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Interdisciplinary Courses

Political Science (UG & PG)

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Interdisciplinary Courses Political Science
Each Course of 4 credits
Odd Semester
i. PSL-051, Indian Government and Politics ( PG Level course for Post-Graduate Students)
ii. PSL-055, Indian Constitution and Political System (Graduate level course for PG and
UG Students )
iii.

PSL-057, Human Rights and Duties Education (Graduate level course for PG and UG
Students )

iv. PSL-059, India in Global Politics (Graduate level course for PG and UG Students)
Even Semester
i. PSL-052, Perspectives and Processes of Indian Polity (Graduate level course for PG and UG
Students )
ii. PSL-053, Issues in Contemporary international Politics Graduate level course for PG and UG
Students )
iii. PSL054, Public Administration: Theory and Practice (PG Level Course for Post Graduate
Students)
iv. PSL056, Perspectives of Public Administration (Graduate level Course for PG and UG
Students )

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Odd Semester
Paper I
PSL051- Indian Government and Politics
Credits 4
Unit I
1.
2.
3.

Nature of the Indian Constitution

Preamble
Fundamentals Rights and Directive Principle
Unit II

4.
5.
6.

Nature of Parliamentary System: Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha

Supreme Court and Judicial Activism.
Civil Society: its role in Contemporary times.
Unit III

7.
8.
9.

Regionalism: Issues and Trends

Communalism: Genesis and Contemporary Situation
Center-State Relations with focus on Sarkaria Commission Report.

Suggested Readings
1.

Rajni Kothari

Politics in India (New Delhi: Orient

Longmans, 1971)

2.

W.H.Morris Jones

Government and Politics in

India (London: Hutchinson, 1971)

3.

Norman D. Palmer

The Political System in India,

(Boston: Houghton, 1971)

4.

M.V.Pylee

Constitutional Government in India

(Bombay: Asia, 1965)

5.

Robert Hardgrave

India: Government and Politics in a

Developing Nation (New York: Harcourt
Bruce and Ward, 1970)

6.

Myron Weiner

State Politics in India (Princeton:

OUP, Princeton, 1968)

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7.

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Politics of Scarcity (Chicago, University of

Chicago Press, 962)

8.

Paul R. Brass

9.

Ramashray Ray

Language, Religion and Politics in

Northern India (New Delhi, Vikas, 1975)
.
The Uncertain Verdict : A Study of the
1969 Mid-term Election. In Four Indian
States (New Delhi: Orient Longmans,
1972)

10.

P. Chandra

Constitution of India (New Delhi: Universal

Law Agency 2011)

11.

Centre-State Relations

NCRCW and K.M. Punchhi Commission

On Centre-State Relations and Coalition
System.

12.

D.D.Basu

Introduction to the Constitution of

India (New Delhi: Prentice Hall of India,
1997)

13.

George Mathew ed.

Shifts in Indian Politics (New

Delhi: Concept Publishing Co., 1984)

14.

R. Bhatnagar and
Pardeep Kumar eds

Regional Political Parties in India (New.

Delhi: Ess Publications, 1988)

15.

Dipankar Gupta ed.

Social Stratification (New Delhi: OUP,

1992)

16.

C. T. Kurien, ER
Prabhakar and S. Gopal, eds.

Economy, Society and Development

(New Delhi: Sage,1991)

17.

Paul R. Brass

The Politics of India since

Independence (Hyderabad: Orient
Longmans Ltd., 1990).

18.

Arvind N. Das

19.

A.S.Narang

India Invented : A Nation in the

Making (New Delhi: Manohar, 1992)
Indian Government and Politics (New
Delhi: Gitanjali, 1994)

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20.

H.K.Puri

Centre-State Relations in India : A Review

of Sarkaria Commission Report, Punjab Journal
of Politics, Vol.XIII, Nos.1-2, 1989

21.

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Political Parties and Discourse on Union

State Relation, Punjab Journal of
Politics,Vol.XIV, Nos.1-2, 1990.

22.

M.P Singh

Federalizing and Stabilizing India: The Party and

Constitutional Amendments Hold the Key to
Survival Punjab Journal of Politics, Vol XIV,
Nos.1-2,1990

23.

M.P Singh

Whither Indian Federalism: Sarkaria Commission

Report and Beyond Punjab Journal of Politics,Vol
XIII,Nos.1-2,1989

24.

