 11 Delhi

Law Review 156, 1981‐82.

FIFTH SEMESTER

(Choose either DSE A or B)

COURSE DSE 501A

PARTY SYSTEM IN INDIA

1. POLITICAL PARTY
i. Meaning of Political Parties and Kinds of Political Parties
ii. Features and Characteristics of Indian Party System
iii. Emerging Trends in Indian Party System
2. NATIONAL POLITICAL PARTIES
i. INC: Organization, Ideology, Policies and Nature of Mass Support
ii. BJP: Organization, ideology, Policies and Nature of Mass Support
iii. Electoral Performance of INC and BJP

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3. SAME MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES
i. CPI (M) Organization, Ideology, Policies and Nature of Mass support
ii. BSP: Organization, Ideology, Policies and Nature of Mass Support
iii. Electoral Performance of CPI(M) BSP , AITMC.
4. REGIONAL POLITICAL PARTIES
i. Emergence of Regional Political Parties and Regionalization of Regional Forces.
ii. Impact of Regional Political Parties and National Politics : Different Coalitions at Centre

SELECTED 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.
Bidyut Chakrabarty and Rajendra K. Pandey, Indian Government and politics, SAGE India.
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.
Hasan F. Frankal, R. Z. Bhargave and B, Arora Transforming India: Social and Political
Dynamics of Democracy.
Rajni Kothari, Parties and Party Politics in India.
B. Arora and D.v. Demey( eds.) , Multiple Identities in a Single State: Indian Federalism in
Comparative Perspective.
P.R. Desouza and E. Sridharan (eds.), India’s Political Parties.
S. Baruah (eds.), Parties and Party Politics in India.
Z. Hasan ( ed.), Parties and Party Politics in India.
R. Roy and P. Wallace (ed.), Indian Politics and the 1998 Elections : Regionalism,
Hindutva and State Politics.
[Link], (ed.), Parties and Party Politics in India.
B. Arora ed., Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy.
C. Jaffrelot, India’s Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in India.
A. Kohli, ed., The Success if India’s Democracy.
Bharatiya Sashan Byabostha O Rajniti by Anadi Kumar Mahapatra

COURSE DSE 501B

HUMAN RIGHTS

1. Human Rights: Historical Background: A Brief History of Human Rights Theory

------Difference between Civil Liberties, Democratic Rights and Human Rights ---Are Human
Rights Universal ?---Are Human Right Incontrovertible or Subjective ? -- Ethics and Social
Practice

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2. Aspects of Human Rights--Human Rights and Theoretical Traditions --Human Rights:
Modernity and Democratization -- The State and Human Rights Theory --Human Rights and
World Politics
3. Areas and Issues in Human Rights: Nature of Human Rights Violation --Human Rights and
United Nations --State: Protection and Regulation (With Special reference to India)
4. Social Aspects : Women and Human Rights --Children and Woman Rights --Poverty and
Human Rights --The Environment and Human Rights
Darren JO’ Byrne, Human Rights: An Introduction, New Delhi: Pearson Education in South Asia,
2008.
K.G. Kannabiran, The Wage of Impunity, Orient Longman, 2004.
C.J. Nirmal ed., Human Rights in India: Historical, Social and Political Perspectives, OIP, Delhi,
2004.
M. Cranston. What are Human Rights? London: The Bodley Head, 1973.
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.

DSE 502A

ELECTORAL PROCESS IN INDIA AND WORKING OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY

UNIT I ELECTION SYSTEM IN INDIA

(i) Features, Merits and Demerits of Election System in India

(ii) Election Commission: Compositions and Functions

(iii) Electoral Process in India

(iv) Proposals for Reforms in Indian Electoral System

UNIT II

Voting Behaviours: Meaning, Features and Determinants

Political Participation in India: Meaning, Features and Determinants

Lok Sabha Elections since 1952 and Politics of Government Formation

UNIT III

Politics of Political Defection

Politics of Reservation

Parliamentary Democracy in India: Main Features

Dynamics of Features of Politics in India

UNIT IV WORKING OF PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY IN INDIA 1950-1967, 1967-1977, 1977-1979, 1980-89, 1989-2012

Parliamentary v. Presidential: The Debate

Reasons for Demand for Scrapping of Parliamentary System and Its replacement

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A Case for Adoption for the Presidential System

A Case for the Retention of the Parliamentary System

Suggestion for Reforms in the Parliamentary System

Conditions essential for success of Indian Parliamentary Democracy.

