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1. National Movement
2. Development Models
3. Constitution And Social Transformation
4. Diversity
5. Inequality
6. Political Economy
7. Economy-Structure And Growth
8. Legislature
9. Bureaucracy, Police, Army
10. Judiciary
11. Federalism
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Self Government
Political Parties
Workers And Peasents
Media
Interest Groups
Caste, Regligion, Language
Civil Society
Human Development
Gender
Regional Imbalances
Migration
Environment
Economic Reforms
Religious Politics
Ethnicity
Democracy And Development-Assessment
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Womens Movements
Regional Movements
Religious and Communal Movements
Agrarian Movements
Working Class Movement
Fisher Folks Movement
Environmental and Ecological Movements
Social Movements and Democracy- An Assessment
1. Indian Nationalism:
a. Political Strategies of Indias Freedom Struggle: Constitutionalism to mass Satyagrah
b. Civil Disobedience; Militant and revolutionary movements, Peasant and workers mov
c. Perspectives on Indian National Movement: Liberal, Socialist and Marxist; Radical hum
2. Making of the Indian Constitution: Legacies of the British rule; different social and politic
3. Salient Features of the Indian Constitution:
a. The Preamble, Fundamental Rights and Duties, Directive
b. Principles; Parliamentary System and Amendment Procedures; Judicial Review and Ba
4. Principal Organs of
a. The Union Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the Executive, Legislatu
b. Principal Organs of the State Government: Envisaged role and actual working of the E
5. Grassroots Democracy: Panchayati Raj and Municipal Government; significance of 73rd a
6. Statutory Institutions/Commissions: Election Commission, Comptroller and Auditor Gene
a. Commission for Scheduled Tribes, National Commission for Women; National Human
7. Federalism: Constitutional provisions; changing nature of centre-state relations; integrat
8. Planning and Economic Development : Nehruvian and Gandhian perspectives; role of pla
9. Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics.
10. Party System: National and regional political parties, ideological and social bases of pa
11. Social Movements: Civil liberties and human rights movements; womens movements;
Comparative Politics: Nature and major approaches; political economy and political socio
State in comparative perspective: Characteristics and changing nature ofthe State in ca
Politics of Representation and Participation: Political parties, pressure groups and social
Globalisation: Responses from developed and developing societies.
Approaches to the Study of International Relations: Idealist, Realist, Marxist, Functionalis
Key concepts in International Relations: National interest, Security and power; Balance o
Changing International Political Order:
a. Rise of super powers; strategic and ideological Bipolarity, arms race and Cold War; nu
b. Non-aligned movement: Aims and achievements;
c. Collapse of the Soviet Union; Unipolarity and American hegemony; relevance of non-a
8. Evolution of the International Economic System: From Brettonwoods to WTO; Socialist ec
9. United Nations: Envisaged role and actual record; specialized UN agencies-aims and fun
10. Regionalisation of World Politics: EU, ASEAN, APEC, SAARC, NAFTA.
11. Contemporary Global Concerns: Democracy, human rights, environment, gender justic
programs too, and provides lot of useful fodder material for General studies as well.)
orld Systems
Experiences
Saraswati Phule
and social bases of parties; patterns of coalition politics; Pressure groups, trends in electoral behaviou
womens movements; environmentalist movements.
prospects.
the recent crisis in Afghanistan, Iraq and West Asia, growing relations with US and Israel; vision of a ne
r, M.N. Roy.
istance); Third World demand for new international economic order; Globalisation of the world econom