Ramashray Roy

Perspectives on Indian Politics,

(Delhi: Discovery Publishing House, 1987)

25.

Pardeep Kumar

The study of State Politics: Some Observations

Punjab Journal of Politics,Vol. XIV,Nos. 1-2,1989

26.

Myron Weiner

The Indian Paradox (New Delhi: Sage,

1989)

27.

S. Nihal Singh

The Rocky Road of the Indian Democracy

(New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1993)

28.

J.N.Pandey

Constitutional Law of India (Allahabad:

Law Agency,1997)

29.

A.R.Desai ed.

Violation of Democratic Rights in India,

(Bombay: Popular Prakashan Pvt. 1980)

30.

Pramod Kumar ed.

Towards Understanding Communalism,

(Chandigarh: CRRID, 1992)

31.

Nirmal Mukerji and

Arora ed.

32.

Zoya Hasan and S.N.Jha

and R. Khan

Federalism in India, Origins and Development, Balbir

(New Delhi: Vikas Research, 1992)
The State, Political Processes and Identity,
(New Delhi: Sage, 1989)

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33.

Ghanshyam Shah ed.

Capitalist Development: Critical Essays

(Bombay: Popular Parkashan, 1990)
Indian Government and Politics( Agra: Laxmi
Narain Agarwal, 1997

34.

B.L Fadia

35.

Sarkaria Commission Report

36.

Granville Austin

37.

B.L. Fadia

38.

P.M. Bakshi

The Constitution of India ( New Delhi:

Universal Law Publishing Company, 2008)

39.

Lloyd I. Rudolph
and Susanne Rudolph

Explaining Indian Democracy: A FiftyYear Perspective, 1956-2006, Vols. I, II, III

(New Delhi: OUP, 2008)

40.

Indian Journal of Political

Science.

Vols. From 2000-2010.

41.

Punjab Journal of Politics

(from 2000-2010)

42.

Francine Frankel

Indias Political Economy 1947-2004

(New Delhi: OUP, 2006)

43.

Zoya Hasan, et. al.,

Indias Living Constitution (New Delhi,

Permanent Black, 2002)

44,

Andre Beteille

45.

Samir, Amin

46.

Rajeev Bhargave
And Amiya Bagchi

Society and Politics in India- Essays in

Comparative Politics, OUP,1991
Capitalism in the Age of Globalization ( Jaipur:
Rawat,2000.
Multi-Culturalism, Liberalism and Demo
cracy ( New Delhi: OUP,1999)

47.

Neera Chandoke

Beyond Secularim: The Rights of Religion

Minorities ( New Delhi: OUP,1999)

48.

M.S.A Rao

Social Movements in India:Studies in Peasant,

Backward Classes, Sectarian Tribal and Womens
Movements, Manohar,1979)

The Indian Constitution (New Delhi: OUP,

2001)
Indian Government and Politics (Agra:
Sahitya Bhawan Publications, 2008)

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Even Semester
Paper II
PSL052- Perspectives and Processes of Indian Polity
Credits - 4
Unit I
1.

Theoretical perspectives of Indian Politics

(a) Partha Chatterrjee
(b) Gunnar Myrdal
Unit II

2.
3.
4.

Approaches to Five Years Plans: First Five Years Plan to 12th Plan.
Land Reforms: An Evaluation
Liberalisation and Globalisation : Impact on Indian Politics
Unit III

5.
6.

Social Stratificatin :Caste and Class

Electoral Process in India with Special focus on Punjab since 1952.

Suggested Readings
Rajni Kothari ed.,

Politics in India (Boston:, 1970)

______________

Democratic Polity and Social Change in India

(New Delhi: 1977)

Dalip Hero

Inside India Today (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978)

Andre Betaille

Caste, Class and Power (Bombay:,OUP, 1968)

Rajni Kothari

State Against Democracy (New Delhi: Ajanta Publishers, 1988)

Bipan Chandra

Communalism in Modern India (Delhi: Vani

Educational Book, 1984)

Daniel Thorner

Agrarian Prospects in India (Bombay: Allied, 1976)

P.C.Joshi

Land Reforms in India (New Delhi: 1975)

Francine R. Frankel

Indias Political Economy 1947-2004 (Delhi: OUP, 2005)

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Francine R. Frankel

Indias Green Reovolution, Economic Gains and

Political Costs (Princeton: University Press, 1971)

Atul Kohli ed.