SELECTED READINGS

P.R. Brass, The Politics of India since Independence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.

Hasan, ed., Politics and Party System in India.

Norman D. Palmer, Indian Political System, London: George Allen and Unwin, 1963.

J.R. Sewach, Dynamic of Indian Government and Politics, New Delhi: Sterling, 1990.

C.H. Philips, Politics and Society in India, London: George Allen and Unwin, 1963.

M.V. Pylee, Constitutional Government, Bombay: Asia Publishing,1968.

K.R. Bombwall, Indian Constitution and Administration, Ambala Cantt: Modern Publishers, 1970.

A.S. Narang, Indian Government and Politics, Delhi: Gitanjali Press, 1994.

C.P. Bhambhari, Politics in India since Independence, Delhi: Shipra 1990.

K.C. Marbandan, Aspects of Indian Polity (Vol. I and II), Jullunder: ABS, 1990.

V.R. Mehta, Democracy, Modernization and Politics in India, New Delhi: Manohar, 1988.

DSE 502B

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

UNIT I

(i) Emergence of UNO

(ii) An Evaluation of UN Charter

(iii) UNO and Its Organs: ECOSOC, UNESCO, WHO

(iv) General Assembly

(v) United Nation Development Programme (UNDP)

UNIT II

(i) Security Council of UNO Composition and Functions

(ii) Role of Security Council in maintaining World Peace

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(iii) India’s Contribution in maintaining World Peace

UNIT III

(i) International Court of Justice Composition and Functions

(ii) IMF : Composition and Functions

(iii) European Union

UNIT IV

(i) SAARC: Composition and Functions

(ii) ASEAN : Composition and Function

(iii) WTO: Composition and Functions

Selected Readings:

DSE 502B

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

UNIT I

(i) Emergence of UNO

(ii) An Evaluation of UN Charter

(iii) UNO and Its Organs: ECOSOC, UNESCO, WHO

(iv) General Assembly

(v) United Nation Development Programme (UNDP)

UNIT II

(i) Security Council of UNO Composition and Functions

(ii) Role of Security Council in maintaining World Peace

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(iii) India’s Contribution in maintaining World Peace

UNIT III

(i) International Court of Justice Composition and Functions

(ii) IMF : Composition and Functions

(iii) European Union

UNIT IV

(i) SAARC: Composition and Functions

(ii) ASEAN : Composition and Function

(iii) WTO: Composition and Functions

Selected Readings:

J.A. Moore and Pubantz, The New United Nations

J. Goldstein and J.C. Pevehouse, International Relations

P. Taylor and A.J.R. Groom, The United Nations at the Millennium

S.B. Garcis and J. Varwick, The United Nations : An Introduction

R. Thakur, Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, The UN at Fifty

RADHA RAMAN CHAKRABORTY SAMASAMAYEK ANTARJATIK SAMPARKA

Nirmal Kanti Ghosh, Antarjatik Sangathan O Jatipunja

COURSE GE 501

READING GANDHI

1. Gandhi in his own words: A close reading of Hind Swaraj.

[Link] on Hind Swaraj and Gandhian thought:
“Introduction”, [Link], Hind Swaraj and other writings ed. [Link]
(1997).
[Link], Gandhi (1997), chs. 4 (“Satyagraha”) and 5(“The critique of
modernity”).
[Link], Gandhi in his time and ours (2003), ch.4(“An alternative

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modernity”
3. Gandhi and modern India.
a. Nationalism.
b. Communal unity
c. Women’s Question
d. Untouchability.
This component will contain the following selections from Gandhi’s India of my Dreams
(compiled [Link]): “The meaning of Swaraj” (no.2); “In defence of Nationalism” (no.3);
“India’s cultural heritage” (no.45); “Regeneration of Indian women” (no.54); “Women’s
education” (no.55); “Communal unity” (no.59); “The curse of untouchability” (no.61);
“Religious tolerance in India” (no.62); “The problem of minorities” (no.66)