Indias Democracy: An Analysis of Changing State-Society

Relations (Hyderabad: Orient Longmans, 1991)

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Democracy and Discontent: Indias Growing Crisis of

Governability (Princeton: Cambridge University Press, 1991)

----------------------

The State and Poverty in India : The Politics

of Reform (Hyderabad: Orient Longman Limited, 1987)

C.D. Deshmukh,

Economic Development in India (Bombay: 1957

Lloyd Rudolph and Susan

Rudolph

The Modernity of Tradition, Political Development

in India (Bombay: Orient Longman, 1967)

Achin Vanaik

The Painful Transition: Bourgeois Democracy in India (New

Delhi: Verso, 1990)

P. Bardhan

The Political Economy of Development in India

(New Delhi: OUP, 1991)

S.N.Chowdhary

Community Power Structure (New Delhi:

Har Anand Publications, 1993)

Gunnar Myrdal

Asian Drama : An Inquiry into the Poverty of

Nations (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1968)

Partha Chatterjee

State and Politics in India (New Delhi, OUP, 1997)

Sudipto Kaviraj

Politics in India (New Delhi, OUP, 1997)

C.T.Kurien and
and S. Gopal ed.,
Mahendra Prasad Singh
and Himanshu Ray (eds.)

Economy, Society and Development (New Delhi: Sage, 1991)

Bipan Chandra et. al.,

India after Independence (New Delhi: Viking, 1999.

Madhu Purnima Kishwar

Deepening Democracy: Challenges of

Governance and Globalisation in India, (Oxford: OUP, 2005)

Carolynm M. Elliot

Civil Society and Democracy: A Reader (Oxford: OUP, 2003)

Indian Political System: Structures, Policies,

Devleopment (New Delhi: Jnanada Prakashan,1990)

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Zoya Hasan (ed.)

Politics and the State in India (New Delhi: Sage, 2000)

Peter Ronald De Souza

Contemporary India (New Delhi: Sage, 2000)

Tarlok Singh,

Indias Development Experience (Delhi: Macmillan, 1974)

Myron Weiner (ed.)

State Politics in India, (Princeton: University Press, 1968)

Paul R. Brass

The Politics of India Since Independence (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 2004)

Dipankar Gupta (ed.)

Caste in Question: Identity or Hierarchy (New Delhi: Sage, 2004)

A Report

State of Democracy in South Asia (New Delhi: OUP, 2008)

Ranjit Singh Ghuman (et. als.) Globalisation and Change (Jaipur: Rawat, 2010)
S.R. Ahlawat(ed.),

Economic Reforms and Social Transformation

(Jaipur: Rawat, 2008)

Sandeep Shastri and K.C.

Suri

Electoral Politics in Indian States (New Delhi: OUP, 2009)

Pranab Bardhan,

The Political Economy of Development in India (New

Delhi, OUP 1994)

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Even Semester
PSL053-Issues in Contemporary International Politics
Credit-4
Unit-I
1. Nature of Post- Soviet World Order
2. International Terrorism Since 9/11
Unit-II
3. Environment Related issues and Global Response
4. Major Issues in Globalization since 1991
Unit-III
5. India in Global politics
6. Political uprisings in Middle East

Suggested Readings
Goldstein, Joshua S

International Relations, Pearson, New Delhi, 2006

John Baylis. Steve Smith,

Patricia Owens

The Globalization of World Politics, Oxford

University Press, 2011

Mahendra Kumar

Theoretical Aspects of International Politics

Shiva Lal Agarwala & Co. 1976

Niraja Gopal Jayal & Partap

Bhanu Mehta, ed.

The Oxford Companion to Politics in India,

Oxford University Press.2010

Kuldip Singh & Preet Inder

Kahlon

Indias Policy on the issue of climate change

and Focus on UPA, World Focus,Vol. XXXIII, No. 11, P
22-29,Nov.2012

Tapan Biswal, Ed.

International Relations, Macmillan, New Delhi, 2009

Kuldip Singh and Nayanika

Singh

Global Warming and Central Asia: Political

and Social Dimensions, Man & Development,
Volume XXXIII, No.2, June 2011

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Kuldip Singh

Major Explanations of Soviet Collapse and Beyond, Punjab

Journal of Politics, Volume.29, pp 21-32,No. 2, 2005

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India, Central Asia and the Changing Contours of War on

Terrorismpp.821-825 World Focus, No. 383-84,
November- December 2011

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Conceptualizing peace and security in the Era of US War

on Terrorism pp. 186-201, India Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 4,
2005

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Even Semester
(PG Level course for Post graduate students)
PSL054: Public Administration: Theory and Practice
Credits:4
Unit-I
1. Meaning, Scope and Significance of Public Administration
2. Ecology of Administration
3. Principles of organization (a) Hierarchy (b) Unity of Command (c) Span of Control
Unit-II
4. Theories of organization
a. Scientific Management ( Taylor )
b. Bureaucratic Theory ( Weber )
c. Classical ( Henri Iayol )
Unit-III
5. Decision Making ( Herbert Siman)
6. Line and Staff
7. Ombudsman Lok Pal Ayukta
8. Delegated legislation
Suggested Readings
1. Orway Tead

Administration: Its Purpose and Performance

(New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959)

2. F.M.Marx, ed.

Elements of Public Administration (New Delhi: Prentice

Hall of India, 1964).

3. Marshall E Dimock,
O Gladys and W.Louis
Keening

Public Administration (New York: Rinerhart & Co.,

1959).

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4. Amreshwar Avasthi
and Shriram Maheshwari

Public Administration (Agra: Laxmi Narain

Aggarwal, 1996)

5. C.P.Bambhri

Public Administration : Theory and Practice

(Jaipur: 1994).

6. M.P.Sharma

Public Administration : Theory and Practice

(Allahabad: Kitab Mahal, 1994)

7. S.P.Verma and
S.K.Sharma

Managing Public Personnel Systems (New Delhi: II PA,

1980)

8. Marshal W.

Change in Public Bureaucracies (Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press, 1979)

9. Felix A. Nigro

Modern Public Administration (New York: Harper Row,

1970)

10. A.R.Tyagi

Rights and Obligations of Civil Servants in

India (New Delhi: Atma Ram & Sons, New Delhi.

11. Dwight Waldo

The Enterprise of Public Administration (Novato:

Chandler & Sharp, 1980).

12. Gunner Hecksher

The Budget as an Instrument of Administrative

Efficiency (New Delhi: IIPA)
.
Training and Development in Government
(New Delhi: IIPA).

13. A.P.Sexena

14. Rumki Basu

Public Administration : Theory and Practice

(New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1997)

Additional Readings:
1. E.N.Gladden

An Introduction to Public Administration

(London: Staples Press, 2nd ed.)

2. Henry Parris

Staff Relations in the Civil Service; Fifty

Years of Whitlyism (London: George Allen & Unwin,
1973)

3. Martin Albrow

Bureaucracy (London: Macmillan, 1970)

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4. M.A.Mutalib

Democracy, Bureaucracy and Technocracy:

Assumption of Public Management Theory
(New Delhi: Concept, 1980)

5. Henry Nicholas

Public Administration and Public Policy

(New York: Prentice Hall, 1980)
.
The Dynamics of Administrative Reform,
(London: OUP 1980)

6. R.L.Chapman
and G.N. Croom Helm,
7. S.S.Khera

Management and Control in Public

Enterprises (Bombay: Asia, 1964)

8. Herbert Simon

Administrative Behaviour (New York: Free Press 1966)

9. Laxmi Narain

Principles and Practice of Public Enterprise

Management (New Delhi: S. Chand, 1980)

10. Vishnu Parsad

Administrative Tribunals in Action (New Delhi: Oxford

& IBH 1974)

11. F.W.Riggs

The Ecology of Public Administration (Bombay: Asia,

1961)

12. Alvin Gouldner

Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy (New York: Free Press,

1954)

13. Ramesh K. Arora

Comparative Public AdministrationAn

Ecological Perspective (New Delhi: Associated
Publishing House, 1972)

14. Administrative Reforms

Commission

Report of Study, Team on Promotion

Policies, Conduct Rules, Discipline and
Moral (New Delhi: 1967)

15. IIPA

Personnel Administrations Implementing the

Reforms (New Delhi: IIPA, 1970).

16. ARC

Report of Study Team on Public Enterprises,

(New Delhi: 1967)

17. M.P. Sharma and

B.L.Sadana

Public Administration: Theory and Practice

(Delhi:Kitab Mahal, 2008)

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18. B.L. Fadia and
Kuldeep Fadia

Public Administration Administrative

Theories and Concepts (Agra: Sahitya
Bhawan Publications, 2007)

19. R.K. Sapru

Administrative Theories and Management

Thought, New Delhi, Prentice Hall of India,
2008.