4. Gandhi’s Legacy
a) Tolerance: Anti - Racism Movements (Anti - Apartheid and Martin Luther King)
b) The Pacifist Movement
c) Women’s Movements
d) Gandhigiri: Perceptions in Popular Culture

Selected 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 BachaoAndolan’, 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.
B. Parekh, (1997) ‘Satyagrah’, in Gandhi: A Brief Insight, Delhi: Sterling Publishing
Company, pp. 51-63.
D. Dalton, (2000) ‘Gandhi’s 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. 251-344D.
R. Iyer, Moral and Political Thoughts of M. K. Gandhi, OUP, 2 Vols.
Hardiman, (2003) ‘Gandhi’s Global Legacy’, in Gandhi in His Time and Ours. Delhi: Oxford
University Press, pp. 238-283.
Manimala, (1984) ‘ZameenKenkar? JoteOnkar: Women’s participation in the Bodhgaya
struggles’, in M. Kishwar and R. Vanita (eds) In Search of Answers: Indian Women’s
Voices from Manushi, London: Zed Press.

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M. Shah, (2006) ‘Gandhigiri; A Philosophy of Our Times’, The Hindu Available at
[Link] 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.
Pannalal Dasgupta, Gandhi Gabeshona.

SIXTH SEMESTER

(Choose either DSE A or B)

COURSE DSE 603A

INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT

1. Ancient Indian Political Thought: Main Features– Contribution of Kautilya.
2. Medieval Political Thought: Main Features.
3. Indian Awakening and birth of Modernity: Rammohun and Syed Ahmed Khan
4. Ideas of Nationalism: Bankimchandra, Tilak and Rabindranath
5. M. K. Gandhi: ideas on State and Trusteeship.
6. Alternative trends in political ideas:
a) B. R. Ambedkar: on social justice.
b) M. N. Roy: Radical Humanism.
c) Narendra Deva: contributions to Socialism.

Selected Readings

Beni Prasad, The State in Ancient India.

R. S. Sharma, Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India.
V. P. Verma, Ancient and Medieval Political Thought.
R. P. Tripathi, Some Aspects of Muslim Administration.
R. P. Tripathi, The State and Religion in Mughal India.
Bidyut Chaskrabarty and Rajendra K. Pandey, Modern IndiaN POLITICAL THOUGHT, sage India.
M. Habib and Afzahuddin Khan, The Political Theory of the Delhi Sultanate.
B. B. Majumder, History of Indian Social and Political Ideas: From Rammohan to
Dayananda.
T. Pantham and K. L. Deutsch (ed.), Political Thought in Modern India.
U. N. Ghosal, The History of Hindu Political Theories.
Anthony Parel (ed.), Gandhi, ‘Hind Swaraj’ and Other Writings.
Buddhadeva Bhattacharyya, Evolution of Political Philosophy of Gandhi.
Sachin Sen, The Political Thought of Rabindranath.
M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj.
Bhikhu Parekh, Gandhis’ Political Philosophy: A Critical Examination.
Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism.
Bidyut Chakraborty and Rajendra Kumar Pandey (ed.), Modern Indian Political
Thought: Text and Context.
Sankar Ghose, Socialism and Communism in India.

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K. N. Mukherjee, The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore.
M. N. Roy, From Communism to Radical Humanism.
G. P. Bhattacharjee, Evolution of Political Philosophy of M. N. Roy.
Yusuf Meherally (ed.), Narendra Deva : Socialism and National Revolution.
W. N. Kuber, Dr. Ambedkar: A Critical Study.
Susobhan Sarkar, On the Bengal Renaissance.
A. T. Embree (ed.), Sources of Indian Tradition (Vol. 1)
Subrata Dasgupta, The Bengal Renaissance– Identity and Creativity: From
Rammohan Roy to Rabindranath Tagore.
V. R. Mehta, Foundations of Indian Political Thought: An Interpretation
Sudipta Kaviraj, The Unhappy Conciousness: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and
the Formation of Nationalist Discourse in India.
Partha Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative
Discourse.
Shan Mohammad (ed.), Selected Writings and Speeches of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Kalyan Kumar Sarkar, Bharatiya Rashtrachintar itihash
Debashish Chakraborty, Bharatiya Rashtrachintar Dhara