20. S.R. Maheswari

Administrative Theories (2nd Revised edition) (New Delhi:

Macmillan, 2006).

21. B.L. Fadia

Administrative Theory (Agra: Sahitya

Bhawan Publishers 2008)

22. Rumki Basu

Public Administration: Theory and

Concepts (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers,1987)

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Odd Semester
PSL055: Indian Constitution and Political System
(UG Level Course for PG and UG Students)
Credits: 4
Unit-I
1. Features of Constitution
2. Features of Preamble
3. Features of Fundamentals Rights and Directive Principles
Unit-II
4. Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha
5. Features of Indian Judiciary
6. Judicial Activism and Public Interest Litigahon
Unit-III
7. Regionalism
8. Communalism
9. Center-State Relations with focus on Sarkaria Commission Report
Suggested Readings
1.
Rajni Kothari

Politics in India (New Delhi: Orient Longmans,

1971)

2.

W.H.Morris Jones

Government and Politics in India (London: Hutchinson,

1971)

3.

Norman D. Palmer

The Political System in India, (Boston: Houghton, 1971)

4.

M.V.Pylee

Constitutional Government in India (Bombay: Asia, 1965)

5.

Robert Hardgrave

India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nation

(New York: Harcourt Bruce and Ward, 1970)

6.

Myron Weiner

State Politics in India (Princeton: OUP, Princeton, 1968)

7.

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Politics of Scarcity (Chicago, University of

Chicago Press, 962)

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8.

Paul R. Brass

Language, Religion and Politics in Northern India

(New Delhi, Vikas, 1975).

9.

Ramashray Ray

The Uncertain Verdict : A Study of the 1969 Mid-term

Election. In Four Indian States (New Delhi: Orient
Longmans, 1972)

10.

P. Chandra

Constitution of India (New Delhi: Universal Law Agency

2011)

11.

Centre-State Relations

NCRCW and K.M. Punchhi Commission On Centre-State

Relations and Coalition System.

12.

D.D.Basu

Introduction to the Constitution of India (New Delhi:

Prentice Hall of India, 1997)

13.

George Mathew ed.

Shifts in Indian Politics (New Delhi: Concept Publishing

Co., 1984)

14.

R. Bhatnagar and

Regional Political Parties in India (New Pardeep Kumar

eds. Delhi: Ess Publications, 1988)

15.

Dipankar Gupta ed.

Social Stratification (New Delhi: OUP, 1992)

16.

C. T. Kurien, ER

Economy, Society and Development Prabhakar and S.

Gopal, eds. (New Delhi: Sage,1991)

17.

Paul R. Brass

The Politics of India since Independence (Hyderabad:

Orient Longmans Ltd., 1990).

18.

Arvind N. Das

India Invented : A Nation in the Making (New Delhi:

Manohar, 1992)

19.

A.S.Narang

Indian Government and Politics (New Delhi: Gitanjali,

1994)

20.

H.K.Puri

Centre-State Relations in India : A Review of Sarkaria

Commission Report, Punjab Journal of Politics,
Vol.XIII, Nos.1-2, 1989

21.

-----------------

Political Parties and Discourse on UnionState Relation,

Punjab Journal of Politics,Vol.XIV, Nos.1-2, 1990.

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22.

Ramashray Roy

Perspectives on Indian Politics, (Delhi: Discovery

Publishing House, 1987)
The Indian Paradox (New Delhi: Sage, 1989).

23.

Myron Weiner

24.

S. Nihal Singh

25.

J.N.Pandey

26.

A.R.Desai ed.

27.

Pramod Kumar ed.

28.

Nirmal Mukerji and

Balbir Arora ed.

Federalism in India, Origins and Development,

(New Delhi: Vikas Research, 1992)

29.

Zoya Hasan and S.N.Jha

and R. Khan

The State, Political Processes and Identity,

(New Delhi: Sage, 1989)

30.

Ghanshyam Shah ed.

Capitalist Development: Critical Essays (Bombay: Popular

Parkashan, 1990)

31.

Sarkaria Commission

Vols.I & II.Report.

32.

Granville Austin

The Indian Constitution (New Delhi: OUP, 2001)

33.

B.L. Fadia

Indian Government and Politics (Agra: Sahitya Bhawan

Publications, 2008)

35.

P.M. Bakshi

The Constitution of India (New Delhi: Universal Law

Publishing Company, 2008)

36.

Lloyd I. Rudolph
and Susanne Rudolph

Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty- Year Perspective,

1956-2006, Vols. I, II, III (New Delhi: OUP, 2008)

37.

Vols. From 2000-2010.

38.

Indian Journal of Political

Science.
Punjab Journal of Politics

39.

Francine Frankel

40.

Zoya Hasan, et. al.,

41.

Sandeep Shastri,
K.C. Suri, et. al.,

The Rocky Road of the Indian Democracy (New Delhi:

Sterling Publishers, 1993)
Constitutional Law of India (Allahabad: Law Agency,
1997)
Violation of Democratic Rights in India, (Bombay: Popular
Prakashan Pvt. 1980)
Towards Understanding Communalism, (Chandigarh:
CRRID, 1992)

(from 2000-2010)
Indias Political Economy 1947-2004 (New Delhi: OUP,
2006)
Indias Living Constitution (New Delhi, Permanent Black,
2002)
Electoral Politics in Indian States: Lok Sabha Elections in
2004 and Beyond (Delhi: OUP, 2009)

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Even Semester
PSL056: Perspectives of Public Administration
UG Level Course for PG and UG Students
Credits: 4
Unit-I
1. Meaning and nature of Public Administration
2. Ecology of Public Administration
3. Principles of Hierarchy, Unity of Command and Span of Control
Unit-II
4. Administrative Thinkers
a. F.M Taylor
b. Max Weber
c. Henri Fayol
Unit-III
Processes and Structures of Public Administration
5. Line and Staff
6. Delegated legislation
7. Herbert Simon ( Decision Making )
8. Ombudsman, Lok Pal and Lok Ayukta
Suggested Readings:
1. Orway Tead
2. F.M.Marx, ed.
3. Marshall E Dimock,
O Gladys and W.Louis
Keening
4. Amreshwar Avasthi
and Shriram Maheshwari
5. C.P. Bambhri
6. M.P. Sharma
7. S.P. Verma and
S.K. Sharma
8. Marshal W.
9. Felix A. Nigro
10. A.R.Tyagi

Administration: Its Purpose and Performance

(New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959)
Elements of Public Administration (New Delhi: Prentice
Hall of India, 1964).
Public Administration (New York: Rinerhart & Co.,
1959).
Public Administration (Agra: Laxmi Narain
Aggarwal, 1996)
Public Administration : Theory and Practice
(Jaipur: 1994).
Public Administration : Theory and Practice
(Allahabad: Kitab Mahal, 1994)
Managing Public Personnel Systems (New Delhi: II PA,
1980)
Change in Public Bureaucracies (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1979)
Modern Public Administration (New York: Harper Row,
1970)
Rights and Obligations of Civil Servants in
India (New Delhi: Atma Ram & Sons, New Delhi.

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11. Dwight Waldo

The Enterprise of Public Administration (Novato:

Chandler & Sharp, 1980).

12. Gunner Hecksher

The Budget as an Instrument of Administrative

Efficiency (New Delhi: IIPA)
.
Training and Development in Government
(New Delhi: IIPA).

13. A.P.Sexena
14. Rumki Basu

Public Administration: Theory and Practice

(New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1997)

Additional Readings:
1. E.N.Gladden

An Introduction to Public Administration

(London: Staples Press, 2nd ed.)

2. Henry Parris

Staff Relations in the Civil Service; Fifty Years of

Whitlyism (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973)

3. Martin Albrow

Bureaucracy (London: Macmillan, 1970)

4. M.A.Mutalib

Democracy, Bureaucracy and Technocracy:

Assumption of Public Management Theory
(New Delhi: Concept, 1980)

5. Henry Nicholas

Public Administration and Public Policy (New York:

Prentice Hall, 1980)
.
The Dynamics of Administrative Reform,
(London: OUP 1980)

6. R.L. Chapman
and G.N. Croom Helm,
7. S.S. Khera

Management and Control in Public

Enterprises (Bombay: Asia, 1964)

8. Herbert Simon

Administrative Behaviour (New York: Free Press 1966)