Neetu Sharma, Adhunik Bharatiya Rajnitik Chintan (in hindi), Gullybaba Publishing House
(indian political thought)

B. L. Fadia, Bharatiya Rajnitik Chintan (in hindi), Sahitya Bhawan Publications, 2017 edition
(indian political thought)

COURSE DSE 603B

India and Her Neighbours

1. INDIA AND PAKISTAN
(i) Colonial Legacies
(ii) Geographical and Strategic Importance
(iii) Demographic, Socio-Cultural Composition
(iv) Natural Resources
(v) Development, Democracy and Dictatorship
(vi) Nuclear Policy of India and Pakistan
(vii) Kashmir Question
(viii) Areas of Cooperation and Conflict
2. INDIA AND BANGLADESH
(i) Colonial Legacies
(ii) Geographical and Strategic Importance
(iii) Demographic, Socio-Cultural Composition
(iv) Natural Resources
(v) Development, Democracy and Dictatorship

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(vi) Refugee Problem
(vii) Ganga Water Issue
(viii) Areas of Cooperation and Conflict
3. INDIA AND SRILANKA
(i) Geographical and Strategic Importance
(ii) Demographic, Socio-Cultural Composition
(iii) Natural Resources
(iv) Development and Democracy
(v) Tamil Question
(vi) Areas of Cooperation and Conflicts
4. INDIA AND NEPAL
(i) Historical Relations with Nepal
(ii) Geographical and Strategic Importance
(iii) Demography and Socio-Cultural Composition
(iv) Development and Democracy
(v) Areas of Cooperation and Conflict

Selected Readings:
DSE 604A

GRASSROOT DEMOCRACY IN INDIA

1. Historical Background of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) in India after Independence

Constitutional Recognition of PRIs in India after Independence

2. GRAM PANCHAYAT

Gram Sabha

Composition and Functions of Gram Panchayat

3. PANCHAYAT SAMITI

Composition and Functions

Zila Parishad – Composition and Functions

4. Features of 73 rd & 74th Amendments

Composition and Functions of Municipal Corporation

5. Democratic Decentralisation in India: Critical Evaluation

Selected Readings:

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Z. Haran, E. Sridharan and R. Sudharshan (ed.), India’s Living Constitution: Ideas, Practices and
Controversies.

R. Samaddar, The Politics of Autonomy, Indian Experiences

N.G. Jayal, A Prakash and P. Sharma (eds.), Local Governance in India: Decentralization and Beyond.

KUMARESH CHAKRABARTY, BHARATER BARTAMAN RAJNITI PRASHASAN O BIDHI

SOMA GHOSH, JANA PRASHASAN : TATTA O PROYOG

Jana Prashasan by Pran Gobindo Das
Jana Prosashan by Subhash Som

DSE 604B

EMERGING TRENDS IN INDIAN POLITICS

1. Casteism: Meaning, Features, Impact of Caste on Indian Politics, Communalism and Secularism: Meaning, Features, Causes and Impact
on Indian Politics.

Regionalism: Meaning, Causes and Features, Regional Imbalances: Indicators and Impact on Indian Politics.

2. (i) Emergence of Regional Political Parties

(ii) Regional Political Parties with Special Reference to National Conference, Akali Dal, DMK, Telgu Desham

(iii) Impact of Regional Political Parties on National Politics

3.(i) Coalition Politics in India

(ii) Coalition Politics in States

4. Globalization: Meaning, Features and its Effect on Indian Economy

Issues of Environment in India

Selected Readings:

P.R. Brass, The Politics of India since Independence, New Delhi: Cambridge University Press and Foundation Books 1999.

S. Kaviraj (ed.), Politics in India: New Delhi, Oxford University Press,1999.

A.S. Narang, Ethnic Identities and Federalism, Shimla: IIAS 1995.

Arvind N. Ada, India Invented: A Nation in the Making, New Delhi: Manohar 1992.

Atul Kohli, Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1991.

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V.R. Mehta, Ideology, Modernization and Politics in India, New Delhi: Manohar, 1988.

Myron Weiner, The Indian Paradox, Essays in Indian Politics, New Delhi: Sage 1989.

Iqual Narain ed., State Politics in India, Meerut: Meenakshi Pub.,1976.

Randhir Singh, Of Marxism and Indian politics, Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1990.

Randhir Singh, Five Essays in Marxist Mode Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1993.

Mohanan (ed.), Globalization of Economy, Vision for the Future, New Delhi, Gyan Publications, 1995.

Dr. Malay Banerjee, Bharatiya Rajnitir Samprotik Probanata.

COURSE GE 602

Feminism: Theory and Practice

1. Approaches to understanding Patriarchy

(a) Feminist theorising of the sex/gender distinction. Biologism versus social
constructivism
(b) Understanding Patriarchy and Feminism
(c) Liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Radical feminism, New Feminist Schools/Traditions
2. History of Feminism
(a) Origins of Feminism in the West: France, Britain and United States of America
(b) Feminism in the Socialist Countries: China, Cuba and erstwhile USSR
(c) Feminist issues and women’s participation in anti-colonial and national liberation
movements with special focus on India
3. The Indian Experience
(a) Traditional Historiography and Feminist critiques. Social Reforms Movement and
position of women in India. History of Women’s struggle in India
(b) Family in contemporary India - patrilineal and matrilineal practices. Gender Relations
in the Family, Patterns of Consumption: Intra Household Divisions, entitlements and
bargaining, Property Rights
(c) Understanding Woman’s Work and Labour – Sexual Division of Labour, Productive and
Reproductive labour, Visible - invisible work – Unpaid (reproductive and
care),Underpaid and Paid work,- Methods of computing women’s work , Female headed
Households

Selected Readings

ArpitaMukhipadhyay, Feminisms, Orient Blackswan, 2016.

Geetha, V. (2002) Gender. Calcutta: Stree.
Geetha, V. (2007) Patriarchy. Calcutta: Stree.
Jagger, Alison. (1983) Feminist Politics and Human Nature. U.K.: Harvester Press, pp. 25-
350.
Ray, Suranjita. Understanding Patriarchy. Available at:
[Link]
Lerner, Gerda. (1986) The Creation of Patriarchy. New York: Oxford University Press.
History of Feminism

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Rowbotham, Shiela. (1993) Women in Movements. New York and London: Routledge,
Section I, pp. 27-74 and 178-218.
Jayawardene, Kumari. (1986) Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World. London: Zed
Books, pp. 1-24, 71-108, and Conclusion.
Forbes, Geraldine (1998) Women in Modern India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pp. 1-150.
Roy, Kumkum. (1995) ‘Where Women are Worshipped, There Gods Rejoice: The Mirage of
the Ancestress of the Hindu Women’, in Sarkar, Tanika&Butalia, Urvashi. (eds.) Women and
the Hindu Right. Delhi: Kali for Women, pp. 10-28.
Chakravarti, Uma. (1988) ‘Beyond the Altekarian Paradigm: Towards a New Understanding
of Gender Relations in Early Indian History’, Social Scientist, Volume 16, No. 8.
Banerjee, Nirmala. (1999) ‘Analysing Women’s work under Patriarchy’ in Sangari, Kumkum
&Chakravarty, Uma. (eds.) From Myths to Markets: Essays on Gender. Delhi: Manohar.
Additional Readings
Gandhi, Nandita& Shah, Nandita. (1991) The Issues at Stake – Theory and Practice in
Contemporary Women’s Movement in India. Delhi: Zubaan, pp. 7-72.
Shinde, Tarabai (1993) ‘Stri-PurushTulna’, in Tharu, Susie &Lalita, K. (eds.) Women Writing
in India, 600 BC to the Present. Vol. I. New York: Feminist Press.
Desai, Neera& Thakkar, Usha. (2001) Women in Indian Society. New Delhi: National Book
Trust

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