9. Laxmi Narain

Principles and Practice of Public Enterprise

Management (New Delhi: S. Chand, 1980)
Administrative Tribunals in Action (New Delhi: Oxford
& IBH 1974)

10. Vishnu Parsad

11. F.W. Riggs

The Ecology of Public Administration (Bombay: Asia, 1961)

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12. Alvin Gouldner

Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy (New York: Free Press, 1954)

13. Ramesh K. Arora

Comparative Public AdministrationAn Ecological

Perspective (New Delhi: Associated Publishing House, 1972)

14. Administrative Reforms

Commission

Report of Study, Team on Promotion Policies,

Conduct Rules, Discipline and Moral (New Delhi: 1967)

15. IIPA

Personnel Administrations Implementing the

Reforms (New Delhi: IIPA, 1970).

16. ARC

Report of Study Team on Public Enterprises,

(New Delhi: 1967)

17. M.P. Sharma and

B.L.Sadana

Public Administration: Theory and Practice

(Delhi:Kitab Mahal, 2008)

18. B.L. Fadia and

Kuldeep Fadia

Public Administration Administrative

Theories and Concepts (Agra: Sahitya
Bhawan Publications, 2007)

19. R.K. Sapru

Administrative Theories and Management

Thought, New Delhi, Prentice Hall of India,
2008.

20. S.R. Maheswari

Administrative Theories (2nd Revised

edition) (New Delhi: Macmillan, 2006).

21. B.L. Fadia

Administrative Theory (Agra: Sahitya

Bhawan Publishers 2008)

22. Rumki Basu

Public Administration: Theory and

Concepts (New Delhi: Sterling Publishers,1987)

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Odd Semester
PSL: 057, Human Rights & Duties Education
UG Level Course for both UG and PG Students
Credits:4
UNIT-I
Introduction to Human Rights
Meaning, Nature and Characteristics
Classification of Human Rights
Historical Development of Human Rights
Three Generations of Human Rights
Theories of Human Rights
UNIT-II
Introduction to Human Duties
Meaning, Nature and Classification of Human Duties
Relevance of Human Duties
The Declaration of Human Duties and Responsibilities (Valencia Declaration)
Fundamental Duties in Indian Constitution
Unit-III
Human Rights in India
Historical Development of Human Rights in India
Fundamental Rights
Directive Principles of State Policy
Protection of Human Rights Act 1993 (Formation & Functioning of NHRC &PSHRC)
Readings List
1. United Nations. The United Nations and Human Rights 1945-1995. Geneva: United Nations
Blue Books Series, Vol. VII, 1996.
2. Sastry, S. N. Introduction to Human Rights and Duties. Pune: University of Pune Press,
2011.
3. Mertus, Julie. The United Nations and Human Rights- A Guide for a New Era. London:
Routledge, 2009.
4. Mujawar, Wasiyoddin R. Social and Political Movements for Human Rights. Delhi:
Manglam Pub., 2009.
5. Ishay, M. R. The History of Human Rights. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2004.

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6. Mohapatra, Arun Ray. National Human Rights Commission of India: Formation,
Functioning and Future Perspectives. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2004.
7. Deol, Satnam Singh. Human Rights in India - Theory and Practice. New Delhi: Serials
Publications, 2011.
8. Deol, Satnam Singh. Custodial Deaths in India: A Study of the Protective Role of National
Human Rights Commission. Indian Journal of Social Development (An International Journal)
Jan-Jun 2011 Issue, pp. 1-15.
9. Deol, Satnam Singh. Punjab State Human Rights Commission: A Critical Analysis. Indian
Journal of Political Science, Vol. LXXI, No. 2, April-June 2010, pp. 591-597.
10. Kaur, Jagroop & Deol, Satnam Singh. Three Generations of Human Rights: Realisation in
India. Journal of Government and Political Studies, Vol. 34, March 2010, Issue 1, pp. 20-33.

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Interdisciplinary Courses Political Science
Odd Semester
Interdisciplinary Course
PSL: 059 India in Global Politics
UG (for PG and UG students)
Credits: 4
Unit-I
1. India in global politics in Post cold war Era.
2. Indias role in South Asia in the contemporary times.
Unit-II
3. Indo-US Strategic Engagements from 2000 onwards.
4. Indias perspective on 9/11 and US war on terrorism.
Unit-III
5. Irritants in Sino-Indian Ties
6. Major contours of Indias Look East Policy
7. India and BRICKS.
Questions
1. What kind of changes has been made in Indias foreign policy in post Soviet times?
2. Examine basic postulates of Indias policy towards its neighbors? How it has changed in
recent times
3. Examine changing contours of Indo-US ties in post- Cold War era?
4. Discuss Indias Policy on war on terrorism since 9/11
5. How India perceives Central Asia in its foreign policy priorities?
6. What are the major irritants in India-China ties? How India is likely to place itself in
game plan for containing China?
7. What are the planks of Indias Look East Policy?
8. Discuss BRICS as an arrangement of emerging nations? What is its role in global
politics?

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Suggested Readings
1. Atish Sinha and Madhup Mehta (eds.),Indian Foreign Policy:Challenges and
Opportunities ( New Delhi : Academic Foundations,2007
2. Baldev Raj Nayar and T.V Paul, India in the World Order: Searching for Major Power
Status ( London: Combridge University Press,2004).
3. C.Rajamohan, Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of Indias Foreign Policy, New Delhi:
Penguin,2003
4. Harsh V.Pant ( ed.), Indian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World, ( London:
Routledge,2009)
5. J.N.Dixit, Indias Foreign policy: 1947:1947:2000(New Delhi: Picus Books, 2003).
6. Sumit Ganguly et.al. (eds.), US-Indian Strategic Cooperation into the 21st Century: More
than Words, (London: Routledge, 2006).
7. V.N Khanna, Foreign Policy of India (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 2007.)
8. Prakash Nanda, Rising India: Friends and Foe ( New Delhi: Lancer Publishers, 2008)
9. M.R Biju, New Horizons of Indian Foreign Policy ( Delhi: Authors Press,2007)
10. V.P. Dutt, India and The World (New Delhi: Sanchar Publications,1990.
Articles
1. K.Natwar Singh, New Dimesions of Foreign Policy, B.G Verghese( ed.), Tomorrow
India: Another Tryst with Destiny ( New Delhi: Penguin/Viking, 2006)
2. A.M Ramakrishan, Neoliberalism, Globalism and Indias Foreign Policy: Towards a
Critical Thinking,Rajan Hershe and K.M. Seethi( Eds.), Engaging With the World:
Critical Reflections on Indias Foreign Policy ( India: Orient Blackswan, 2009).
3. Achin Vanaik, Post-Cold War India Foreign Policy, Seminar 581, January 2008.
4. Pallvi Aiyar, China Through Indian Eyes, Seminar 581, January 2008.
5. Bharat Korand, Blighted Strategic Future; Seminar 560, April 2006.
6. R.Nicholas Burns, Americas Strategic Opportunity with India: The New U.S- India
Partnership, Foreign Affairs, Vol..86, No.6, November-December 2007.

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7. EAM Address on Indias Security Challenges and Foreign Policy Imperatives,
Strategic Digest, Vol.38, No.12, December 2009.
8. M.S Rajan, Indias Foreign Policy in the New Millennium, Review of International
Affairs, Vol. LI, No. 1080-90, February-March 2000.
9. M.K Bhadrakumar, Indias Moment of Truth in Afghanistan, Mainstream, Vol. XLIX,
No.45, October 29, 2011
10. Ramachandra Guha, An Asian clash of Civilization? Revisiting the Sino-Indian Conflict
of 1962, Economic and Political Weekly, VOl. XLVI, No. 44 & 45, November 5, 2010.
11. M.K Bhadrakumar, India-Afghan Strategic Pact: More Than a Flash in the Pan,
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLVI, No.43, October 22, 2011.
12. Oleg Mityaya, BRIC Countries Catch up and Overtake G7, The Hindu, Delhi,
December 24, 2009.
13. M.K. Bhadrakumar, U.S Brings Silk Road to India, The Hindu, Delhi, December 24,
2010.
14. Re-Whetting Indias Look East Policy: Historic Indian-ASEAN Summit 2010, World
Focus 370, Vol. XXXI, No.10, October 2010.
15. Contemporary China: Growing India- China Relatins, World Focus, 381, Vol. XXXI,
No.9 September 2011.
16. Dynamics of Indias Foreign Policy, World Focus, Vol. XXX, Annual Number,
November-December 2009.
17. Emerging Indias Foreign Policy, World Focus, Vol. XXXI, No.11-12, NovemberDecember 2010.